First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Spanish, Galician, and Catalan: either from a place of this name (in A Coruña province, Galicia), or from a Catalan descriptive nickname meaning ‘beauties’.