Meaning and origin of the surname Cerúlea? I can't find anything! :(?

Question

I have looked on virtually every surname database for my surname, Cerulea, and have come up with absolutely NOTHING! No record, no entry, nada. It's really upsetting. Can someone please help me out? We didn't just appear, so there has to be something out there, yeah? THANK YOU!

The only ones being found are in London? .. I'm definitely not English! I'm latin

Answer 1

Wow...talk about an unusually small amount of info on a family. I found two phone book entries for Vanda Cerulea from London in 1929 and 1932, then PPOOOFFF.

The best I can suggest is that the name is relatively new and probably was changed from something else. You'll have to do all the basic steps of genealogy and trace back your heritage to figure out the answer.

If you're Latin, which country did your father's family originally come from? What country is your family living in now?


I've gone through databases from the Caribbean, Mexico and much of South America. There's not a single reference to the surname. I've also done a cursory search of records in Spain, but still nothing. I couldn't even get a phone listing from Infobel for anywhere in Europe.

If your family is from Spain or Italy, then the records you need to search aren't going to be in databases on the internet. Neither country has significant civil registers for the last 135 years that are open to the public. The main records for tracing in both countries are Catholic sacramental registers that are kept in individual parishes around the world. They aren't on the internet (and probably never will be). You'll have to do solid genealogy research at the parish level to find ancestors from those countries.

Answer 2

There must be a very different spelling for most descendants of this last name. The only Cerulea ("Vanda Cerulea") I was able to find is listed in a London phonebook decades ago. Wish I could help.

Answer 3

Hey A Mermaid,

Do you speak Spanish? from a translation site, Cerúlea:
Pronounce: ce·rú·le·o -a
adj. cerulean, sky-blue

Many times the Spanish names are not found in the English search engines. So, some of your options are to search in Spanish speaking countries for the name using the Telephone Directories that you can get online. (just search for White Pages ).