Veigas: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

One surname, two spellings: Veigas and Veiga.

What is the meaning of Veigas?

Read literally, Veigas points to “Fertile plain”. Spain's INE counts 123 residents with Veigas as first surname and 168 with it as second.

Is Veigas the same name as Veiga?

Veigas adds “s” to Veiga, a small change that crept in as the name was written down. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

Does every Veigas family have a crest?

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

Names that sound alike, such as Vegas, are easily confused in old records. Get the complete Veigas report, with a museum-style coat of arms.