South American Submitted Surnames

Bocanegra Spanish
Spanish: nickname from boca ‘mouth’ + negra ‘black’, denoting a foul-mouthed or abusive person. In the form Boccanegra, this surname has also been long established in Italy.

Bocorny Brazilian (Latinized, Rare)
Brazilian corrupted form of Pokorny.

Bofundi South American

Bohórquez Spanish
Denoted a person from Bohorques, a minor place in the Spanish province of Santander.

Bojórquez Spanish
Variant of Bohórquez.

Bolar Spanish
Topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of soil of a particular type known as tierra bolar.

Bomba Portuguese, Spanish, Polish, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak
From bomba "bomb", (Latin bombus), hence probably a nickname for someone with an explosive temperament, or a metonymic occupational name for an artilleryman.

Bonba Basque, Spanish
From Basque bonba meaning "bomb", (Latin bombus), hence probably a nickname for someone with an explosive temperament, or a metonymic occupational name for an artilleryman.

Bonette Portuguese (Brazilian)

Bonifacio Portuguese, Spanish
From the given name Bonifacio.

Bonilla Spanish
From the area of Spain of the same name

Bonito Italian, Spanish
From the given name Bonito.

Borges Portuguese, Spanish
Possibly from Old French burgeis meaning "town-dweller" (see Burgess). Alternately, it may have denoted someone originally from the city of Bourges in France.

Botelho Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian)
From the Portuguese word botelho, which can denote a measure of grain, a grain sack, or seaweed, and was probably applied as an occupational name for a grain dealer or a gatherer of kelp or seaweed.

Bozzetto French, Spanish, Italian

Braga Portuguese
The first man to own this name was a feudal lord on Portugal, near to the region of Coimbra. Could also come from the other surname "Bragança".

Bragado Portuguese, Spanish
This surname is a Spanish word which means "gritty", refering to a bull. ... [more]

Bragança Portuguese
From the city of Bragança in Portugal. It's also the name of the Royal House that ruled Portugal from 1640 to 1910.

Branco Portuguese
from the the portuguese word Branco meaning "white", referring to someone with light skin and/or hair

Brandão Portuguese

Bravo Spanish, Spanish (Mexican), Portuguese
From a Spanish and Portuguese nickname for a fierce or violent man (from Spanish and Portuguese bravo "fierce, violent"). This surname was borne by Charles Bravo (1845-1876), a British lawyer and possible murder victim.

Brell English, Spanish

Bretaña Spanish

Bringhentti Portuguese (Brazilian)

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

Brizuela Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the Castilian municipality of Merindad de Valdeporres.

Bruno Portuguese
From a Germanic personal name, Brun.

Buenaventura Spanish
Spanish: from the personal name Buenaventura meaning ‘good fortune’, bestowed as an omen name or with specific reference to the Italian bishop and theologian St Bonaventura (canonized in the 14th century).

Buendía Spanish
Probably a habitational name from Buendía in Cuenca province, Spain.

Bueno Spanish
generally an approving (or ironic) nickname, from Spanish bueno ‘good’.

Buitrago Spanish
This indicates familial origin within either of 2 eponymous municipalities: the Castilian one in El Campo de Gómara or the Manchego municipality of Buitrago del Lozoya in Sierra Norte, Comunidad de Madrid.

Bulgaria Italian, Spanish
Originally an ethnic name or regional name for someone from Bulgaria or a nickname for someone who had visited or traded with Bulgaria, which is named after the Turkic tribe of the Bulgars, itself possibly from a Turkic root meaning "mixed".

Bullara Portuguese

Bullon South American

Bumba Portuguese, Spanish, Galician, Italian, Catalan, Occitan, Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Croatian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Swedish, Latvian, Lithuanian
Variant of Bomba.

Burgos Spanish
Surname from a place named Burgos of Spain.

Burruchaga Spanish, Basque
From "Pais Vasco" in Spain.

Bustamante Spanish
Habitational name for someone originally from the town of Bustamante in Cantabria, Spain, derived from Latin bustum Amantii meaning "pasture of Amantius".

Butto South American

Cab Spanish
Diminutive of Cabello, Cabrera, or Cabral.

Caba Spanish, Catalan
Variant of Cava.

