Spanish (Latin American) Submitted Surnames

These names are a subset of Spanish names used more often in Latin America. See also about Spanish names.

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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’.

ABURTO Basque, Spanish, Spanish (Mexican)
The surname Aburto is a topographic name from Basque aburto ‘place of kermes oaks’, from abur ‘kermes oak’ + the locative suffix -lo.

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.

AGUAYO Spanish (Mexican)

AGUILER Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of AGUILAR or AGUILERA.

AILÁN Spanish (Latin American)

ALIREZ Spanish (Mexican)
A protector. Rap. Loves all things Coral.

ALMÁNZAR Spanish (Caribbean)
Derived from Arabic المنظر (al manẓar) meaning "the view" or "the lookout". This surname is primarily used in the Dominican Republic.

ALVALLE Spanish (Latin American)
A beautiful valley in Ortona

AMORENA Spanish (Latin American)

ANALICIA American (Hispanic), Spanish (Latin American), Spanish (Mexican)

ANGUINO American, Spanish (Mexican)
Mexican-American last name

ANGULO Spanish (Mexican)
Spanish: habitational name from Encima-Angulo in Burgos province.... [more]

ARGANDA Spanish (Latin American), Spanish
town in spain / arganda del rey

ARNAZ Spanish (Caribbean)

ARRIVA Italian, Spanish (Latin American)

AVENIDA Spanish (Latin American)
The name translates to English, meaning "avenue."

BAGLIETTO Spanish (Latin American)

BARDOMIANO Spanish (Mexican)

BARRINO Spanish (Latin American)

BEAS Spanish (Mexican)
Spanish (common in Mexico): habitational name from any of the places in Andalusia named Beas.

BEDOR Spanish (Latin American)

BENIBAMONDE Spanish (Latin American)

BWIRE Spanish (Caribbean)
A name that originated from the Dominican Republic then mostly used in Eastern Africa.

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.

CAMPUZANO Spanish (Latin American)

CANDIDA Spanish (Caribbean, Latinized, Archaic)

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".

CANSINO Spanish (Mexican)

CAPRIEL Spanish (Latin American)

CARAVANTES Spanish (Mexican)

CARVAJAL Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Judeo-Spanish
Variant of CARABAJAL

CASTREJON Spanish (Mexican)
Found on Ancestry.com

CHARVEL Spanish (Mexican)

COTTO Spanish (Caribbean)

CUMBÁ Spanish (Caribbean)

DE JESUS Brazilian, Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of DEJESUS.

DEL RANCHO Spanish (Mexican)
Name given to a rancher or someone from a ranch.

DRAMIS Italian, Spanish (Latin American)
Not just a surname in Italy; it can also be found in Argentina and Brazil.... [more]

ESTERIA Filipino, Spanish (Mexican)

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".

FAVELA Spanish (Latin American)

FIRÓ Spanish (Mexican)

FULCAR Spanish (Latin American)
Most common in the Dominican Republic.

GALARRAGA Spanish, Spanish (Mexican)

GARIBAY Basque (Hispanicized), Spanish (Mexican)
Castilianized form of GARIBAI.

GEISSLERRA Spanish (Caribbean)
Name found in Cuba and Argentina from German Ancestors

GOURRIEL Spanish (Caribbean)

GOVEA Spanish (Latin American), Spanish (Mexican)
Spanish form of GOUVEIA.

GRIMINESA Spanish (Latin American)

GUERECA Spanish (Mexican)

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

HARO Spanish (Mexican)
Perhaps a shortened version of the name "de Haro"

HAWAYEK Spanish (Mexican, Rare), ? (Rare)

HERALDEZ Spanish (Mexican)
The surname is a variation of Hernando, given birth by an outlaw

IBARES Spanish (Latin American)

IRAHETA Spanish (Latin American)
Hispanicized form of IRAETA.

JASSAN Spanish (Mexican)

JUNIOUS Spanish (Latin American), Yiddish
spanish

KAHLO Spanish (Mexican)

KUILAN Spanish (Latin American)

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.

LAYUN Spanish (Latin American)

LEIJA Spanish (Mexican)
Meaning uncertain, but it might be a variant of Leixà.

LENNIS Spanish (Latin American)

LINEU Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese (Modern)

LLAMAS Spanish (Latin American)

LUPETEY Spanish (Caribbean)

LUPOE Spanish (Caribbean)

MAAWAD Spanish (Mexican, Rare), Arabic (Rare, ?)

MADRID Spanish (Latin American)

MAISONET French, Spanish (Caribbean)
Diminutive of MAISON.

MARTINIEN Spanish (Latin American)
A rare Latin American form of Martinez or Martin, meaning "Warring" or "At war"

MENESES Spanish (Caribbean)
Meneses is my maternal grandfather's surname. He was born in Cuba in 1888 but his family came from Spain in the 1800's... [more]

MESÍAS Spanish, Spanish (Latin American)
Spanish, meaning Messiah.

MILIAN Spanish (Caribbean)

NAIZA Spanish (Latin American)

NEICO Spanish (Latin American)

OCASIO Spanish (Caribbean)
Meaning uncertain, possibly from Spanish ocasión meaning "occasion" or ocaso meaning "dusk, sunset". This surname is primarily used in Puerto Rico.

PALAFOX Spanish (Mexican)
From Palafolls, a Catalan place name.

PARDO Spanish (Latin American)
Originally a nickname for someone with dark hair or complexion... [more]

PAUNERO Spanish (Latin American)

PEDROZA Spanish (Mexican)

PENNILOPE Spanish (Latin American)
Pennilope is a type of surname. It is a type of bike aswell it is almost like a tricycle with 2 sets of stabilisers.

PERSIA Spanish (Caribbean, Rare)

POBLETE Spanish (Latin American)
Habitational name from Poblete in the province of Ciudad Real.

POZO Spanish (Caribbean)
Means "well", as in wishing well

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.

PULINARIO Spanish (Latin American)

QUINTANILLA Spanish (Latin American)

RIALTA Spanish (Mexican, Rare)

ROMELLO Spanish (Latin American)

RUFIO Spanish (Mexican)

RULFO Portuguese, Spanish (Latin American)

SANDIA Spanish (Latin American)

SARCOS Spanish (Latin American)
Meaning unknown.

SERES Spanish (Latin American)

SERVÍN Spanish (Mexican)

SIFUENTES Spanish (Latin American)

SILBA Spanish (Latin American)

SUAZO Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Basque
"Castilianized form of Basque Zuhatzu, habitational name from places in Araba and Navarre named Zuhatzu, from Basquezu(h)aitz‘tree’ + the collective suffix -zu, tsu."... [more]

TORRIENTE Spanish (Latin American, Rare)
Cuban name likely meaning "river".

TRISTÁN Spanish (Mexican, Rare)
From the personal name TRISTÁN.

URANDA Spanish (Mexican)

URGELLÉS Spanish (Caribbean)

UVALLE Spanish (Latin American)

VALDIVIEZO South American, Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Valdivieso.

VERACRUZ Spanish (Mexican)
Originally denoted a person from Veracruz, Mexico, from Latin vera crux meaning "true cross".

VERANES Spanish (Caribbean)

VULCANO Spanish (Caribbean)

WERO Spanish (Latin American), Maori
Maori: Means "to cast a spear"... [more]

YESCA Spanish (Latin American)

YISSELIN Spanish (Latin American)

ZAVALIA Spanish (Latin American, Americanized)

ZEGARRA Spanish (Latin American)
Possibly a Castilianized form of the Catalan SEGARRA.

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