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Patronymic surname · Germanic

Beltrán

"bright raven"

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bel-TRAHN

Where it comes from

berht (bright) + hramn (raven), the name Bertrand

Meaning of the surname Beltrán

Beltrán is a Germanic surname of the patronymic type meaning "bright raven". It is one of the 200 most common surnames in Mexico.

Formed from a father's given name with the suffix -ez, -es, or -iz, meaning 'son of'. Hernández is the son of Hernando, Martínez the son of Martín. About half of the most common Mexican surnames are patronymics.

In Mexico a person carries two surnames, the father's and then the mother's, so Beltrán appears as either half of a pair: Beltrán García, López Beltrán. Read how the two-surname system works.

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