The family name Carillo is a Filipino surname that is predominant in the Visayas and Luzon. While there are many Carillos found in Mindanao, it has been proven that most of these Carillo families have roots in the Visayan region of the Philippine archipelago, particularly to the town of Argao, Cebu, where almost half of the population migrated to Mindanao in the 1920’s in search for greener pasture. There are several other branches of the surname all over the country, but as there are almost no available records beyond the middle nineteenth century, it is now almost impossible to connect these many Carillos to each other.
Meaning of the name
The surname Carillo, of Argao, Cebu, is derived from the family name Carrillo, which roots to Spain. Indeed, there seems to be an interchange of the surnames Carillo and Carrillo; this does not matter though for it has been proven that both are one and the same, and differ only in spelling due largely to the hasty registration of family names in the past.
The word “carillo” or “carrillo” is used to refer to any “small cart”. Indeed, the word seems to have been derived from the Spanish word carril, a masculine noun that means “cart”, “cartway”, “a narrow road”, “a lane”, or “rail”. Carril, being a cart, when added with the suffix lo, thus connotes something smaller, in this case a “smaller cart”. Thus, the surname then refers to anything that is related to a cart or road.
Meaning of the name
The surname Carillo, of Argao, Cebu, is derived from the family name Carrillo, which roots to Spain. Indeed, there seems to be an interchange of the surnames Carillo and Carrillo; this does not matter though for it has been proven that both are one and the same, and differ only in spelling due largely to the hasty registration of family names in the past.
The word “carillo” or “carrillo” is used to refer to any “small cart”. Indeed, the word seems to have been derived from the Spanish word carril, a masculine noun that means “cart”, “cartway”, “a narrow road”, “a lane”, or “rail”. Carril, being a cart, when added with the suffix lo, thus connotes something smaller, in this case a “smaller cart”. Thus, the surname then refers to anything that is related to a cart or road.
The surname Carillo of Argao existed even before the use of formal surnames in 1849/1850 and may possibly point to the family’s Hispanic origins.
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