Spanish Submitted Surnames

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)’.

Grajo Spanish (Philippines)
From Spanish meaning "Jackdaw".

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.

Gregorio Spanish (Philippines), Italian (Rare)
Derived from the given name Gregorio.

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.

Guanche Spanish (Canarian), Berber, Guanche
Derived from the name of the original inhabitants of the Canary Islands before the Spanish conquest. The Guanche people were a Berber-speaking people who arrived in the Canary Islands in the 5th century AD... [more]

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)

Guereca Spanish (Mexican)

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

Guerrera Spanish

Guerro Spanish

Guevarra Spanish (Philippines)
Variant of Guevara primarily used in the Philippines.

Guevera Spanish
means "protector"

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

Guirrez Spanish

Guiterez Spanish (?)

Guitiérrez Spanish
Variant of Gutiérrez.

Guity Spanish, Central American

Guiza Spanish
Spanish cognate of Arabic Giza.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hermosa Spanish (Philippines)
Means "beautiful" in Spanish.

Hermosillo Spanish
Nickname for a dandy, from a diminutive of hermoso "finely formed, handsome". From Latin formosus, from forma "shape, form, beauty".

Hermosisima Spanish (Philippines, Rare)
Derived from Spanish hermosísima meaning "most beautiful".

Hermoso Spanish (Philippines)
Means "handsome" in Spanish.

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.

Hipolito Spanish (Philippines)
Unaccented form of Hipólito.

Hirundo Spanish (Philippines, Rare)
From Latin hirundo, meaning "swallow".

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

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."

Huertas Spanish
Plural form of Spanish huerta meaning "garden, orchard".

Huerto Spanish

Huertos Spanish

Huesca Spanish
Habitational name that refers to the city of Huesca, Spain.

Huescas Spanish
Variant of Huesca.

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

Ibar Spanish (Mexican)

Ibares Spanish (Latin American)

Ignacio Spanish (Philippines)
Derived from the given name Ignacio.

Ildefonso Spanish
From the given name Ildefonso.

Illana Spanish (European)
Denoted someone who came from the province of Illana in Guadalajara, Spain.

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

Illustrisimo Spanish (Philippines)
Variant of Ilustrisimo. This spelling variation possibly came about from the influence of American surnames during the American occupation of the Philippines... [more]

Ilustrisimo Spanish (Philippines)
Derived from Spanish ilustrísimo meaning "most illustrious".

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
Possibly from Sicilian inga "ink", an occupational name for a scribe. Alternatively, it could derive from the Germanic given name Inge.

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 former soccer player Andrés Iniesta (1984-) is a well-known bearer of this surname.

Íñigo Spanish
From the given name Íñigo.

Innerarity Spanish (Rare)

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.

Irizarry Basque (Hispanicized), Spanish (Caribbean)
Variant of Irisarri.

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.

Isabella f Italian, Spanish, Hebrew
originating from the Hebrew name Elisheba, meaning “Devoted to God” and "God is my oath”... [more]

Isidro Spanish
From the given name Isidro.

Isla Spanish
Means "island" in Spanish.

Islas Spanish
Variant of Isla.

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.

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.

Jaques English, Portuguese, Spanish, French
Derived from the given name Jacques.

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.

Jardinero Spanish (Philippines)
Spanish form of Gardener.

Jareño Basque (Modern), Spanish
Possibly derived from Basque txara "rockrose".

Jarita Spanish (Latin American)

Jarra Spanish

Jaspe Spanish (Latin American)

Jassan Spanish (Mexican)

Jauler Spanish

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

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

Jayme Spanish (Philippines)
From a variant of the given name Jaime 1.

Jeremias Jewish, Spanish
Derived from the Hebrew given name Jeremiah

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

Joachin Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Joaquín.

Joaquín Spanish
From the given name Joaquín.

Joaquin Spanish (Philippines)
Unaccented form of Joaquín.

Joffé Spanish (Latin 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.

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.

Juancarlos Spanish
From the given name Juan Carlos.

Juanez Spanish
Means “son of Juan 1”

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.

Julio Spanish
Derived from the forename Julio.

Julve Spanish

Junio Spanish
From the given name Junio

Junious Spanish (Latin American), Yiddish
spanish

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.

Kanelos Spanish

Knezevich Spanish (?)
rafe knezevich is a cutie patootie

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

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)’.

Lachica Spanish (Philippines)
Derived from Spanish la chica meaning "the girl", either used as a nickname or a habitational name.

Lacort Catalan, Spanish

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.

Lafuente Spanish
Means "the fountain" in Spanish derived from fons "fountain" with fused definite article la. Variant of Fuentes and cognate to Lafontaine.

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.

Lagos Spanish, Portuguese, Nigerian
Variant of Lago.

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

Lahoz Aragonese, Spanish (Latin American)

Laínez Spanish
Means "son of Laín".

