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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
Pérez is a very common Castilian Spanish surname of patronymic origin.
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.
Guzmán or de Guzmán is a Spanish surname. The Portuguese language equivalent is Gusmão.
Morales is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname 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.
Rodríguez is a Spanish-language patronymic surname of Visigothic origin and a common surname in Spain and Latin America. Its Portuguese equivalent is Rodrigues.
Delgado is a Spanish and Portuguese surname originating from Latin delicatus, meaning 'delicate' or 'soft'. Notable people with the surname include:
Ramos is a surname of Spanish and Portuguese origin that means "bouquets" or "branches". Notable people with the surname include:
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".
Hernández is a widespread Spanish patronymic surname that became common around the 15th century. It means son of Hernán, Hernando, or Fernando, the Spanish version of the Germanic Ferdinand. Fernández is also a common variant of the name. Hernandes and Fernandes are their Portuguese equivalents.
Guerra is a Portuguese, Spanish and Italian term meaning "war". Notable people with the surname Guerra include:
Miranda is a Spanish, Portuguese, Sephardic Jewish, Italian and Maltese surname of Latin origin, meaning "worthy of admiration".
Muñoz is a Spanish-language surname—with a Portuguese-language variant (Munhoz), from Basque "muinoa" (Hill) The surname was expanded during the Reconquista with massive settlements done by citizens from Navarre and Álava in New Castile and Andalusia.
Abreu is a Galician-Portuguese surname.
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.
Medina is a common Mediterranean toponymic surname of Spanish-Moorish and Sephardic Jewish origin.
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, its Catalan and Valencian equivalent is Llopis and its basque equivalente is Otxo.
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.
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