Central American Submitted Surnames

Gat Spanish
The catalan form of "gato" cat

Gato Spanish
Gato is a Spanish, Portuguese and Galician word for cat.

Gaudalupe Spanish

Gaudioso Italian, Spanish
From the given name Gaudioso.

Gavilán Spanish
It literally means "Eurasian sparrowhawk".

Gayangos Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the Castilian comarca of Las Merindades.

Gedeón Spanish

Genaro Spanish
From the given name Gennaro, but without the 2nd n

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

Geraldo Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Geraldo.

Gerardo Italian, Spanish
From the given name Gerardo

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

Gerónimo Spanish
From the given name Gerónimo.

Ghigliotty Spanish

Gijon Spanish
From the city of Gijón (Asturian form Xixón) located in the Principality of Asturias in Spain.

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

Gil De Montes Spanish, Basque

Gilscarbo Spanish

Gimenez Spanish (Anglicized)
Variant of Giménez.

Ginebra Spanish
From the Spanish word ginebra, meaning "gin," possibly ultimately from the Latin iuniperus, meaning "juniper."

Ginés Spanish
From the given name Ginés.

Giraldo Spanish
Spanish: From The Ancient Germanic Personal Name Giraldo Equivalent To Gerald .

Giron Spanish
Of Galician origin. Occupational name for a clothing maker.

Gispert Spanish

Godínez Spanish
Patronymic from the personal name Godino.

Godoi Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Variant of Godoy.

Godoy French, Spanish
It is derived from the personal name Gaudi.

Gonzaga Spanish, Portuguese, Italian (Archaic)
Habitational name for someone from a location called Gonzaga in Mantua, Italy. This was the name of an Italian family that ruled Mantua from 1328 to 1708.

Gordillo Spanish
Derived from the Spanish pet form of fat, "gordito"

Gordo Spanish, Portuguese
Means "fat" in Spanish and Portuguese.

Gortarez Spanish

Govea Spanish (Latin American), Spanish (Mexican)
Spanish form of Gouveia.

Gracia Spanish
From gracia "grace", or an alteration of García.

Graciano Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Graciano.

Granado Spanish
Nickname from Spanish granado "mature", "experienced", "distinguished".

Granado Spanish
Occupational name for a grower or seller of pomegranates, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a pomegranate tree, from granado "pomegranate tree" (cf. GARNETT).

Granados Spanish
Occupational name for a grower or seller of pomegranates, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a pomegranate tree, from granado "pomegranate tree" (cf. GARNETT).

Granda Spanish
Spanish form of the surname Grand.

Grande Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Means "tall, large" in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, used as a nickname for a person of large stature.

Grano Italian, Spanish
from grano "grain" (from Latin granum) probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a farmer or grain merchant.

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

Griego Spanish
Means "from Greece" in Spanish

Grijalva Spanish, Central American
Spanish: habitational name from any of various places called Grijalba in particular the one in Burgos province. The placename is from iglesia 'church' + Old Spanish alva 'white'.

Grimaldo Spanish, Italian
From the given name Grimaldo.

Griminesa Spanish (Latin American)

Gruezo Catalan, Spanish (Latin American)
From Catalan meaning "thick".

Guadalajara Spanish
habitational name from Guadalajara in Castile named with Arabic wādī-al-ḥijāra (واد الحجرة o وادي الحجرة) "river of the stones".

Guadalmina Spanish

Guajardo Spanish
Spanish: unexplained. Perhaps a habitational name from a place so named in Estremadura. This name is common in Argentina, Chile, and Mexico. ... [more]

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

Guardado Spanish
The surname Guardado means save, protect, and guard in Spanish

Guardamondo Spanish

Guàrdia Catalan, Spanish, Italian
Catalan, Spanish, and Italian from Catalan guàrdia, Spanish and Italian guardia ‘guard’, ‘watch’, a topographic name for someone who lived by a watch place, an occupational name for a member of the town guard, or a habitational name from any of the numerous places named (La) Guardia.

