South American Submitted Surnames

Morocco Spanish (Latin American)

Morocco Spanish (Latin American)

Moros Spanish
Habitational name from Moros in Zaragoza province, so named from the plural of moro ‘Moor’, i.e. ‘the place where the Moors live’.

Morquecho Spanish
Castilianized Form Of Morketxo. Unexplained.

Mosqueda Spanish
Mosqueda comes from the Spanish word 'Mosca' meaning house fly.

Mosquera Spanish, Catalan
Spanish topographic name for someone who lived in a place that was infested with flies or mosquitos from a derivative of mosca "fly" (from Latin musca)... [more]

Mota Spanish, Portuguese
Topographic name for someone who lived by a fortified stronghold.

Moura Portuguese
Derived from the Portuguese word "Mouro", which refers to an individual from the Moor people. This is the feminine form of the word, often used in legends of enchanted moor women, which very common in Portugal... [more]

Mox Spanish (Latin American)

Moyano Spanish
Habitational name for someone from Moya, from an adjectival form of the place name.

Mozel Portuguese (Brazilian)

Muñecas Spanish
It literally means "dolls" or "wrists".

Munhoz Portuguese
Portuguese form of Muñoz.

Muñiz Spanish
Variant of Muñoz.

Muño Spanish

Murado Spanish

Muraira Portuguese

Murchinski Brazilian

Murcia Spanish
Habitational name from the city Murcia.

Murillo Spanish
Habitational name for someone from any of various locations called Murillo, so named from a diminutive of Spanish muro meaning "wall".

Mury Spanish (Rare)

Naiza Spanish (Latin American)

Najar Spanish
Spanish: Most Probably A Habitational Name From Najar Alicante. Alternatively It May Be An Occupational Name For A Carpenter Of Arabic Origin

Nájera Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Riojan municipality.

Ñáñez Spanish
Patronymic from an unidentified personal name, perhaps it's a cognate of Ibáñez.

Naola Spanish (Latin American)

Nápoles Spanish, Portuguese, Spanish (Caribbean)
Spanish and Portuguese cognate of Napoli; habitational name from the Italian city of Naples, which is called Nápoles in Spanish and Portuguese.

Naranjo Spanish
Topographic name for someone who lived by an orange grove, from Spanish naranjo ‘orange tree’ (from naranja ‘orange’, Arabic nāránjya), or a habitational name from a place named Naranjo in A Coruña and Códoba provinces... [more]

Narchi Brazilian

Narciso Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Narciso.

Naredo Spanish

Narvarte Spanish
Variant of Navarrete.

Nascimento Portuguese (Brazilian)
Means "birth, nativity" in Portuguese, from Late Latin nascimentum, a derivative of Latin nasci "to be born". This was originally a religious byname. It was also an epithet of the Virgin Mary (Maria do Nascimento), and was used as a given name for children born on Christmas.

Natal Portuguese, Spanish
From the personal name Natal (from Latin Natalis), bestowed on someone born at Christmas or with reference to the Marian epithet María del Natal.

Natalio Spanish
From the given name Natalio.

Natividad Spanish
From the personal name Natividad "nativity, Christmas", from Latin nativitas "birth", genitive nativitatis, usually bestowed with reference to the Marian epithet María de la Natividad... [more]

Natividade Portuguese
Portuguese cognate of Natividad.

Navarra Spanish

Navarra Italian, Spanish
Means Navarre in Italian and Spanish; which was also the female equivalent to Navarro.

Navarrate Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Navarrete.

Navarrete Spanish
From the town of Navarrete in La Rioja, Spain, meaning "the pass of the Navarrans" or "dun mountain pass". It became particularly popular in the province of Jaen through the Castillian conquest of Baeza.

Navarrette Spanish
Variant of Navarrete.

Navas Spanish
Pural form of Spanish and Asturian-Leonese Nava (see also Naves).... [more]

Navia Spanish

Navidad Spanish
Derived from the personal name Noel. It means "Christmas" in Spanish.

Negro Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Jewish
Nickname or ethnic name from negro "black" (Latin niger), denoting someone with dark hair or a dark complexion.

