Asturian-American Migration Forum

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.

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

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.