Gueimunde Spanish

Guendulain Spanish (Latin American)

Güero Spanish (Latin American, Rare)
A given nickname in latin America of a person with light features.... [more]

Guerrera Spanish

Guerro Spanish

Guevara Spanish
Hispanicized form of Gebara. A notable bearer was Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara (1928-1967), who was born Ernesto Guevara.

Guevera Spanish
means "protector"

Guijarro Spanish
Spanish: nickname from guijarro 'pebble' perhaps applied to a man who sold pebbles (used for paving the streets).

Guillén Spanish
From the given name Guillén.

Guillen Spanish
Unaccented form of Guillén.

Guillermety Spanish

Guillermez Spanish
Means "son of Guillermo".

Guillermo Spanish
From the given name Guillermo

Guirrez Spanish

Guiterez Spanish (?)

Guitiérrez Spanish
Variant of Gutiérrez.

Guity Spanish

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

Gutierre Spanish
From the given name Gutierre.

Guzman Spanish (Americanized), Filipino, South American
Unaccented form of Guzmán used mainly in America and the Philippines.

Hanzalez Spanish

Hay English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Frisian
Scottish and English: topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosure, Middle English hay(e), heye(Old English (ge)hæg, which after the Norman Conquest became confused with the related Old French term haye ‘hedge’, of Germanic origin)... [more]

Henares Spanish
Derived from the Celtic form of "brave". Also is the name of many towns (Alcala de Henares, Espinosa de Henares, Tortola de Henares...) and a river

Henriquez Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Central African, Caribbean

Heredia Spanish
Habitational name from any of various places in Basque Country called Heredia, probably derived from Latin heredium meaning "hereditary estate".

Hererra Spanish

Hererro Spanish

Hermenegildo Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Hermenegildo.

Hermosa Spanish

Hermosillo Spanish
Nickname for a dandy, from a diminutive of hermoso "finely formed, handsome". From Latin formosus, from forma "shape, form, beauty".

Hernandes Spanish, Portuguese
Variant of Hernández.

Hernándiz Spanish
Variant of Hernández.

Herra Spanish (Latin American)

Higuaín Spanish (Rare), Basque (Hispanicized)
Derived from the Basque surname Iguain, of uncertain origin.

Higuera Spanish
Higuera is a local surname; that is, the name was derived from the village or estate where the original bearer of the name once lived or held land. The Higuera family originally lived in the area of Figueroa.

Hilario Spanish
From the given name Hilarius.

Holanda Portuguese, Spanish
Spanish and Portuguese form of Holland.

Homero Spanish

Honesto Spanish
From the given name Honesto.

Honorato Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Honorato

Honorio Spanish
From the given name Honorio

Honrada Spanish

Hoya Spanish
is a habitational (local) name, taken on from any of several place names, such as from Hoyos in Cáceres province, or Hoyos in Ávila province. These place names come from the Spanish words "hoyo," meaning "pit," or "hole."

Huertas Spanish
Plural form of Spanish huerta meaning "garden, orchard".

Huerto Spanish

Huertos Spanish

Huidobro Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the Castilian municipality of Los Altos.

Humberto Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Humberto.

Hurtado Spanish
Derived from the Spanish word hurtar, meaning "to steal".

Ibáñes Spanish
variant of IBANEZ

Ibares Spanish (Latin American)

Ildefonso Spanish
From the given name Ildefonso.

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

Indalecio Spanish
From the given name Indalecio.

Infante Spanish
From infante literally "child", but in Spain also a title borne by the eldest sons of noblemen before they inherited, and in particular by the son of the king of Castile; thus the surname probably originated either as a nickname for one of a lordly disposition or as an occupational name for a member of the household of an infante.

Inga Italian, Spanish
Italian name, however probably Germanic origins

Ingles Spanish
Spanish (Inglés): ethnic term denoting someone of English origin, from Spanish Inglés ‘English’.

Iniesta Spanish
Possibly from iniesta meaning "leafhopper".

Iniesta Spanish
Habitational name from places called Iniesta in the province of Cuenca, in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. The Spanish soccer player Andrés Iniesta (1984-) is a well-known bearer of this surname.

Íñigo Spanish
From the given name Íñigo.

Innerarity Spanish (Rare)

Inocencio Spanish (Philippines), Spanish (Latin American)
From the given name Inocencio.

