Carrión Family Crest & Name History

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

Family name meaning

The name Carrión is closely linked to Carreón. It is a place-based name: “From a place named Carrión”.

The two spellings differ in a small detail: Carrión has “i” where Carreón has “e”. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. In the Spanish register, Carrión appears 18,385 times as a first surname and 17,989 times as a second one. From 1891 to 2000, 1,567 births in France were registered under Carrión. The name became more frequent over the century.

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