Central American Submitted Surnames

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Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.

Verneda Spanish, Catalan
As a Spanish and Catalan surname refers to someone who lived where alder trees grew.

Veron French, Spanish
Nickname for someone with bi-colored eyes. This surname is mostly frequent in Argentina.

Viciedo Spanish (Rare)

Victori Spanish

Victoriano Spanish
From the given name Victoriano

Victorino Spanish
From the given name Victorino

Videgain Spanish
Videgain is a surname. It is of Basque origin language with the form Bidegain. Videgain is considered a Spanish surname because the letter V does not exist in the Basque alphabet. It extended through the Iberian peninsula following the Reconquista, where different forms of the name developed and houses were founded with the differentiation of Videgáin, Bidegain, Videgaín... [more]

Viejo Spanish
From Spanish meaning "old".

Viela Spanish, Portuguese

Vigil Spanish
Comes from the word "vigil", which is Latin for "vigilia" and "wakefulness".

Vijarro Spanish

Vilaamil Spanish
Habitational name from Villamil a place in Asturias.

Villacorta Spanish

Villafañe Spanish
Derived from the village of Villafañe in Leon, Spain. His hierarch, perhaps, is the Burgos hidalgo Alvar Fañez.

Villafranca Spanish

Villafuerte Spanish (Latin American), Spanish (Philippines)
Denoted someone who came from the name of the municipality of Villafuerte de Esgueva in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain.

Villagra Spanish
Rare castilian surname, distributed throughout Spain with greater presence in Madrid, Barcelona, Valladolid and Palencia.

Villagran Spanish
From a lost village called Villa Grande, meaning 'large farmstead or settlement'.

Villagrande Spanish
Variant of Villagran.

Villalbazo Spanish

Villalpando Spanish
It first came from a Spanish village town.

Villalvazo Spanish
Hispanic (Mainly Mexico): Derivative Of Spanish Villalba Or Villalva .

Villamar Spanish
Spanish: Habitational Name From Any Of The Three Places Called Villamar In Lugo (Galicia) Oviedo (Asturias) Or Burgos (Castilia).

Villamayor Spanish
Habitational name for any of the numerous places in Spain with this name.

Villamizar Spanish
Habitational name from Villamizar in León.

Villanova Italian, Spanish
Habitational name from any of numerous places so called from Latin villa nova "new settlement" (see Villa) from the elements villa "town" and nova "new"... [more]

Villaquirán Spanish
It indicates familial origin within either of 2 municipalities: Villaquirán de los Infantes or Villaquirán de la Puebla.

Villareal Spanish (Philippines), Spanish (Latin American), American (Hispanic)
Variant of Villarreal primarily used in the Philippines and Columbia.

Villarino Spanish
Form of Villarin.

Villarojo Spanish

Villarreal Spanish
Habitational name from any of various places called Villarreal (or Villareal), derived from Spanish villa meaning "farm, town, settlement" and real meaning "royal".

Villarrubia Spanish
Spanish: habitational name from Villarrubia (Córdoba) Villarrubia de los Ojos (Ciudad Real) or Villarrubia de Santiago (Toledo) so named from villa '(outlying) farmstead (dependent) settlement' (see Villa ) + rubia 'light red'.

Villarruel Spanish
Cognate of Villa with the second element of unexplained etymology. Compare Villarroel.

Villasante Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the Castilian municipality of Merindad de Montija.

Villasenor Spanish
Habitational name, apparently a Castilianized spelling of Galician Vilseñor, from any of three places in Lugo province named Vilaseñor.

Villatoro Spanish
Presumably a name given to someone from Villatoro, Spain

Villava Spanish

Villavicencio Spanish (Latin American), Spanish (Philippines)
Denoted someone who came from the name of the municipality of Villavicencio de los Caballeros in Castile and León, Spain.

Villeda Spanish
Probably from french.

Villega Spanish

Villegas Spanish
Habitational name from the municipality of Villegas in Burgos province, Spain.

Villoslada Spanish
From the village of Villoslada in Spain.

Villota Spanish

Vinagre Spanish, Portuguese
An occupational surname for someone who sells vinegar.

Viñals Spanish, Catalan

Vinardos Spanish

Viniegra Spanish
This indicates familial origin within either of 2 Riojan municipalities in the Comarca of Anguiano: Viniegra de Arriba or Viniegra de Abajo.

Vinuesa Spanish
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.