Cababa Spanish
Spanish (Cabaña) and Portuguese: habitational name from a place named with Spanish cabaña ‘hut’, ‘cabin’ (Late Latin capanna , a word of Celtic or Germanic origin).

Caballo Spanish, Spanish (Latin American)
Derived from the Spanish word cabello, ultimately derived from the Latin word caballus, meaning "horse". This denoted someone who worked in a farm that took care of horses, or someone who had personality traits attributed to a horse, such as energetic behaviour.

Cabaña Spanish, Portuguese
Habitational name from a place named with Spanish cabaña ‘hut’, ‘cabin’ (Late Latin capanna, a word of Celtic or Germanic origin).

Cabañas Spanish, Portuguese
Habitational name from a place named with Spanish cabaña or Portuguese cabanha ‘hut’, ‘cabin’.

Cabella Spanish
Variant of Cabello.

Cabunilas Spanish

Caceres Spanish

Cacimiro Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Casimiro.

Cadena Spanish
From Aguilar de Campoo, a district of Villalon in Valladolid.

Caetano Portuguese
From the given name Caetano.

Cagigas Spanish
Variant of Cajigas.

Caio Portuguese

Caixeta Portuguese (Brazilian)
Portuguese common name for Tabebuia cassinoides, a tree native to Central and South America.

Cajigas Spanish, Filipino
Topographic name from the plural of Spanish cajigo, derived from quejigo meaning "gall oak".

Calatayud Spanish
From the city in Spain, in province of Zaragoza within the autonomous community Aragón. The name Calatayud came from the Arabic قلعة أيوب Qal‘at ’Ayyūb, "the qalat (fortress) of Ayyub".

Caldeira Portuguese
Name given to a maker of kettles or other cooking vessels.

Caldeirao Portuguese
From Portuguese meaning "cauldron".

Caldentey Spanish (?)

Caldera Spanish
Derived from Spanish caldera meaning "basin, crater, hollow", ultimately from Latin caldarium or caldaria both meaning "hot bath, cooking pot". The word also denotes a depression in volcanoes, and it is commonly used as an element for surnames denoting streams or mountains.

Calderón Spanish
Occupational name for a tinker or a seller or maker of kettles from Vulgar Latin *caldaria meaning "cauldron". Alternately, it may be a habitational name for someone from any of various locations named Calderón or a topographic name from Spanish caldera meaning "crater, basin".

Calero Spanish
Metonymic occupational name for a burner or seller of lime, from calero ‘lime’.

Caliente Spanish

Calisto Portuguese, Spanish
From the given name Calisto.

Calixto Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Calixto

Calle Spanish
Form of Estrada.

Calvell Spanish

Calvete Spanish
It means bald. It's a surname of the Galician origin.

Calzada Spanish (Latin American)
Means "road" in Spanish.

Calzado Spanish
Means "calced" in Spanish.

Camacho Spanish, Portuguese
From the ancient European camb, meaning twisted or disfigured, denoting to someone with visible physical abnormalities, but could possibly also refer to residents of a particularly gnarly tract of land.

Camarena Spanish
Topographic name for someone who lived by a granary.

Camargo Spanish
Habitational name for someone from a place in Andalusia called Camargo.

Camilo Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Camilo.

Camino Spanish
Derived from the Spanish word for "path", or "walkway". This could have been used to denote a person who lived near a path, or one who built paths for a living.

Campus Spanish
Derived from the Latin word campus, meaning "field". It denoted someone who either lived in a field or worked in one.

Campuzano Spanish (Latin American)

Canabrava Brazilian
Cana is the short form of 'cana de açucar' that means "sugar cane", and Brava is the feminine form of 'bravo' that means "angry". There is a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, called Canabrava do Norte, and according to oral tradition, the origin of the name is due to the disease and subsequent death of some animals after eating a plantation of sugar cane.

Canales Spanish
Spanish: habitational name from any of several places called Canales, from canales, plural of canal ‘canal’, ‘water channel’, from Latin canalis.

Canavese Portuguese

Cancino Spanish
A name for a person who first held the position of Chancellor.

Cancio Spanish
A name for a person who first held the position of Chancellor.

Candelario Spanish
From the given name Candelario

Canela Spanish
Derived from the word 'canela' meaning cinnamon in Spanish. It Could also be a variant of the Catalan surname Candela.

