Spanish Submitted Surnames

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”

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
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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.

Kanelos Spanish

Knezevich Spanish (?)
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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.

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)

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

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

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.

Laurente Spanish (Philippines)
From the given name Laurente.

Lavendera Spanish

Lavida Spanish (Mexican)

Layun Spanish (Latin American)

Lázaro Spanish

Lázaro Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Lázaro.

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 Lèmieux.

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

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

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

Limones Spanish
Plural form of Limon.

Liñán Spanish (Mexican)

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)

Lirio Spanish

Liz Spanish
History unknown; surname known in the Dominican Republic

Llamas Spanish (Latin American)

Llamazares Spanish

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

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.

Loray Spanish (Latin American)

Lorca Spanish (?)

Lorén Spanish
A variant of the Spanish personal name Llorente.

Lorente Spanish

Lorez Spanish
Means "son of Lorenzo" in Spanish.

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

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.

Loya Basque, Spanish
From Basque loya meaning "mud."

Lozada Spanish
Variant of Lozano.

Lucario Spanish (Mexican)

Lucero English, Spanish
The surname "Lucero" was derived from English conquerers who came from England, most likely someone who worked for a king or queen. The term Lucero refers to a "star" or "light carrier" when the English traveled to Spain, the Spanish people gave them the name "Lucero" but earlier was spelled with an "s or Lusero"... [more]

Lucía Spanish, Italian
From the feminine personal name Lucia, feminine derivative of Latin lux meaning "light".

Luengo Spanish

Luevano Spanish

Luevanos Spanish (Mexican)
Variant of Luevano.

Lugardo Spanish
Spanish (Mainly Huelva): From The Personal Name Lugardo A Variant Of Lutgardo Of Ancient Germanic Origin (See Luckhardt ). This Surname Is Most Common In Mexico.

Lugo Spanish

Lugo Spanish
Galician and Spanish habitational name from Lugo, a city in Galicia. This was a Roman settlement under the name of Lucus Augusti ‘grove or wood of Augustus’, but that may have been no more than an adaptation of an earlier name derived from that of the Celtic god Lugos.

Luján Spanish
This is the second last name of Spanish footballer/soccer player Andrés Iniesta.

Lujano Spanish
Spanish: variant of Luján ( see Lujan ).

Lumbier Basque, Spanish

Lumbreras Spanish
Habitational Name From A Place Called Lumbreras In La Rioja From The Plural Of Lumbrera ‘Lamp’ Possibly Referring To An Old Signal Tower.

Lunavelasco Spanish (Latin American, Rare)
Un-hyphenated combination of the last names, Luna, and Velasco forming its’ own name. Luna meaning “the moon” in Latin as well as multiple languages. Velasco meaning “crow” or “raven”.

Lupetey Spanish (Caribbean)

Lupoe Spanish (Caribbean)

Luque Spanish

Luriel Spanish

Luz Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Luz.

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

Macardican Spanish

Macario Italian, Spanish
From the given name Macario

Macarro Spanish
From the verb Macar meaning 'to bruise'

Macavinta Spanish

Maceda Spanish (Philippines), Galician
Variant of Macedo.

Macedo Portuguese, Spanish (Latin American)
Referred to a person who worked or lived at an apple orchard. It is derived from Vulgar Latin mattianēta meaning "place with apple trees."

Maceo Spanish (Caribbean)
Derived from the given name Maceo.

Macho Spanish

Maciel Portuguese, Spanish
Possibly derived from Portuguese maça "apple".

Madera Spanish
describing someone who lived or worked in a forest. the word Madera means "wood" in Spanish. Spanish meaning of surname Wood

Madriaga Spanish (Philippines)
Variant of Madariaga primarily used in the Philippines.

Madrid Spanish
habitational name from what is now Spain's principal city Madrid. Throughout the Middle Ages it was of only modest size and importance and did not become the capital of Spain until 156 Its name is of uncertain origin most probably a derivative of Late Latin matrix genitive matricis "riverbed" much changed by Arabic mediation (see Madrigal ). There are other smaller places of the same name in the provinces of Burgos and Cantabria and these may also be sources of the surname.

Madrid Spanish (Latin American)

Madrigal Spanish
"Madrigal" comes from from the Venetian madregal "simple, ingenuous," from Late Latin matricalis "invented, original," literally "of or from the womb," from matrix (gen. matricis) "womb."

Madrigale Spanish

Madriz Spanish, Catalan
patronymic surname meaning "son of Madrileño"; given to a person that came from Madrid, Spain.

Madroñero Spanish
It literally means "strawberry farmer".

Madrueno Spanish

Maestre Portuguese, Spanish
Occupational name from old Spanish and Portuguese maestre meaning 'master', 'master craftsman', 'teacher'.

Magallanes Spanish
Spanish: Castilianized Form Of A Habitational Name From The Village Of Magaláns (Castilian Magalanes) In Pontevedra Province Galicia (Spain).

Magaña Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Castilian municipality.

