Last name: GOMES
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GOMES : This last name is indexed 223,666 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
GOMES : 1: Portuguese and Galician: from the medieval personal name Gomes probably Visigothic in origin from guma ‘man’. This surname is also found on the west coast of India where it was taken by Portuguese colonists.2: Spanish: variant of Gómez (see Gomez).3: Jewish (Sephardic): Portuguese surname (see 1 above) adopted at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later) some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholics.4: English: variant of Gumm with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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