Canelo Spanish
From spanish canela meaning "cinnamon".

Cañete Spanish (Philippines), Spanish (Latin American)
Habitational name for a person from any of the places in Spain called Cañete, such as Cañete de las Torres (Seville), Cañete la Real (Málaga) and Cañete (Cuenca).

Cangussu Brazilian
The surname Cangussu has its origins in the Tupi-Guarani language and is a variation of Akangu’su, which means 'Jaguar'.

Canhoto Portuguese
Means "left-handed" in Portuguese.

Canizales Spanish (Latin American)
This surname came from around the beginnings of 1800 in south regions of Colombia where sugar cane was cultivated. It's a variation of Cañizales, that literally means "sugar cane fields".

Canomanuel Spanish
The first part of this surname is possibly derived from Spanish cano "hoary, white-haired, grey-haired". The second part is derived from the given name Manuel... [more]

Canto Portuguese

Cantor Spanish
Occupational name for a singer.

Capriel Spanish (Latin American)

Carabajal Spanish, Judeo-Spanish
Variant of Carbajal.

Caraballo Spanish
Occupational name for a knight or a knight's servant.

Cárave Spanish

Cáraves Spanish

Carbajal Spanish, Judeo-Spanish
Probably a habitational name demoting someone originally from any of the multiple locations called Carbajal in León, Asturias, or Zamora in Spain. Alternatively, it may be of pre-Roman origin from the word carbalio meaning "oak", denoting someone who either lived near an oak tree or who was like an oak tree in some way.... [more]

Carbonero Spanish
Famous bearers are Carlos Carbonero, a Colombian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Sampdoria on loan from Fénix and Sara Carbonero, a Spanish sports journalist.

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

Cárdenas Spanish
Habitational name from places in the provinces of Almería and Logroño named Cárdenas, from the feminine plural of cárdeno "blue, bluish purple" (Late Latin cardinus, from carduus "thistle")... [more]

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

Cariba Brazilian

Carillo Spanish, Italian
From a diminutive of the given name Caro.

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

Carioca Portuguese

Carlos Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Carlos

Carmello Brazilian, Italian

Carmoly French, Brazilian

Carmona Spanish
Habitational name from any of various locations named Carmona, derived from Phonecian qʾrt-ḥmn meaning "city of Hammon" (the name of a Carthaginian deity).

Carneiro Portuguese (Brazilian)
Originally from Portugal.

Caroline Brazilian

Carpintero Spanish
Means "carpenter" in Spanish

Carrasquillo Spanish
Diminutive of Carrasco.

Carrer Spanish
Variant of Carrera.

Carrera Spanish, Italian
Spanish: topographic name for someone living by a main road, carrera ‘thoroughfare’, originally a road passable by vehicles as well as pedestrians (Late Latin carraria (via), a derivative of carrum ‘cart’), or a habitational name from any of various places named with this word.... [more]

Carriedo Spanish

Carrillo Spanish
Means "cheek, jaw" in Spanish, originally a nickname for a person with a distinctive cheek or jaw.

Carrión Spanish
It comes from the knight Alonso Carreño, who distinguished himself in the conquest of the town of Carrión de los Condes (Palencia), where he founded his solar house.

Carro Spanish

Carrusca Portuguese

Cartagena Spanish
From the name of the city of Cartagena in southeastern Spain, derived from Latin Carthāgō Nova meaning "New Carthage" (ultimately derived from Phonecian qrt-ḥdšt meaning "new city").

Carvajal Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Judeo-Spanish
Variant of Carabajal

Casa Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Means "house" in Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.

Casablancas Spanish
Unknown.

Casabuena Spanish (Modern, Rare)
Means "Happy House" or "House of Happiness" in Spanish, with the Spanish word "Casa", which means "House" and Buena, meaning "Happy" or "Happiness".

Casamiro Filipino, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Variant of Casimiro.

Casares Spanish, Galician
One who lived in several places named "Casares".

Casarez Spanish

Cascalho Portuguese (?)
What I know about this surname is that it came from Alentejo, a region in Portugal countryside. The eldest Cascalho I know lived in Évora (city in this province) so I assume the name born there...

Casemiro Portuguese
Variant of Casimiro.

Casiano Spanish
From the given name Casiano.

