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From a place surname · Spanish

Cisneros

"place of swans"

Say it

sees-NEH-ros

Built from

cisneswan+-eroplace of

Meaning of the surname Cisneros

Cisneros is a Spanish surname of the from a place type meaning "place of swans". It is one of the 200 most common surnames in Mexico.

Taken from a town, region, or landscape feature in Spain, or later in Mexico: Castillo (castle), Rivera (riverbank), Navarro (from Navarre), Ibarra (Basque valley).

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

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