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de Bande

From a place called Bande

San Pedro, Cartelle

The story of the name
A stone village in a green Galician valley.
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Places & landscape

From a place called Bande

A place-name surname associated with Bande in Galicia. The name alone does not identify which locality this branch came from.

Place and landscape names connect naming with the world around a household: a settlement, a field, a spring or a building. The same word may occur in several localities. The birthplace of a named relative and the original place behind a surname are separate questions.

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Galicia · 2001

Census spelling: BANDE · Galicia · 2001

The atlas returns no records for DE BANDE. The figures below are for the separate census spelling BANDE. The family archive preserves the prefix; these spellings are not combined.

Rank in Galicia · 2001
#744
Occurrences in Galicia · 2001
710
Share of surname occurrences
0.014%
Municipalities · 2001
18

This rank is shared by 2 surname spellings.

O Ribeiro · Ourense

The name around the Ribeiro · 2001

Selected municipalities, ordered by surname occurrences. The percentage is the share of all surname occurrences in each municipality.

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The name around the Ribeiro · 2001 · BANDE
MunicipalityOccurrencesShare of surname occurrences
Cartelle1091.4987%
Castrelo de Miño511.2466%
Ribadavia70.0634%
people assigned this surname
3
recorded birthplaces
2
recorded spellings
1

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Places in this branch
Recorded birthplacePeople
San Pedro, Cartelle2
Traveso, Castrelo de Miño1

Sources & further research

The name reference supports the linguistic explanation above. Family details come from the tree; an illustration supplies atmosphere, not evidence about an ancestor.

Instituto de Historia Familiar · Bande (opens in a new tab)Real Academia Galega · Surname guide (opens in a new tab)Our family tree · People and relationships

O Ribeiro · Avia · Miño · Arnoia

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The Avia, Miño and Arnoia valleys are the thread running through this guide. Read the regional history, explore the households and surnames, then open the tree to see the relationships supported by records.