The castro Surname
castro Name Meaning and History
Galician, Portuguese, Italian, and Jewish (Sephardic): topographic
name from castro ‘castle’, ‘fortress’ (Latin castrum
‘fort’, ‘Roman walled city’): in Galicia and also in northern Portugal
a habitational name from any of various places named with this word;
in Italy either a topographic name or a habitational name.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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