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Garza – 335,829 – From Basque and Galician, Spanish meaning "heron", used as a descriptor or as part of a place name. Velásquez – 331,510 – Son of Velasco Estrada – 324,103 – From various places called Estrada, meaning "road", from Latin stata "via" denoting a paved way.
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.
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.
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 ...
Montenegro is a surname of Galician origin, later spreading to other parts of Spain and Portugal. Approximately 8010 people in Spain share this surname, making it the 598th most common surname in the country.
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Feijóo, Feijoo or Feijó (among other variants) is a Spanish and Portuguese surname of Galician origin, derived from the word feixó, meaning "bean" (probably used as a nickname for a bald man). [1] People with surname or its variants include: Alfonso Feijoo, Spanish footballer; Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar