Mexican Submitted Surnames

Melgar Spanish
Topographical name for someone who lived by a field of lucerne, Spanish melgar (a collective derivative of mielga 'lucerne', Late Latin melica, for classical Latin Medica (herba) 'plant' from Media).

Melgosa Spanish
This indicates familial origin within either of 2 Castilian municipalities, Melgosa de Burgos or Melgosa de Villadiego. It could also indicate familial origin within the Manchego municipality La Melgosa.

Melillo Spanish, Italian
describing someone who worked on an apple orchard,harvesting and selling apples from the italian mela

Melquíades Spanish
From the given name Melquíades.

Mena Spanish

Menchavez Spanish

Mencia Spanish
Derived from the female personal name Mencía Mencia a cognate of the male name Matías.

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

Mendibles Spanish

Mendosa Spanish
Variant spelling of Mendoza.

Menéndes Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Menéndez.

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

Meneses Spanish, Portuguese
Meaning uncertain. It was likely a habitational name from either the municipality of Meneses de Campos in Palencia or the municipality of Valle de Mena in Burgos.

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

Menjívar Spanish
Variant of Mengíbar.

Menonita Spanish (Latin American, Rare)
From Spanish meaning "mennonite".

Mera Spanish

Mercader Spanish

Mercades Spanish (Latin American)

Merced Spanish

Mercede Spanish

Mérida Spanish
habitational name from the city of Mérida in Badajoz province... [more]

Meridia Spanish

Merina Spanish

Merladet Spanish (Rare)

Mesa Spanish
Habitational name for someone from any of the various locations in Spain called Mesa meaning "table" or "mesa" in Spanish (referring to a flat area of land).

Meseta Spanish (Mexican)
Meaning "plateau" in Spanish. Primarily used mostly in Mexico.

Mesías Spanish, Spanish (Latin American)
Spanish, meaning Messiah.

Messi Italian, Spanish (Latin American)
Possibly from Italian messi meaning "messengers". Aamous bearer of this surname is Lionel Messi (born 1987-), an Argentinian footballer of Italian descent.

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

Mestizo Spanish (Latin American)
Derived from Spanish mezclado "mixed". Likely denoting a person with mixed Spanish and Amerindian descent.

Mestre Italian, Spanish

Meza Spanish
Older variant of Mesa.

Mezquita Spanish
Spanish cognate of Mesquita.

Midiam Spanish

Mieles Italian, Spanish, French
Meaning "honey".

Mier Spanish, English (American)
As a Spanish name relates to late summer and means "harvest" or "ripened".... [more]

Mieza Spanish

Miguelañez Spanish
Derived from the given name Miguel.

Mijangos Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the Castilian municipality of Merindad de Cuesta Urria.

Milán Spanish
Spanish form of Milan.

Milanés Spanish
habitational name for someone from Milan in Italy (see Milano) from milanés an adjectival form of the place name. Variant of Milan.

Minaya Spanish
From Minaya, the name of a town in Albacete province, Spain. According to the scholar Miguel Asín Palacios, the place name comes means "open and visible path" from Arabic. It has also been speculated that the place name has Basque origins, meaning "ore", "ore vein" or "asphodel pastures".

Miqueletos Spanish
From the Spanish given name Miguel.

Miramontes Spanish
Looker of mountains.

Mirando Spanish

Mirena Spanish (Latin American)

Mocha Spanish (Latin American)

Moclin Spanish
A town positioned outside of Granada and Toledo Spain, its current occupants number in the thousands. But, 700’s this town was positioned in a mist of sprawling Moorish control. And, for the next 800 years, it was the epic center of Europe’s culture and medicine... [more]

Moctezuma Indigenous American, Nahuatl (Hispanicized)
From the given name Moctezuma.

Modernell Spanish (Latin American, Hispanicized, Modern)
Most common in Uruguay, probably of Lebanese origin, unknown meaning or etymology.

Modesto Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
From the given name Modesto

Mohedano Spanish

Moina Spanish (Latin American)

Moises Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Greek, Jewish
From the given name Moisés.

