Names

Form of Araújo especially common in the Philippines.

Denoted a person from Araia in the Basque Country, Spain. It is of uncertain meaning.

Spanish form of Araújo.

Denoted a person hailing from one of the many areas that bear this name in Portugal, which is of unknown meaning.

Means “Arab” in Turkish.

Means “golden” in Hungarian. A famous bearer of the name was Hungarian poet János Arany (1817-1882).

From the name of an Italian town near Rome, derived from Latin aqua meaning “water”, the home town of the 13th-century saint Thomas Aquinas. In Italy the surname is derived directly from the town’s name. As a Spanish-language surname, it was sometimes bestowed by missionaries in honour of the saint as they evangelized in Spanish colonies.

From a nickname meaning “eagle” in Italian.

Probably from an unidentified place name meaning “up tower” in Old English.

From the name of several English towns, meaning “orchard” in Old English (a compound of æppel “apple” and tun “enclosure, yard”).