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English
Proper noun
Varela (plural Varelas)
- A surname from Galician.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Varela is the 1321st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 26621 individuals. Varela is most common among Hispanic/Latino (90.42%) individuals.
Anagrams
Galician
Etymology
Dimunutive of vara.[1] Attested since the 12th century.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Varela
- a surname
References
- ^ “Varela Name Meaning & Varela Family History at Ancestry.com®”, in www.ancestry.com, 2022 December 3 (last accessed)
- “Varela” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Varela”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=varela
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baˈɾela/
- Rhymes: -ela
- Syllabification: Va‧re‧la
Proper noun
Varela m or f by sense
- a surname from Galician