The name Romero is a nickname type of surname for a Roman or an Italian. The name was originally derived from the Latin word Romaeus and the Greek word Romaios, which mean Roman.
- A person on a religious journey or pilgrimage from Rome
Escobar is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Velázquez, also Velazquez, Velásquez or Velasquez, is a surname from Spain. It is a patronymic name, meaning "son of Velasco".
Benítez is a surname of Spanish origin. It is thought to have originated in Asturias, in the north of Spain.
Vázquez, in non-Spanish-speaking countries often spelled as Vazquez or Vasquez, is an originally Galician surname, in use not only in Galicia but all over the Spanish-speaking world.
Maciel is a surname of Portuguese origin. Notable people with this surname include:
Ortiz is a Spanish-language patronymic surname meaning "son of Orti". "Orti" seems to be disputed in meaning, deriving from either Basque, Latin fortis meaning "brave, strong", or Latin fortunius meaning "fortunate". Officials of the Spanish Inquisition in Toledo, Spain, wrote in the 1590s that "this surname Ortiz, although they have few sanbenitos, is in this city a very converso lineage and surname".
People called Giménez or Gimenez include:
Rojas is a surname found throughout the Spanish-speaking world, especially in Latin America.
Barreto is a surname of Portuguese origin, also found in the former Portuguese colonies of Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Timor-Leste and Goa as well as Spain and Latin America. In 1786, the title of Conde de Casa Barreto was created by King Charles III of Spain and bestowed upon Jacinto Tomás Barreto of Havana, Cuba.
Ayala is a toponymic surname, originally de Ayala, deriving from the town of Ayala/Aiara in the province of Álava, in the Basque Country, northern Spain.
Sosa is a Spanish surname of Portuguese and Galician origin, originating from the Portuguese Sousa. The Sousa Family is of noble and Visigoth origin. Portuguese people brought the Sousa surname to Galicia, and from there it spread in the former Spanish colonies. Sometimes, both variants are used to refer to the same person or family in old texts.
Ferreyra is a surname meaning 'smith'. Notable people with the surname include:
Peralta is a Spanish surname. It is also an Italian surname found in Sicily, Piedmont, and Tuscany.
Medina is a common Mediterranean toponymic surname of Arabic origin.
Ferreiro is a surname of Galician-Portuguese origin, equivalent to English Smith. Notable people with the surname include:
Jara is a Spanish surname, popular in various places in southern Spain, meaning rockrose or cistus.
Juárez is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Rivas is a surname of Spanish origin, likely derived from riba, an archaic term for the shore of a river. Notable people with the surname include:
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