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

Linaza Spanish

Llamas Spanish (Latin American)

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.

Logaña Spanish (Latin American)

Lomeli Spanish (Mexican)

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-.

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.

Lozada Spanish
Variant of Lozano.

Lucero Spanish
Means "morning star, daystar" or "brilliance, splendour, lustre" in Spanish, a derivative of luz "light".

Luengo Spanish

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

Luriel Spanish

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

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."

Machín Spanish
Derived from the Basque name Matxin.

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

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)

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

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

Magano Spanish, Portuguese

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

Malave Spanish (Caribbean), Spanish (Latin American)

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

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

Marçal Spanish, Catalan
Derived from the given name Marçal.

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

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

Martes Spanish
Pet form of Marte.

Martez Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Martes.

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.

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

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

Matute Spanish

Maximo Spanish (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).

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.

Merced Spanish

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

Merina Spanish

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

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

Mestre Italian, Spanish

Midiam Spanish

Mieles Italian, Spanish, French
Meaning "honey".

Milian Spanish (Caribbean)

Minaya Spanish
From Minaya, the name of a town in Albacete province, Spain. According to the scholar Miguel Asín Palacios, the place name comes means "open and visible path" from Arabic. It has also been speculated that the place name has Basque origins, meaning "ore", "ore vein" or "asphodel pastures".

Mirena Spanish (Latin American)

Moclin Spanish
A town positioned outside of Granada and Toledo Spain, its current occupants number in the thousands. But, 700’s this town was positioned in a mist of sprawling Moorish control. And, for the next 800 years, it was the epic center of Europe’s culture and medicine... [more]

Moises Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Greek, Jewish
From the given name Moisés.

Molino Italian, Spanish
From Spanish and Italian meaning "mill".

Monroy Spanish
A habitational surname meaning "red mountain".

Montas Spanish (Caribbean)

Montez American (Hispanic), Portuguese, Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Montes.

Monzon Spanish
Habitational name from Monzón, a place in Uesca province, which is probably named from Latin montione ‘big mountain’.

Morena Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From Italian moro or Spanish & Portuguese moreno meaning "dark-skinned".

Morera Spanish, Catalan
Means "mulberry" in Spanish and Catalan, denoting a person who lived near a mulberry tree.

Moyano Spanish
Habitational name for someone from Moya, from an adjectival form of the place name.

Murado Spanish

Murcia Spanish
Habitational name from the city Murcia.

Nachez Spanish (Mexican)
Means "son of Nacho".

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

Naredo Spanish

Negron Spanish, Italian
This surname is a most likely variant of the word and name Negro.

Negros Spanish (Philippines)
From Spanish negro meaning "black". Named after an island in the Philippines.

Nessim Spanish, Jewish, Hebrew
Hebrew for 'miracles'. Name was originally Bar-Nisim; 'Children of the Miricle'

Niella Spanish (Latin American)

Noceda Spanish
Spanish surname derived from the word "nocedal" meaning "field of walnut trees" it denoted a person who lived or came from such place.

Nonell Spanish

Obispo Spanish
Means "bishop" in Spanish, ultimately from Greek ἐπίσκοπος (episkopos).

Ocampo Spanish, Galician
From the Galician toponym O Campo meaning "the field", also used as a habitational name from a town of the same name in Lugo, Galicia.

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

Odelín Spanish

Odilia Spanish (Anglicized, Rare, Archaic)

Olivar Spanish

Olvera Spanish

Onofre Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Onofre.

Oraliz Spanish

Orlian Spanish (Latin American)

Orosco Spanish, Basque
Variant of Orozco. Means "place of the holly trees" from oros meaning "holly tree" and the suffix -ko signifying a place. Also believed to have been derived from Latin orosius meaning "the son of bringer of wisdom".

Osorio Spanish
From the given name Osorio.

Osorno Spanish
From the name of a place in Palencia, a province of northern Spain.

Oviedo Spanish, Asturian
Derived from spanish "oveja" meaning sheep.

Oyuela Spanish, Western African
The surname Oyuela is likely of Spanish or African (specifically, West African) origin, with roots in both linguistic and cultural traditions.... [more]

Pablos Spanish

Pacana Spanish
From pacana meaning "pecan", "pecan tree", a word of Algonquin origin. This surname is also found in the Philippines.

Palvet Spanish

Pancho Spanish
From the given name Pancho.

Parada Spanish

Pareja Spanish
habitational name from Pareja in Guadalajara province.

Parras Spanish
Plural form of Parra.

Pascua Spanish
From the personal name Pascual. It also means "Easter" in Spanish.

Patiño Spanish, Galician
From a diminutive of Spanish or Galician pato meaning "duck", used as a nickname for a person who waddled.

Pelayo Spanish

Pelayo Spanish
From the given name Pelayo.

Pepito Spanish (Philippines)
From the given name Pepito.

Perron Spanish
Spanish (Perrón) : probably from an augmentative of perro 'dog'.

