Espinosa Family History
Espinosa Name Meaning
Spanish: habitational name from any of numerous places called Espinosa from a collective form of espina ‘thorn’. Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Spanish surname (see 1 above) at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later) some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholics.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022