Vasco
Vasco is a first name and family name .
Origin and meaning
Vasco is a male given name of Spanish or Portuguese origin that was borrowed in the 1970s and developed from Velasco / Belasco, a name of Basque origin that was common on the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages (probably to Basque belatz "crow"). The name form is therefore not derived from the identical adjective vasco "Basque, Basque". The name became known through Vasco da Gama . It is common as a first and family name. The Spanish family names Vásquez and Vázquez are derived from Vasco in patronymic formation .
Name bearer
First name
- Vasco Bergamaschi (1909–1979), Italian racing cyclist
- Vasco Gonçalves (1921–2005), Portuguese general and politician
- Vasco Graça Moura (1942–2014), Portuguese lawyer, politician, writer and translator
- Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475–1519), Spanish explorer
- Vasco Regini (* 1990), Italian football player
- Vasco Rossi (born 1952), Italian singer
- Vasco da Gama (around 1469–1524), Portuguese navigator, discoverer of the sea route to India
- Vasco Fernandes, (probably 1480–1543) called " Grão Vasco ", Portuguese Renaissance painter
- Vasco Santana (1989–1958), Portuguese actor
- Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira (* 1939), the last Portuguese governor of Macau
- Vasco Pulido Valente (* 1941), Portuguese intellectual (author, political commentator)
- Vasco Pratolini (1913–1991), Italian writer and screenwriter
- Vasco de Lima Couto (1923–1980), Portuguese poet and actor
- Vasco Evtimov (* 1977), actually Vassil Evtimov, French-Bulgarian basketball player
- Vasco Giuseppe Bertelli (1924–2013), former Italian bishop of Volterra
- Vasco Lourenço (* 1942), Portuguese officer of the Carnation Revolution
- Vasco Regaleira (1897–1968), Portuguese architect
- Vasco Ugo Finni , pseudonym of the Italian composer, director, pianist and conductor Giovanni Fusco (1906–1968)
- Vasco de Quiroga (1475–1565), first bishop of Michoacán , Mexico
family name
- Grão Vasco , Portuguese painter
- María Vasco (* 1975), Spanish walker
Individual evidence
- ^ The large first name dictionary, Duden, ISBN 978-3-411-06083-2