South American Submitted Surnames

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 .

Giron Spanish
Of Galician origin. Occupational name for a clothing maker.

Gispert Spanish

Glacia Brazilian (Rare)

Godínez Spanish
Patronymic from the personal name Godino.

Godoi Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Variant of Godoy.

Godoy French, Spanish
It is derived from the personal name Gaudi.

Goes Portuguese

Goettems German, Brazilian
Brazilian adaptation of the German surname Goedems; altered for easier comprehension by the Portuguese-speaking population of Brazil. All members of the Goettems family in Brazil are descendants of Johann Goedems, born in Oberlöstern, Saarland, on September 17, 1798.

Gonçalo Portuguese
From the given name Gonçalo.

Gonsalves English (British), Portuguese, Indian (Christian)
Variant of Gonçalves more commonly used in Britain and western India.

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"

Gordinho Portuguese
Diminutive of Gordo.

Gordo Spanish, Portuguese
Means "fat" in Spanish and Portuguese.

Gortarez Spanish

Govea Spanish (Latin American), Spanish (Mexican)
Spanish form of Gouveia.

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

Graciano Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Graciano.

Grácio Portuguese

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.

Greco Portuguese
Portuguese for Greco.

Grego Portuguese

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".

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
The surname Guardado means save, protect, and guard in Spanish

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.

Gueimunde Spanish

Guendulain Spanish (Latin American)

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

Guerrera Spanish

Guerro Spanish

Guevara Spanish
Hispanicized form of Gebara. A notable bearer was Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara (1928-1967), who was born Ernesto Guevara.

Guevera Spanish
means "protector"

Guida Portuguese

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

Guimarães Portuguese
Habitational name for someone originally from the city of Guimarães in northern Portugal.

Guirrez Spanish

Guiterez Spanish (?)

Guitiérrez Spanish
Variant of Gutiérrez.

Guity Spanish

Gumes Portuguese

Gusmão Portuguese
Portuguese cognate of Guzmán.

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

Guterre Portuguese (Brazilian)

Gutierre Spanish
From the given name Gutierre.

Guzman Spanish (Americanized), Filipino, South American
Unaccented form of Guzmán used mainly in America and the Philippines.

Hanzalez Spanish

Hay English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Frisian
Scottish and English: topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosure, Middle English hay(e), heye(Old English (ge)hæg, which after the Norman Conquest became confused with the related Old French term haye ‘hedge’, of Germanic origin)... [more]

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

Henrique Portuguese
From the given name Henrique.

Henriquez Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Central African, Caribbean

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.

Holanda Portuguese, Spanish
Spanish and Portuguese form of Holland.

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

Horta Catalan, Portuguese
Means "garden" (Latin hortus), hence a topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosed garden or an occupational name for one who was a gardener.

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."

Huacaya South American

Huamán Quechua (Hispanicized)
Hispanicized form of Quechua waman meaning "falcon, hawk".

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.

Humberto Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Humberto.

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

Ibáñes Spanish
variant of IBANEZ

Ibares Spanish (Latin American)

Ibargüen South American

Ignácio Portuguese (Brazilian)
From the given name Ignácio.

Ignis Portuguese (Brazilian)

Ildefonso Spanish
From the given name Ildefonso.

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

Inácio Portuguese
From the given name Inácio.

Indalecio Spanish
From the given name Indalecio.

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)

Inocêncio Portuguese
From the given name Inocêncio.

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.

Ishmail South American

Isidoro Portuguese

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.

Iváñez Spanish
Variant of Ibáñez.

Izquierdo Spanish
Nickname for a left-handed person from the word "izquierdo", meaning "left", of pre-Roman origin related to Basque "ezker"

Jabes Spanish

Jabez Spanish

Jacinto Portuguese, Spanish
From the given name Jacinto.

Jacó Portuguese
From the given name Jacó.

Jacob Jewish, English, German, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Indian (Christian)
From the given name Jacob.

Jacobo Spanish
From the given name Jacobo.

Jácome Spanish

Jaime Spanish, Portuguese (African)
From the given name Jaime 1.

Jaimez Spanish
Means "son of Jaime" in Spanish.

Jaldín Spanish

Jaller Spanish (Latin American)

Japon Filipino, Spanish, French
Ethnic name or regional name for someone from Japan or who had connections with Japan.

Jara Spanish
Habitational name any of the various places in southern Spain named Jara or La Jara, from jara meaning "rockrose", "cistus".

Jaramillo Spanish
Spanish habitational name from either of two places in the Burgos province: Jaramillo de la Fuente or Jaramillo Quemada.

Jardim Portuguese
Means "garden" in Portuguese, either a topographic name or a habitational name for someone from any of various places called Jardim.

Jardim Portuguese (Brazilian)

Jardineiro Portuguese
Portuguese form of Gardener.

