Frequency: (6194)
(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 any of numerous places in Galicia and Portugal named Andrade, perhaps originally villa Andr(e)ati ‘estate of a man named Andreas’.
GIVEN NAMES: Spanish 41%; Portuguese 11%. Jose (168), Manuel (123), Juan (54), Carlos (53), Luis (49), Miguel (35), Francisco (34), Jesus (32), Jorge (25), Guadalupe (23), Pedro (23), Ramon (21); Joao (6), Joaquim (4), Paulo (4), Serafim (3), Afonso (2), Ligia (2), Marcio (2), Anatolio, Conceicao, Duarte, Guilherme, Henrique.
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