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medeiros Name Meaning and History

Portuguese and Galician: habitational name from any of various places named Medeiros, from Portuguese and Galician medeiro ‘place where shocks of maize are gathered’ (a derivative of meda ‘shock’, ‘stack’, Latin meta ‘(pyramid-shaped) post’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of medeiros Families in the US in 1920
Number of medeiros families
 138-274
 47-137		 1-46
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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