Central American Submitted Surnames

ABREGO Spanish
As a Spanish surname, it was from Spanish ábrego, which originally meant "African", from Latin africus. The vocabulary word in modern Spanish has lost this general sense and now means "south wind" (literally, "African (wind)").

ABURTO Basque, Spanish, Spanish (Mexican)
The surname Aburto is a topographic name from Basque aburto ‘place of kermes oaks’, from abur ‘kermes oak’ + the locative suffix -lo.

ACAYA Spanish

ACERO Spanish
From acero "steel, steelworker" (from Late Latin aciarium), an occupational name for a metal worker or an armorer.

ACHIO Spanish (Latin American)
Possibly derived from the town, Achio, near Guadalajara in Mexico. The name itself is probably from the Nahuatl achio meaning "frequent".

ACUNA Spanish (Latin American)
Related tho the Acuna Indians of Mexico, there is also a city by the name. Popular in border areas of Mexico and Texas.

AGOSTO Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician
From the given name AGOSTO.

AGRAZ Spanish (Rare)
An occupational name for a vintner.

AGUDO Spanish
Agudo is sharp in spanish

AGÜERO Spanish

ÁGUILA Spanish
From águila "eagle" (Latin aquila). This is either a nickname for a haughty man or one with an aquiline nose, or a habitational name from a place in Salamanca province called Águila.

AGUILER Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of AGUILAR or AGUILERA.

AGUILERA Spanish
Habitational name from a location in Soria province, Spain, named Aguilera, derived from Spanish aguilera meaning "eagle's nest". A famous bearer is American singer Christina Aguilera (1980-).

AGUSTIN Spanish
From the given name AGUSTIN.

AILÁN Spanish (Latin American)

AIMAR Medieval English, Anglo-Saxon, Spanish
1. From the Olde English pre 7th Century personal name "Aethelmaer", meaning "famous noble." ... [more]

ALAMEDA Spanish
Topographic name from alameda meaning ‘poplar grove’, a collective form of álamo meaning ‘poplar’, or a habitational name from any of the many places named with this word.

ALANÍS Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Andalusian municipality.

ALARCÓN Spanish
Alarcón was a fort owned by the arabs in the Iberian Peninsula (Alarcón literally meaning 'the fort' in arabic), and the spaniards had the goal of owning it during the spanish reconquista. After 9 months of siege, Fernán Martínez de Ceballos climbed the walls of the fort using only two daggers and opened the gates from the inside allowing the castillan army to come in and conquer Alarcón... [more]

ALBA Spanish, Catalan
From alba meaning "white".... [more]

ALBO Spanish, Italian, Jewish
It is derived from the name Albert, Alberto, Albino, and Alberico.... [more]

ALCÁNTARA Spanish
Habitational name denoting someone originally from the municipality of Alcántara in Extremadura, Spain. The name is ultimately derived from Arabic اَلْقَنْطَرَة‎ (al-qanṭara) meaning "the bridge".

ALCANTARA Spanish, Filipino
Simplified form of ALCÁNTARA.

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

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

ALCUAZ Basque, Spanish

ALDEA Spanish
Topographic name meaning "village, hamlet" in Spanish, ultimately from Arabic الضيعة‎ (ad-day'a).

ALDORINO Spanish

ALEGRE Spanish, Portuguese
Nickname from alegre "bright, merry" (Latin alacer).

ALEJANDRO Spanish
From the personal name Alejandro, Spanish form of ALEXANDER.

ALFONSO Spanish, Italian
From the given name ALFONSO. It was sometimes adopted as a personal name by Jews.

ALHAMBRA Spanish
Refers to the Alhambra, a palace complex located in Granada, Spain. The name itself is derived from Arabic الْحَمْرَاء‎‎ (Al-Ḥamrā) meaning "the red one" or, ultimately, from Arabic أَحْمَر (ʾaḥmar) "red".

ALIRES Spanish

ALLENDE Basque, Spanish
Basque surname possibly linked to the Spanish word allende of Latin origin meaning "beyond" or "besides".

