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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish (Encarnación) : from a short form of the Marian name María de la Encarnación ‘Mary of the Incarnation’ (from Latin incarnatio, from incarnare ‘to make flesh’, a derivative of caro, genitive carnis, flesh).

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