Inveninato Spanish (Latin American, Rare), Italian (Rare)

Iraheta Spanish (Latin American)
Hispanicized form of Iraeta.

Isaac Jewish, English, Welsh, French, Catalan, Spanish, Indian (Christian)
From the given name Isaac.

Isabel Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, French, English
From the given name Isabel.

Isidro Spanish
From the given name Isidro.

Isla Spanish
Means "island" in Spanish.

Islas Spanish
Variant of Isla.

Issac English, Spanish
From the given name Issac.

Iváñez Spanish
Variant of Ibáñez.

Izquierdo Spanish
Nickname for a left-handed person from the word "izquierdo", meaning "left", of pre-Roman origin related to Basque "ezker"

Jabes Spanish

Jabez Spanish

Jacinto Portuguese, Spanish
From the given name Jacinto.

Jacobo Spanish
From the given name Jacobo.

Jácome Spanish

Jaime Spanish, Portuguese (African)
From the given name Jaime 1.

Jaimez Spanish
Means "son of Jaime" in Spanish.

Jaldín Spanish

Jaller Spanish (Latin American)

Japon Filipino, Spanish, French
Ethnic name or regional name for someone from Japan or who had connections with Japan.

Jara Spanish
Habitational name any of the various places in southern Spain named Jara or La Jara, from jara meaning "rockrose", "cistus".

Jaramillo Spanish
Spanish habitational name from either of two places in the Burgos province: Jaramillo de la Fuente or Jaramillo Quemada.

Jareño Basque (Modern), Spanish
Perhaps "who lives among the rockroses".

Jarita Spanish (Latin American)

Jarra Spanish

Jaspe Spanish (Latin American)

Jauler Spanish

Javier Spanish
Indicates familial origin from the town and municipality of Javier in Navarre, Spain

Jeremias Jewish, Spanish
Derived from the Hebrew given name Jeremiah

Jesús Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, French
From the given name Jesús.

Joachin Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Joaquín.

Joaquín Spanish
From the given name Joaquín.

Joffé Spanish (Latin American)

Jolón Spanish

Jonda Spanish (Latin American, Japanized), American (Hispanic)
Jondá means Slingshot and hole in Spanish and is a surname in some Latin American countries and Americans with Hispanic heritage. It is a Japanized form of the surname Honda... [more]

Jordà Spanish
Derived from the personal name Jordàn

Jordán Spanish, Hungarian
From the given name Jordán.

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

Jorquez Spanish

José Spanish, Portuguese, French
Derived from the given name José.

Joséantonio Spanish
From the given name José Antonio.

Juancarlos Spanish
From the given name Juan Carlos.

Juanez Spanish
Means “son of Juan”

Juáres Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Juárez.

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

Juarros Spanish

Judith English, Jewish, German, Dutch, French, Spanish
From the given name Judith.

Julia Spanish, English (American, Rare)
From the given name Julia

Juliana Italian, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese
Feminine form of Juliano.

Juliano Italian, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Juliano.

Julio Spanish
Derived from the forename Julio.

Julve Spanish

Junio Spanish
From the given name Junio

Junious Spanish (Latin American), Yiddish
spanish

Jurado Spanish, Portuguese
Occupational name for any of various officials who had to take an oath that they would perform their duty properly, from jurado "sworn", past participle of jurar "to swear" (Latin iurare).

Jurrez Spanish

Justiniano Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Justiniano

Justino Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Justino

Justo Spanish
From the given name Justo.

Juvenal Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese, English (American)
From the given name Juvenal.

Kanelos Spanish

Knezevich Spanish (?)
rafe knezevich is a cutie patootie

Krahe German, Spanish
From the German word Krähe, meaning "crow".... [more]

Kuilan Spanish (Latin American)

Labrador Spanish, Portuguese, Filipino
From the root word "labora" meaning labor or work. This means laborer or worker but often associated to farmers as in San Isidro Labrador

Lacerda Portuguese, Spanish
Nickname for someone with remarkably thick or long hair, or with an unusually hairy back or chest. From Spanish and Portuguese la cerda ‘the lock (of hair)’.