Negro Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Jewish
From a medieval continuation of the Latin personal name Niger.

Negro Italian, Spanish, Galician, Portuguese, Jewish
Nickname or ethnic name from negro "black" (continuation of Latin niger), denoting someone with dark hair, dark eyes, a dark complexion, someone who wore dark clothes, someone who worked a job in the night, or was otherwise associated with the night.

Negron Spanish, Italian
This surname is a most likely variant of the word and name Negro.

Negueruela Spanish
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous La Riojan ghost town.

Neico Spanish (Latin American)

Neiva Portuguese

Nepomuceno Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish (Philippines)
From the given name Nepomuceno.

Neres Portuguese

Nery Portuguese
Derivation of the Scottish surname Macnair.

Nessim Spanish, Jewish, Hebrew
Hebrew for 'miracles'. Name was originally Bar-Nisim; 'Children of the Miricle'

Nicasio Italian, Spanish
From the given name Nicasio.

Nichel Portuguese (Brazilian)

Nicolás Spanish
From the given name Nicolás.

Nicolau Portuguese, Galician, Catalan
From the given name Nicolau.

Niella Spanish (Latin American)

Nin Spanish

Niño Spanish
Nickname from Spanish niño meaning "child", "boy". This was often given to a first-born son as a familiar name.

Niz Spanish (Latin American, Hispanicized, Modern)
Derived from the city of Nice in France, usually a surname given to someone without paternal recognition in that city.... [more]

Nobrega Portuguese (Brazilian), English

Noceda Spanish
Spanish surname derived from the word "nocedal" meaning "field of walnut trees" it denoted a person who lived or came from such place.

Nogales Spanish
Habitational name from either of two locations in Spain named Nogales, from the plural form of Spanish nogal meaning "walnut tree".

Noguero Spanish

Nonell Spanish

Norberto Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
From the given name Norberto.

Noronha Portuguese
Derived from Noreña, the name of a village in Asturias, northern Spain.

Nouvilas Spanish

Nova Spanish
From the Spanish word 'nueva' meaning "new".

Novais Portuguese

Novo Galician, Portuguese
Nickname from Portuguese and Galician novo ‘new’, ‘young’ (Latin novus). The word was also occasionally used in the Middle Ages as a personal name, particularly for a child born after the death of a sibling, and this may also be a source of the surname.

Nueva Spanish

Nuñez Spanish, Filipino
Variant of Núñez.

Obispo Spanish
Means "bishop" in Spanish, ultimately from Greek ἐπίσκοπος (episkopos).

Oblitas Spanish

Obrador Spanish

Obregón Spanish
Spanish habitational name from Obregón in Santander province.

Ocampo Spanish, Galician
From the Galician toponym O Campo meaning "the field", also used as a habitational name from a town of the same name in Lugo, Galicia.

Ocampos Spanish
Variant of Ocampo.

Ocaña Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Manchego municipality.

Ochotorena Spanish

Ocón Spanish
This indicates familial origin within either the eponymous Riojan municipality or the Ocón de Villafranca neighborhood of the Castilian municipality of Villafranca Montes de Oca.

Octavio Spanish
From the given name Octavio.

Odelín Spanish

Odilia Spanish (Anglicized, Rare, Archaic)

Olascuaga Spanish (Latin American)

Olegario Spanish
From the given name Olegario.

Oliva Italian, Spanish
Of uncertain origin: derived either from a nickname to those who picked, worked with or sold olives, or from the given name Oliva.

Olivar Spanish

Olivares Spanish
Habitational name from any of several places named Olivares, from the plural of Spanish olivar meaning "olive grove". Compare Portuguese and Galician Oliveira.

Olivarez Spanish
Variant of Olivares.

Olivera Spanish
Comes from the Latin etymology related to olive trees, olive grees and olives.

Olivo Italian, Spanish
Topographic name from olivo "olive tree" or occupational name for someone who sold olives. Or from the given name Olivo given to someone born on Palm Sunday.

Ollervides Spanish

Olvera Spanish

Oña Spanish
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.

Onofre Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Onofre.

Oraliz Spanish

Ordóñez Spanish
Means "son of Ordoño".

