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vargas Name Meaning and History

Spanish and Portuguese: habitational name from Vargas in Santander province, or a topographic name from vargas, plural of varga, a dialect term used in various senses: ‘(thatched) hut’, ‘steep slope’, or ‘fenced pastureland which becomes waterlogged in winter’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of vargas Families in the US in 1920
Number of vargas families
 158-314
 53-157		 1-52
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