Jareño Basque (Modern), Spanish
Perhaps "who lives among the rockroses".

Jarita Spanish (Latin American)

Jarra Spanish

Jaspe Spanish (Latin American)

Jauler Spanish

Javan Portuguese

Javier Spanish
Indicates familial origin from the town and municipality of Javier in Navarre, Spain

Jeremias Jewish, Spanish
Derived from the Hebrew given name Jeremiah

Jerônimo Portuguese (Brazilian)
From the given name Jerônimo.

Jesús Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, French
From the given name Jesús.

Jilho Portuguese

Joachin Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Joaquín.

João Portuguese
From the given name João.

Joaquim Portuguese
From the given name Joaquim.

Joaquín Spanish
From the given name Joaquín.

Joffé Spanish (Latin American)

Jolivet South American

Jolón Spanish

Jonda Spanish (Latin American, Japanized), American (Hispanic)
Jondá means Slingshot and hole in Spanish and is a surname in some Latin American countries and Americans with Hispanic heritage. It is a Japanized form of the surname Honda... [more]

Jordà Spanish
Derived from the personal name Jordàn

Jordán Spanish, Hungarian
From the given name Jordán.

Jordão Portuguese
From the given name Jordão.

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

Jorquez Spanish

José Spanish, Portuguese, French
Derived from the given name José.

Joséantonio Spanish
From the given name José Antonio.

Josephino Portuguese (Brazilian)

Juancarlos Spanish
From the given name Juan Carlos.

Juanet South American

Juanez Spanish
Means “son of Juan”

Juáres Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Juárez.

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

Juarros Spanish

Judith English, Jewish, German, Dutch, French, Spanish
From the given name Judith.

Julia Spanish, English (American, Rare)
From the given name Julia

Juliana Italian, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese
Feminine form of Juliano.

Juliano Italian, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Juliano.

Julião Portuguese
From the given name Julião.

Julio Spanish
Derived from the forename Julio.

Julve Spanish

Junio Spanish
From the given name Junio

Júnior Portuguese
Nickname for a young person.

Junious Spanish (Latin American), Yiddish
spanish

Jurado Spanish, Portuguese
Occupational name for any of various officials who had to take an oath that they would perform their duty properly, from jurado "sworn", past participle of jurar "to swear" (Latin iurare).

Jurrez Spanish

Justiniano Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Justiniano

Justino Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Justino

Justo Spanish
From the given name Justo.

Juvenal Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese, English (American)
From the given name Juvenal.

Kaelle Brazilian

Kanelos Spanish

Kayano Japanese (Rare), Brazilian
Kaya means "yew tree",and No means "field,meadow,wilderness".People with this last name are Kayano Gonbei (a samurai),Ai Kayano(a voice actress of MANY characters /more than 30),and Shigeru Kayano(an Ainu politician who lived well up to 2006)... [more]

Kenup Brazilian

Keplmair Portuguese

Knezevich Spanish (?)
rafe knezevich is a cutie patootie

Krahe German, Spanish
From the German word Krähe, meaning "crow".... [more]

Krais German, Brazilian
Brazilian adaptation of the German surname Greis; altered for easier comprehension by the Portuguese-speaking population of Brazil.

Kuilan Spanish (Latin American)

Labrador Spanish, Portuguese, Filipino
From the root word "labora" meaning labor or work. This means laborer or worker but often associated to farmers as in San Isidro Labrador

Lacerda Portuguese, Spanish
Nickname for someone with remarkably thick or long hair, or with an unusually hairy back or chest. From Spanish and Portuguese la cerda ‘the lock (of hair)’.

Lacort Catalan, Spanish

La Costa Portuguese
Variant of Costa.

Lacosta Spanish
Variant of Costa with fused definite article la.

La Cotera Spanish
Spanish variant for Hill and/or someone living in a slope, A "cota" in Spanish.

Lago Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Topographic name for someone living by a lake from lago "lake" (from Latin lacus) or a habitational name from any of the many places called with this word.

Laguna Spanish
Habitational name for someone from any of the various locations in Spain named Laguna meaning "lake, pond" in Spanish.

Lainez Spanish
patronymic from the personal name Laín.

Lajone Spanish (Latin American, Rare)

Lalana Spanish

Lallana Spanish

La Macchia Spanish

Lambertos Spanish

Lamo Spanish (Modern, Rare)

Lamounier Portuguese (Brazilian)
Most common in Brazil.

Lana Italian, Spanish
Means "wool" in Spanish and Italian.

Landaverde Spanish
From Spanish landa meaning 'meadow' + verde meaning 'green'.

Lanezo Spanish
Means "Lanezo's street" from Basque abas "Lanezo" and kale "street".

Lanza Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of Lance.

La Paloma Spanish

Lapetina South American, Italian (?)
Possibly from Italian La Petina, the meaning of which is uncertain.