Ordonez Spanish

Oreli Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)

Orihuela Spanish

Orlian Spanish (Latin American)

Orona Spanish
Spanish: habitational name from a town of this name in Burgos province.

Orosco Spanish, Basque
Variant of Orozco. Means "place of the holly trees" from oros meaning "holly tree" and the suffix -ko signifying a place. Also believed to have been derived from Latin orosius meaning "the son of bringer of wisdom".

Orozco Spanish, Basque
Comes from the Bilbao province in the Basque region of Spain.

Orta Spanish, Caribbean

Orte Spanish

Ortegon Spanish

Ortencia Spanish (?)

Ortis Portuguese
Portuguese cognate of Ortiz.

Ortolano Italian, Spanish
occupational name for a cultivator or seller of fruit and vegetables ortolano "gardener" from a derivative of orto "vegetable garden" (from Latin hortus "garden"). The term was also used in the medieval period to denote both a cleric with a fervant devotion to pastoral work and a rough or uncouth person and in some instances may have been applied as a nickname in either sense... [more]

Ortonio Italian, Spanish
Variant of Ortone. Italian and Spanish form of Hortonius.

Orvananos Spanish

Orzabal Spanish
Used by Roland Orzabal.

Osegueda Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Oseguera chiefly used in Central America.

Oseguera Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the Castilian municipality of Valle de Mena.

Osorio Spanish
From the given name Osorio.

Ostos Spanish
Habitational name from a place called Ostos which no longer exists; the surname was in the 15th century recorded near Écija in Seville.

Osuna Spanish
Habitational name from a place in the province of Seville, named from Arabic Oxuna, perhaps named from Late Latin Ursina (villa) "estate of Ursus" a byname meaning "bear".

Osvaldo Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
From the given name Osvaldo.

Oviedo Spanish, Asturian
Derived from spanish "oveja" meaning sheep.

Oyervides Spanish

Pablo Spanish
From the given name Pablo.

Pablos Spanish

Pabón Spanish
Variant of Pavón from Spanish pavón "peacock" from Latin pavo.

Pacana Spanish
From pacana meaning "pecan", "pecan tree", a word of Algonquin origin. This surname is also found in the Philippines.

Padillo Spanish

Padinha Portuguese

Pagán Spanish
Castilianized spelling of Catalan Pagà, from the Late Latin personal name Paganus, which originally meant "dweller in an outlying village" (see Paine).

Paiva Portuguese
From the Portuguese word "paiva," which refers to a type of river or stream

Paixão Portuguese
Means "passion" in Portuguese, a reference to the Passion, the final period before the death of Jesus commemorated during Holy Week. It was originally used as a nickname for someone born on that day or for someone who had completed a pilgrimage on that day.

Palacio Spanish
Palacio is derived from the Spanish word "palaciao," meaning a "palace," and as a surname, was no doubt taken on by someone who lived near a palace or mansion, or perhaps by someone who worked there.

Palacios Spanish
Variant of Palacio

Palazuelos Spanish
Habitational name from any of the places called Palazuelos a diminutive of Palacios.

Palenzuela Spanish
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.

Palileo Spanish (Modern, Rare)

Pallacios Spanish

Palladios Spanish

Palma Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Italian
Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, and southern Italian: habitational name from any of various places named or named with Palma, from Latin palma ‘palm’. ... [more]

Palminha Portuguese

Palomeque Spanish
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous Manchego municipality.

Palomina Spanish (Latin American)

Palvet Spanish

Pamparacuatro Spanish
Bread-for-four in Spanish

Pancho Spanish
From the given name Pancho.

Paniágua Spanish, Portuguese
Status name for a servant who worked for his board (pan "bread" and agua "water") and lodging.

Pantaleón Spanish (Latin American)
From the given name Pantaleón.

Pão Portuguese
Metonymic occupational name for a baker, from pão meaning "bread"

Par Portuguese
Derived from Portuguese meaning "pair, couple, equal".

Parada Spanish

Parayuelos Spanish

Paredez Spanish
Variant of Paredes.

Pareja Spanish
habitational name from Pareja in Guadalajara province.

