Cerro
English
editEtymology
editTwo main origins:
- Borrowed from Italian Cerro, a habitational surname from any of various places called Cerro, from cerro (“Turkey oak”).
- Borrowed from Spanish Cerro, a topographic surname for someone who lived by a hill or ridge, from cerro (“hill, hillock”).
Proper noun
editCerro (countable and uncountable, plural Cerros)
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Taos County, New Mexico, United States.
Statistics
edit- According to the 2010 United States Census, Cerro is the 39052nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 564 individuals. Cerro is most common among White (55.14%) and Hispanic/Latino (43.62%) individuals.
See also
editFurther reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Cerro”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 311.
Italian
editEtymology
editHabitational surname from any of various places called Cerro, from cerro (“Turkey oak”).
Proper noun
editCerro m or f by sense
- a surname
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Italian
- English terms derived from Italian
- English terms borrowed from Spanish
- English terms derived from Spanish
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English surnames
- en:Unincorporated communities in New Mexico, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in New Mexico, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- English surnames from Italian
- English surnames from Spanish
- Italian lemmas
- Italian proper nouns
- Italian proper nouns with irregular gender
- Italian masculine nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- Italian nouns with multiple genders
- Italian masculine and feminine nouns by sense
- Italian surnames