Carbonell History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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England
France

The name Carbonell was first seen in France in the area called Gascogne. It was a name for a person with dark hair or a dark complexion. Looking back further, we find the name Carbonell was originally derived from the Latin word "carbonis," which means charcoal.

Early Origins of the Carbonell family

The surname Carbonell was first found in Gascony (French: Gascogne), an area of southwest France bordering Spain, that was part of the "Province of Guyenne and Gascony" prior to the French Revolution, where the family has held a family seat since very early times.

Early History of the Carbonell family

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Carbonell Spelling Variations

Changes of spelling have occurred in most surnames. The earliest explanation is that during the early development of the French language, names were not yet fixed in spelling. Usually a person gave his version of his name, phonetically, to a scribe, a priest, or a recorder. This depended on accent, and local accents frequently changed the spelling of a name. Some variables were adopted by different branches of the family name. Hence, there are some spelling variations of the name Carbonell, including Carbonnel, Carbonel, Carbonelle, Carbonèle, Charbonnel, Charbonel, Charbonelle, Charbonèle, Carbonell, Carbonnell, Charbonell, Charbonnell, Carbonnèle, Charbonèle, Charbonnèle, Charbonnel, Charbonnelle, Charbonal, Carbonal, Charbonale, Carbonale, Charbonnal, Carbonale, Charbonall, Carbonall, Carbonnale, Carbonalle and many more.

Early Notables of the Carbonell family

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Carbonell Ranking

In the United States, the name Carbonell is the 12,669^th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1

Carbonell migration to the United States +

Migration from France to New France or Quebec as it was now more popularly called, continued from France until it fell in 1759. By 1675, there were 7000 French in Quebec. By the same year the Acadian presence in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island had reached 500. In the treaty of Utrecht, the Acadians were ceded by France to Britain in 1713. In 1755, 10,000 French Acadians refused to take an oath of allegiance to England and were deported. They found refuge in Louisiana. In 1793, the remaining French in these provinces came under British rule. Meanwhile, in Quebec, the French race flourished, founding in Lower Canada, one of the two great solitudes which became Canada. Many of this distinguished family name Carbonell were prominent in social, cultural, religious and political affairs in France and New France. Amongst the settlers in North America with this distinguished name Carbonell were

Carbonell Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Jaime Carbonell, aged 33, who landed in Puerto Rico in 1804 2
Jose Antonio Carbonell, who landed in Puerto Rico in 1816 2
I Carbonell, aged 40, who landed in New Orleans, La in 1823 2
In Carbonell, who arrived in New Orleans, La in 1829 2
Juan Carbonell, aged 35, who arrived in New Orleans, La in 1831 2
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Contemporary Notables of the name Carbonell (post 1700) +

Nestor Carbonell (b. 1967), American actor
John Carbonell, American politician, Mayor of Key West, Florida, 1945, 1950-51 3
Frederico Carbonell, American Democratic Party politician, Alternate Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Puerto Rico, 1912 3
Loreto "Bonnie" Carbonell (1933-2017), Filipino basketball player who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics
Teresa Gisbert Carbonell de Mesa (1926-2018), Bolivian architect and art historian, awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1958 and 1966
William Carbonell, Commissioner of Police of Malaya
Juan Carlos Carbonell (b. 1970), Chilean open wheel racecar driver
Marguerite Carbonell, Knight of Arts and Literature, Ceramist, Paris
Próspero Carbonell MacAusland, 47th Ministry of National Education of Colombia in 1957
Delfin Carbonell Basset (b. 1938), contemporary lexicographer

Citations +

"What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 23) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html