De Mercado is a
Spanish
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surname. It is believed to have first appeared around the Spanish provinces of
Segovia
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and
Valladolid
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. Its roots are most likely in
Old Castile
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or
Andalusia
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Some variants of the name are Mercado, Mercaddo, Meradoo, Mercados, Mercadors, Mercadons, de Mercado, deMercado,
Demercado, and DeMercado. The name means 'market' in Spanish and goes back to
Latin
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''mercatus'', with the same meaning. Although not a Portuguese surname, the de Mercado name can also be found in Portugal to a limited extent, as it was brought over there from Spain generations ago. Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were among the early explorers of the New World were many who settled in the Caribbean and Central America. They included Gutierre De Mercado who came to the Spanish Main in 1534 and Gabriel de Mercado who arrived in New Spain in 1578. The name was brought into England in the wake of the Norman Invasion of 1066, and Roger Marcand, recorded in the year 1202 in County Berkshire, appears to be the first of the name on record. Roger Mauchaunt appears in Yorkshire in 1219, and Ranulph le Marchand was documented in 1240 in County Essex. The associated coat of arms is recorded in Cronistas Reyes de Armas de España. The heraldic office dates back to the 16th century. They have judicial powers in matters of nobiliary titles, and also serve as a registration office for pedigrees and grants of arms.
Mercado is also a
Sephardic
Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and their descendant ...
name given to or assumed by someone who had escaped some great danger or recovered from a life-threatening illness; he was 'bought' or taken under the protection of a relative or friend and had his name changed to ''Merkado'' to confuse the Angel of Death, who, it was believed, would make further attempts to take the life of which he had been baulked.
[A Dictionary of Surnames (Oxford University Press, 1988).]
Some well-known (de) Mercados
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Sir Frederick Johann Mercado
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, Libertarian politician, criminal justice reform advocate, polymath
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Arturo Mercado, Mexican voice actor
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Bernardo Mercado, Colombian heavy-weight boxer
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César Mercado, Puerto Rican marathon runner
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Diego Fernández de Mercado, Spanish governor of Jamaica in 1586 (during Spanish rule)
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Emari Demercado (born 1999), American football player
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Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Puerto Rican
centenarian
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whom, at his death, was the
world's oldest living person
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José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda popularly known as
Dr. Jose Rizal, National Hero of the Philippines
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Orlando Mercado, Puerto Rican baseball player
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Orlando S. Mercado also known as
Orly Mercado, Philippine politician and journalist
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Oscar Mercado, Colombian-American baseball player
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Sergio Ramírez Mercado, Nicaraguan writer and intellectual
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Syesha Mercado, American singer
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Walter Mercado also known as
Shanti Ananda, Puerto Rican astrologer
See also
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Spanish naming customs
Spanish names are the traditional way of identifying, and the official way of registering a person in Spain. They are composed of a given name (simple or composite) and two surnames (the first surname of each parent). Traditionally, the first ...
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Puerto Rican rock music#1950s and 1960s
External links
Hispanic Heraldry (in Spanish)– Information about Hispanic surnames.
A Jamaican branch of the family (from Spain via Netherlands)
References
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Spanish-language surnames