ALMAGRO Spanish

ALMANZA Spanish
Originally indicated a person from Almanza, a city in northern Spain. The city's name itself is derived from Arabic المنزل (al-manzil) meaning "the house".

ALMARZA Spanish
This indicates familial origin within either of 2 localities: the Castilian municipality of Almarza, Comarca of El Valle or the Riojan municipality of Almarza de Cameros.

ALMAZÁN Spanish
Habitational name demoting someone originally from the municipality of Almazán in Castile and León, Spain. The name itself is derived from Arabic المكان المحصن (al-makān al-ḥiṣn) meaning "the fortified place" or "the stronghold".

ALMAZAN Spanish (Americanized), Filipino
Unaccented form of ALMAZÁN primarily used in America and the Philippines.

ALMEDA Spanish, Portuguese, Sinhalese
Variant of ALMEIDA or ALAMEDA.

ALMENARA Spanish
Almenara in Spanish is "beacon", but it is an old kind of beacon that consisted of a fire that was lit on top of the battlements to give a signal.

ALMODOVAR Spanish
Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (1949-) is a Spanish filmmaker, director, screenwriter, producer, and former actor who was born in Calzada de Calatrava, Spain. His films are marked by his employment of certain actors and creative personnel, complex narratives, melodrama, pop culture, popular songs, irreverent humor, strong colors, and glossy décor... [more]

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

ALMONTE Spanish
From a place between Huelva and Sevilla. Means "the mountain".

ALPÍZAR Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous locality in the Andalusian province of Huelva.

ALVALLE Spanish (Latin American)
A beautiful valley in Ortona

ÁLVARO Spanish
Either derived from the given name ALVARO or a variant of ALVAREZ.

ALVEAR Spanish
Unexplained.

ALVEREZ Spanish, Portuguese
Means "son of ALVARO".

ALZA Spanish
Means "to rise" or simply "rise"

AMARO Spanish
Originated in Italy

AMBRÌZ Spanish
" Probably a variant of Asturian-Leonese Ambres, a habitational name from a village in Asturies. Also a habitational name of Ámbriz a city in Angola, Africa, mainly of Portuguese descendants. "

AMESCUA Spanish
Variant of AMEZCUA

AMORE Spanish
meaning love

AMORENA Spanish (Latin American)

ANALICIA American (Hispanic), Spanish (Latin American), Spanish (Mexican)

ANDÚJAR Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Andalusian municipality.

ANGEL Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, English (Rare)
From the Latin personal name Angelus meaning "Angel", derived from the Greek word ἄγγελος (angelos) meaning "messenger" (see the given name ANGEL).

ANGUIANO Spanish (Latinized, Modern)
Anguiano is a small town in the province of La Rioja, Spain.

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

ANTOLIN Spanish
1 Spanish (Antolín): from the personal name, a vernacular form of Antoninus, a name borne by thirteen saints.... [more]

ANTUNIEZ Spanish, Galician, Asturian
Meaning "son of Antonius." It is a last name that appears in northern Spain.

APOLLO Italian, Spanish
From the Greek personal name Apollo. There are several saints Apollo in the Christian Church, including an Egyptian hermit and monastic leader who died in 395 ad. The personal name derives from the name in classical mythology of the sun god, Apollo, an ancient Indo-European name, found for example in Hittite as Apulana "god of the gate" (from pula "gate", cognate with Greek pylē), therefore "protector, patron".

APONTE Spanish
A misdivision of Daponte. It originates from Majorca, Spain.

ARÀBIA Italian, Spanish
Ethnic name for someone from Arabia or some other Arabic-speaking country or a nickname for someone who had visited or traded with one of these countries.

ARAGON Spanish, Catalan, French
A surname and an autonomous community of Spain.

ARAN Spanish, Galician

ARANDS English, Spanish
Anglicized version of a name given to residents of Aranda de Duero, a small town in the north of Spain.

ARAQUISTAIN Basque, Spanish
''Place of the ferns'' in Basque. It first appeared when a family arrived for the first time to a part of the Pyrenees where they where a lot of ferns. Then, that family, changed their last name to ''Araquistain'' which means ''place of the ferns'' in basque.

