Teixeira
Sign in to saveTeixeira (, ) is a Galician-Portuguese surname based on the toponym Teixeira, derived from teixo "yew tree" (Latin taxus). The progenitors of the name were a "Noble Portuguese Marrano family, originally bearing the surname of Sampayo," and the Teixeira coat of arms was conferred "in accordance with a decree of King Philip IV of Spain" in 1643. A less frequent variant spelling is Texeira. The variant Técher is common in the highlands of Reunion Island, notably in the Cilaos area.
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- family name
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- Teixeira Coat of Arms.gif
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- language of work or name
- Galician
- Caverphone
- TKR111
- Cologne phonetics
- 2487
- Soundex
- T260
- native label
- Teixeira
- writing system
- Latin script
- different from
- Teixeira
- Commons category
- Teixeira (surname)
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- P8168
- Max Niederbacher
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Teixeira (, ) is a Galician-Portuguese surname based on the toponym Teixeira, derived from teixo "yew tree" (Latin taxus). The progenitors of the name were a "Noble Portuguese Marrano family, originally bearing the surname of Sampayo," and the Teixeira coat of arms was conferred "in accordance with a decree of King Philip IV of Spain" in 1643. A less frequent variant spelling is Texeira. The variant Técher is common in the highlands of Reunion Island, notably in the Cilaos area.
==List of people called Teixeira== Notable people with the surname include:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Teixeira” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.