Frequency: (695)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Spanish: topographic name for someone who lived by an oak wood, from a Castilianized form of Galician landeiros, from landeiro ‘oak producing many acorns’.
GIVEN NAMES: Spanish 54%. Jose (17), Jesus (13), Juan (8), Manuel (8), Miguel (8), Raul (8), Carlos (7), Pedro (7), Mario (6), Francisco (5), Jorge (5), Luis (5).
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