Molinares Spanish
Derived from Spanish molina meaning "mill". Possibly an occupational name for a mill worker.

Molinas Spanish
Variant of Molina.

Molinero Spanish
An occupational surname from molinero (“miller”).

Molino Italian, Spanish
From Spanish and Italian meaning "mill".

Mon Spanish

Monarrez Spanish
Hispanic (Mexico; Monárrez): Altered Form Of Basque Munárriz Itself A Castilianized Form Of A Habitational Name From Munarritz (Also Amunarritz In Castilian Munárriz) A Town In Navarre.

Monasterio Spanish
Means "monastery" in Spanish, denoting a person who lives or works in a monastery.

Moncada Spanish
A habitational surname, from Catalan Montcada, ultimately from monte "mountain" and an older variant of Catalonia.

Mondejar Spanish
Habitational name from a place called Mondéjar in Guadalajara province.

Mondragón Spanish
From the name of a town in Basque County, Spain, which is derived from Latin mons draconis meaning "dragon mountain".

Mondragon Spanish (Americanized), Filipino
Unaccented form of Mondragón chiefly used in America and the Philippines.

Monge Spanish

Monreal Spanish
Habitational name from any of the places called Monreal for example in Cuenca Teruel and Zaragoza provinces.

Monsalve Spanish

Monsivais Spanish
Hispanic (Mexico; Monsiváis): Perhaps A Topographic Name Derived From Latin Mons Silvaticus ‘Wooded Mountain’ Or A Habitational Name From Monsivalls A Hill In Ribagorza In Huesca Province (Spain) Named From Latin Monte Ipsa Vallis ‘Mount Of The Valley’.

Montalban Spanish
Spanish (Montalbán): habitational name from Montalbán de Córdoba from Latin montem albanum 'white mountain'.

Montalvo Portuguese, Spanish, Italian
Montalvo is a habitational Portuguese and Spanish surname that originated in the medieval period. It comes from the Spanish words monte, meaning "mount", and albo, meaning "white". The name was often given to families who lived near or on a white mountain or hill, and can be interpreted as "white mountain".

Montané Spanish

Montañez Spanish

Montano Spanish
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Monteagudo Spanish
Habitational name from any of numerous places called Monteagudo (‘pointed mountain’) from monte ‘mountain’ + agudo ‘sharp pointed’ (from Latin acutus from acus ‘needle’) for example in the provinces of Murcia Teruel A Coruña and Navarre.

Monteblanco French, Spanish
Originally from France "Mont Blanc" but translated when arrived in Spain.

Monte De Oca Spanish
Variant of Montes De Oca.

Montejano Spanish
Habitational name for someone from a place called Montejo

Montemayor Spanish
Habitational name from any of several places called Montemayor, from monte meaning "mountain" + mayor meaning "main", "larger", "greater", in particular in the provinces of Cordova, Salamanca, and Valladolid.

Montenegro Spanish, Portuguese
Habitational name for someone originally from any of the various locations in Spain and Portugal named Montenegro, from Spanish and Portuguese monte meaning "mountain, hill" and negro meaning "black".

Monterosa Spanish (Latin American)
From Spanish monte meaning "mountain", and rosa meaning "pink, rose".

Monterrey Spanish
Derived from places named Monterrey. From Spanish monte meaning "mountain" and rey meaning "king".

Monterrubio Spanish
Habitational name from any of the places called Monterrubio ‘red mountain’.

Montes De Oca Spanish
Spanish surname meaning "mounts of goose".

Montesinos Spanish
Topographic name for someone who lived on a mountain from a derivative of monte 'mountain' (from Latin mons gentive montis).

Montez American (Hispanic), Portuguese, Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Montes.

Montezuma Spanish (Latin American)
Derived from the word monte meaning "hill". Most frequently used in Panama.

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

Montilla Spanish
Habitational name from Montilla a place in Córdoba province.

Montoro Spanish, Italian
A Spanish habitational name from any of the places called Montoro in particular those in Córdoba or Teruel provinces. Italian habitational name from any of the places called Montoro in particular Montoro Inferiore and Montoro Superiore in Avellino province.