Lacort Catalan, Spanish

Lacosta Spanish
Variant of Costa with fused definite article la.

La Cotera Spanish
Spanish variant for Hill and/or someone living in a slope, A "cota" in Spanish.

Lago Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Topographic name for someone living by a lake from lago "lake" (from Latin lacus) or a habitational name from any of the many places called with this word.

Laguna Spanish
Habitational name for someone from any of the various locations in Spain named Laguna meaning "lake, pond" in Spanish.

Lainez Spanish
patronymic from the personal name Laín.

Lajone Spanish (Latin American, Rare)

Lalana Spanish

Lallana Spanish

La Macchia Spanish

Lambertos Spanish

Lamo Spanish (Modern, Rare)

Lana Italian, Spanish
Means "wool" in Spanish and Italian.

Landaverde Spanish
From Spanish landa meaning 'meadow' + verde meaning 'green'.

Lanezo Spanish
Means "Lanezo's street" from Basque abas "Lanezo" and kale "street".

Lanza Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of Lance.

La Paloma Spanish

Larena Spanish

Lareo Spanish

Largaespada Spanish (Latin American), Central American
Combination of Spanish larga, the feminine form of the adjective largo meaning "long," and espada meaning "sword." It is mostly used in Nicaragua.

Larguespada Spanish (Latin American), Central American
Variant of Largaespada, used in Nicaragua.

Larrazabal Basque, Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Arteaga, Comarca of Arratia-Nerbioi.

Larronde Spanish

Larzabal Spanish

Lascellas Spanish
Feminine variant of Lascellos.

Lascellos Spanish

Lastra Spanish

Laura Spanish
Of uncertain origin; in some cases, it is possibly a habitational name from a place named Laura.

Laureano Spanish
From the given name Laureano

Laurel Spanish, Portuguese, Filipino, Tagalog, Cebuano
Topographic name for someone who lived by a laurel tree, Spanish laurel (Latin laurus), or a habitational name from Laurel in the Canary Islands.

Lavendera Spanish

Layun Spanish (Latin American)

Lázaro Spanish

Lázaro Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Lázaro.

Lazo Spanish (Modern)
Spanish

Leal Portuguese, Spanish
Means "loyal" in Portuguese and Spanish. A famous bearer of this surname is Roberto Leal, a very popular singer in Portugal.

Leandrez Spanish
Spanish cognate of Leandres.

Leandro Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
From the given name Leandro

Lebrón Spanish
Lebrón is a surname most prevalent in the Autonomous Community of Andalucía. It is an augmentative of liebre (meaning "hare" in Spanish).

Ledesma Spanish
Habitational name from any of the numerous places in Spain called Ledesma, possibly derived from a Celtic root meaning "broad, wide".

Ledo Spanish, Galician, Portuguese
Nickname from ledo meaning ‘happy’, ‘joyful’

Leiris Spanish

Leiva Spanish

Lejarzar Spanish

Lemõns Spanish (Rare)
Variant of Lemons.

Lemus Spanish
Spanish form of Lèmieux.

Lennis Spanish (Latin American)

Leocadio Spanish
From the given name Leocadio.

Leonado Spanish
The color tawny which is an orange, brown color. This descriptive surname was given to the Filipino people by the Spanish when the Philippines was colonized.

Leonardo Italian, Spanish, German
Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese from the Germanic personal name Leonhard, formed from the elements leo ‘lion’ + hard, ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’; this was an early medieval saint’s name (see Leonard).

Leoncio Spanish
From the given name Leoncio.

Leones Spanish
from the spanish term "leon" meaning lion or puma.... [more]

Leonor Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Leonor.

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

Lerma Spanish

Leyva Spanish

Liberato Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Liberato

Liberio Italian, Spanish
From the given name Liberio

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

Librado Spanish
From the given name Librado.

Licona Spanish
Habitational name from a place called Likoa in Basque Country.

Lidio Spanish

Limon Spanish
An occupational name for a grower or seller of the fruit.

Limones Spanish
Plural form of Limon.

Linares Spanish
Means "son of Lineus" from latin "line".