Parente Portuguese (Brazilian)

Parillo Spanish, Italian

Parras Spanish
Plural form of Parra.

Parreira Portuguese
Means "grapevine" in Portuguese. It was used as a toponymic name for someone from any of various places called Parreira, a topographic name for someone who lived near many grapevines, or an occupational name for someone who worked on a grapevine plantation.

Parrillo Spanish, Italian

Pascoal Portuguese, Central African
From the given name Pascoal.

Pascua Spanish
From the personal name Pascual. It also means "Easter" in Spanish.

Pascuas Spanish
Variant of Pascua.

Pastrana Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Manchego municipality.

Patiño Spanish, Galician
From a diminutive of Spanish or Galician pato meaning "duck", used as a nickname for a person who waddled.

Pauleta Portuguese

Paulita Portuguese

Paulo Portuguese, Central African

Paunero Spanish (Latin American)

Pavón Spanish
Spanish cognitive of Pavone and variant of Pabón from Spanish pavón "peacock" from Latin pavo.

Pavon Spanish (Latin American)
Nickname for a proud man

Payán Spanish
Possibly derived from Mozarabic päiên meaning "cave ravine", ultimately from Latin pedem meaning "foot".

Pedra Spanish
Feminine form of Pedro.

Pedraza Spanish
Refers to the blow received from a stone thrown intentionally to wound someone.

Pedreira Portuguese, Galician
Means "quarry, rocky place" in Portuguese and Galician, originally a habitational name from any of various places called Pedreira or A Pedreira.

Pedrosa Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Galician
Habitational name from any of numerous places named Pedrosa, from pedroso, pedrosa meaning "stoney", an adjectival derivative of pedra meaning "stone".

Pedroso Portuguese
Its origin is the word "pedra", which means "stone".

Peebles Scottish, Spanish (?)
Habitational name from places so named in Scotland. The place names are cognate with Welsh pebyll "tent, pavilion".

Pegado Portuguese, Central African

Peinado Spanish
Derived from peinado meaning "combed" (past participle of peinar meaning "to comb"), hence a nickname for a well-groomed person or for someone with naturally smooth rather than curly hair.

Peinador Spanish

Peixoto Portuguese
Occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a fish, derived from Portuguese peixe meaning "fish".

Pejon Portuguese

Pelayo Spanish

Pelayo Spanish
From the given name Pelayo.

Pellicer Spanish
Spanish variant of Pelletier

Peñafiel Spanish
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.

Peñalver Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Manchego municipality.

Peñaranda Spanish
Habitational name from places in Burgos and Salamanca named Peñaranda.

Pennello Spanish, Italian

Pennilope Spanish (Latin American)
Pennilope is a type of surname. It is a type of bike aswell it is almost like a tricycle with 2 sets of stabilisers.

Perales Spanish
Habitational name for someone from any of various locations named Perales, from Spanish perales meaning "pear trees" (the plural of peral meaning "pear tree").

Peralta Catalan, Spanish, Aragonese
Habitational name from any of the places in Aragon, Catalonia, and Navarre called Peralta, from Latin petra alta "high rock". This name is also established in Italy.

Peras French, Spanish

Peredo Galician, Portuguese
For Galicians, it indicates familial origin near the eponymous hill in the municipality of Castroverde and for Portuguese people, it indicates familial origin within the eponymous parish of the municipality of Macedo de Cavaleiros.

Peres Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Gascon, Breton, Central African
Means "son of Pedro" in Spanish and Portuguese. Means "son of Pere" in Catalan... [more]

Perón Spanish

Perron Spanish
Spanish (Perrón) : probably from an augmentative of perro 'dog'.

Persaud Indian (Expatriate), South American, Caribbean
Indo-Guyanese form of Prasad. This is the most common surname in Guyana.

Persia Italian, Spanish
Ethnic name or regional name for someone from Persia (modern-day Iran) or some other country with Persian-speaking peoples or a nickname for someone who had visited or traded with one of these countries (see the given name Persis)... [more]

Pescador Spanish
Means "fisherman, fisher" in Spanish.

Pesquera Spanish

Pessegueiro Portuguese
Means "peach tree" in Portuguese, ultimately from Latin persicum. It indicated a person who lived near or worked with peach trees.

