Losada Family History

Spanish and Portuguese: topographic name for someone who lived by an area paved with flagstones. Spanish losada (from losar ‘to pave’, a derivative of losa, a word of pre-Roman origin meaning a flat stone slab).

Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the name in 1 above at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later), some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholics.