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Question:What are the Origins and Ethnicity's of the last names OGANDO, SARANTE and GILL
by the way im Dominican and cant find the origins anywhere


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by the way im Dominican and cant find the origins anywhere
Sarante kind of sounds french or spanish because both languages have many similarities, but im not sure about the others though.
Sorry I was unable to find anything for the surnames, Oganda and Sarante, but I did find this for the surname Gill,

Gill
English: from a short form of the personal names Giles, Julian, or William. In theory the name would have a soft initial when derived from the first two of these, and a hard one when from William or from the other possibilities discussed in 2–4 below. However, there has been much confusion over the centuries.
Northern English: topographic name for someone who lived by a ravine or deep glen, Middle English gil(l), Old Norse gil ‘ravine’.
Scottish and Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille (Scottish), Mac Giolla (Irish), patronymics from an occupational name for a servant or a short form of the various personal names formed by attaching this element to the name of a saint. See McGill. The Old Norse personal name Gilli is probably of this origin, and may lie behind some examples of the name in northern England.
Scottish and Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac An Ghoill (see Gall 1).
Norwegian: habitational name from any of three farmsteads in western Norway named Gil, from Old Norse gil ‘ravine’.
Dutch: cognate of Giles.
Jewish (Israeli): ornamental name from Hebrew gil ‘joy’.
German: from a vernacular short form of the medieval personal name Aegidius (see Gilger).
Indian (Panjab): Sikh name, probably from Panjabi gil ‘moisture’, also meaning ‘prosperity’.

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