Veloso

Portuguese, Filipino, and Hispanic surname, either borrowed from Portuguese or Galician (via Spanish).

Veloso (plural Velosos)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Veloso is the 22906^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1117 individuals. Veloso is most common among White (38.14%), Asian/Pacific Islander (34.11%), and Hispanic/Latino (23.19%) individuals.

From Spanish, from Galician.

Veloso

1. a surname from Galician

• Beloso

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese veloso (“hairy”).

• IPA^(key): /beˈloso/ [beˈlo.s̺ʊ]
• Rhymes: -oso

Veloso m

1. a surname

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Veloso”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• “Veloso” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• Rhymes: -ozu
• Homophone: veloso
• Hyphenation: Ve‧lo‧so

Veloso m

1. a surname

(Per Forebears 2014)

• 226th most common surname in Angola
• 267th most common surname in Brazil
• 184th most common surname in Portugal

Borrowed from Galician or Portuguese.

Veloso m or f by sense

1. a surname from Galician or Portuguese

(Per Forebears 2014)

• 434th most common surname in Chile
• 1,983rd most common surname in Argentina
• 2,577th most common surname in Spain

Borrowed from Spanish, from Galician.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /veˈloso/ [vɛˈloː.so]
  • IPA^(key): (more native-sounding) /beˈloso/ [bɛˈloː.so]
• Rhymes: -oso
• Syllabification: Ve‧lo‧so

Veloso (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎᜓᜐᜓ)

1. a surname from Spanish [in turn from Galician], notably borne by:
   1. Lou Veloso, Filipina politician and actress
   2. Mary Jane Veloso, Filipina worker on death row in Indonesia after being used as a drug mule by a drug syndicate

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Veloso is the 333rd most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 24,231 individuals.