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Is the last name Mercado a Spanish and Jewish name or just Spanish? I am getting a lot of different answers and is getting confused. Help
1 Answer
- 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.
...
etc.
Just as there are Jewish Millers and non-Jewish Millers,
there are Jewish Mercados and there are non-Jewish Mercados