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Definition: 1) Dweller at or near the market; one who had returned from the market 2) From the city of Medina in western Saudi Arabia, the second most holy city of Islam. According to the Instituto Genealógico e Histórico Latino-Americano, the Medina surname originated principally in the Spanish areas of Burgos and Andalusia.
Surname Origin:
Spanish, Portuguese
Alternate Surname Spellings:
MEDENA
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Hispanic Genealogy MEDINA Family Genealogy Forum FamilySearch - MEDINA Genealogy MEDINA Surname Mailing List Surname Finder - MEDINA Genealogy & Family Resources Cousin Connect - MEDINA Genealogy Queries DistantCousin.com - MEDINA Genealogy & Family History MyCinnamonToast.com - MEDINA Genealogy in All Regions References: Surname Meanings & Origins Cottle, Basil. Penguin Dictionary of Surnames. Baltimore, MD: Penguin
Books, 1967. Dorward, David. Scottish
Surnames. Collins Celtic (Pocket edition), 1998. Fucilla, Joseph. Our Italian Surnames.
Genealogical Publishing Company, 2003. Smith, Elsdon C. American
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Hanks, Patrick and Flavia Hodges.
A Dictionary of Surnames. Great
Britain: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Reaney, P.H. A Dictionary of English Surnames. Oxford University
Press, 1997.