ARCHILA Spanish
Either a variant of Arcila or derived from Arabic الشَّلَّال (aš-šallāl) meaning "the waterfall".

ARCHULETA Spanish, English
Castilianized form of Basque Aretxuloeta, a topographic name meaning "oak hollow".

ARELLANO Basque, Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Navarrese municipality.

ARENCIBIA Spanish
Castilianized combination of the basque words of aranz meaning "thorn"; "hawthorn" + ibi meaning "ford" + a (basque article suffix); meaning someone living by a thorny ford. A "ford" is a body of water shallow enough to walk through; In this context topographically referring to a some places in Spain

ARGANDA Spanish (Latin American), Spanish
town in spain / arganda del rey

ARGUEDAS Spanish (Rare)

ARGUETA Spanish
This surname was most likely originally used to identify a person who lived in a characteristically bright or luminous area.

ARIZA Spanish
Spanish: habitational name from a place so named in Zaragoza province in Aragón.

ARJONA Spanish
Habitational name from Arjona in Jaén province.

ARMAS Spanish
Occupational name for an arms maker or soldier, from Spanish armas meaning "arms, weapons".

ARMENDARIZ Spanish, Basque
from the Basque personal name Armendari or Armentari, from Latin Armentarius 'herdsman'. Spanish and French variant of ARMENDARITZE, a habitational name from a village in Low Navarre named Armendaritze.

ARMENIA Italian, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese
Ethnic name or regional name for someone from Armenia or who had connections with Armenia. This surname is derived from the feminine form of Armenio, which is ultimately from Greek Αρμένιος (Armenios) meaning "Armenian"... [more]

ARMENTEROS Spanish
Habitational name from either of two places called Armenteros, in the provinces of Ávila and Salamanca, from the plural of armenatero meaning ‘cowherd’, from Latin armenta ‘herd(s)’.

ARMIJO Spanish
Derived from the Spanish adjetive "armigero", meaning "one who bears arms". First found in the Northern Region of Spain in Cantabria. Alternate spellings include: Armijos, Armigo, and Armija.

AROLA Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, English (American)
From Latin areola, diminutive of area (area).

ARRAGON Spanish, Catalan, French
Variant of ARAGON.

ARRISOLA Spanish (Rare)

ARRIVA Italian, Spanish (Latin American)

ARROYO Spanish
Habitational name for someone from any of numerous places named Arroyo, from Spanish arroyo meaning "stream, brook, watercourse".

ARROZ Spanish

ARVISO Spanish

ARZU Central American

ASCENCIO Spanish, Italian
From the personal name (Latin Ascensius), favored by the early Christians, by whom it was bestowed with reference to the ascension of Christ (Late Latin ascensio).

ATENCIO Spanish

ATIENZA Spanish, Filipino
Habitational name from the municipality of Atienza in Guadalajara province, Spain.

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

AURORA Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, Portuguese
Means "dawn" in Latin (see the given name AURORA).

AVAMILANO Spanish, Italian
Of Spanish origin, but probably has its roots in Italy due to the word "milano" which means Milan in Italian.

AVEIRO Portuguese, Spanish
Demonymic surname refering to Aveiro a city in middle north-eastern Portugal. A famous bearer of this surname is Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo.

AVELINO Spanish, Polynesian, Filipino
Spanish form of Avellino, the surname of the 17th-century Italian saint Andrew Avellino.

AVELLANEDA Spanish
It literally means "hazelnut grove", denoting someone who either lived near one or worked in one.

AVENA Spanish, Italian
A traditionally Spanish and Italian occupational surname for a "grain grower or merchant", or the Italian habitation surname for Avena, Calabria. Means "oats". From the Latin avēna meaning 'oats, wild oats, straw'.

AVENIDA Spanish (Latin American)
The name translates to English, meaning "avenue."

ÁVILA Spanish
From the name of a city in Castile and León, Spain, derived from Medieval Latin avis meaning "bird".

AYLLÓN Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Castilian municipality.

