Boavista Family History & Genealogy

History

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Name Origin

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Spellings & Pronunciations

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Nationality & Ethnicity

The name Boavista is most likely of Portuguese origin. "Boa Vista" means good view or good sight and only exist in that form in the Portuguese language. There are many regions in various countries throughout the world that are named after that. How the name was adopted has a surname or if it began has a name of a region needs deeper research but there is municipality in northern Portugal named Boavista and that region is called that way for many centuries. 
The reason for why it spread throughout the world is probably due to emigration of the portuguese people and or the naming of regions, for example, in cape verde, brazil... Countries belonging the old Portuguese colonial empire. For other regions not ex-colonies maybe, and this is pure speculation, were named after a person who had a tremendous impact or had a big contribution, in some way, to that particular region or country.  
 
 
 
 

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Early Boavistas

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