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Pages in category "Portuguese-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 406 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Oliveira is a Portuguese (and Galician surname), used in Portuguese-speaking countries, and to a lesser extent in former Portuguese and Spanish colonies. Its origin is from the Latin word olivarĭus, meaning 'olive tree'. In Portuguese, de Oliveira may refer to both 'of the olive tree' and 'from the olive tree'.
A Portuguese name, or Lusophone name – a personal name in the Portuguese language – is typically composed of one or two personal names, the mother's family surname and the father's family surname (rarely only one surname, sometimes more than two). For practicality, usually only the last surname (excluding prepositions) is used in formal ...
[citation needed] It is the family name of the House of Silva. The name is widespread in Galician-speaking regions of Spain (mostly in Galicia) and even more so in regions of the former Portuguese Empire in the Americas (being the most common surname in Brazil), in Africa and Asia, notably in India and Sri Lanka. It is also quite common in ...
Ferreira (Latin ferraria and ferrus) is a Portuguese and Galician toponymic and occupational surname, meaning "iron mine" (name of several locations in Portugal) and also the feminine variant of "blacksmith" ("ferreiro"), related to ironworks. The variants Ferreiro, Ferreiró, Ferreiros, Ferro, or Ferraria are less common.
Pereira is a surname in the Portuguese and Galician languages, well known and quite common, mostly in Portugal, Galicia, Brazil, other regions of the former Portuguese Empire, among Galician descendants in Spanish-speaking Latin America.
Martins is a Portuguese surname. Origin: Germanic patronymic for son of Martin.Cognates of this surname occur in many other European languages (Martinsson, Mortensson ...
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