Abreu

Usage: Portuguese, Galician Extra: Statistics

Habitational name from the a place called Abreu in the former Minho province in Portugal.

Achilles

Usage: English, Portuguese, German, Dutch Extra: Statistics

Derived from the first name Achilles.

Albuquerque

Usage: Portuguese, Spanish

Derived from the Spanish town of Alburquerque, in the Badajoz province near the Portuguese border.

Almeida

Usage: Portuguese

Designated a person who had originally lived in one of several villages in Portugal called Almeida. The place name is from Arabic al ma'ida, "the plateau" or "the low hill".

Alves

Usage: Portuguese, Spanish Extra: Statistics

From the first name Álvaro.

Araújo

Usage: Portuguese, Spanish Extra: Statistics

Denotes a person hailing from one of the many areas that bear this name in Portugal.

Araullo

Usage: Portuguese, Spanish

Variant of Araújo.

Barros

Usage: Portuguese, Spanish Extra: Statistics

From the word barro meaning "clay" or "mud". Probably originated from an occupation of a person who worked with clay or mud, such as a builder or artesan.

Basurto

Usage: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Means "in the middle of the forest", from a region in Spain.

Belo

Usage: Portuguese

Originally a nickname for an attractive person, it means "handsome, beautiful" in Portuguese.

Cabral

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Means "a place of goats" from Latin capra "goat".

Campos

Usage: Portuguese, Spanish Extra: Statistics

Portuguese and Spanish variant of Campo.

Cardozo

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

From the name of a place meaning "thorny".

Castro

Usage: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Means "castle" in Spanish/Italian/Portuguese, and referred to one who lived near a castle.

Coelho

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

From the Portuguese word for "rabbit".

Costa

Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish Extra: Statistics

Means "coast or riverbank" in Italian, denoting a person who lived at one of those places.

Crespo

Usage: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Referred to a person with curly hair, from Latin crispus.

Cruz

Usage: Spanish, Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Spanish and Portuguese form of Cross.

D'Cruz

Usage: Portuguese, Spanish

Originated in 17th-century Spain and means "of the cross" in Spanish and Portuguese.

D'Cruze

Usage: Portuguese, Spanish

Variation of D'Cruz.

Delgado

Usage: Spanish, Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Means "thin" in Spanish and Portuguese.

De Santigo

Usage: Portuguese, Spanish Extra: Statistics

Variant of Santiago.

Duarte

Usage: Portuguese, Spanish Extra: Statistics

From the given name Duarte.

Estéves

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Estévão".

Fernandes

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Fernando".

Ferreira (1)

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

A Portuguese cognate of Ferrari.

Ferreira (2)

Usage: Portuguese

Denoted one from a town named because it was near an iron mine, from ferrum the Latin word for "iron".

Ferro

Usage: Italian, Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Meaning "iron" from Latin, comes probably from a nickname for one who worked with iron.

Fonseca

Usage: Spanish, Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Originally belonged to a person who lived near a dry spring, from Latin fons "well, spring" and sicca "dry".

Franco

Usage: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese

Cognate of Frank (1).

Freitas

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Means "broken" in Portuguese, a name for one who lived on broken, stony ground.

Garcia

Usage: Spanish, Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Of unknown meaning, possibly related to the Basque word hartz meaning "bear".

Gaspar

Usage: Spanish, Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Gaspar.

Gomes

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

From the medieval personal name Gomes, probably Visigothic in origin, from guma "man". This name is also common on the west coast of India, where it was taken by Portuguese colonists.

Gouveia

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

From the name of the city of Gouveia in Portugal, and a couple of small towns named Gouveia.

Guerra

Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Extra: Statistics

From a nickname for a belligerent person, one eager to fight, or one engaged in warfare. It means "war".

Henriques

Usage: Portuguese

Means "son of Henrique" in Portuguese.

Lobo

Usage: Spanish, Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Originally a nickname, means "wolf" in Spanish and Portuguese.

Machado

Usage: Portuguese, Spanish Extra: Statistics

Derived from machado "hatchet" and denoted a person who made or used hatchets.

