Tovar, usually preceded by the particle de (meaning from), is a surname that was adopted in the Middle-Ages by a Castilian noble house that received the lordship of the village of Tovar from Fernando III. It has since spread to several Spanish and a few Portuguese branches.
The Tovar surname in the Americas appears mainly as a toponymic derived from the many settlements of this name founded there by the Spanish, and therefore does not share the same genealogical origin.
González is a Spanish surname, the second most common in Spain, as well as one of the five most common surnames in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, and Venezuela, and one of the most common surnames in the entire Spanish-speaking world. As of 2017, it is the 13th most common surname in the United States.
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.
Pacheco is a Portuguese and Spanish surname deriving from the Latin Paccieaus as well as the Basque Patxi, a variation of Francisco. It may refer to:
Guzmán or de Guzmán is a Spanish surname. The Portuguese language equivalent is Gusmão.
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.
Márquez or Marquez is a surname of Spanish origin, meaning "son of Marcos or Marcus". Its Portuguese equivalent is Marques.
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.
Torres is a surname in the Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish languages, meaning "towers".
Guerra is a Portuguese, Spanish and Italian term meaning "war". Notable people with the surname Guerra include:
Vargas is a Spanish surname of Castilian origin. The founder of the house was Ivan de martin who fought as a knight in the reconquest of Madrid , in 1083, at service of Alfonso VI of León and Castile.
Miranda is a Spanish, Portuguese, Sephardic Jewish, Italian and Maltese surname of Latin origin, meaning "worthy of admiration".
Osorio is a surname of Spanish, Portuguese and Basque origins. One meaning of the name is “hunter of wolves”. Notable people with this surname include:
Martínez is a common surname in the Spanish language. Martínez is the most common surname in the Spanish regions of Navarre, La Rioja, Cuenca and Murcia. There are also variations such as San Martin and Martín.
Muñoz is a Spanish-language surname—with a Portuguese-language variant (Munhoz), from Basque "muinoa" (Hill), the surname got expanded during the Reconquista with massive settlements done by citizens from Navarre and Álava in New Castile and Andalusia.
Cabrera is a Spanish surname. It is the feminine form of "cabrero", meaning goatherd. Notable people with the surname include:
Zambrano is a surname of Spanish and also Basque origin. Members of this family have played a prominent role through the history of Spain and The Americas.
Aguilar is a Spanish surname. 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.
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.
Cáceres or Caceres is a Spanish surname. People with the surname include: