Iglesia Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

Arms linked to Iglesias and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Family name meaning

Iglesia is how some branches of the Iglesias family came to write their name. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “Churches”.

Iglesia and Iglesias

Without the “s” of Iglesias, Iglesia is a simpler written form of the same name. You may also find the name written De Iglesias and Yglesias.

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