Mexican Submitted Surnames

Ehecatl Aztec, Nahuatl
From Nahuatl meaning "wind".

Eleazar Jewish, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Greek, Filipino, Assyrian, Indian (Christian), Malayalam
From the given name Eleazar.

Eleuterio Spanish, Italian
From the given name Eleuterio.

Elías Spanish, Jewish
From the given name Elías.

Eligio Italian, Spanish
From the given name Eligio

Eliseo Italian, Spanish
From the given name Eliseo.

Elizalde Basque, Spanish
From Basque eleiza meaning "church" combined with the suffix -alde "by". This could be either a habitational name for a person who was from the town of Elizalde in Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, or a topographic name for someone living near a church.

Eloy Spanish
From the given name Eloy

Emanuel Spanish

Emeterio Galician, Italian, Spanish
From the given name Emeterio

Emigdio Spanish
From the given name Emigdio.

Emiliano Italian, Spanish
From the given name Emiliano.

Enamorado Spanish
Nickname for a person relating to love.

Encarnación Spanish
Means "incarnation" in Spanish. This is given in reference to the Incarnation of Jesus in the womb of the Virgin Mary (see Encarnación).

Enciñias Spanish
Derives from Spanish heritage and culture. Other spellings of the name of ENCIÑIAS may be Encinas, Encinias, Encinitas etc.

Enoc Spanish

Enrique Spanish
From the given name Enrique.

Enriquez Spanish
Unaccented form of Enríquez.

Epifanio Spanish, Italian
From the given name Epifanio.

Ernesto Portuguese (African), Spanish (Rare), Italian (Rare)
From the given name Ernesto.

Errázuriz Basque (Hispanicized), Spanish (Latin American)
Castilianized form of Erratzuriz.

Escalante Spanish (Latin American)
From the Spanish verb escalar meaning "to climb".

Escandón Spanish, Spanish (Mexican)
Derived from a field named "Escanda" denoting a type of wheat. Perhaps farmers who lived close to the area.

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

Escatel Spanish
Derived from the Latin word “scatellum,” which means “small coin”. It is likely that the surname originally referred to someone who was involved in the production or circulation of small coins, or who had a reputation for being particularly frugal or economical... [more]

Escolar Spanish
From Spanish escuela meaning "school".

Escoto Spanish
ethnic name from escoto originally denoting a Gaelic speaker from Ireland or Scotland; later a Scot someone from Scotland. Spanish cognitive of Scott.

Escribano Spanish
An occupational name from escribano "scribe" (from Late Latin scriba "scribe" genitive scribanis from Latin scriba genitive scribae)... [more]

Escuintla Nahuatl
From Nahuatl Itzcuintlan meaning "abundance or place of dogs".

Esguerra Spanish, Filipino
Castilianized form of Basque Ezkerra from ezker meaning "left, left-handed".

Esgueva Spanish
It indicates familial origin near the eponymous river.

Espada Portuguese, Spanish
metonymic occupational name for an armorer or a swordsman from espada "sword" (from Latin spata from Greek spathe originally denoting a broad two-edged sword without a point)... [more]

España Spanish
From the Spanish word for Spain.

Espejo Spanish

Esperón Spanish
From Spanish espera meaning to wait. Perhaps an occupational name for a waiter.

Espinal Spanish
Spanish: from any of numerous fields named Espinal or Espinar, from a collective of espina ‘thorn’.

Espinosa De Los Monteros Spanish
Originating in northern Spain in the Espinosa de los Monteros municipality, it has various meanings. One meaning is that it was the surname of hidalgos who lived in Espinosa and helped the nobles get on their horses... [more]

Espiridión Spanish
From the given name Espiridión.

Espíritu Spanish
From a short form of Spanish del Espíritu Santo meaning "of the Holy Spirit, of the Holy Ghost" (Latin Spiritus Sanctus), which was the second part of religious compound names formed from the bearer's given name and del Espíritu Santo... [more]

Espiritu Spanish (Filipinized)
Unaccented form of Espíritu primarily used in the Philippines.

