Andrade: It means "the Galician realm of topônimo" or "reference to the new Jews."

Andrade is a surname that appeared in the region of Galicia, this onomástica in the Portuguese language as a name of toponymic origin, ie, based on a region or locality.

The name would come up with an important family who lived in the town of Andrade, the kingdom of Galicia, where it is currently located the city of Pontedeume.

Among the Portuguese, the Andrade surname is present from the fourteenth century, according to historical records. However, it is estimated that the first family name is to possess this twelfth century.

The Andrade surname gained notoriety thanks to the figure of five riders, belonging to the family that lived in the parish Andrade, and went through Spain during the war of the Moors.

Already the Andrade family of Portugal and Brazil descended from Nuno Freire de Andrade, Master of the Order of Christ, who lived in the early years of the fourteenth century.

Some theories suggest that the Andrade name has Jewish origin from Jewish communities that inhabited the Iberian Peninsula.

Originally, the Andrade family also used the surname Freire inseparably, like a unique name, or forming Andrade Freire Freire de Andrade.