Persia Italian, Spanish
Ethnic name or regional name for someone from Persia (modern-day Iran) or some other country with Persian-speaking peoples or a nickname for someone who had visited or traded with one of these countries (see the given name Persis)... [more]

Persia Spanish (Caribbean, Rare)

Pesado Spanish
From Spanish meaning "heavy, weighty". It was likely given to individuals who were physically large or strong or as a reference to a heavy burden or responsibility.

Picazo Spanish
Variant of Picasso, from Latin "pica" meaning magpie.

Piñero Spanish
Castilianized from the Portuguese surname Pinheiro, meaning "pine-tree"

Pintor Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, Sardinian
occupational name for a painter from pintor "painter".

Platon French, German, Romanian, Spanish (Philippines)
From the given name Platon. Spanish variant of Pláton more common in the Philippines.

Poison Spanish

Polaco Spanish
Variant of Polanco. Alternatively, it could as well be referred to inhabitants of Poland.

Poncio Spanish
Variant of Ponce.

Portal Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Occitan
Topographical surname for someone living near the gates of a fortified town.

Póveda Spanish, South American
habitational name from any of the places called Poveda in the provinces of Cuenca Ávila Salamanca and Soria or from Póveda de la Sierra in Guadalajara.

Precio Spanish (Latin American)
From Spanish meaning "price".

Puello Spanish
Variant of Pueyo.

Puente Spanish
Habitational name from any of the numerous places named Puente, from puente ‘bridge’.

Puerto Spanish
Habitational name from any of the numerous places named Puerto, in most cases from puerto ‘harbor’ (from Latin portus ‘harbor’, ‘haven’).

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.

Quebec Spanish (Philippines)
Habitational name for a person from the province of Quebec in Canada.

Quince English, Spanish
Derived from the given name Quinctus.

Quinto Aragonese, Spanish, Catalan, Italian
Habitational surname for a person from a place called Quinto, for example in Zaragoza province. However, the high concentration of the surname in Alacant province suggests that, in some cases at least, it may derive from the personal name Quinto (from Latin Quintus denoting the fifth-born child or Catalan quinto "young soldier").... [more]

Quiroz Spanish
Variant of Quirós.

Rabago Spanish
Habitational name from Rábago in Cantabria province.

Raigon Spanish

Ramone Spanish (Anglicized), Portuguese (Anglicized), Catalan (Anglicized)
From Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan Ramón, from the personal name Ramón or Ramon, of Germanic origin (see Raymond).

Rangel German, Spanish, Portuguese
A variant of Rengel.

Rascon Spanish
Possibly a nickname for Rascón, meaning “sharp”, “sour”, or “rail (the bird)”

Rengel Spanish
Habitational name from a place called Rengel in Málaga province.

Resano Spanish, Central American

Rialta Spanish (Mexican, Rare)

Ribera Catalan, Spanish
Habitational name from any of various locations in Spain named Ribera, derived from Catalan and Spanish ribera meaning "bank, shore".

Riveri Spanish

Rochez Spanish (?)

Romána Spanish, Hungarian (Rare)
Feminine form of Román.

Romaña Spanish
Habitational name from the Italian city of Romagna.

Rosado Spanish
Derived from the Spanish word rosa, meaning "rose".

Rovelo Spanish

Ruacho Spanish (Mexican)
Possibly from rúa, "street".

Ruldio Spanish (Latin American)
Unknown, possibly a Spanish variant of "radio".

Sabado Spanish (Philippines)
From Spanish sábado meaning “Sabbath, Saturday”.

Sablan Spanish
Of Savoy.

Sallas Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, Galician, Portuguese, Aragonese, Asturian, Romanian, Greek
Either a variant of Salas or Sala, or else a nickname from Arabic, Turkish, or Persian salli meaning "broad, wide, large, tall".

Saludo Spanish (Philippines)
From Spanish meaning "to greet".

Salvín Spanish

Sandia Spanish (Latin American)

Santas Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Possibly a nickame for someone born on All Saint's Day.

Sarcos Spanish (Latin American)
Meaning unknown.

Sendra Spanish

Sepeda Spanish
Variant of Cepeda

Serbia Spanish
Unknown.. researching history of the spanish name that was first identify being used in Utado Puerto, Rico in 1790s by Fransico Serbia and Paula Serbia Filare

Serote Spanish (Filipinized)
Means fecal matter in Spanish

Servín Spanish (Mexican)

Severo Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Severo

Sidone Spanish (Latin American)

Sinchi m Spanish

Solana Spanish (Latin American)
Derived from solano 'place exposed to the sun'

Solano Spanish, Aragonese
From various Spanish place names, which are derived from Spanish solano meaning "place exposed to the sun" (from Late Latin solanus "pertaining to the sun", a derivative of sol "sun")... [more]

Somoza Spanish

Sonora Spanish
From Spanish sonoro meaning "sonorous", perhaps a nickname for a loud person.

Sotelo Spanish
From any of various places in Galicia named Soutelo, derived from Galician souto meaning "grove, plantation".

Sotero Galician, Spanish (?)
From the given name Sotero

Suares Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese (Brazilian), Caribbean
Variant of Suárez.

