Surname meaning and origin

Trujillo

Spanish: From the city of Trujillo (Cáceres, Extremadura)

Pronounced troo-HEE-yoh (Spanish [tɾuˈxi.ʝo]; US English troo-HEE-oh)

Where the name comes from

  • Spanish
    From the city of Trujillo (Cáceres, Extremadura)
    Latin Turgalium
    Toponymic. DAFN: "Spanish: habitational name from the city so named in Cáceres province called in Latin Turgalium which is probably of Arabic origin. This place was the home of various conquistadors hence its great frequency in the Americas."

Trujillo across traditions

  • New Mexico. One of the colonial surnames of New Mexico, where most US Trujillos lived in the 19th century.
  • Louisiana. DAFN records the variant Truxillo, "found mainly in LA."

Forms in other languages

Truxillo

Trujillo in letter-number systems

Hebrew, Greek and other traditions gave every letter a number, and read meaning into the totals. These are the counts, computed; the readings are inside the Innerverse.

365
Hebrew Standard
5
Hebrew Ordinal
117
English Simple
702
English Sumerian
99
English Reverse
950
Greek Isopsephy
9
Chaldean
9
Pythagorean

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