Pessoa Portuguese
From Portuguese pessoa meaning "person."

Pestana Portuguese
Nickname for a person with prominent eyelashes, from Portuguese pestana "eyelash".

Petiton Spanish

Phil South American

Pichardo Spanish
Spanish form of the surname Picard

Pico Spanish
meaning beak of a bird, or peak of a mountain in spanish... [more]

Piedrahita Spanish
Habitational name from any of the places called Piedrahita in particular those in Ávila and Teruel.

Pig South American

Pikachu Brazilian
From Japanese ピカチュウ (Pikachuu), derived from the onomatopoeic words ピカピカ (pikapika), a sparkly sound, and チュウチュウ (chuuchuu), a mouse sound. It happens to be a nickname for someone with a short stature who runs super fast according to the famous barrier Yago Pikachu (born Glaybson Yago Souza Lisboa) a Brazilian footballer who plays for Fortaleza.

Pilar Portuguese
From the Portuguese word for pillar.

Pilas Spanish

Pimenta Portuguese
Means "pepper" in Portuguese, used as an occupational name for someone who grew or sold peppers.

Pimentel Portuguese

Pimentel Portuguese, Spanish
Derived from Portuguese pimenta meaning "pepper", used as an occupational name for someone who grew or sold peppers.

Pina Portuguese

Piñal Spanish
Surname whose house was in Hoz de Anero, in the City council of Ribamontán al Monte (Santander).

Pineda Spanish, Catalan
Habitational name from any of the places in the provinces of Barcelona, Cuenca, and Burgos named Pineda, from Spanish and Catalan pineda "pine forest".

Piñero Spanish
Castilianized from the Portuguese surname Pinheiro, meaning "pine-tree"

Pingo Portuguese (Brazilian)

Pingus South American

Pino Spanish, Galician, Italian
Spanish and Galician habitational name from any of the places in Galicia (Spain) named Pino from pino "pine" or a topographic name for someone who lived by a remarkable pine tree. Italian habitational name from Pino d'Asti in Asti province Pino Torinese in Torino or Pino Solitario in Taranto all named with pino "pine’... [more]

Pinochet Basque, French, Spanish
Derived from Basque pinoche meaning "pine cone". Alternately, it could be derived from the name of the hamlet of Pinouchet, located in the Gironde department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France... [more]

Piñon Spanish

Pintado Spanish

Pintor Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, Sardinian
occupational name for a painter from pintor "painter".

Pistario Greek, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pistario is a surname, mainly used in the Greek, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese languages.

Pita Spanish
Spanish and Portuguese: from Spanish, Portuguese pita ‘chicken’ or in some cases possibly from the plant pita ‘pita’, ‘American aloe’, presumably a topographic name.

Piz Spanish

Pizarro Spanish
One who produces, or deals in, slate.

Plasencia Spanish
habitational name from Plasencia in Cáceres province and possibly also a Castilianized form of a habitational name from Plasenzia the name of towns in Zaragoza and Huesca (Aragon).

Plata Spanish
Habitational name from places in Toledo and Cáceres provinces named Plata, or various places named La Plata.

Plata Spanish
Byname from plata "silver".

Pliar Spanish

Poblete Spanish (Latin American)
Habitational name from Poblete in the province of Ciudad Real.

Pociello Spanish

Pogo South American

Poison Spanish

Polanco Spanish
Habitational name from Polanco in Santander province.

Policarpo Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Policarpo

Polidoro Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Polidoro.

Polo Spanish, Italian

Pombal Portuguese
from the portuguese word: pombo meaning "dove", "pigeon". ... [more]

Ponce Spanish, English
The Ponce name was carried into England after the migration from Normandy following the Norman Conquest of 1066.'Ponce' is derived from 'Ponsoby',a place in Cumberland, where the family settled. The Ponce motto is 'Pro rege, lege grege' meaning "For the King, law, and people"

Ponce Spanish
Derived from Latin Pontius. Could be originated from an Ancient Roman town named "Italica" near another town named "Santiponce" in Seville, Spain.

Ponce De León Spanish
Compound name composed of the family name Ponce + the habitational name León.

