Explore the Family Name Cueto

Possible origins of the surname Cueto

Your DNA provides clues about where your recent ancestors may have lived. Having many distant relatives in the same location suggests that you may all share common ancestry there. Locations with many distant relatives can also be places where people have migrated recently, such as large cities. If a large number of individuals who share your surname have distant relatives in a specific area, it could indicate a connection between your surname and that location, stemming from either recent ancestral ties or migration.

Based on 23andMe data, people with last name Cueto have recent ancestry locations spanning a few countries, mostly in Spain, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

What Cueto haplogroups can tell you

Haplogroups are genetic population groups that share a common ancestor on either your paternal or maternal line. These paternal and maternal haplogroups shed light on your genetic ancestry and help tell the story of your family.

The top paternal haplogroup of people with the surname Cueto is O-F2415, which is predominantly found among people with East Asian & Indigenous American ancestry. Haplogroup O-F2415 is descended from haplogroup O-M1359. Other common haplogroups include E-M183 and O-F2859, which are predominantly found among people with European and East Asian & Indigenous American ancestry.

The most common maternal haplogroups of people with Cueto surname are: A2, C1, U. These most commonly trace back to individuals of European ancestry.

Your paternal lineage may be linked to the Cham

One of the many populations harboring members of haplogroup O1b1a1a1a1 is the Cham ethnic group, a group of people who speak Austronesian languages in Mainland Southeast Asia. Austronesian languages make up a language family that is extremely large and widespread, comprising over 350 million people on islands such as Madagascar, Easter Island, and many others. However, Austronesian languages are less common on mainland Asia, with a notable exception being the Chamic language. Research suggests that ancestors of the Cham people migrated from Southeast Asian islands to the mainland around the year 500 BCE, and that early Cham populations quickly began mixing with indigenous southern Vietnamese populations. As a result, the Chamic language now has words that were borrowed from languages spoken by indigenous Vietnamese people. It is likely that an ancestral Kinh population was one of the populations that mixed with the Cham people shortly after their migration to mainland Asia.

Your maternal lineage may be linked to the people of Lajia

In the early 2000s, researchers found members of haplogroup C in Lajia, an archeological site along the Yellow River in Qinghai. The people of Lajia were frozen in time between 3,800 and 4,000 years ago, at the cusp of the Bronze Age in East Asia. Their culture, called the Qijia, was one of the first in the region to have bronze tools, from knives and axes to the earliest mirrors.The Qijia culture in turn was a part of the Di-Qiang confederation of tribes in the north who influenced the cultural landscape across all of China. During the early centuries of the Bronze Age, some branches of the Di-Qiang mixed with local tribes to the east where they gave rise to the Huaxia, the forebears of the Han. Meanwhile, others moved to the southwest where they joined with Tibeto-Burman speaking groups, whose descendants are now found across southern China.