Lajone Spanish (Latin American, Rare)

Lalana Spanish

Lallana Spanish

La Macchia Spanish

Lambertos Spanish

Lamo Spanish (Modern, Rare)

Lana Italian, Spanish
Means "wool" in Spanish and Italian. Occupational name for a wool merchant.

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

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.

Larín Spanish (Latin American)
Probably a habitational name from any of several places called Larín in A Coruña and Lugo provinces.

Larino Spanish (Philippines)
Variant of Laurino.

Larrañaga Basque, Spanish
From the name of a farmhouse in Azpeitia, Spain, derived from Basque larrain "threshing yard" and -aga "place of, group of".

Larrazabal Basque, Spanish
Habitational name derived from Basque larre "field, pastureland, prairie" and zabal "wide, open, ample".

Larronde Spanish

Larzabal Spanish

Lasaga Spanish, French, Basque
From Basque Latsaga, a widespread place name in Basque Country meaning "at the creek".

Lascellas Spanish
Feminine variant of Lascellos.

Lascellos Spanish

Lassaga Spanish (Latin American), French, Basque
French and Argentine Spanish form of Lasaga.

Lastimosa Spanish (Philippines)
Derived from Spanish lastimoso "shameful, pitiful, blameworthy"

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.

Laurencio Spanish
Derived from the given name Lorenzo. (Mostly common in Cuba)

Laurente Spanish (Philippines)
From the given name Laurente.

Laurino Italian, Spanish (Philippines), Portuguese (Brazilian)
Derived from the given name Lauro.

Lavendera Spanish

Lavida Spanish (Mexican)

Layun Spanish (Latin American)

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.

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’

Legaspi Spanish (Philippines)
Variant of Legazpi primarily used in the Philippines.

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

Leiris Spanish

Leiva Spanish

Lejarzar Spanish

Lemõns Spanish (Rare)
Variant of Lemons.

Lemus Spanish
Spanish form of Lémieux.

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
Habitational name for someone from the city of León in Spain. Coincides with the plural form of Spanish león "lion; cougar, puma".

Leonor Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Leonor.

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

Lerma Spanish

Lesaga Spanish, Basque
Variant of Lasaga.

Leyva Spanish

Liatt Spanish (Caribbean, Rare)

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.

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

Lidio Spanish

Limbo Spanish (Philippines)
From Spanish limbo "limbo, an in-between place", a concept in Roman Catholicism referring to a place between heaven and hell where souls reside.

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

Limones Spanish
Variant of Limon.

Limonez Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Limones.

Liñán Spanish (Mexican)

Linares Spanish
Means "son of Linéus" 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)

Lirio Spanish

Liz Spanish
History unknown; surname known in the Dominican Republic

Llamas Spanish (Latin American)

Llamazares Spanish

Llamido Spanish (Philippines)

Llanes Spanish (Latin American), Spanish (Philippines)
Likely denoted someone who came from the municipality of Llanes in Spain.

Llaquet Spanish, Catalan
Topographic name from the Catalan word llac "pond, lake", indicating a person who lives near a lake.

Lobato Spanish, Portuguese
nickname from lobato "wolf cub" (from Latin lupus "wolf") or from a medieval personal name based on this word.

Lobera Spanish
Either a topographic name from lobera "wolf pack" or "wolves' lair" or a habitational name from any of several places called La Lobera. variant of Lovera.

Lobosvilla Spanish
Rare variant of Villalobos.

Loera Spanish

Logaña Spanish (Latin American)

Loli Spanish (Latin American)

Lomar Spanish (Latin American)

Lomeli Spanish (Mexican)

Lomonico Spanish (Latin American)

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

Loquillo Spanish

Loray Spanish (Latin American)

Lorca Spanish (?)

Lorén Spanish
A variant of the Spanish personal name Llorente.

Lorente Spanish

Lorenzana Spanish
Habitational name from Lourenza near Lugo in Spain.

Lorez Spanish
Means "son of Lorenzo" in Spanish.

Lorino Spanish (Philippines), Italian
Variant of Laurino.

Lorona Spanish

Losada Spanish, Portuguese
topographic name for someone who lived by an area paved with flagstones Spanish losada (from losar "to pave" a derivative of losa a word of pre-Roman origin meaning a "flat stone slab").

Lovato Spanish (Latin American), Italian
Northern Italian from the Late Latin personal name Lupatus, derivative of Latin lupus "wolf". This is one of several medieval personal names which became popular under the influence of Germanic compound personal names formed with wolf-.

Lovaton Spanish

Lovendino Spanish (Philippines)

Lovera Italian, Spanish
Either a topographic name from lovera "wolf pack" or "wolves’ lair" or a habitational name from a place called Lovera. Spanish variant of Lobera.

Lovo Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Venetian
1. Spanish & Portuguese: Variant of Lobo.... [more]