South American Submitted Surnames

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Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.

França Portuguese
Means "France" in Portuguese.

Francês Portuguese
Portuguese cognate of Frances.

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."

Frederico Portuguese
From the given name Frederico.

Freire Portuguese, Galician
Means "friar" in Portuguese and Galician, either an occupational name or a nickname for a pious person.

Freixo Portuguese

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".

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.

Furtado Portuguese

Furtado Portuguese
Means "stolen" in Portuguese, probably used to refer to an illegitimate or kidnapped child.

Fuzz South American

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

Galego Portuguese

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]

Galo Spanish
From the given name Galo.

Galván Spanish
From the given name Galván.

Galvão Portuguese
From the given name Galvão.

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 Spanish
Variant form of Gamez and Gomez.

Gangadin South American

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.

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.

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

Gedeón Spanish

Genaro Spanish
From the given name Gennaro, but without the 2nd n

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

Gentoo Indian, Telugu, Portuguese
It is a Telugu name, most likely meaning "Gentile". It was first used by the Portuguese.

Geraldes Portuguese
Means "son of Geraldo".

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

Gibernau Catalan, South American

Gigante Portuguese

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

Glacia Brazilian (Rare)

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.

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.

Gonçalvis Portuguese (Brazilian)
Variant of Gonçalves.

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

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.

Governo Italian, Portuguese, Portuguese (African)

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.

Grácio Portuguese

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.

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
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)

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"

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

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)

Hierbabuena Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Yerbabuena.

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

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".

Huanca Indigenous American, Quechua (Hispanicized), Aymara (Hispanicized)

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 Ibáñez

Ibares Spanish (Latin 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.

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)

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.

Itriago Spanish

Iváñez Spanish
Variant of Ibáñez.

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

Izaguirre Basque (Hispanicized), Spanish
Castilianized form of Izagirre.

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.

Jaimes Spanish
Variant of Jaimez.

Jaimez Spanish
Means "son of Jaime 1" 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
Possibly derived from Basque txara "rockrose".

Jarita Spanish (Latin American)

Jarra Spanish

Jaspe Spanish (Latin American)

Jauler Spanish

Jáuregui Basque (Hispanicized), Spanish
Castilianized form of Jauregi.

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 1”

Juáres Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Juárez.