Caravaca: Surname History and Family Crest

What can public data say about the Caravaca family name? Quite a lot. Wikidata records Caravaca as a Spanish family name.

Surname origin

The meaning of Caravaca is not given in the reference works we use for these short pages; a full report traces it from your own family's records. Spelling in old records was loose, so search for Caravaca under several forms.

Similar names

In Spain, the INE population register lists 4,060 people with Caravaca as their first surname and 4,103 as their second. French birth records list 214 children named Caravaca between 1891 and 2000.

Caravaca coat of arms

Sharing the Caravaca name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families.

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