Ponciano Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Ponciano.

Ponente Spanish

Ponse Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Ponce.

Porfirio Spanish, Italian
From the given name Porfirio

Portal Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Occitan
Topographical surname for someone living near the gates of a fortified town.

Portanova Italian, Portuguese, Galician
Habitational name from a place or locality called Portanova "new gate" from the elements neos "new" and porta "door".

Portilla Spanish
Variant of Portillo.

Portillo Spanish
Meaning unknown.

Portola Spanish, Portuguese, Romani (Caló)
Portola is Spanish and Portuguese for Port and is a Romani calo surname. People include Gaspar de Portolá, a Spanish explorer who was the first governor of Baja and Alta California and had many names after him in California cities and streets.

Portugal Spanish, Portuguese, English, Catalan, French, Jewish
Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, English, French, and Jewish surname meaning ethnic name or regional name for someone from Portugal or who had connections with Portugal. The name of the country derives from Late Latin Portucale, originally denoting the district around Oporto (Portus Cales, named with Latin portus ‘port’, ‘harbor’ + Cales, the ancient name of the city)... [more]

Possi Brazilian

Potenciano Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Potenciano.

Póveda Spanish
habitational name from any of the places called Poveda in the provinces of Cuenca Ávila Salamanca and Soria or from Póveda de la Sierra in Guadalajara.

Pozos Spanish, Galician
A habitational name from any of several places named with the plural of pozo, meaning ‘well’. See Pozo.

Prada Italian, South American

Pradera Spanish
Pradera is a Spanish surname meaning "meadow".

Prado Spanish

Preciado Spanish
Past participle of the infinitive preciar meaning "excellent, precious, of great estimation".

Precio Spanish (Latin American)
From Spanish meaning "price".

Préjano Spanish
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous La Riojan municipality.

Preto Portuguese
comes from the Portuguese word preto meaning "black" or "dark". referring to someone with dark skin and/or hair. possibly a cognate of the spanish surname Prieto

Prevedini Italian (Rare), Spanish (Rare)

Primavera Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Means "spring (the season)" in Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Príncipe Italian, Spanish
From principe "prince, heir" (Latin princeps, genitive principis, from primus "first" and capere "to take"), applied probably as a nickname for someone who gave himself airs and graces or for someone in the service of a prince.

Prohens Spanish

Proximo Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)

Prudencio Spanish
From the given name Prudencio.

Prudente Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Prudente

Pruna Spanish (Rare)
Possibly a habitational name from a place so named in Spain. It could also be derived from Catalan pruna "plum".

Pucuhuaranga South American, Indigenous American

Puente Spanish
Habitational name from any of the numerous places named Puente, from puente ‘bridge’.

Puentes Spanish
Means "bridges" in Spanish. Originated from "puente". The surname was first found in the valley of the Trucios in the Basque region of Spain.However, families with this surname have been present in Catalonia for hundreds of years... [more]

Puerto Spanish
Habitational name from any of the numerous places named Puerto, in most cases from puerto ‘harbor’ (from Latin portus ‘harbor’, ‘haven’).

Pulido Spanish, Spanish (Latin American)
Thought to have come through Cuba and Puerto Rico from Burgos, the capital of Castile in northern Spain in the 16th century. The name likely originated there in the 11th century. It means neat, polished, and clean.

Pulinario Spanish (Latin American)

Pupillo Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Pupillo.

Putipuerca Spanish
La vieja de Equi.

Quadros Portuguese

Quaglia South American

Quaglio Brazilian

Quaresma Portuguese
Means "Lent" in Portuguese.

Queiroz Portuguese

Queirozrosa Portuguese (Brazilian, Portuguese-style, Archaic, ?)

Querida Portuguese

Quezada Spanish
Probably a variant of Quesada.

Quian Filipino, Spanish (Latin American)

Quiñónez Spanish
Variant of Quiñones.

Quintanilla Spanish (Latin American)

Quintela Portuguese
Has its roots in Latin, deriving from "quintus," meaning "fifth." It likely originated from describing a person as the fifth child in a family or from the division of land among heirs, where a fifth part was given to one heir.