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ABUNDIS Spanish (Mexican)The surname Abundis is patronymic from the Old Spanish personal name Abundio, ultimately from Latin abundus ‘abundant’, ‘plentiful’.
ACHIO Spanish (Latin American)Possibly derived from the town, Achio, near Guadalajara in Mexico. The name itself is probably from the Nahuatl
achio meaning "frequent".
ACUNA Spanish (Latin American)Related tho the Acuna Indians of Mexico, there is also a city by the name. Popular in border areas of Mexico and Texas.
ALMÁNZAR Spanish (Caribbean)Derived from Arabic المنظر
(al manẓar) meaning "the view" or "the lookout". This surname is primarily used in the Dominican Republic.
BEAS Spanish (Mexican)Spanish (common in Mexico): habitational name from any of the places in Andalusia named Beas.
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.
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".
ETIENAM Nigerian, Ibibio (?), Spanish (Caribbean, ?)This is a name which originates from the Calabar/Akwa Ibom region of southeastern Nigeria. It means "a doer of good, or benevolent". It is also found in Spanish-speaking regions of the Caribbean such as Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Cuba (El Oriente) which have populations of people of Ibibio/Efik decent known as "Carabali".
OCASIO Spanish (Caribbean)Meaning uncertain, possibly from Spanish
ocasión meaning "occasion" or
ocaso meaning "dusk, sunset". This surname is primarily used in Puerto Rico.
PULIDO Spanish, Spanish (Latin American)Thought to have come through Cuba and Puerto Rico from Burgos, the capital of Castile in northern Spain in the 16th century. The name likely originated there in the 11th century. It means neat, polished, and clean.