Last name NASCIMENTO: origin and meaning

Publish date: 2024-08-06

Nascimento : Portuguese: from a Christian religious byname or a personal name given to a child born at Christmas from nascimento ‘birth nativity’ (from Late Latin nascimentum from nasci ‘to be born’) also forming one of the epithets of the Virgin Mary (Maria do Nascimento).

Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press

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