Cunha is a Galician and Portuguese surname of toponymic origin, documented since the 13th century.
Brandão, in English sometimes Brandao, is a Portuguese language surname or given name and a place name.
Gonçalves is a Portuguese surname. Origin: Germanic patronymic Gundisalvis. Notable people with the surname include:
Rocha is a Portuguese language surname. It literally means “rock” or “boulder” in Portuguese; for instance, “rochas sedimentares, metamórficas e magmáticas” means “sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks”. It is also a topographic surname that is found in Portugal as “da Rocha” or simply Rocha, literally, "one who is from/of the rock". It could also be a Jewish-Portuguese Sephardic surname.
Lopes is Portuguese and Galician surname. Origin: Germanic patronymic for son of Lopo, itself being derived from Latin lupus wolf. This surname occurs in other Romance variants, such as Spanish López, Italian Lupo, French Loup, and Romanian Lupu or Lupescu.
Carvalho, meaning 'oak', is a Portuguese surname. Origin: Celtic toponymic, from (s)kerb(h)/karb.
Rodrigues is a common surname in the Portuguese language.
Acácio is both a masculine Portuguese given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Teixeira is a Galician-Portuguese surname based on the toponym Teixeira, derived from teixo "yew tree". The progenitors of the name were a "Noble Portuguese Marrano family, originally bearing the surname of Sampayo," and the Teixeira coat of arms was conferred "in accordance with a decree of King Philip IV of Spain" in 1643. A less frequent variant spelling is Texeira. The variant Técher is common in the highlands of Reunion Island, notably in the Cilaos area.
Paiva is a Portuguese family surname, of toponymic origin in Paiva, today Castelo de Paiva, Portugal.
Mello is a surname that was first found in Ile-de-France, at Mellun. The first records of the name was Robert of Melun, an English-born, scholastic Christian theologian.
Almeida is a common surname in Portuguese-speaking nations of Portugal and Brazil, 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.
Macedo is a Portuguese language surname and previously a Roman cognomen. It may refer to:
Lacerda is a Portuguese language surname branched from the castilan House of la Cerda. Notable persons with that name include:
Bueno de Mesquita may refer to:
Bento, a diminutive of Benedito, is a Portuguese name meaning Benedict based on Late Latin Benedictus, "blessed", "well spoken of". It can be used as a given name or a surname.
Lobo is a surname found in the Galician, Spanish and Portuguese languages meaning "wolf", and in other languages with other meanings. 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.
Bueno is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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