Varela is a Galician, Spanish and Portuguese surname originating from Galicia.
Brandão, in English sometimes Brandao, is a Portuguese language surname or given name and a place name.
Jiménez is a patronymic surname of Iberian origin, first appearing in the Basque lands.
Escobar is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alfredo is a cognate of the Anglo-Saxon name Alfred and a common Italian, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish language personal name.
Morais or Moraes is a Portuguese surname.
Costa, sometimes Costas, da Costa, Da Costa, or Dalla Costa, is an Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, Catalan, French, and Greek mostly toponymic surname. The surname spread throughout the world through colonization. It was also a surname chosen by former Jews due to Roman Catholic and other Christian conversions.
Araújo or Araujo or Araúxo is a Galician surname of noble medieval origin. Possibly the noble Don Rodrigo Anes de Araujo, lord of the Araujo castle, Ourense, Galicia, was the first to use the surname of Araújo. His great grandson Pedro Anes de Araújo moved to the kingdom of Portugal, around 1375, being the first Araújo to settle there.
Alves is a surname that appears to originate both from Portugal and Scotland. It is debatable whether the surname appeared first in one country or the other, since it is more prevalent in Portugal, but registered as far back as the 13th century in the church records at Alves, Moray, Northern Scotland. If from Portugal, it will have originated from the Germanic patronym son of Álvaro.
Castro is a Castilian surname popular in Spanish and Portuguese countries, coming from Latin castrum, meaning a castle or fortress. Its English equivalent is Chester.
Miranda is a Spanish, Portuguese, Sephardic Jewish, Italian and Maltese surname of Latin origin, meaning "worthy of admiration".
Moreno is a Spanish, Filipino, Portuguese, French, and occasionally, an Italian surname. It may refer to:
María José is a Spanish language female given name. Maria José is a Portuguese language female given name. It is a combination of the names María and José, often given in reference to the mother and foster father of Jesus.
Cortés, Cortês (Portuguese), Cortès (Catalan) is a surname of Spanish and Portuguese origin, respectively. The surname derived from the Old French corteis or curteis, meaning 'courteous' or 'polite', and is related to the English Curtis.
Borges is a Portuguese and Spanish surname. Jorge Luis Borges, the most notable person with this name, notes that his family name, like Burgess in English, means "of the town", "bourgeois".
Mota is a Portuguese and Spanish surname. The name is topographic, originally used for someone who lived near a fortified stronghold.
Cabrera is a Spanish surname. It is the feminine form of "cabrero", meaning goatherd. Notable people with the surname include:
Reis is a common surname in the Portuguese language, namely in Portugal and Brazil. It was originally a Christian devotional family name of the Middle Ages, probably due to the Portuguese name for the Biblical Magi, the Reis Magos. Sometimes the surname is dos Reis. The Reis surname does not denote a single genealogical origin and there are many families bearing that surname. The Reis etymology is probably from the Latin Rex ("King"), and it is noticeable that it has relations with the German Reich, and the Dutch Rijk, the Germanic names Rick, Rich, Richard, etc. The Spanish version of this surname is Reyes.
Herrero is a Spanish-language occupational surname literally meaning "blacksmith". The feminine form is Herrera. People with this surname include:
Cabral is a surname of Portuguese origin, coming from the word Cabra meaning goat. The surname Cabral most commonly came from goat farmers.