Esquivel Spanish
A name for someone who lives behind lime trees.

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

Estanislao Spanish
From the given name Estanislao.

Estela Spanish
Variant of Estrella.

Esteria Filipino, Spanish (Mexican)

Esteruelas Spanish
Possibly from the place name Camarma de Esteruelas, a village in Madrid.

Estes Welsh, Spanish, English
a popular surname derived from the House of Este. It is also said to derive from Old English and have the meaning "of the East." As a surname, it has been traced to southern England in the region of Kent, as early as the mid-16th century.

Esteve Spanish, Catalan
From the Catalan given name Esteve. Cognate to Estévez and Esteves.

Estol Spanish

Estrella Spanish
Derived from the word 'strella' meaning a star in Spanish.

Estrella Spanish (Latin American), Spanish (Philippines)
Means "star" in Spanish.

Estremera Spanish
Spanish: habitational name from a place in Madrid province called Estremera.

Estremera Spanish
Derived from the word "estrecho," which means "narrow" or "tight."

Ettison Spanish

Eufracio Spanish
From the given name Eufracio.

Eugenio Italian, Spanish
From the given name Eugenio.

Eulogio Spanish
From the given name Eulogio.

Eusebio Spanish (Philippines), Spanish (Latin American), Italian (Rare)
From the given name Eusebio.

Eva Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, Italian, Portuguese
From the given name Eva.

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

Evidente Spanish

Excepción Spanish

Exepción Spanish

Fabio Italian, Spanish
From the given name Fabio.

Facundo Spanish
From the given name Facundo

Falcón Spanish, South American
Originally a nickname from falcón, an archaic variant of Spanish halcón "falcon" (from Latin falco). It is a cognate of Falco.

Fallas Spanish

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

Fausto Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From the give name Fausto.

Favela Spanish (Latin American)

Federico Spanish, Italian
From the given name Federico.

Feijóo Spanish, Portuguese
Derived from Galician feixó, meaning "bean", possibly denoting a bald person.

Feliz Spanish
Means “happy” or “fortunate” in Spanish.

Feo Spanish
Means Ugly

Fermín Spanish
From the given name Fermín.

Ferrando Italian, Spanish
This surname can be derived from a given name (thus making it a patronymic surname) as well as from a nickname (thus making it a descriptive surname). In the case of a patronymic surname, the surname is derived from the medieval masculine given name Ferrando, which was in use in both Italy and Spain during the Middle Ages... [more]

Ferrera Spanish
Spanish cognate of Ferreira.

Figueredo Portuguese, Spanish
Portuguese variant of Figueiredo as well as the Spanish form.

Figuereo Spanish (Rare), Portuguese (Rare)

Filera Spanish

Firó Spanish (Mexican)

Flamenco Spanish (Latin American)
From the name of the art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain.

Florencio Spanish
From the given name Florencio

Floriano Italian, Spanish (?), Portuguese (?)
From the given name Floriano

Florida Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Variant of Florido.

Florido Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
From Spanish, Italian and Portuguese meaning "flowery, florid".

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

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

Font Catalan, Occitan, Spanish, French
topographic name for someone living near a spring or well Catalan and Occitan font "spring well" (from Latin fons genitive fontis).

Fontañez Spanish
From the Latin fons meaning "fountain."

Fonte Italian, French, Spanish

Fórmica Spanish
Spanish transcription of the Italian surname Formica (while the insect in Spanish is hormiga).

Fortun Spanish, Filipino
Variant of Fortuna.

Fortuna Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Derived from the given name Fortunato.

Foz Spanish

Fragoso Portuguese, Spanish
Means "rocky, rough, uneven" in Portuguese and Spanish, ultimately from Latin fragosus. It was originally a habitational name from any of various places called Fragoso.

