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Rabago Spanish
Habitational name from Rábago in Cantabria province.

Rabagos Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Rabago.

Rabaneda Spanish

Raia Galician, Spanish
Variant of Raya.

Raigon Spanish

Raij Spanish, Judeo-Spanish, Portuguese, Romani (Caló)
Borrowed from Hindi राइज (raij) meaning "rice". This surname is found among Christian and Jewish Caló families.

Raijman Spanish

Raimundez Spanish
Means "son of Raimundo" in Spanish.

Ramientas Spanish
Ramientas from Spanish word "herramientas" which means tools....

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

Ramón Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan
From the given name Ramón.

Ramone Spanish (Anglicized), Portuguese (Anglicized), Catalan (Anglicized)
From Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan Ramón, from the personal name Ramón or Ramon, of Germanic origin (see Raymond).

Ramoz Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese (Brazilian)
Variant of Ramos.

Ramus Spanish

Rangel German, Spanish, Portuguese
A variant of Rengel.

Rascon Spanish
Possibly a nickname for Rascón, meaning “sharp”, “sour”, or “rail (the bird)”

Raya Galician, Spanish
Possibly a habitational name from Raya in Galicia or in Albacete and Murcia provinces. Possibly a topographic name from Spanish raya meaning "line", denoting the boundary between two countries or provinces.

Raymundo Spanish
From the given name Raymundo.

Rayo Spanish, Catalan, Asturian
Spanish: from rayo ‘flash of lightning’, possibly a nickname in the sense ‘lively’.... [more]

Real Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician
Either a habitational name from any of numerous places called Real; those in Galicia (Spain) and Portugal being named from real "royal" or as variant of Rial while those in southern Spain and Catalonia are named in part from real meaning "encampment rural property" (Arabic raḥāl "farmhouse cabin")... [more]

Rebolledo Spanish
Habitational name from any of various places called Rebolledo for example Rebolledo de la Torre in Burgos from rebollo denoting a species of oak.

Regalado Spanish, Spanish (Philippines), American (Hispanic)
Means "gifted", "pleasant", or "capable".

Reina Spanish, Portuguese
Either a habitational name from any of the places called Reina. Or most likely from the female personal name Reina 1 (from Latin Regina) otherwise a nickname from reina "queen".

Reinoso Spanish, South American
Meaning "place of fields".

Remigio Italian, Spanish
From the given name Remigio

Rengel Spanish
Habitational name from a place called Rengel in Málaga province.

Rentería Spanish
Castilianized variant of Basque Errenteria, the name of two towns in Gipuzkoa and Biscay provinces, Basque Country. Means "customs" in Spanish.

Requena Spanish, Catalan
habitational name from Requena in Valencia or Requena de Campos in Palencia apparently so called from a short form of the various Visigothic compound personal names with the first element rīc "powerful" with the addition of the locative suffix -ena.

Resano Spanish, Central American

Resende Spanish
Variant of Resendez

Resendes Spanish
Variant of Reséndez

Reséndez Spanish
Means "son of Resendo"

Resendez Spanish
Variant of Reséndez

Resendis Spanish
Variant of Reséndez

Resendiz Spanish
Variant of Resendez

Restrepo Spanish (Latin American)

Resurrección Spanish
A nickname for someone who had resurrected from the dead.

Reta Spanish
Castilianized variant of Basque Erreta, a habitational name from a town called Erreta in Navarre, Basque Country

Reyez Spanish (Mexican), Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Reyes.

Reyna Spanish, Caribbean
This could be transferred use of the first name Reyna, a variant of Reina, which means "queen".

Reynaga Spanish (Mexican)

Reynaldez Spanish (Latin American, Rare)
Means "son of Reynaldo" in Spanish.

Reynals Spanish (Rare)
Variant from Spanish word Rey "king". Most likely referred to the royalty. Variant of Reynolds.