Suarez Spanish (Americanized), Filipino, Caribbean
Unaccented form of Suárez primarily used in America and the Philippines.

Sultán Spanish, Galician
Spanish and Galician form of Sultan.

Tafoya Spanish
Possibly a variant of Tafolla.

Taiani Spanish

Tallón Spanish
Either a Spanish variant of Catalan Talló (see Tallo) or a habitational name from any of the places in A Coruña, Ourense, and Pontevedra provinces called Tallón.

Tamayo Spanish
from a town in the burgos region in spain.

Tejada Spanish
Meaning "roof" or "lime tree."

Tejeda Spanish
Variant of Tejada.

Tejero Spanish
Occupational Spanish surname for a tiler, its origin may be in Saragossa, Spain. A famous bearer is Antonio Tejero, a Lieutenant Colonel who was responsible for the 23-F coup attempt.

Téllez Spanish
from the given name Tello which is the Spanish form of the name Tellus, meaning "earth" in Latin

Tenesa Spanish

Tesoro Spanish, Italian
from tesoro "treasure" (from Latin thesaurus "hoard") applied as a metonymic occupational name for a treasurer. In some cases this may be a habitational name from El Tesoro in southern Spain... [more]

Tirado Spanish
Likely a nickname for a person with long limbs, from the Spanish tirado meaning "stretched".

Tobías Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Jewish
From the given name Tobías.

Tofiño Spanish
Surname of Vicente Tofiño (de San Miguel y Wanderiales), an 18th century Spanish navigator, cartographer, and cosmographer. The meaning of the name Tofiño is unknown.

Toledo Spanish
Habitational name from the city of Toledo in Spain, derived from Latin Toletum of uncertain meaning.

Torras Spanish (?)
Means 'towers' in Spanish. Similar to name Torres.

Torrez Spanish
Variant of Torres.

Triano Spanish
Possibly a habitational name from Triano, the Castilianized name of the Basque towns called Abanto and Urtuella, in Biscay province, Basque Country.

Trillo Spanish
It literally means "threshing board".

Tronco Italian, Spanish (Mexican)

Troppa German, Italian, Slovak, German (Silesian), Spanish (Latin American)
Likely meaning unknown.

Trueba Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the vicinity of the eponymous Castilian river.

Ubaldo Spanish, Galician, Portuguese, Italian
From the given name Ubaldo

Uranda Spanish (Mexican)

Urbana Belarusian, Ukrainian, Russian (Rare), Italian, Spanish
Feminine form of Urban.

Urbano Italian, Spanish
From the given name Urbano.

Uvalle Spanish (Latin American)

Valdés Asturian, Spanish, Central American
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.

Valera Spanish
Habitational name from either of two places in Spain named Valera.

Varona Spanish, Caribbean

Vaylez Spanish
Variant of Valez or Valezze

Vecino Spanish
Spanish form of Voisin.

Veloso Spanish
From the Brazilian Spanish word for fast.

Verano Spanish
Means 'summer' in Spanish. (See Summer)

Verdun French, English (British, Rare), Spanish, Catalan
From the various locations in France called Verdun with the Gaulish elements ver vern "alder" and dun "hill fortress" and Verdú in Catalonia, English variant of Verdon

Viñals Spanish, Catalan

Vinyet Spanish

Virgen Spanish
Spanish form of Virgo.

Virgil Spanish
From the given name Virgil.

Vlasco Spanish
Variant of Velasco

Yansen Indonesian, Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Jansen. Most commonly found in Indonesia and Argentina.

Ybañez Spanish (Philippines)
Filipino form of Ibáñez.

Ybanez Spanish (Philippines)
Unaccented variant of Ybañez.

Zallas Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, Galician, Portuguese, Aragonese, Asturian, Romanian, Hungarian, Greek, Bulgarian
Variant of Salas.

Zamora Spanish
Habitational name from Zamora, a city in northwestern Spain, of uncertain etymology. Possibly derived from Berber azemur "wild olive tree".

Zapata Spanish
Occupational surname for a shoemaker, from Spanish zapato meaning "shoe". It can also be considered a habitational name for someone originally from any of the various locations in Spain called Zapata.

Zapato Spanish
Means "shoe" in Spanish.

Zárate Spanish, Spanish (Mexican)
Habitational surname meaning "entrance to the grove coppice".

Zepeda Spanish
Variant of Cepeda

Zerdán Spanish (Latin American, Rare)
This surname is mainly found in Argentina.

Zozaya Basque (Hispanicized), Spanish
Castilianized form of Zozaia.

Zuleta Spanish, Basque
Variant of Zulueta, which comes from the Basque topographic name 'zulo' meaning ‘hole hollow’ + the collective suffix '-eta' meaning "place or group of."

Zúñiga Spanish
Spanish form of Zuñiga.

Zurita Spanish, Aragonese
An Aragonese surname derived from the Stock Bird, a species of bird.

Zurita Spanish
Habitational surname from either of two places called Zurita in Huesca and Cantabria named with a derivative of Basque zuri 'white'