About: Carballo (name)

Carballo is originally a (Spanish, Galician, Catalan and Basque), surname. It is derived from both a Galician and Portuguese word meaning oak, referring to the family's settlement's surroundings of forest on mountainous terrain in A Coruña, Galicia, the north western part of Spain. Over the years, the surname has become more frequent in other countries and the name has had variations in its spelling. It became widely renowned in the early 1600s in the Spanish colonization of the Americas or New Spain and greatly expanded during the 1800s. It spread from South America, Central America, Mexico and North America, also including the Philippine islands, Cuba and Puerto Rico, territories of Spanish Colonialism or colonial expansion under the Crown of Castile during Spanish holdings in the Age of