Magalhães

Usage: Portuguese

Denotes a person hailing from one of the numerous minor places of this name in Portugal. The first element in the place name may have been derived from the Celtic word magal.

Maria

Usage: Italian, Portuguese Extra: Statistics

From the given the name Maria.

Mata

Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan Extra: Statistics

Means "dweller by a plantation of trees" from the Old Spanish mata.

Mateus

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

From the given name Mateus.

Matos

Usage: Portuguese, Jewish Extra: Statistics

Means "dweller by a plantation of trees" from the Old Spanish mata. Matos is also a name adopted by Jews of Portuguese and Spanish background. In 1589, Francisco Rodrigues de Matos was accused of being a Rabbi and convicted by the Inquisition, but it is doubtful that he was, in fact, a Rabbi.

Medeiros

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

From a place name derived from the latin word meda meaning "stack". Means "amount/field of maize stacks".

Melo

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Portuguese form of Merlo.

Mendes

Usage: Portuguese

A form of Méndez.

Moreno

Usage: Spanish, Portuguese Extra: Statistics

From a nickname meaning "dark" in Spanish and Portuguese.

Nunes

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Nuno".

Palmeiro

Usage: Portuguese

Means "pilgrim", from the Latin palma. Palma means "palm leaf," a reference to pilgrims bring plam fronds back from the Holy Land to prove they had made the journey.

Paredes

Usage: Portuguese, Spanish Extra: Statistics

Means "dweller by the wall" from the Latin paries.

Pereira

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Derived from Portuguese meaning "pear tree".

Pinheiro

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

It derives from the Portuguese language, and means "pine-tree".

Pinho

Usage: Portuguese

A habitational name derived from any of the many places named Pinho, itself derived from pinho, meaning "pine" or "pine wood".

Ribeiro

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Means "little river" or "stream", derived from the Portuguese word ribeira. It has been held by many Portuguese generals and soldiers.

Rios

Usage: Portuguese, Spanish Extra: Statistics

It was a form of description for a person who lived near a river, from Portuguese/Spanish rios "river'.

Rocha

Usage: Portuguese, Galician

Habitational name for any one place named Rocha, from the Portuguese and Galician rocha ‘rock’ or ‘cliff’.

Rodrigues

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Rodrigo" in Portuguese.

Romão

Usage: Portuguese

Portuguese form of Romano (1) or Romano (2).

Rosario

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Means "rosary" from the Portuguese rosario. This name was often given to people born on the day of the festival of Our Lady of the Rosary.

Salazar

Usage: Spanish, Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Means "dweller in the old hall" from the Romance word sala meaning "hall" and the Basque zahar meaning "old". Can also refer to Salazar in Burgos, Spain.

Santana

Usage: Spanish, Portuguese Extra: Statistics

From any of the numerous places named Santa Ana.

Santiago

Usage: Portuguese, Spanish Extra: Statistics

Spanish and Portuguese place name that described the man who emigrated from any of the several locations so-named, which got their names from the dedication of their church to St. James, the patron saint of Spain.

Santos

Usage: Spanish, Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Means "little saint" from the Latin sanctus.

Serafim

Usage: Portuguese

Derived from the Latin personal name Seraphinus which is derived from the Hebrew serafim which was the name of a class of angels in the Bible whose name originally was derived from saraf meaning "to burn".

Silva

Usage: Portuguese, Spanish Extra: Statistics

From Spanish/Portuguese silva "forest".

Silveira

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Means "forests" in Old Portuguese.

Simões

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Simon" in Potuguese.

Soares

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Variant of Suero.

Souza

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Name for someone who lived in a place called Sousa. The name of the place is of unknown pre-Roman origin.

Torres

Usage: Portuguese, Spanish Extra: Statistics

Given to a person who lived in or near a tower, from Latin turris.

Vargas

Usage: Spanish, Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Topographic name meaning "hut", "slope", or "pastureland" in Spanish and Portuguese dialects.

Ventura

Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan Extra: Statistics

Comes from the Italian first name Bonaventura and the Spanish form Buenaventura.

Victor

Usage: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish Extra: Statistics

Derived from the male given name Victor.

Victore

Usage: French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish

Variant of Victor.