When Vicente COSTA MAS was born on 15 November 1910, in Gata de Gorgos, Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain, his father, Francisco COSTA VIVES, was 42 and his mother, Anita MAS GRIMALT, was 30. He died on 7 September 1984, in his hometown, at the age of 73.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Manuel, Jose, Carlos, Mario, Luis, Fernando, Ana, Francisco, Julio, Eduardo, Jorge, Marcos. Portuguese Joao, Joaquim, Paulo, Duarte, Vasco, Adao, Albano, Anabela, Marcio, Margarida, Serafim, Aderito. Italian Antonio, Angelo, Salvatore, Rocco, Sal, Domenic, Giovanni, Giuseppe, Guido, Luciano, Pasquale, Pietro.
Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Galician, southern French, and Italian: topographic name for someone who lived on a slope or river bank, or on the coast (ultimately from Latin costa ‘rib, side, flank’, also used in a transferred topographic sense), or a habitational name from any of numerous places called with this word. Compare Spanish Cuesta and Lacosta .
Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Portuguese surname (see 1 above) at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later), some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholics.
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