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Vasco

 

Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish Portuguese
Pronounced: BAHS-ko

From the medieval Spanish name Velasco, which came from the Spanish surname Velázquez, which possibly meant "crow" in Basque. A famous bearer was the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, the first person to sail from Europe around Africa to India.

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