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Question:The last name Taveras?
What are its origins and also Miranda????


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What are its origins and also Miranda????

This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about both names,
Miranda
English: invented by Shakespeare for the heroine of The Tempest (1611). It represents the feminine form of the Latin gerundive mirandus admirable, lovely, from mirari to wonder at, admire; cf. Amanda. Short form: Randa.

Pet forms: Randy, Randie.
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Last Name
Taveras
Probably Spanish, though not found in present-day Spain: a plural form of Tavera.

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