Reynoso Spanish
Variant of Reinoso.

Rezende Spanish
Variant of Rezendes

Rezendes Spanish
Variant of Resendez

Rezendez Spanish
Variant of Reséndez

Rialta Spanish (Mexican, Rare)

Riaño Spanish

Ribas Spanish
Variant of Rivas.

Ribera Catalan, Spanish
Habitational name from any of various locations in Spain named Ribera, derived from Catalan and Spanish ribera meaning "bank, shore".

Ricardez Spanish
Means "Son of Ricardo". Spanish form of Richardson.

Ricardo Italian, Spanish
From the given name Ricardo

Ricario Spanish
Spanish and Jewish (Sephardic): from the personal name Ricardo ( see Richard ).

Rincón Spanish (Latin American)

Rio Spanish, French

Riquelme Spanish
Spanish: from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements rīc 'power(ful)' + helm 'helmet protection'.

Rita Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan
From the female personal name Rita, a reduced form of Margharita ‘Margaret’, chosen in particular in honor of a 15th-century Italian saint who bore the name in this form.

Rito Spanish, Portuguese

Rivadeneira Spanish
habitational name from a parish named Riba de Neira in Lugo province meaning 'bank of the river Neira' Neira being a tributary of the Miño.

Riveira Spanish

Rivera-gutorow Spanish, Polish
Mexico... [more]

Riveri Spanish

Riviera Italian, Spanish

Roa Spanish
Habitational name from the town of Roa (de Duero) in Burgos province, Spain.

Robertis Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Robertiz.

Robertiz Spanish (Latin American)
Derived from the given name Roberto.

Roberto Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Roberto

Robleda Spanish
From Spanish meaning "oak grove".

Rocamontes Spanish

Rochez Spanish (?)

Roel Spanish
Habitational name.

Rogelio Spanish
From the given name Rogelio.

Roja Spanish

Rojan Spanish
Variant of Rojas.

Rojos Spanish

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

Romagosa Spanish

Romána Spanish, Hungarian (Rare)
Feminine form of Román.

Romaña Spanish
Habitational name from the Italian city of Romagna.

Romello Spanish (Latin American)

Romo Spanish
Derived from latin (rhombus) meaning obtuse, blunt.

Ron Spanish, Galician
Habitational name from a town called Ron in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.

Roncesvalles Spanish
The name of a village in Navarre (Spain) where there was a Priory of Saint Mary of which the Hospital of Our Lady of Rouncevale at Charing Cross London was a cell.

Rondriez m Spanish
derived from Rodríguez, the latter comes from the given name Rodrigo which means "famous ruler" or "renowned power" in its Germanic origin (from "hrod" meaning fame and "ric" meaning ruler or power).

Rongavilla Spanish

Roño Spanish
masculine form of roña which means dirt

Ros Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the Castilian municipality of Valle de Santibáñez.

Rosado Spanish
Derived from the Spanish word rosa, meaning "rose".

Rosal Filipino, Spanish

Rosas Spanish, Catalan
Variants of Rosa or Rosales.

Rosillo Spanish, Caribbean

Rovelo Spanish

Ruacho Spanish (Mexican)
Possibly from rúa, "street".

Rubalcaba Spanish
Variant of Rubalcava.

Rubalcava Spanish
Habitational name for someone originally from the town of Rubalcaba in Cantabria, Spain. The name itself is derived from Arabic الربع الخالي (ar-rubʿ al-ḵālī) meaning "the Empty Quarter", referring to the Rub' al Khali desert in the Arabian Peninsula.

Rufio Spanish (Mexican)

Rugamas Spanish, Central American

Ruidíaz Spanish

Ruldio Spanish (Latin American)
Unknown, possibly a Spanish variant of "radio".

Rulfo Portuguese, Spanish (Latin American)

Ruvalcaba Mexican

Ruz Spanish
Possibly a variant of Ruiz or Cruz.