as a Last Name
- 17,458
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Medeiros
Meaning & Origins
Portuguese and Galician: habitational name from any of various places named Medeiros, from Portuguese and Galician medeiro ‘place where shocks of maize are gathered’ (a derivative of meda ‘shock’, ‘stack’, Latin meta ‘(pyramidshaped) post’).
| 1,770th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 17,458
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Rhode Island
- has the most people named Medeiros per capita
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