Frequency: (1485)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Galician and Portuguese: habitational name from a common place name, derived from Latin aquilare ‘haunt of eagles’. Compare Spanish Aguilar.
GIVEN NAMES: Spanish 33%; Portuguese 15%. Manuel (49), Jose (36), Carlos (14), Luis (13), Francisco (7), Miguel (7), Alvaro (5), Juan (5), Pedro (5), Ramon (5), Fernando (4), Mario (4); Joao (6), Paulo (4), Serafim (2), Goncalo, Henrique, Manoel, Marcio.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
