Nogues

Nogues is a northern Spanish and French family name . Nogues comes from noyer , the French word for walnut tree (Spanish: nogal ; Portuguese: nogueira ).

There are still many nogues living in northern Spain today. This name is also numerous in the south of France. There are also a few families in Brittany , especially in the Morbihan department , where they mainly worked as weavers and shoemakers in the 16th century . In France today there are 6,624 people with the surname Nogues. Nogues is thus on the 739th place of the most common family names in France.

Some name variations: Nogués, Nogue, Noguez, Nogier, Nougier, Nogieres, Nogueira.

Name bearer

• Dominique Nogues (1879–1957), Abbot General of the Trappists
• Jean Come Nogues (* 1934), French author
• Xavier Nogues (1873-1941), Spanish painter
• Dolors Batalla i Nogués (* 1969), Catalan politician
• Juan José Nogués Portalatín (1909–1998), Spanish footballer and manager
• Ingeniero Pablo Nogués , small Argentine town near Buenos Aires
• Kristen Nogues (1952–2007), French (Breton) harpist (Celtic harp) and composer

Web links

• L'encyclopédie des noms de familles (French)