EUGENE... From the Greek name ???e???? (Eugenios) which was derived from the Greek word e??e??? (eugenes) meaning "well born", composed of the elements e? "good, well" and ?e??? (genes) "born". from the Old French form of the Greek name Eugenios (from eugenes well-born, noble). HERRERA... Spanish and Jewish (Sephardic): habitational name from villages so called in the provinces of Seville and Badajoz, from a word meaning ‘iron smithy’, ‘blacksmith’s forge’ (a derivative of hierro ‘iron’, Latin ferrum). French: habitational name from the Gascon form of Ferrière, a place in Pyrénées-Atlantique. The place name is derived from Latina ferraria ‘iron-mine’, ‘iron-forge’.
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