Frequency: (484)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Spanish: from the personal name Natividad ‘nativity’, ‘Christmas’, from Latin nativitas ‘birth’, genitive nativitatis, usually bestowed with reference to the Marian epithet María de la Natividad. Compare Natal.
GIVEN NAMES: Spanish 43%. Juan (8), Jose (7), Manuel (6), Ramon (6), Jesus (5), Ernesto (4), Jaime (4), Guadalupe (3), Luis (3), Miguel (3), Rafael (3), Raul (3); Antonio (3), Romeo (2), Annalisa, Donato, Emiliana, Enrico, Franco, Julieta, Leonardo, Lorenzo.
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