Carballo (name)

It references the family's settlements surroundings of forest on mountainous terrain in Carballo, Galicia, northwestern Spain.

Carballo has many variations in its spelling, including Carvallo, Carbello, Carvalho, Carbalho, Caraballo, Carbajo, Carvajal, Caballer, Caballe, Carballino, partly because of illiteracy in early times.

Surnames like Carballo transform their pronunciation and spelling as they travel across villages, family branches, and countries.

Some of the first spelling variations for the origins of the old name Carballo were found in the County of Castile in medieval Spain.

Other early migrants to the New World included Gutierre de Caballos, who sailed to the Americas in 1512. , Joao Lopez Carvalho, maritime pilot of the ship Concepción, acted as captain-general on May 2, 1521, who took command after Ferdinand Magellan's death in the Philippines (April 27, 1521).

[3][4][5][page needed][6] Pedro Álvares Cabral (1468–1520) a Portuguese nobleman, military commander, navigator and explorer regarded as the discoverer of Brazil.

Port captain at Cádiz, Juan Bautista Topete y Carballo, (May 24, 1821 – October 29, 1885), a Spanish naval commander and politician, born in San Andrés Tuxtla, Mexico.

[8] The motto of the Carballo family is Upwards and Onwards,[citation needed] derived from Spain's Plus Ultra, which translates to "Further Beyond" in Latin.

On the navy blue shield, there is one bright golden eight-point star surrounded by eight white crescent moons."

In Spain, during the Reconquista, the name Carballo was extended from Galicia to the Iberian Peninsula and to the Canary Islands.

During most recent findings, several members of this lineage sailed for the New World in the latter 19th century, arriving in countries like Chile, Argentina, Mexico, the United States, and Venezuela.