AZCONOVIETA Spanish

AZUAJE-FIDALGO Portuguese (Rare), Spanish, Italian
Fidalgo from Galician and Portuguese filho de algo — equivalent to "nobleman", but sometimes literally translated into English as "son of somebody" or "son of some (important family)"—is a traditional title of Portuguese nobility that refers to a member of the titled or untitled nobility... [more]

BADILLA Spanish
Variant of BADILLO.

BADILLO Spanish
Topographic name from a diminutive of vado ‘ford’ (Latin vadum) or a habitational name from either of two places named with this word: Valillo de la Guarena in Zamora province or Vadillo de al Sierra in Ávila.

BAEZ Spanish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Spanish Báez, which might be a different form of PELÁEZ (cf. Páez). A famous bearer is American singer and activist Joan Baez (1941-).... [more]

BAEZA Spanish
From a place called Baeza in Andalusia, Spain.

BAGLIETTO Spanish (Latin American)

BALAGUER Catalan, Spanish, Filipino
Habitational name for someone originally from the city of Balaguer in Catalonia, Spain.

BALCEIRO Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian)

BALIAO Spanish, Filipino

BALLESTER Spanish

BALLON Spanish
Theoretically it could be a variant of vallón, from valle ‘valley’, but neither form is attested as a vocabulary word or as a place name element. Alternatively, it could be a Castilian spelling of Catalan Batlló, Balló, nicknames from diminutives of batlle ‘dancing’.English: variant spelling of Balon.

BALZA Spanish (Archaic), Belgian (Archaic), Filipino (Hispanicized, Archaic)
The surname Balza is a derivation (BELZER, BALZAC, Balzer, etc.) of the ancient name "BALTHAZAR", meaning "one of the three wise men."

BANEZ Spanish
Spanish (Báñez): shortened form of Ibáñez

BARBERO Spanish
Spanish occupational name for a barber-surgeon (see BARBER), Spanish barbero, from Late Latin barbarius, a derivative of barba ‘beard’ (Latin barba).

BARCELONA Catalan, Spanish
Habitational name from Barcelona, the principal city of Catalonia. The place name is of uncertain, certainly pre-Roman, origin. The settlement was established by the Carthaginians, and according to tradition it was named for the Carthaginian ruling house of Barca; the Latin form was Barcino or Barcilo.

BÁRCENAS Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the Castilian municipality of Espinosa de los Monteros.

BARRAGAN Spanish

BARRERA Spanish, Catalan
Either a topographic name for someone who lived near a gate or fence, from Spanish and Catalan barrera meaning "barrier", or a topographic name for someone who lived by a clay pit, from Spanish barrero, derived from the Spanish word barro meaning "mud, clay".

BARRIENTOS Spanish

BARRINO Spanish (Latin American)

BARRIOS Spanish
Habitational name from any of the numerous places named with Spanish barrio "outlying suburb (especially an impoverished one), slum", from Arabic barr "suburb, dependent village". It may also be a topographic name for someone originating from a barrio.

BASORA Spanish

BASTÍAN Spanish
From the given name BASTÍAN.

BASTIÁN Spanish (Rare), Galician (Rare)
From the given name BASTIÁN.

BATISTA Portuguese, Spanish
Portuguese cognate of BAUTISTA as well as a Spanish variant.

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

BAVIERA Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan
Means "Bavaria" in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Catalan. Indicating for someone from Bavaria a state in Germany.

BAYLON Spanish
Spanish: variant of Bailón ( see Bailon ).

BEA Spanish
Habitational name from a place of this name in Teruel.

BECERRA Spanish

BEDOR Spanish (Latin American)

BEGA Spanish
Variant of VEGA.

BEJAR Spanish
From the town of the same name in Spain

BELALCÁZAR Spanish
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous Andalusian municipality with the coordinates 38°34′31″N 5°10′02″W.

BELASCO Spanish
Variant of VELASCO

BELRIO Spanish
From the Spanish word meaning "beautiful river".

BELTRÁN Spanish

BENAVIDES Spanish
Patronymic name from the Medieval personal name Ben Avid, of Arabic origin, derived from ibn Abd meaning "son of the servant of God".

