Araujo

{ Araújo or Araujo or Araúxo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐɾɐˈuʒu], Spanish: [aɾaˈuxo], Galician pronunciation: [aɾaˈuʃʊ]) is a Galician and Portuguese surname of noble medieval origin. Possibly the noble Don Rodrigo Anes de Araujo, lord of the Araujo castle, Ourense, Galicia, was the first to use the surname of Araújo. His great grandson Pedro Anes de Araújo moved to the kingdom of Portugal, around 1375, being the first Araújo to settle there. {