Casillas Spanish
From any of various places called Casillas or Las Casillas, from the plural of casilla, a diminutive of Casa. ... [more]

Casimiro Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Filipino
From the given name Casimiro.

Casio Spanish
From the given name Casio.

Caso Italian, Spanish

Cassatta Spanish (Latin American)
Spanish form of Cassata. Mostly used in Argentina.

Cassemiro Portuguese (Brazilian)
Variant of Casimiro.

Cassimiro Portuguese
Variant of Casimiro.

Castanati Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish Origins

Castañeda Spanish
Habitational name from any of various places called Castañeda, a Spanish word meaning "chesnut grove", itself derived from castaña meaning "chesnut".

Castanheira Portuguese
Portuguese cognate of Castañeda meaning "chestnut grove".

Castanho Portuguese
Portuguese cognate of Castaño meaning "chestnut tree".

Castaño Spanish, Galician
Means "chestnut tree" in Spanish and Galician.

Castellanos Spanish
Habitational name from any of various places called Castellanos, derived from Spanish castellano meaning "Castilian".

Castelli Italki (Italian Jew), Semitic, Italian, Spanish
Italian patronymic or plural form of Castello. ... [more]

Castellon Spanish

Castelo Branco Portuguese
Means “White Castle” in Portuguese.... [more]

Catarino Spanish, Portuguese, Greek
Meaning "pure".

Caulin Spanish

Cava Italian, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese
From cava ‘cave’, ‘cellar’ (from Latin cavea), hence a metonymic occupational name for someone employed in the wine cellars of a great house, a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a cave, or a habitational name from any of numerous places named with this word.

Cavas Italian, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese
Plural form of Cava.

Cayetano Spanish

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

Ceballos Spanish

Cebreiro Jewish, Portuguese
Cebreiro is an olive tree.

Cebrián Spanish
From the given name Cebrián.

Cedena Spanish

Cedo Spanish

Ceja Spanish
From a common field name or a habitational name from any of various minor places called Ceja Yecla in Aragon.

Celda Spanish (Modern, Rare), Filipino (Modern, Rare)
The Spanish word for 'cell', as in prison cell.

Celedonio Spanish
From the given name Celedonio.

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

Celino Italian, Spanish
From the given name Celino

Celio Italian, Spanish
From the given name Celio

Celso Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Celso

Cendejas Spanish
Cendejas is a city in Guadalahara. It is short for Cendejas de la Torre.

Cenobio Spanish
From the given name Cenobio.

Cepeda Spanish
A nickname for someone from the region where they grow vineyards.

Cera Spanish, Italian, Catalan, Sicilian
Metonymic occupational name for a wax seller, derived from Latin cera meaning "wax".

Cerin Spanish (Latin American)

Cerpa Spanish

Cerqua Spanish

Cerqueira Portuguese
Habitational name from any of various places named Cerquerira, in most cases from a Latin derivative of quercus "oak". The family name also occurs in Sicily, probably of the same origin.

Cerrajero Spanish
Occupational name for a locksmith.

Cerva Portuguese, Italian
"Cerva" means deer.

Cervante Spanish

Cesar Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Occitan, French
From the given name César.

Cesário Portuguese (Brazilian)
From the given name Cesário.

Cespedes Spanish
From the plural of cesped "peat", "turf" (Latin caespes, genitive caespitis), applied as a habitational name from a place named Céspedes (for example in Burgos province) or named with this word, or a topographic name for someone who lived by an area of peat, or possibly as a metonymic occupational name for someone who cut and sold turf.

Chacon Spanish
Spanish (Chacón): nickname from chacón ‘gecko’.

Chapin French, Spanish
From a reduced form of French eschapin or Spanish chapín, a term for a light (woman's) shoe; perhaps a nickname for someone who habitually wore this type of footwear or possibly a metonymic occupational name for a shoemaker.

Charlo Spanish
From the personal name Carlos

Charlone Spanish

Chavez Spanish, Filipino
Variant of Chávez.

Chavos Portuguese, Spanish

Chica Spanish
Apparently from chica, feminine form of chico ‘small’, ‘young’ (see Chico), but a variant of the habitational name Checa, from a place so named in Jaén province is also a possibility.

Chiclana Spanish
This indicates familial origin within either of 2 eponymous Andalusian municipalities: Chiclana de la Frontera or Chiclana de Segura.

