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These are the lists of the most common Spanish surnames in Spain, Mexico, Hispanophone Caribbean (Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic), and other Latin American countries. The surnames for each section are listed in numerically descending order, or from most popular to least popular.
A few of these toponymic surnames can be considered nobiliary, as they first appear as the name of some Galician noble houses, [28] later expanding when these nobles began to serve as officials of the Spanish Empire, in Spain or elsewhere, as a way of maintaining them both far from Galicia and useful to the Empire: Andrade (from the house of ...
The names, primarily of East Germanic origin, were used by the Suebi, Goths, Vandals and Burgundians. With the names, the Galicians inherited the Germanic onomastic system; a person used one name (sometimes a nickname or alias), with no surname, occasionally adding a patronymic. More than 1,000 such names have been preserved in local records.
Saavedra is a Galician surname derived from places named Saavedra in the Ourense and Lugo provinces of Galicia, Spain. Saavedra consists of the Galician words saa, meaning "hall" (which comes from Gothic sals) and vedro, meaning "old". Related surnames include Saabedra, Sabedra, and Savedra. [1]
Teixeira (European Portuguese: [tɐjˈʃɐjɾɐ], Galician: [tejˈʃejɾɐ]) is a Galician-Portuguese surname based on the toponym Teixeira, derived from teixo "yew tree" (Latin taxus). [2] The progenitors of the name were a "Noble Portuguese Marrano family, originally bearing the surname of Sampayo ," and the Teixeira coat of arms was ...
The name has numerous origins. In Germany, Italy, France, UK, and the Americas the Ríos surname can also be found in the surname history books. [citation needed] The name was derived from the Spanish word "Rio," which means "river" (pronounced: Ree-Oess). The surname Ríos is a rich sign of ancestry which includes royals and nobles.
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