BENAVIDEZ Spanish
Variant of BENAVIDES

BENIBAMONDE Spanish (Latin American)

BENITEZ Spanish (Americanized), Filipino
Unaccented form of BENÍTEZ primarily used in America and the Philippines.

BENTANCUR Spanish
One of the variants of BETTENCOURT or BETHENCOURT.

BERNAL Spanish, Catalan
Variant of BERNALDO.

BERNARDO Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

BERNEDA Spanish, Catalan
Variant of VERNEDA.

BETANCES Spanish, American (Hispanic)
Unexplained; probably related to Betanzos, the name of a town near A Coruña in Galicia.

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

BEZOS Spanish
From bezo meaning "thick lips" in Spanish, referring to a person with blubber or thick lips.

BEZZERIDES French (?), Italian (?), Spanish (?)

BISQUERRA Spanish

BIURRARENA Spanish, Basque
Means apple in Basque.

BLAS Spanish
From the given name BLAS.

BLASCO Spanish
Variant of VELASCO

BLASQUEZ Spanish
From the medieval diminutive Velasco, from the Basque word 'bela' meaning "crow", and the diminutive suffix 'sko'.

BOLAR Spanish
Topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of soil of a particular type known as tierra bolar.

BOMBA Portuguese, Spanish, Polish, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak
From bomba "bomb", (Latin bombus), hence probably a nickname for someone with an explosive temperament, or a metonymic occupational name for an artilleryman.

BONBA Basque, Spanish
From Basque bonba meaning "bomb", (Latin bombus), hence probably a nickname for someone with an explosive temperament, or a metonymic occupational name for an artilleryman.

BONIFACIO Portuguese, Spanish
From the given name BONIFACIO.

BONILLA Spanish
From the area of Spain of the same name

BORGES Portuguese, Spanish
Possibly from Old French burgeis meaning "town-dweller" (see BURGESS). Alternately, it may have denoted someone originally from the city of Bourges in France.

BRAGADO Portuguese, Spanish
This surname is a Spanish word which means "gritty", refering to a bull. ... [more]

BRAVO Spanish, Portuguese
From a Spanish and Portuguese nickname for a fierce or violent man (from Spanish and Portuguese bravo "fierce, violent"). This surname was borne by Charles Bravo (1845-1876), a British lawyer and possible murder victim.

BRELL English, Spanish

BRETAÑA Spanish

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

BRIZUELA Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the Castilian municipality of Merindad de Valdeporres.

BUENAVENTURA Spanish
Spanish: from the personal name Buenaventura meaning ‘good fortune’, bestowed as an omen name or with specific reference to the Italian bishop and theologian St Bonaventura (canonized in the 14th century).

BUENDÍA Spanish
Probably a habitational name from Buendía in Cuenca province, Spain.

BUENO Spanish
generally an approving (or ironic) nickname, from Spanish bueno ‘good’.

BUITRAGO Spanish
This indicates familial origin within either of 2 eponymous municipalities: the Castilian one in El Campo de Gómara or the Manchego municipality of Buitrago del Lozoya in Sierra Norte, Comunidad de Madrid.

BULGARIA Italian, Spanish
Originally an ethnic name or regional name for someone from Bulgaria or a nickname for someone who had visited or traded with Bulgaria, which is named after the Turkic tribe of the Bulgars, itself possibly from a Turkic root meaning "mixed".

BUMBA Portuguese, Spanish, Galician, Italian, Catalan, Occitan, Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Croatian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Swedish, Latvian, Lithuanian
Variant of BOMBA.

BURRUCHAGA Spanish, Basque
From "Pais Vasco" in Spain.

BUSTAMANTE Spanish
Habitational name for someone originally from the town of Bustamante in Cantabria, Spain, derived from Latin bustum Amantii meaning "pasture of AMANTIUS".

CAB Spanish
Diminutive of CABELLO, CABRERA, or CABRAL.

CABA Spanish, Catalan
Variant of CAVA.