Laranjeira Portuguese
It means "orange tree" in Portuguese

Larena Spanish

Lareo Spanish

Largaespada Spanish (Latin American), Central American
Combination of Spanish larga, the feminine form of the adjective largo meaning "long," and espada meaning "sword." It is mostly used in Nicaragua.

Larguespada Spanish (Latin American), Central American
Variant of Largaespada, used in Nicaragua.

Larrazabal Basque, Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Arteaga, Comarca of Arratia-Nerbioi.

Larronde Spanish

Larzabal Spanish

Lascellas Spanish
Feminine variant of Lascellos.

Lascellos Spanish

La Silva Portuguese
Variant of Silva.

Lastra Spanish

Laura Spanish
Of uncertain origin; in some cases, it is possibly a habitational name from a place named Laura.

Laureano Spanish
From the given name Laureano

Laurel Spanish, Portuguese, Filipino, Tagalog, Cebuano
Topographic name for someone who lived by a laurel tree, Spanish laurel (Latin laurus), or a habitational name from Laurel in the Canary Islands.

Lavendera Spanish

Lavinya Portuguese (Brazilian)

Layun Spanish (Latin American)

Lázaro Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Lázaro.

Lázaro Spanish

Lazo Spanish (Modern)
Spanish

Leal Portuguese, Spanish
Means "loyal" in Portuguese and Spanish. A famous bearer of this surname is Roberto Leal, a very popular singer in Portugal.

Leandres Portuguese
Means "son of Leandro" in Portuguese.

Leandrez Spanish
Spanish cognate of Leandres.

Leandro Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
From the given name Leandro

Lebrón Spanish
Lebrón is a surname most prevalent in the Autonomous Community of Andalucía. It is an augmentative of liebre (meaning "hare" in Spanish).

Ledesma Spanish
Habitational name from any of the numerous places in Spain called Ledesma, possibly derived from a Celtic root meaning "broad, wide".

Ledo Spanish, Galician, Portuguese
Nickname from ledo meaning ‘happy’, ‘joyful’

Leiris Spanish

Leissmann Brazilian

Leitão Portuguese
Occupational name for a keeper of pigs, derived from Portuguese leitão meaning "piglet, young pig".

Leitao Portuguese
Portuguese metonymic occupational name for a keeper of pigs, or nickname meaning ‘piglet’, from Portuguese leitão ‘(suckling) pig’.

Leite Portuguese, Galician
Meaning "milk".... [more]

Leiva Spanish

Leivas South American

Lejarzar Spanish

Lemõns Spanish (Rare)
Variant of Lemons.

Lemos Portuguese

Lemus Spanish
Spanish form of Lèmieux.

Lencastre Portuguese
From the English surname Lancaster. Brought to Portugal by Phillipa Lancaster, who later married King John I.

Lennis Spanish (Latin American)

Leocadio Spanish
From the given name Leocadio.

Leonado Spanish
The color tawny which is an orange, brown color. This descriptive surname was given to the Filipino people by the Spanish when the Philippines was colonized.

Leonardo Italian, Spanish, German
Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese from the Germanic personal name Leonhard, formed from the elements leo ‘lion’ + hard, ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’; this was an early medieval saint’s name (see Leonard).

Leoncio Spanish
From the given name Leoncio.

Leones Spanish
from the spanish term "leon" meaning lion or puma.... [more]

Leonor Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Leonor.

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

Lerma Spanish

Levandoski Polish (Americanized), Polish (Portuguese-style), Polish (Anglicized), Brazilian, English (American), English (Canadian)
Form of Lewandowski.

Leyva Spanish

Liberato Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Liberato

Liberio Italian, Spanish
From the given name Liberio

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

Librado Spanish
From the given name Librado.

Liça Portuguese

Licona Spanish
Habitational name from a place called Likoa in Basque Country.

Lidio Spanish

Lijstenstein South American

Lima Portuguese
Topographic name for someone living on the banks of the river of this name (of pre-Roman origin, probably akin to a Celtic element lemos, limos 'elm').

Lima Portuguese
Topographic name for someone who lived on the banks of the Lima River in Portugal, most likely derived from Indo-European *léymō meaning "lake".

Limon Spanish
An occupational name for a grower or seller of the fruit.

Limones Spanish
Plural form of Limon.

Linares Spanish
Means "son of Lineus" from latin "line".

Linarez Spanish
Variant of Linares.

Linaza Spanish

Linde Spanish
From Spanish linde "boundary" or a habitational name from places called La Linde in Spain.

Lineu Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese (Modern)

Linhares Portuguese
Portuguese: habitational name from any of several places called Linhares, for example in Braganca, Guarda, and Vila Real, from the plural of linhar ‘flax field’ (Latin linare, a derivative of linum ‘flax’).

Lins German, Brazilian