Historically, surnames, the name that you share with other members of your family, have played an important, fascinating role in society, providing instant cues to a person's background and social standing.
In ancient times when communities were small and all members of a village, clan, or tribe knew each other, a surname was unneeded for identification, but often used to trace lineage. In societies where leadership was transmissible, being able to prove a pure connection to the king or chief was crucial.
Here are some names I have studied in detail in order to discover new information on or reach a new understanding of them:
Abanco means an opening or a device that allows fresh air to come into a closed space.
Abellar means a bee-hive.
Acebedo means a plantation of holly-trees.
Acelar means to accelerate, to hasten, to hurry, to forward, to expedite.
Alobin means striped bass.
Alojado means guest, lodger.
Alvarez means son of Alvaro.
Aguilar, Aguilera, & Aguirre mean a person who came from Aguilas in Spain.
Alejandria means protector of mankind.
Amase means to press something, especially a mixture for making bread, firmly and repeatedly with the hands and fingers.
Aquino means the layer which develops from the ovary wall around the seed of a plant after it is fertilised and forms the skin and flesh of the fruit.
Arca means a large strong box, usually made of wood, which is used for storing valuable goods or possessions or for moving possessions from one place to another.
Baito means facecloth (= a small cloth used to wash the body, especially the face and hands).
Baliao means a native of Baliao in Taiwan.
Bandada means flock of birds.
Barrido means the act of sweeping.
Bayanban means the appearance of someone or something, especially when intended to deceive.
Bayogos means having a long face.
Bayona means a person from Bayonne in France.
Bayoneta means bayonet, knife attached to the muzzle of a rifle.
Bedaño means damage, hurt, injury, prejudice, harm, mischief, maim, nuisance, loss, hindrance.
Bedia means a long heavy spear (= long sharp weapon) fixed to a rope, used for killing whales.
Belandres means acorn.
Belaca-ol means a person beaten with a strap.
Belga means Belgian.
Belgira means master of tour.
Belicena means a person from Belize in Central America.
Bernardo means Bernardine monk or nun.
Biboso means attractively energetic and enthusiastic.
Biñas means a piece of land on which vines (plants which produce grapes) are grown.
Boglosa means lobster of a large size.
Bordon means repetition of words in a discourse.
Botavara means a small boom or pole which crosses the sail of a boat in a diagonal direction, boat-hook.
Braga means diaper.
Braza means a measure of six feet.
Cabrera means goatherd or bad-tempered.
Cajelo means cashier or boxmaker.
Caligdong means a person who does not usually talk about or make her own abilities and achievements obvious.
Catalan means a language in Cataluña in Spain.
Catedrilla means small or poor professor’s chair or in some universities, the less important professorship.
Chavez means keys.
Corneja means the part of a horse's leg at the back, just above the foot, where longer hair grows.
Coyoca means to try to persuade a politician, the government or an official group that a particular thing should or should not happen, or that a law should be changed.
Defensor means defending or protecting.
DeJulian means of Julius Caesar.
Delgado means a crippled or deformed person or a thin person. It originated in the Mountains of Santander.
DeLlana means of a trowel.
Deloso means of the bear.
Demavibas means a person who thinks and acts in an independent way, often behaving differently from the expected or usual way.
Depaloma means of the dove.
Deriada means of freshet, overflow, flood.
Dichoso means happy, fortunate, prosperous, successful, lucky.
Ecita means a place where a particular group of people often go or meet, by arrangement or habit.
Entredicho means something officially forbidden (= not allowed), or an order forbidding something.
Espinosa means spiny, thorny, arduous, dangerous, bony.
Estrada means causeway, paved road; turnpike road.
Fabillano means the soft grey or black powder that is left after a substance, especially tobacco, coal or wood, has burnt.
Fernandez means son of Fernando. Fernando being a given name means journey or venture.
Formacion means the act of forming or generating, the manner in which something is formed, form, shape, figure, array of troops, twisted cord of silk, gold, silver, etc., used by embroiderers, training or education.
Fuentes means fountain, fount, a spring of water.
Garcia means descendant or son of Garcia (the Spanish form of Gerald). It means like a fox.
