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
Méndez is a common Spanish surname of Germanic origin, originally a patronymic, meaning Son of Mendo, Menendo, or Mem. A longer form sharing the same root is Menéndez, while the Portuguese form is Mendes. Méndez may refer to:
Pérez is a very common Castilian Spanish surname of patronymic origin.
Morales is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Delgado is a Spanish and Portuguese surname originating from Latin delicatus, meaning 'delicate' or 'soft'. Notable people with the surname include:
Jiménez is a patronymic surname of Iberian origin, first appearing in the Basque lands.
Gómez is a common Spanish patronymic surname of Germanic origin meaning "son of Gome". The Portuguese and Old Galician version is Gomes, while the Catalan form is Gomis. The given name Gome is derived from the Visigothic word guma, "man", with multiple Germanic cognates with the same meaning, which are related to Latin homo, "man".
Cruz is a surname of Iberian origin, first found in Castile, Spain, but later spread throughout the territories of the former Spanish and Portuguese Empires. In Spanish and Portuguese, the word means "cross", either the Christian cross or the figure of transecting lines or ways. For example, in the Philippines, the adopted Tagalog word is rendered to "krus" in plain usage, but the Spanish spelling survives as a surname.
Torres is a surname in the Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish languages, meaning "towers".
Nadal is a surname of Catalan, Occitan, and Venetian origin. It stems from the Latin word for birthday, natalis. Notable people with the surname include:
Maldonado is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Nolasco is a surname of Spanish/Portuguese origin. It is derived from the 13th century Catholic saint Peter Nolasco, who died in Barcelona in 1256. In 2014 the surname was most commonly found in Mexico, the Philippines, Brazil and Honduras.
De Jesús, De Jesus or capitalized as de Jesús, de Jesus is a Spanish and Portuguese surname and a common family name in the Hispanic and Portuguese-speaking world. In the year 2000, there were 26,336 people of Hispanic/Latino origin in the United States with the surname De Jesus, making 172nd in order of frequency for all Hispanic/Latino surnames, and 1,002nd most common surname in the U.S. A decade later in 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau surveyed 44,038 people with the last name Dejesus, making it the 783rd most common surname in the U.S. DeJesus is found throughout Latin America, but most prevalent in Brazil with nearly 2,000,000 bearers with second place going to Mexico. In the Philippines, De Jesus is the 33rd most common surname, held by about 1.1% of the population.
Quiñones or Quiñónez is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Arana is a surname that originates in Spain. Notable people with the surname include:
López or Lopez is a surname of Spanish origin. It was originally a patronymic, meaning "Son of Lope", Lope itself being a Spanish given name deriving from Latin lupus, meaning "wolf". Its Portuguese and Galician equivalent is Lopes, its Italian equivalent is Lupo, its French equivalent is Loup, its Romanian equivalent is Lupu or Lupescu and its Catalan and Valencian equivalent is Llopis.
Campos is a surname of Spanish and Portuguese origin, meaning "Fields" in both languages. Notable people with the surname include:
Mateo is a Spanish surname, meaning Matthew. Notable people with the name include:
Rivera is a surname of Spanish and Italian origin which was the old spelling of ribera, the Spanish word for "riverbank".
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