Trujillo surname meaning

Trujillo is a Spanish habitational surname from the town of Trujillo in Cáceres, Extremadura. The place name continues ancient Turgalium and later Spanish forms shaped by local and Mozarabic history. Families who left the town took the place name as a surname, and colonial expansion carried Trujillo widely through the Americas. Truxillo and De Trujillo appear in older records as spelling or prepositional variants. Place is the high-confidence catalog type. The surname identifies a locality of origin; it does not by itself prove descent from any particular medieval household in the town.