CABABA Spanish
Spanish (Cabaña) and Portuguese: habitational name from a place named with Spanish cabaña ‘hut’, ‘cabin’ (Late Latin capanna , a word of Celtic or Germanic origin).

CABALLERO Spanish
Occupational name from caballero "knight, soldier, horseman" (from Late Latin caballarius "mounted soldier").

CABALLO Spanish, Spanish (Latin American)
Derived from the Spanish word cabello, ultimately derived from the Latin word caballus, meaning "horse". This denoted someone who worked in a farm that took care of horses, or someone who had personality traits attributed to a horse, such as energetic behaviour.

CABAÑA Spanish, Portuguese
Habitational name from a place named with Spanish cabaña ‘hut’, ‘cabin’ (Late Latin capanna, a word of Celtic or Germanic origin).

CABAÑAS Spanish, Portuguese
Habitational name from a place named with Spanish cabaña or Portuguese cabanha ‘hut’, ‘cabin’.

CABUNILAS Spanish

CACERES Spanish

CAJIGAS Spanish, Filipino
Topographic name from the plural of Spanish cajigo, derived from quejigo meaning "gall oak".

CALDERA Spanish
Derived from Spanish caldera meaning "basin, crater, hollow", ultimately from Latin caldarium or caldaria both meaning "hot bath, cooking pot". The word also denotes a depression in volcanoes, and it is commonly used as an element for surnames denoting streams or mountains.

CALDERÓN Spanish
Occupational name for a tinker or a seller or maker of kettles from Vulgar Latin *caldaria meaning "cauldron". Alternately, it may be a habitational name for someone from any of various locations named Calderón or a topographic name from Spanish caldera meaning "crater, basin".

CALERO Spanish
Metonymic occupational name for a burner or seller of lime, from calero ‘lime’.

CALIENTE Spanish

CALVELL Spanish

CALVETE Spanish
It means bald. It's a surname of the Galician origin.

CAMACHO Spanish, Portuguese
From the ancient European camb, meaning twisted or disfigured, denoting to someone with visible physical abnormalities, but could possibly also refer to residents of a particularly gnarly tract of land.

CAMARGO Spanish
Habitational name for someone from a place in Andalusia called Camargo.

CAMINO Spanish
Derived from the Spanish word for "path", or "walkway". This could have been used to denote a person who lived near a path, or one who built paths for a living.

CAMPUS Spanish
Derived from the Latin word campus, meaning "field". It denoted someone who either lived in a field or worked in one.

CAMPUZANO Spanish (Latin American)

CAN Mayan
from the word kaan meaning "snake"

CANCIO Spanish
A name for a person who first held the position of Chancellor.

CANIZALES Spanish (Latin American)
This surname came from around the beginnings of 1800 in south regions of Colombia where sugar cane was cultivated. It's a variation of Cañizales, that literally means "sugar cane fields".

CANOMANUEL Spanish
The first part of this surname is possibly derived from Spanish cano "hoary, white-haired, grey-haired". The second part is derived from the given name MANUEL... [more]

CAPRIEL Spanish (Latin American)

CARABAJAL Spanish, Judeo-Spanish
Variant of CARBAJAL.

CÁRAVE Spanish

CÁRAVES Spanish

CARBAJAL Spanish, Judeo-Spanish
Probably a habitational name demoting someone originally from any of the multiple locations called Carbajal in León, Asturias, or Zamora in Spain. Alternatively, it may be of pre-Roman origin from the word carbalio meaning "oak", denoting someone who either lived near an oak tree or who was like an oak tree in some way.... [more]

CARBONERO Spanish
Famous bearers are Carlos Carbonero, a Colombian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Sampdoria on loan from Fénix and Sara Carbonero, a Spanish sports journalist.

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

CÁRDENAS Spanish
Habitational name from places in the provinces of Almería and Logroño named Cárdenas, from the feminine plural of cárdeno "blue, bluish purple" (Late Latin cardinus, from carduus "thistle")... [more]

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

CARILLO Spanish, Italian
From a diminutive of the given name CARO.