Garin means guardian.
Gomez is a popular surname which means man.
Gongob means pompous.
Gonzalez means son of Gonzalo.
Grapa means staple; clip, fastener or kind of mangy ulcers in the joints of horses.
Gregori means neck cloth.
Guanzon means an open road, a bay.
Gulmatico means soldier's herb.
Gutierrez means son of Gutierre (son of Walter). Gutierre is a given name which means he who rules.
Guzman means descendant of Guzmán (good man), a lord or nobleman, or a cadet or noble who served in the military.
Hidalgo means noble.
Jabonete means bar of soap.
Jaspe means jasper, a precious stone.
Javellana means the nut of the hazel tree which has a hard brown shell.
Javier means bright, splendid, or new house.
Jimenez means son of Jimeno, a given name which means gracious hearkening.
Ladrido means barking or howling of a dog, vociferation, outcry; calumny; incitement.
Lacuesta means slope.
Lagradante means a stairway with teeth.
Laplana means a person from Laponia in Sweden.
Lee means the side of hill, wall, etc. that provides shelter from the wind.
Libo-on means consisting of parts that are positioned together closely or in a tidy way, using very little space.
Lopez means son of Lope. Lope comes from the Spanish form of Lupus, a Latin name meaning wolf. The Lopes variation of this surname often originates from Portugal.
Lozada means a path with a hard surface on one or both sides of a road, that people walk on.
Lustria means bright, brilliant, lustrous, shining, glossy, golden.
Mabilog means shaped like a circle.
Magbanua means a person who lives in the particular small area which you are talking about.
Maravillosa means wonderful, marvellous, monstrous, astonishing, admirable, miraculous; strange.
Marin means sea.
Mejorada means causing something to get better.
Mendoza means a person who came from Mendoza (cold or high mountains).
Montano means mountainous.
Nalangan means damaged, no longer able to work.
Oren means a person from Orense in Spain.
Ortiz is a popular patronymic surname meaning son ofOrton or Orta.
Osayda means valour.
Pagapos means to put manacles around a person's legs or arms.
Palencia means want of security, uncertainty, mistake.
Paler means a person who makes or sells shovels.
Palisada means a strong fence made out of wooden or iron poles that is used to protect people or a place from being attacked.
Palomo means male dove or pigeon.
Panes means corn or grain in the field.
Parpa means blinking or flickering.
Peñaflorida means stone full of flowers.
Perez means son of Petros.
Piosca means mixture of vinegar and water.
Posadas means inns, guest houses.
Quilla means keel, the long piece of wood or steel along the bottom of a boat that forms part of its structure and helps to keep the boat balanced in the water.
Quino means cinchona-tree.
Ramirez means son of Ramon (wise protector).
Ramos means branches or offshoots, olive branch, or palms or palm branches, from Domingo dos Ramos, a Catholic feast day known as Sunday of the Palms or Palm Sunday.
Remoto means remote, distant, far off; foreign, alien; unlike.
Rizal means ricial, growing again: applied to the aftercrop of corn, cut green for the feed of cattle.
Robles means oak tree.
Rodriguez means son of Rodrigo. The given name Rodrigo means famous power.
Rueda means a wheel, a crown, a round slice of eatables, or short sunfish.
Salarda means to feed salt to.
Salazar means a person who came from Salazar (manor house).
Sales means salts.
Salud means health.
Sarabia means rabies,rage, fury.
Sargado means a strong cloth made from wool which is used especially to make jackets and coats.
Sarrosa means incrusted, covered with sediment.
Sarroza means ground covered with brambles and bushes.
Sazon means ripeness.
Silva means a miscellany.
Solis means a musician who performs a solo.
Solivio means the act of rising or raising a little.
Soto means grove, swamp.
Tabaosares means wild rice.
Toledo means a song bird.
Treñas means scarf, sash, garland of flowery, prison, jail, burnt silver.
Tupas means satiety, repletion or the act of pressing close.
Tupaz means topaz, a precious stone.
Valdez means son of Baldo (prince, fame). Baldo is a shortened form of Baltazar, one of the three magi.
Vasquez means a shepherd, one who tended sheep.
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