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Last name help! Thanks?
My great grandfather's last name was Mercado. Now he was Puerto Rican but didn't look it, when I google the last name Mercado it shows it's a Jewish last name from Spain but when I type that name in on Facebook everyone that is popping up don't seem Jewish to me.... Is this correct? does that mean I am part something else besides Puerto Rican? If anyone has information on that name and knows anything please leave a answer! Thank you
2 Answers
- kaganateLv 76 years ago
Mercado Name Meaning Spanish: from mercado ‘market’, topographic name for someone living by a market or metonymic occupational name for a market trader.
(from Ancestry.com)
Nothing distinctly Jewish about it.
Jews have Spanish names that they share with non-Jewish Spanish people.
Jews have German names that they share with non-Jewish Germans.
Jews have English names that they share with non-Jewish Englishmen.
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etc.
- Anonymous6 years ago
It is both