Place
Lugo surname meaning
A Galician and Spanish habitational surname from the city of Lugo in Galicia, Roman Lucus Augusti, “grove of Augustus.”
The short story
Lugo is a Galician and Spanish habitational surname from the city of Lugo in Galicia. The Romans knew the settlement as Lucus Augusti, “grove or wood of Augustus,” though that Latin name may adapt an earlier Celtic form linked to the god Lugos. Families from the city and its district carried the name across Spain and into the Americas, where Lugo is well established in Hispanic populations. de Lugo appears in older documents. Place is high confidence: the surname is transparently tied to a single major Galician toponym.
Also seen as: Lugo, de Lugo
Sources used
- Ancestry / DAFN entry for Lugo (habitational from Lugo, Galicia; Lucus Augusti)
- Spanish habitational synthesis for Lugo
- Names2020_LastNames_RaceHispanic_Top1000.xlsx (2020 Census)