Frequency: (131)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Basque: topographic name from Basque aburto ‘place of kermes oaks’, from abur ‘kermes oak’ + the locative suffix -lo.
GIVEN NAMES: Spanish 58%. Jose (4), Carlos (3), Juan (3), Manuel (3), Alejandro (2), Isidoro (2), Pablo (2), Pedro (2), Adolfo, Alfredo, Amado, Amalia.
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