Fraire Spanish
Comes from Latin frater meaning "brother".

Frances Spanish, Catalan
From Spanish and Catalan meaning "French". Denoting someone of French origin.

Franch Spanish (Rare)

Francia Italian, Spanish
From Latin Francia "France" an ethnic name for a Frenchman.

Francos Spanish
Derived from the given name Franco.

Franquez Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese for "son of Franco."

Franyuti Mexican (?)

Fresnillo Spanish
Diminutive of Fresno meaning "little ash tree".

Fresno Spanish
From Spanish meaning "ash tree".

Frías Spanish
Taken from the city of Frías, in Spain. The name of the city is taken from the Spanish phrase aguas frías, meaning "cold waters".

Fring Mexican (Rare)

Fronda Spanish (Philippines), Spanish
Means "frond, leafy branch" in Spanish.

Fructuoso Spanish
From the given name Fructuoso.

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

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

Fuente Spanish
topographic name from fuente "fount, spring" (from Latin fons, genitive fontis), or a habitational name from any of numerous places in Spain named with this word... [more]

Fuerte Spanish
Derived from the Spanish word "fuerte" meaning strong.

Fulcar Spanish (Latin American)
Most common in the Dominican Republic.

Funes Spanish
Derived from a town named 'Funes' in Navarre.

Gabaldon Spanish
Habitational Name From Gabaldón In The Province Of Cuenca.

Gabino Spanish
From the given name Gabino.

Gabriel English, Cornish, Welsh, Scottish, French, German, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Slovene, Jewish, Indian (Christian)
Derived from the given name Gabriel.

Gaitán Spanish
Originated from the Spanish word "gato," which means "cat." It is thought that the name may have been used to describe someone who had cat-like qualities, such as being agile or quick on their feet.

Galán Spanish
From Spanish meaning "prince".

Galarraga Spanish, Spanish (Mexican)

Galarza Spanish
Castilianized form of Basque Galartza.

Galdos Spanish

Galea Spanish, Italian, Maltese
From Spanish galea "galleon, warship" presumably a metonymic occupational name for a shipwright or a sailor. Italian habitational name from Galea in Calabria.

Galeano English, Spanish, South American, Caribbean

Galicia Spanish
Spanish: ethnic name for someone from the former kingdom of Galicia, now an autonomous region of northwestern Spain.

Galíndez Spanish
Patronymic from the personal name Galindo.

Galindo Spanish
Either from the given name Galindo or from the name of the Galindians, an ancient Baltic tribe.

Gall Spanish
In fact it is Catalan. See italian Gall... [more]

Gallareta Spanish (Mexican)

Galo Spanish
From the given name Galo.

Galván Spanish
From the given name Galván.

Gálvez Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Castilian municipality in the Province of Toledo.

Gamarra Spanish

Gamboa Spanish, Filipino
Castilianized form of Basque Ganboa. It is also a name for the quince tree (Cydonia oblonga).

Gamez Spanish
Patronymic from Gamo, a personal name of unexplained etymology.

Gamiao Spanish (Modern, ?)
from a Basque nickname means "good member"

Gamiño Spanish

Gamio Spanish

Gamiz American (Hispanic, Anglicized, Rare), Spanish, Filipino, English (American)
The last name Gamiz is a varient of Gamez and Gomez. It is a very rare last name that not many people have.

Ganzalez Spanish

Garavito Spanish

Garcés Spanish
Meaning "son of García" ultimately from medieval spanish Garsea, using the patronymic suffix és/ez

Garcías Spanish
Variant of García.

Gardenias Mexican

Garfias Spanish
Nickname from the plural form of regional garfia 'claw paw' a word of Arabic origin.

Garibay Basque (Hispanicized), Spanish (Mexican), South American
Castilianized form of Garibai.

