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My first last name is Vidal. It is classified as “patronímico”, which indicates the father’s name Ex: Rodríguez son of Rodrigo. In this case, Vidal derives from several Saints. It comes from Latin Vitalis (has life, healthy). It’s lineage has catalan rotos, nontheless many people with this last name had a important outstanding role far away from our borders, participating not only in the Iberian Peninsul reconquer but also later on, in the Spanish conquest of America. Is for this reason, that you can find it also abroad, mainly in South America. In Spain there are 36.150 persons with this last name.