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The Portuguese family name Victorino is considered, by scholars, to originate from a personal name. According to scholars the 'oldest and most pervasive type of surname is that derived from a given name'. Such family names may be derived from a parental first name or from the front name of the grandfather or indeed a more remote ancestor of the original bearer of the surname. In this particular instance, the surname Victorino derives from the personal name Victoris, derived from the Latin victoris, meaning 'victor', 'winner'. Thus, the initial bearer of this surname was known as the 'son or descendant of Victorino'. Variants of the surname Victorino include Victorio and Victor and this surname has also been recorded in Spain.

One of the earliest references to this name or to a variant is a record of one Marco Pio Avonio Victorino, the Roman Cesar, who ruled in Galias from the year 265 to 267. The birth of Agnes Victorino, took place in 1731 in Baleares, Spain. Maria Victorino, daighter of Antonio Victorino and Vicencia Maria de Morais was baptized on the 2nd of November. 1845 in Santo Amaro, Sao Paulo and Alfred Victorino, son of Manuel Victorino was born in Portugal on the 28th of February, 1880. In a Spanish Military Armorial we read of one Jose Victorino del Cristo, who entered the Infantry of the Royal Army in 1836 and Pedro Victorino Santoya who entered the Cavalry in 1879. While the use of hereditary family names began on the Iberian Peninsula in the thirteenth century it is not until the siteenth century that the practice became firmly established among the general populace. The arms described below were granted to the Victorino family, by the appropriate authorities.

Blazon of Arms: Argent, A Warrior, vested with a jacket holding a harquebus or.

Translation: Argent (white) symbolizes the Moon, and denotes Purity, Innocence and Obedience. Or (yellow) symbolizes the sun.

Crest: Three ostrich feathers proper.