Garmendia Basque, Spanish
Garmendia is the surname of a family of the Basque Country region of Guipuzcoa, in Spain. The surname means "wheat mountain" in Basque from gar meaning "wheat" and mendi meaning "mountain"... [more]

Garnica Spanish
Castilianized form of Garnika, a variant of Gernika.

Garsia Spanish (Latin American), Italian
Variant of García and Garzia.

Garson Scottish, French, English, German (Anglicized), Spanish, Jewish
Variant of Scottish Carson and Corston, French Garçon, Spanish-Jewish Garzon and English Garston, or an Americanised form of German Gerson... [more]

Garuba Spanish

Garzon Spanish

Gascón Spanish
Spanish cognitive of Gascoigne. Habitational name for someone from the province of Gascony Old French Gascogne (see Gascoigne).

Gascueña Spanish
It indicates familial origin within either of 2 Manchego municipalities: Gascueña or Gascueña de Bornova.

Gasol Spanish

Gastelo Spanish
Variant of Gaztelu.

Gastelum Spanish
Hispanic (Mexico): Probably An Altered Form Of Basque Gaztelu (See Gastelo ).

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".

Gaviria Basque (Hispanicized), Spanish
Castilianized form of Gabiria.

Gaxiola Mexican

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

Gazpar Spanish (Mexican)
Variant of Gaspar.

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 .

Gispert Spanish

Godínez Spanish
Patronymic from the personal name Godino.

Godoi Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Variant of Godoy.

Godoy French, Spanish
Derived from the Norman given name Gaudi.

Goñi Basque, Spanish
From the name of a town and municipality in Navarre, Spain, probably derived from Basque goien "highest point, apex, peak".

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.

Goyeneche Basque (Hispanicized), Spanish, French
Castilianized form of Goienetxe.

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

Graciano Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Graciano.

Grajales Spanish
Topographic name from the plural of Spanish grajal ‘place inhabited with rooks’ a derivative of the bird name graja feminine of grajo ‘rook (Corvus frugilegus)’.

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".

Grullon Dominican, Mexican, French
Possibly from a derivative of Spanish grulla "crane (bird)" presumably applied as a nickname for tall thin person; in Mexico however grulla denotes a crafty person

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
From Spanish meaning "guarded".

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.

Guardia Italian, Spanish
From Spanish and Italian guardia "guard watch" a topographic name for someone who lived by a watch place by a watchtower or a habitational name from any of numerous places called La Guardia named with the same word; or a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept watch or for a member of the town guard... [more]

Gueimunde Spanish

Guendulain Spanish (Latin American)

Guereca Spanish (Mexican)

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

Guerrera Spanish

Guerro Spanish

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.

Hadjópulos Greek (Hispanicized, Expatriate), Mexican (Rare)
Spanish form of Greek Χατζόπουλος (see Chatzopoulos).

Hanzalez Spanish

Haro Spanish (Mexican)
Perhaps a shortened version of the name "de Haro"

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

Heraldez Spanish (Mexican)
The surname is a variation of Hernando, given birth by an outlaw

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.

Hipólito Spanish (Mexican), Portuguese (Brazilian)
From the given name Hipólito.

Hódar Spanish
Spanish surname with unknown origin. Violeta Hódar is a notable bearer.

Holanda Portuguese, Spanish
Spanish and Portuguese form of Holland 2.

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."

Huehuetenango Nahuatl
Means "place of the ancients" in Nahuatl.

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.

Huitzil Aztec, Nahuatl
From Nahuatl uitsitsillin meaning "hummingbird".

Humberto Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Humberto.

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

Ibáñes Spanish
variant of Ibáñez

Ibar Spanish (Mexican)

Ibares Spanish (Latin American)

Ico Mayan

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.

Ines Spanish
From the given name Inés.

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.

Itriago Spanish

Iváñez Spanish
Variant of Ibáñez.

Ivars Spanish, Basque (Hispanicized)
Etymology uncertain. Possibly related to Ibarra, derived from Basque ibar "meadow, riverbank, valley".