Magano Spanish, Portuguese

Magdalena Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Occitan, Italian, Sicilian, Romanian, Greek, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Croatian, Slovene
From the given name Magdalena.

Magdaleno Spanish
Masculine form of the Biblical name Magdalena.

Maidana Spanish

Mairena Spanish
From place name Mairena.

Maisonet French, Spanish (Caribbean)
Diminutive of Maison.

Majarucon Spanish

Málaga Spanish
Habitational name for someone from Málaga, capital of the province of the same name in Andalusia.

Malave Spanish (Caribbean), Spanish (Latin American)

Mallorga Spanish
Variant of Mayorga.

Malta Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
habitational or ethnic name for someone from the Mediterranean island of Malta (from Latin Melita Greek Melitē).

Malvido Spanish

Mamaradlo Spanish

Mancebo Spanish
Spanish: Occupational Or Status Name For A Serf Or Servant Also ‘Youth Single Man’ Old Spanish Mancebo (From Late Latin Mancipus From Classical Latin Mancipium ‘Slave’).

Mancinas Spanish (Mexican)
Variant of Mancini or Mancino, common in Mexico.

Mancisidor Spanish

Mandarin Spanish (Mexican)

Mandujano Spanish
Spanish: Possibly An Altered Form Of A Basque Habitational Name From Mandoiana A Town In Araba/Álava Province Basque Country. This Surname Is Most Common In Mexico.

Manjarrés Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Riojan municipality.

Manjarrez Spanish
Habitational Name From Manjarrés A Village In La Rioja Province.

Manrique Spanish
From the given name Manrique.

Mansilla Spanish
Spanish: habitational name from Mansilla a place in La Rioja province.

Mansueto Italian, Spanish (Philippines)
From the given name Mansueto.

Mantilla Spanish
Spanish: from mantilla ‘mantilla’, ‘scarf worn over the head and shoulders’, presumably an occupational name for a maker of mantillas or a descriptive name for someone who habitually wore such a garment.

Manuel Catalan, Spanish
Possibly also a habitational name from Manuel in Valencia province.

Manuel Spanish, Portuguese, French, German
Derived from the given name Manuel.

Manzanares Spanish
Habitational Name From The City Of Manzanares In Ciudad Real Province

Manzano Spanish (Mexican)
Habitational name from any of various minor places named Manzano, or a topographic name for someone who lived by an apple tree or orchard, from Spanish manzano ‘apple tree’, Old Spanish maçano, from maçana ‘apple’, Late Latin (mala) Mattiana, a type of apple named in honor of the 1st century bc horticultural writer Gaius Matius.

Maqueda Spanish
This indicates familial origin within either of 2 eponymous localities: the Manchego municipality or the neighborhood of the Andalusian municipality of Málaga.

Maravel Spanish

Marbella Spanish

Marbello Spanish

Marcano Spanish, Spanish (Caribbean)
Spanish variant of Marciano

Marcelino Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Marcelino

Marcelo Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Marcelo.

Marchant French, English, Spanish
Variant of Marchand, from French marchand meaning "merchant, mercantile". Though it is of French origin, it was transferred into the Spanish-speaking world, especially Chile, by French invasion of the Iberian Peninsula.

Marchena Spanish
This indicates familial origin within either of 4 Andalusian localities or 1 Murcian locality.

Marcial Spanish, Filipino
From the given name Marcial.

Marciano Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Derived from the given name Marciano

Mares Spanish
A quarternary sand used in construction.

Marfil Spanish
Means "ivory" in Spanish (ultimately of Arabic origin).

Margarito Spanish (Mexican)
From Spanish margarita "daisy".

Mariano Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From the personal name Mariano

Marichal Spanish

Marinez Spanish
Means "son of Marino" in Spanish.

Maripan Spanish (Latin American)
Meaning unknown, mostly used in Chile.

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

Marquez Spanish
Unaccented variant of Márquez.

Marquina Spanish
Spanish form of any of several Basque towns called "Markina".

Marrasquin Spanish

Marreno Spanish

Marrero Italian, Spanish
Maker of spades or hoes. Marra spade

Marrodan Spanish

Marron Spanish
Derived from the French word marron meaning "chestnut", which now means "brown" in Spanish.

Marroquín Spanish (Latin American)
Ethnic Name For Someone From Morocco. This Surname Is Most Common In Central America.

Marroquin Spanish
Spanish or Portuguese

Marrufo Spanish
nickname from marrufo a Portuguese word meaning literally 'lay brother' and figuratively 'cunning sly'

Marsellos Spanish

Marte Spanish, Italian
From the given name Marte 2.

Martelle English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese
English and German: from a medieval personal name, a pet form of Martin or Marta.... [more]

Martes Spanish
Pet form of Marte.

Martez Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Martes.

Martillo Spanish
From the Spanish word "martillo" which means hammer. Occupational name for a user or maker of hammers.

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

Mártir Spanish
from mártir "martyr" probably a nickname for someone devoted to the religious cult of a Christian martyr or perhaps one who had played the part of a Christian martyr in a religious play.

