Carlos is a masculine given name, and is the Maltese, Portuguese and Spanish variant of the English name Charles, from the Germanic Carl.
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name Hludowig or Chlodovech. Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: Luís in Portuguese and Galician, Lluís in Aragonese and Catalan, while Luiz is archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil.
Beto is a surname, and a nickname for the given names Alberto, Albertino, Adalberto, Berthony, Heriberto, Norberto, Roberto, Humberto, or Benito. It occurs mostly in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries and communities. Notable people with the name include:
José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish ; Portuguese.
Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for Peter. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter.
Rodríguez is a Spanish patronymic and a common surname in Spain, Latin America. Its Portuguese equivalent is Rodrigues.
Menezes, sometimes Meneses, was originally a Portuguese toponymic surname which originated in Montes Torozos, a region in Tierra de Campos, northeast of Valladolid and southeast of Palencia. The ancestor of the Meneses lineage was Tello Pérez de Meneses. The family wealth and power grew remarkably in the 13th and 14th centuries, through several marriages with the Castilian and Portuguese royal families.
Julio César and Júlio César are the terms for Julius Caesar in Spanish and Portuguese languages respectively. They may also refer to:
Santos is a Spanish surname with several variations. The English translation of Santos is Saints. A singular version, Santo, may occur. Origin: Christian, from Latin sanctus.
Alfredo is a cognate of the Anglo-Saxon name Alfred and a common Italian, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish language personal name.
Carlos Alberto is a common Portuguese and Spanish given name.
Gustavo is the Latinate form of a Germanic male given name with respective prevalence in Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian.
Sandro is an Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swiss, Georgian and Croatian given name, often a diminutive of Alessandro or Alexander. It is also a surname.
Almeida is a common surname in Portuguese-speaking nations of Portugal, Brazil and in West India, which was at one time colonized by the Portuguese. It is a toponym derived from the town of Almeida in Beira Alta Province, Portugal, or for any of a number of similarly named places in Portugal. In other instances it is a toponym derived from Almeida in the Province of Zamora, Spain.
Abreu is a Galician-Portuguese surname.
Ferreira is a Portuguese and Galician toponymic surname, meaning "iron mine" and also the feminine of "blacksmith" ("ferreiro").
Rogério is a Portuguese male given name, and a variant of the first name Roger. It may refer to:
Leandro is a masculine Italian, Portuguese and Spanish given name. The name is a variant of two other names: Leander, a character in the Greek myth Hero and Leander, and Lysander, a relative of the Greek name Alexander. There's also a variation of the name in French: Léandre.
Herrera is a surname of Spanish origin, from the Latin word ferrāria, meaning "iron mine" or "iron works" and also the feminine of Latin ferrārius, "of or pertaining to iron"; or, alternatively, the feminine of Spanish herrero, which also gives the surname Herrero. Variants of the name include Errera, Ferrera and the less common Bherrera. Its equivalent in Portuguese and Galician is Ferreira. Also, because of Spanish naming customs, some people are listed here with their family name as their second-to-last name.
Moreira is primarily a Portuguese-language surname. Notable people with the name include:
