Trugillo: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Trugillo is best understood together with Trujillo: both are Spanish spellings of a single family name. Like many surnames, it began with a place: “From Trujillo in Extremadura”.

Trugillo and Trujillo

Spelled with “g” instead of “j”, Trugillo shows how the same name was heard and written differently. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Truxillo.

Arms associated with the name

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

Get the complete Trugillo report, with a museum-style coat of arms.