Chido Spanish
Likely given to someone who lived in a cold environment

Chillo South American

Chinchilla Spanish
Originally denoted a person from the Spanish town of Chinchilla de Monte-Aragón in the province of Albacete. The place name is possibly of Arabic origin.

Choquehuanca Spanish (Latin American)

Cintron Spanish
Spanish form for the french "Citroen". Original from Puerto Rico.

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

Ciria Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Castilian municipality.

Ciriaco Italian, Spanish
From the given name Ciriaco.

Cirino Italian, Spanish
From the given name Cirino.

Ciro Italian, Spanish
From the given name Ciro.

Cirujano Spanish, Filipino
Means "surgeon" in Spanish, used for someone who was a surgeon by profession.

Cisneros Spanish
Habitational name from Cisneros, a place in the province of Palencia, named with a derivative of Spanish cisne 'swan' (via Old French and Latin from Greek kyknos).

Citronella South American

Claudio Italian, Spanish
From the given name Claudio

Clavel Spanish
Metonymic occupational name for a spice trader or a nail maker, derived from Spanish clavel or Catalan clavell meaning "nail", later also "clove", itself a derivative of Latin clavellus "nail".

Clemente Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Clemente

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

Clores Spanish, Portuguese
Portuguese form of Flores

Coceres Spanish
Variant of Caceres.

Cocori Spanish

Colegio Spanish
Literally means "college" in Spanish.

Colindrez Spanish

Collar English, Spanish

Colmenares Spanish
It literally means "apiaries", denoting someone who either worked at some or lived near some.

Coloma Spanish (Latin American)

Colomer Spanish

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

Comica Spanish, American

Company Spanish

Conceição Portuguese
Portuguese cognate of Concepción.

Concepción Spanish
Means "conception'' in Spanish, in reference to the Immaculate Conception of Virgin Mary.

Concepcion Spanish (Filipinized)
Unaccented form of Concepción primarily used in the Philippines and America.

Conde Spanish
1 Spanish and Portuguese: “nickname from the title of rank conde ‘count’, a derivative of Latin comes, comitis ‘companion’.”... [more]

Conejo Spanish
Spanish for rabbit from Latin "cuniculus". Given to someone who hunted rabbits.

Conrado Spanish
From the given name Conrado

Contardo Italian, Spanish
From the given name Contardo.

Contes Spanish

Coral Spanish

Corcovado Spanish
Means "hunchback" in Spanish. It would denote a person with a curved spine.

Cordeiro Portuguese, Galician
Means "young lamb" in Portuguese and Galician (Latin cordarius, a derivative of cordus "young", "new")... [more]

Cordero Spanish
Means "lamb" in Spanish, either used as an occupational name for a shepherd or a religious name referring to Jesus as the Lamb of God.

Córdoba Spanish
Indicates someone who was originally from the city of Córdoba (Cordova) in Andalusia, Spain. The name itself is derived from Phonecian Qʾrtuba meaning "Juba’s city", itself from Phonecian qʾrt meaning "city" and juba referring to King Juba I of Numidia.

Córdova Spanish
Variant of Córdoba.

Coreano Filipino, Spanish, Portuguese
Means "Korean" in Spanish and Portuguese, possibly an ethnic name or regional name for someone from Korea or who had connections with Korea.

Coris Spanish (Latin American)

Coron Spanish

Corona Spanish

Coronado Spanish (Latin American), American (Hispanic), Spanish (Philippines)
Means "crowned." This was possibly a nickname for one resembling a clergyman who has received the tonsure.

Corral Spanish

Corrales Spanish
Habitational name for someone originally from any of the various locations named Corrales in Spain, from Spanish corral meaning "coral, enclosure".

Correa Portuguese, Spanish
From Spanish, meaning "leather garment."

Correia Portuguese
meaning "leather strap" or "belt", "rein", or "shoelace"; denoting a person who worked with leather products

Corsino Filipino, Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian
Diminutive of Corso.

Corso Italian, English (American), Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese (Brazilian)
Either derived from the given name Bonaccorso or taken from Italian and Spanish corso, denoting someone who lived in Corsica.

Corte Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese
From corte ‘court', applied as an occupational name for someone who worked at a manorial court or a topographic name for someone who lived in or by one.