Marulanda Spanish
topographic or habitational name referring to a house named with maru 'Moor' + landa '(large) field prairie'.

Marzo Spanish

Marzon Spanish
Is a portmanteau of the words mar, meaning sea, and corazon, meaning heart.

Marzuelo Spanish

Masvidal Spanish
surname formed by the union of the word, mas, meaning a house from rural zones that is appart from the village and is surrounded by farming land and forests; and another word relating to the owner of the mas.

Matajudíos Spanish

Matalobos Spanish

Matamoros Spanish
Given to the Apostle James, who according to tradition helped Christians to fight against the Moors.

Matarranz Spanish
Originated in northern Spain, probably from mat- which means to kill and the surname Arranz. It is currently a very rare surname and is found mainly in the province of Segovia.

Matarrita Spanish (Latin American)
Mostly used in Costa Rica.

Mateos Spanish
Variant of Mateo.

Mathias French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese
French, Dutch: from the personal name Mathias (see Matthew).... [more]

Matias Filipino, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Czech (Americanized)
Spanish (Matías), Portuguese, and Dutch: from the personal name (see Matthew).... [more]

Matta Spanish, Portuguese
Variant of Mata.

Matute Spanish

Mauleon Spanish (Archaic)
All I know is that there is a place in spain "Basque Country" that their town, apartments, holtes are named Mauleon. The language spoken is Basque a form of "Spanish and French"

Mauricio Spanish
From the given name Mauricio

Maximiliano Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Maximiliano

Maya Basque (Hispanicized), Catalan, Spanish
As a Spanish surname, this is a Castilianized form of Portuguese Maia. As a Catalan surname this is a variant of Maià... [more]

Mayo Spanish

Mayoral Spanish
Occupational name for the foreman of a gang of agricultural workers or the leader of a group of herdsmen mayoral (from Late Latin maioralis originally an adjective derivative of maior 'greater').

Mayordomo Spanish
Means "butler" in Spanish.

Mayorga Spanish
habitational name, taken on from the place name Mayorga in Valladolid province of Castile.

Mayorquin Spanish
variant of Mallorquín a habitational name for someone from Majorca the largest island in the Balearic Islands from an adjectival form of its Spanish name Mallorca.

Maza Spanish, Italian

Mazariego Spanish
Altered form of Mazariegos in singular for matching with the bearer.

Mazo Spanish (Canarian)

Medellin Spanish
Habitational name from a place so named in Badajoz province Latin (Caecilia) Metellina derived from the name of a 1st-century Roman proconsul in Spain Cecilio Metello Pio.

Medrano Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Riojan municipality.

Mejia Spanish
Spanish (Mejía): probably from a religious byname (possibly under Jewish influence), from a vernacular form of Latin, Greek Messias ‘Messiah’, from Hebrew māšīaḥ ‘anointed’.

Méla Spanish

Melchor Spanish
Derived from the given name Melchor.

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

Melero Spanish
Occupational name for a collector or seller of honey, melero (Late Latin mellarius, an agent derivative of mel, genitive mellis, ‘honey’).

Melgar Spanish
Topographical name for someone who lived by a field of lucerne, Spanish melgar (a collective derivative of mielga 'lucerne', Late Latin melica, for classical Latin Medica (herba) 'plant' from Media).

Melgosa Spanish
This indicates familial origin within either of 2 Castilian municipalities, Melgosa de Burgos or Melgosa de Villadiego. It could also indicate familial origin within the Manchego municipality La Melgosa.

Melillo Spanish, Italian
describing someone who worked on an apple orchard,harvesting and selling apples from the italian mela

Melquíades Spanish
From the given name Melquíades.

Memoracion Spanish (Philippines)

Mena Spanish

Menchavez Spanish

Mencia Spanish
Derived from the female personal name Mencía Mencia a cognate of the male name Matías.

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

Mendibles Spanish

Mendosa Spanish
Variant spelling of Mendoza.

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

Meneses Spanish, Portuguese
Meaning uncertain. It was likely a habitational name from either the municipality of Meneses de Campos in Palencia or the municipality of Valle de Mena in Burgos.

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]

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

Mera Spanish

Mercader Spanish

Mercades Spanish (Latin American)

Mercado Spanish
Topographic name for someone living by a market or metonymic occupational name for a market trader, from Spanish mercado meaning "market".

Merced Spanish

Mercede Spanish

Mercedes Spanish (Caribbean)
Means "mercies," from the Spanish title of the Virgin Mary, María de las Mercedes, meaning "Mary of Mercies."

Mérida Spanish
habitational name from the city of Mérida in Badajoz province... [more]

Meridia Spanish

Merina Spanish

Merladet Spanish (Rare)

Mesa Spanish
Habitational name for someone from any of the various locations in Spain called Mesa meaning "table" or "mesa" in Spanish (referring to a flat area of land).

Meseta Spanish (Mexican)
Meaning "plateau" in Spanish. Primarily used mostly in Mexico.

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

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