Asturian words as last name?

sanne · Post by **sanne** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 11:13 pm

Hi I'm new to this forum, and I have been on a quest for my genealogical ancestry for years.

Upon doing a google search, I came across a maternal last name in an Castellano site.

I then looked it up in the RAE.

banzón.
1. m. coloq. Ast. Bola pequeña de barro que sirve para juegos infantiles.

I haven't been able to find "Banzon" in general last name searches in Spain or Latin America.

But what could this mean?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 7:55 am

In Asturian, banzón is the iron rim of a wheel or a kind of children's toy.

For other definitions of Asturian words (written in Asturian) see http://www.academiadelallingua.com/dicc ... /index.php

sanne · Post by **sanne** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 10:08 pm

Thank you for your reply.

Is it common in Asturia to have Asturian words as last names?

This last name is just very odd, and I was very surprised to find it actually meant something in another language.