Monzon Spanish
Habitational name from Monzón, a place in Uesca province, which is probably named from Latin montione ‘big mountain’.

Moo Mayan
From Yucatec Maya mo' meaning "macaw".

Moo Mexican

Morante Spanish

Moratalla Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Murcian municipality.

Morejón Spanish
Derived from Spanish moreno meaning "dark".

Morera Spanish, Catalan
Means "mulberry" in Spanish and Catalan, denoting a person who lived near a mulberry tree.

Morgade Spanish
Derived from Portuguese morgado "firstborn, heir".

Moríñigo Spanish
Habitational surname from Moríñigo, Moríñigo is a municipality located in the province of Salamanca, Castile and León.

Moro Italian, Spanish
Nickname from moro "moor" from Latin maurus "moor, north african" and Italian variant of Mauro.

Morocco Spanish (Latin American)

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.

Mox Spanish (Latin American)

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

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

Mungaray Apache, Spanish (Mexican)
Very rare Apache name give to the Apache still in Mexico. We are decents of victorio and the local spa is/ Mexicans gave us this name that we still carry today.

Muñiz Spanish
Variant of Muñoz.

Muño Spanish

Murado Spanish

Muratalla Spanish (Mexican)

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]

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

Naredo Spanish

Narvarte Spanish
Variant of Navarrete.

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]

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 mountain 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.

Negrete Spanish
Possibly from negrete denoting a member of a 15th-century faction based in the mountainous area of Cantabria.

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)

Nequiz Nahuatl
Possibly derived from the Nahuatl word 'Nequiztli' meaning "desirable" which most likely stems from 'Nequi' or "to want/desire."

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

Nic Mayan
From Mayan ‘nik’ meaning “flower”.

Nicasio Italian, Spanish
From the given name Nicasio.

Nicolás Spanish
From the given name Nicolás.

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]

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.

Nouvilas Spanish

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

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.

Oceguera Spanish (Mexican)
Variant of Oseguera.

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.

Octaviano Spanish (Philippines), Spanish (Mexican)
From the given name Octaviano.

Octavio Spanish
From the given name Octavio.

Odelín Spanish

Odilia Spanish (Anglicized, Rare, Archaic)

Olachea 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

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".

Orta Spanish, Caribbean

Orte Spanish

Ortegon Spanish

Ortencia Spanish (?)

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.

Oscar English, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Italian
From the given name Oscar.

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.

Osornio Spanish (Mexican)
Likely an altered form of Osorio influenced by Osorno.

Osorno Spanish
From the name of a place in Palencia, a province of northern Spain.

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 Mexican

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

Oyuela Spanish, Western African
The surname Oyuela is likely of Spanish or African (specifically, West African) origin, with roots in both linguistic and cultural traditions.... [more]

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

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

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

Palafox Spanish (Mexican)
From Palafolls, a Catalan place name.

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

Pale Nahuatl
Possibly a variant of Apale.

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]

Palmarez Mexican

Palomares Spanish
Derived from Spanish "palomar," meaning "dovecote" or "columbarium". An occupational name for someone who was known for raising or caring for carrier pigeons or doves.

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.

Papa Tagalog, Italian, Albanian, Romanian, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese
Means "pope, priest" in various languages.

Papaqui Aztec, Nahuatl
From Nahuatl pakini meaning "happy".

Parada Spanish

Paras Spanish (Philippines), Spanish (Mexican)
Variant of Parras.

Parayuelos Spanish

Paredez Spanish
Variant of Paredes.

Pareja Spanish
habitational name from Pareja in Guadalajara province.

Parillo Spanish, Italian

Parras Spanish
Plural form of Parra.

Parrillo Spanish, Italian

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

Pascuas Spanish
Variant of Pascua.

Pasillas Spanish (Mexican)

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.

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.

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".

Pedroza Spanish (Mexican)

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

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

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

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'.

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

Petiton Spanish

Picazo Spanish
Variant of Picasso, from Latin "pica" meaning magpie.

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.

Pilas Spanish

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

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

Pinal Spanish (Mexican)
From Spanish meaning "pine grove".

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

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]