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The surname Maldonado is of Spanish and Portuguese origin. It was a nickname used to indicate that a person was ugly or ignorant; It derives from the conjunction of bad and donated: badly donated means badly favored or badly endowed . It also made reference to the origin of a person: someone from Maldonado, a town in the province of Albacete, in Spain.
Alternate spellings for this name: de Maldonado, Maldanado, de Maldanado, Maledanado, de Maldanado, Maldolado, Moldonado, Baldonado, Montano, Valdonado, Valdonao, Maldonao.
Maldonado in the world
The surname Maldonado is common in Spanish-speaking countries.
Argentina
Salvador Maldonado was an Argentine politician, member of the Constituent Congress of 1824 that sanctioned the Argentine Constitution of 1826. Tomás Maldonado was a well-known Argentine painter of the second half of the 20th century. Alejandro Maldonado is a multi-award winning international athlete who competes in a wheelchair.
Puerto Rico
It is the country with the highest relative frequency of this surname: 1 out of every 157 inhabitants of Puerto Rico have the surname Maldonado. José Maldonado, “Águila Blanca”, was a Puerto Rican revolutionary in the last years of the 19th century. Janielys Maldonado Pérez, Elysanij, is a Puerto Rican singer-songwriter.
Uruguay
A department in the coastal zone of Uruguay has the name Maldonado, a department that houses the resorts of Punta del Este and Piriápolis. The name originates in 1530, when the navigator Sebastián Gaboto returned to Spain and left Lieutenant Francisco Maldonado in charge of the place.
Some famous people with the last name Maldonado
Kirstie Maldonado is an American singer, member of the Pentatonix group.
Fernando Z. Maldonado was a well-known ranchera singer; A Mexican national, he was born in Cárdenas in 1917 and died in Cuernavaca in 1996.
Fernando Maldonado is a Colombian painter, sculptor and illustrator attached to the surrealist and expressionist currents.
Carlos Domingo Maldonado Curti is a Chilean politician who was Minister of Justice and Undersecretary of Government between 2006 and 2010.
Web resources to investigate
Family Tree DNA – This page provides free information on the Maldonado last name and any other last names you want. It also has paid resources that provide more detailed information about the surname and its origins.
Forebears: very useful for locating information on what the surname means, what its origin is, and how many people share the same surname.
Fountain
Jose Godoy Alcantara. Philological etymological historical essay on Castilian surnames . Publisher M. Rivadeneyra, Madrid, 1875.