Cortês Portuguese
Portuguese form of Cortés.

Cortéz Spanish
Variant of Cortés.

Corvino Italian, Spanish
From the given name Corvino

Corvo Italian, Portuguese
From the given name Corvo

Cossio Spanish

Coti Spanish (Latin American)

Coutinho Portuguese
Diminutive of Couto.

Coutiño Spanish (Latin American)
Spanish cognate of Coutinho.

Couto Portuguese (Brazilian)

Covarrubias Spanish (?)

Covarubbias Spanish

Covián Spanish

Crescencio Spanish
From the given name Crescencio

Crescente Italian, Portuguese (?)
From the given name Crescente

Cresencio Filipino, Spanish (Latin American)
From the given name Cresencio

Creus Spanish
Variant of Cruz. Famous bearer of this surname is Spanish footballer Xavi Hernández.

Criado Portuguese, Spanish
Occupational name from criado ‘servant’.

Crisóstomo Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Crisóstomo.

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

Cristales Central American, Filipino, Spanish (Mexican, Rare), South American (Rare)
Plural form of Spanish cristal meaning "crystal."... [more]

Cristóbal Spanish
From the given name Cristóbal.

Cruces South American

Cuadrado Spanish
A nickname for a thick man.

Cuaresma Spanish
It means "Lent".

Cuba Portuguese, Asturian-Leonese, Galician, Spanish
habitational name from any of the places in Portugal (in the provinces of Alentejo and Beira Baixa) or Spain (in Aragon, Asturies, and Galicia) named Cuba, from cuba ‘barrel’ (from Latin cupa)... [more]

Cucaracha South American

Cuello Spanish
From Spanish meaning "neck". Could be a nickname for a person with a stiff neck.

Cuenca Spanish
Cuenca is an ancient Spanish last name which originated from Cuenca, a city in the Kingdom of Castilla.... [more]

Cuervo Spanish
Means "raven, crow" in Spanish, ultimately from Latin corvus. From a nickname for a man with strikingly glossy black hair or with a raucous voice. Alternatively, a habitational name from places containing this word (e.g. El Cuervo, Teruel).

Cuneo Spanish

Cunha Portuguese
Habitational name from any of numerous locations named Cunha, probably named from Portuguese cunha meaning "wedge" or Galician cuinha meaning "hill".

Cunillera Spanish

Custódio Portuguese
From the given name Custódio.

Custodio Spanish
From the given name Custodio.

Cuzco Spanish

Da Cruz Portuguese
A variant of Cruz, with the addition of the preposition 'da' (meaning 'of the' or 'from the').

Da Cunha Portuguese
Variant of Cunha.

Da Fonseca Portuguese
Variant of Fonseca.

Dager South American

Dalier Spanish

Dalmau Spanish

D'Almeida Spanish, Portuguese, Indian (Christian)
Variant of Almeida more commonly used by Indian Christians.

Da Lua Portuguese
Means "of the moon" in Portuguese.

Da Luz Portuguese
From a religious epithet meaning ‘of the light’, specifically the Marian name "Nuestra Señora da Luz" (which means "Our Lady of the Light").

Damián Spanish, Czech, Slovak (Rare)
From the given name Damián.

Damian French, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Slovak, Polish
From the medieval personal name Damian, Greek Damianos (from damazein "to subdue"). St. Damian was an early Christian saint martyred in Cilicia in ad 303 under the emperor Domitian, together with his brother Cosmas... [more]

Danta Spanish

Da Paz Portuguese (Brazilian)
Means "of Peace" in Portuguese.

Da Ponte Italian, Portuguese, Galician
A topographic name, which means "from the bridge".

Da Rocha Portuguese, Galician
A common topographic name which means ‘from the rock' (rocha).

Da Rosa Portuguese
Literally means "of the rose" in Portuguese. It is generally a component of personal names; among women, it is a Marian name; among men, it is of uncertain application.

Da Silva Portuguese
Variant of Silva.

Da Vila Portuguese, Galician
A topographic name for someone from a village (vila).

Davila Spanish
Habitational name for someone from Ávila.

Da Villa Portuguese, Galician
Variant of Da Vila.

Dealava Spanish
Uruguay name

Debain Spanish
Spanish surname.