Vinyet Spanish

Violy Spanish (Latin American)

Viramontes Spanish
Viramontes is composed of the elements "mira" and "montes," two Spanish words with the combined meaning of "place with a view of the mountains."

Virgen Spanish
Spanish form of Virgo.

Virgil Spanish
From the given name Virgil.

Virtuoso English (American), Spanish, Italian
This Italian surname could possibly be connected to those whose ancestors were involved in playing a musical instrument or somehow connected to the musical instrument industry.

Vivanco Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the Castilian locality of Vivanco de Mena.

Vivar Spanish, History
From the village of Vivar, later renamed Vivar del Cid, nowadays part of Quintanilla Vivar located near Burgos, Castile and León, Spain.... [more]

Vivó Spanish, Catalan

Vlasco Spanish
Variant of Velasco

Wero Spanish (Latin American), Maori
Maori: Means "to cast a spear"... [more]

Xen Spanish (Latin American)

Ximénez Spanish (Archaic)
Archaic form of Jiménez

Xuc Central American, Indigenous American

Yagüe Spanish
It is possibly derived from a name for someone born on St James' Day, from Old Spanish Santi Yague, a common medieval form of Santiago.

Yáñez Spanish
Patronymic of Juan 1.

Yepes Spanish
Habitational name from Yepes in the province of Toledo (named as Hippo or Hipona in or before Roman times).

Yerba Spanish (Latin American)

Yerbabuena Spanish (Latin American)
From Spanish yerba buena meaning "good herb"

Yesca Spanish (Latin American)

Yglesias Spanish
Variant of Iglesias.

Yisselin Spanish (Latin American)

Yñiguez Spanish
Variant of Íñiguez.

Yzquierdo Spanish
Variant of Izquierdo.

Zacarias Portuguese, Spanish
From the given name Zacarias.

Zalas Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, Galician, Portuguese, Aragonese, Asturian, Romanian, Hungarian, Greek, Bulgarian
Variant of Salas.

Zaldívar Basque, Spanish
Derived from Basque zaldi meaning "horse" combined with ibar meaning "valley". This is also the name of a town in Biscay, Spain.

Zalla Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, Galician, Portuguese, Aragonese, Asturian, Romanian, Hungarian, Greek, Bulgarian
Variant of Sala.

Zallas Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, Galician, Portuguese, Aragonese, Asturian, Romanian, Hungarian, Greek, Bulgarian
Variant of Salas.

Zambrana Spanish
Likely comes from a town of the same name in Spain.

Zamora Spanish
Comes from the ancient city of Zamora in Northwest Spain. It means "wild olives."

Zanel Spanish (Latin American)

Zapata Spanish
Occupational surname for a shoemaker, from Spanish zapato meaning "shoe". It can also be considered a habitational name for someone originally from any of the various locations in Spain called Zapata.

Zapato Spanish
Means "shoe" in Spanish.

Zaragoza Spanish, Aragonese
Name given to someone who was from the city Zaragoza in the Aragon region in Spain.

Zarandona Spanish

Zárate Spanish
Habitational surname meaning "entrance to the grove coppice".

Zavalia Spanish (Latin American, Americanized)

Zavattari Italian, French, Spanish, Romanian
A derivation of the Old French word 'savate'... [more]

Zayas Spanish, Caribbean
Derives from the Basque word 'zai', meaning watchman or guard.

Zazueta Spanish
Probably a topographic name of Basque origin, from an unexplained first element + the collective suffix -eta 'place or group of'.

Zegarra Spanish (Latin American)
Possibly a Castilianized form of the Catalan Segarra.

Zenteno Spanish
Variant of Centeno

Zepeda Spanish
Variant of Cepeda

Zubiria Medieval Basque (Latinized, Archaic), Spanish (Latin American)
It means nearby bridge.

Zuima Spanish

Zuleta Spanish, Basque
Variant of Zulueta, which comes from the Basque topographic name 'zulo' meaning ‘hole hollow’ + the collective suffix '-eta' meaning "place or group of."

Zulueta Spanish

Zúñiga Spanish
Spanish form of Zuñiga.

Zurdo Spanish
Means "left-handed" in Spanish.

Zurita Spanish, Aragonese
An Aragonese surname derived from the Stock Bird, a species of bird.

Zurita Spanish
Habitational surname from either of two places called Zurita in Huesca and Cantabria named with a derivative of Basque zuri 'white'

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