CARLOS Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name CARLOS

CARMONA Spanish
Habitational name from any of various locations named Carmona, derived from Phonecian qʾrt-ḥmn meaning "city of Hammon" (the name of a Carthaginian deity).

CARRASCO Spanish
Topographic name from carrasco or carrasca "holm oak".... [more]

CARRASQUILLO Spanish
Diminutive of CARRASCO.

CARRER Spanish
Variant of CARRERA.

CARRERA Spanish, Italian
Spanish: topographic name for someone living by a main road, carrera ‘thoroughfare’, originally a road passable by vehicles as well as pedestrians (Late Latin carraria (via), a derivative of carrum ‘cart’), or a habitational name from any of various places named with this word.... [more]

CARRIEDO Spanish

CARRILLO Spanish
Variant of Carillo.

CARRIÓN Spanish
It comes from the knight Alonso Carreño, who distinguished himself in the conquest of the town of Carrión de los Condes (Palencia), where he founded his solar house.

CARRO Spanish

CARTAGENA Spanish
From the name of the city of Cartagena in southeastern Spain, derived from Latin Carthāgō Nova meaning "New Carthage" (ultimately derived from Phonecian qrt-ḥdšt meaning "new city").

CARVAJAL Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Judeo-Spanish
Variant of CARABAJAL

CASA Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Means "house" in Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.

CASABUENA Spanish (Modern, Rare)
Means "Happy House" or "House of Happiness" in Spanish, with the Spanish word "Casa", which means "House" and Buena, meaning "Happy" or "Happiness".

CASAREZ Spanish

CASILLAS Spanish
From any of various places called Casillas or Las Casillas, from the plural of casilla, a diminutive of Casa. ... [more]

CASTANATI Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish Origins

CASTAÑEDA Spanish
Derived from the Spanish word castaña meaning "chestnut".

CASTAÑO Spanish, Galician
Means "chestnut tree" in Spanish and Galician.

CASTELLANOS Spanish
Castellanos is a Spanish habitational surname with the meaning "(from a place founded or inhabited by) Castilians". Greek (Kastellanos): topographic name from an adjectival derivative of kastello "castle" (from Late Latin castellum, a diminutive of castrum "fort", "Roman walled city").

CASTELLI Italki (Italian Jew), Semitic, Italian, Spanish
Italian patronymic or plural form of CASTELLO. ... [more]

CASTELLON Spanish

CATARINO Spanish, Portuguese, Greek
Meaning "pure".

CAULIN Spanish

CAVA Italian, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese
From cava ‘cave’, ‘cellar’ (from Latin cavea), hence a metonymic occupational name for someone employed in the wine cellars of a great house, a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a cave, or a habitational name from any of numerous places named with this word.

CAVAS Italian, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese
Plural form of CAVA.

CAYETANO Spanish

CEBALLOS Spanish

CEDENA Spanish

CEDO Spanish

CEJA Spanish
From a common field name or a habitational name from any of various minor places called Ceja Yecla in Aragon.

CELDA Spanish (Modern, Rare), Filipino (Modern, Rare)
The Spanish word for 'cell', as in prison cell.

CENDEJAS Spanish
Cendejas is a city in Guadalahara. It is short for Cendejas de la Torre.

CEPEDA Spanish
A nickname for someone from the region where they grow vineyards.

CERPA Spanish

CERQUA Spanish

CERRAJERO Spanish
Occupational name for a locksmith.

CESAR Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Occitan, French
From the given name CÉSAR.

CESPEDES Spanish
From the plural of cesped "peat", "turf" (Latin caespes, genitive caespitis), applied as a habitational name from a place named Céspedes (for example in Burgos province) or named with this word, or a topographic name for someone who lived by an area of peat, or possibly as a metonymic occupational name for someone who cut and sold turf.

CHACON Spanish
Spanish (Chacón): nickname from chacón ‘gecko’.

CHAPIN French, Spanish
From a reduced form of French eschapin or Spanish chapín, a term for a light (woman's) shoe; perhaps a nickname for someone who habitually wore this type of footwear or possibly a metonymic occupational name for a shoemaker.

CHAVEZ Spanish, Filipino
Variant of CHÁVEZ.