Linarez Spanish
Variant of Linares.

Linaza Spanish

Linde Spanish
From Spanish linde "boundary" or a habitational name from places called La Linde in Spain.

Lineu Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese (Modern)

Lirio Spanish

Liz Spanish
History unknown; surname known in the Dominican Republic

Llamas Spanish (Latin American)

Llamazares Spanish

Llanes Spanish (Latin American), Spanish (Philippines)
Likely denoted someone who came from the municipality of Llanes in Spain.

Lobato Spanish, Portuguese
nickname from lobato "wolf cub" (from Latin lupus "wolf") or from a medieval personal name based on this word.

Lobera Spanish
Either a topographic name from lobera "wolf pack" or "wolves' lair" or a habitational name from any of several places called La Lobera. variant of Lovera.

Lobosvilla Spanish
Rare variant of Villalobos.

Loera Spanish

Logaña Spanish (Latin American)

Loli Spanish (Latin American)

Lomar Spanish (Latin American)

Lomonico Spanish (Latin American)

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

Loray Spanish (Latin American)

Lorca Spanish (?)

Lorén Spanish
A variant of the Spanish personal name Llorente.

Lorente Spanish

Lorez Spanish
Means "son of Lorenzo" in Spanish.

Lorona Spanish

Losada Spanish, 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").

Lovato Spanish (Latin American), Italian
Northern Italian from the Late Latin personal name Lupatus, derivative of Latin lupus "wolf". This is one of several medieval personal names which became popular under the influence of Germanic compound personal names formed with wolf-.

Lovaton Spanish

Lovera Italian, Spanish
Either a topographic name from lovera "wolf pack" or "wolves’ lair" or a habitational name from a place called Lovera. Spanish variant of Lobera.

Loya Basque, Spanish
From Basque loya meaning "mud."

Lozada Spanish
Variant of Lozano.

Lucero English, Spanish
The surname "Lucero" was derived from English conquerers who came from England, most likely someone who worked for a king or queen. The term Lucero refers to a "star" or "light carrier" when the English traveled to Spain, the Spanish people gave them the name "Lucero" but earlier was spelled with an "s or Lusero"... [more]

Lucía Spanish, Italian
From the feminine personal name Lucia, feminine derivative of Latin lux meaning "light".

Lue Central American

Luengo Spanish

Luevano Spanish

Lugardo Spanish
Spanish (Mainly Huelva): From The Personal Name Lugardo A Variant Of Lutgardo Of Ancient Germanic Origin (See Luckhardt ). This Surname Is Most Common In Mexico.

Lugo Spanish

Lugo Spanish
Galician and Spanish habitational name from Lugo, a city in Galicia. This was a Roman settlement under the name of Lucus Augusti ‘grove or wood of Augustus’, but that may have been no more than an adaptation of an earlier name derived from that of the Celtic god Lugos.

Luján Spanish
This is the second last name of Spanish footballer/soccer player Andrés Iniesta.

Lujano Spanish
Spanish: variant of Luján ( see Lujan ).

Lumbier Basque, Spanish

Lumbreras Spanish
Habitational Name From A Place Called Lumbreras In La Rioja From The Plural Of Lumbrera ‘Lamp’ Possibly Referring To An Old Signal Tower.

Lunavelasco Spanish (Latin American, Rare)
Un-hyphenated combination of the last names, Luna, and Velasco forming its’ own name. Luna meaning “the moon” in Latin as well as multiple languages. Velasco meaning “crow” or “raven”.

Luque Spanish

Luriel Spanish

Luz Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Luz.

Macardican Spanish

Macario Italian, Spanish
From the given name Macario

Macarro Spanish
From the verb Macar meaning 'to bruise'

Macavinta Spanish

Macedo Portuguese, Spanish (Latin American)
Referred to a person who worked or lived at an apple orchard. It is derived from Vulgar Latin mattianēta meaning "place with apple trees."

Macho Spanish

Maciel Portuguese, Spanish
Possibly derived from Portuguese maça "apple".

Madera Spanish
describing someone who lived or worked in a forest. the word Madera means "wood" in Spanish. Spanish meaning of surname Wood