CHAVOS Portuguese, Spanish

CHICA Spanish
Apparently from chica, feminine form of chico ‘small’, ‘young’ (see Chico), but a variant of the habitational name Checa, from a place so named in Jaén province is also a possibility.

CHICLANA Spanish
This indicates familial origin within either of 2 eponymous Andalusian municipalities: Chiclana de la Frontera or Chiclana de Segura.

CHINCHILLA Spanish
Originally denoted a person from the Spanish town of Chinchilla de Monte-Aragón in the province of Albacete. The place name is possibly of Arabic origin.

CINTRON Spanish
Spanish form for the french "Citroen". Original from Puerto Rico.

CIRIA Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Castilian municipality.

CIRUJANO Spanish, Filipino
Means "surgeon" in Spanish, used for someone who was a surgeon by profession.

CLAVEL Spanish
Metonymic occupational name for a spice trader or a nail maker, derived from Spanish clavel or Catalan clavell meaning "nail", later also "clove", itself a derivative of Latin clavellus "nail".

CLORES Spanish, Portuguese
Portuguese form of FLORES

CO Central American

COCORI Spanish

COLEGIO Spanish
Literally means "college" in Spanish.

COLLAR English, Spanish

COLMENARES Spanish
It literally means "apiaries", denoting someone who either worked at some or lived near some.

COLOMER Spanish

COLON Spanish (Americanized), Filipino
Unaccented form of COLÓN primarily used in America and the Philippines.

COMICA Spanish, American

COMPANY Spanish

CONCEPCIÓN Spanish
Means "conception'' in Spanish, in reference to the Immaculate Conception of Virgin Mary.

CONEJO Spanish
Spanish for rabbit from Latin "cuniculus". Given to someone who hunted rabbits.

CORAL Spanish

CORCOVADO Spanish
Means "hunchback" in Spanish. It would denote a person with a curved spine.

CORDERO Spanish

CÓRDOBA Spanish
Indicates someone who was originally from the city of Córdoba (Cordova) in Andalusia, Spain. The name itself is derived from Phonecian Qʾrtuba meaning "Juba’s city", itself from Phonecian qʾrt meaning "city" and juba referring to King Juba I of Numidia.

CÓRDOVA Spanish
Variant of CÓRDOBA.

COREANO Filipino, Spanish, Portuguese
Means "Korean" in Spanish and Portuguese, possibly an ethnic name or regional name for someone from Korea or who had connections with Korea.

CORONA Spanish

CORRAL Spanish

CORRALES Spanish
Habitational name for someone originally from any of the various locations named Corrales in Spain, from Spanish corral meaning "coral, enclosure".

CORREA Portuguese, Spanish
From Spanish, meaning "leather garment."

CORTE Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese
From corte ‘court', applied as an occupational name for someone who worked at a manorial court or a topographic name for someone who lived in or by one.

CORTÉZ Spanish
Variant of CORTÉS.

COSSIO Spanish

COVARRUBIAS Spanish (?)

COVARUBBIAS Spanish

COVIÁN Spanish

CREUS Spanish
Variant of CRUZ. Famous bearer of this surname is Spanish footballer Xavi Hernández.

CRIADO Portuguese, Spanish
Occupational name from criado ‘servant’.

CRISOSTOMO Spanish

CUARESMA Spanish
It means "Lent".

CUBA Portuguese, Asturian-Leonese, Galician, Spanish
habitational name from any of the places in Portugal (in the provinces of Alentejo and Beira Baixa) or Spain (in Aragon, Asturies, and Galicia) named Cuba, from cuba ‘barrel’ (from Latin cupa)... [more]

CUENCA Spanish
Cuenca is an ancient Spanish last name which originated from Cuenca, a city in the Kingdom of Castilla.... [more]

CUERVO Spanish
Means "raven, crow" in Spanish, ultimately from Latin corvus. From a nickname for a man with strikingly glossy black hair or with a raucous voice. Alternatively, a habitational name from places containing this word (e.g. El Cuervo, Teruel).

CUNEO Spanish