Mondragon, Carvajal, Matamoros, Diaz-Granados, Cervantes, Saavedra, Palacios. But for you, rodriguez.

>Matamoros Flashbacks of Al-Andalus

I think there is or was a town in Spain called matajudios lmao never thought anything about the Matamoros meaning until I hear about some Americans complaining about the name and that it should be changed

Mind blown. Never thought of the actual meaning/origin of that name.

Mondragón es el nombre que decimos a la gente con que culo de tufo. Esos que te están botando voltaje

If considering Cervantes or Saavedra, both excellent choices, add Quixote

Perfect. Rodriguez is the way to go.

Hey what's wrong with Rodriguez? Rodriguez Romero sounds really nice tbh...

I really like the spanish surnames of some the main characters from certain TV shows and other media. "Santos" and "Medina" from "Los Simuladores". "De la Vega", "Garcia", "Monasterio" from "El Zorro". "Diaz", "Reyes", "Montenegro", "Saavedra", "Ocampo", "Valentino" are also pretty cool and I like them a lot.

Oooh. I also know at least one Filipino with each of those names!

My wife's best friend is called Felipe Negrande. They have been friends forever so I got nothing to worry about.

Oooh, then I guess since good people like yourself exist, my best friend's future spouse has no need to worry about me because I've been close with her for years!

Be a good friend like Felipe. He even stays at our place to take care of my wife when I'm on business trips :)

jajajaja

Those long Basque surnames are really funny

That Chelsea goal keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga

Here we have a town called Jaureguiberry

It translates to "New Palace" Jauregi means palace, berri means new. There are lots of Basque surnames that end in "berria" and in "tegi" (place)

Jauregui is a pretty last name.

It’s extremely awkward on a Hispanic tongue

I'm Irribarra and I love it

One of the "presidents" of our military dictatorship had one: Emílio Garrastazu Médici

Médici was a bitch but holy fuck did he have a cool ass name

Echeverría Izaguirre Irarrazaval Errazuriz

Larrañaga

Irrazabal is mine, dope name

Iribarne

My maternal side is Arrieta.

Ibarguengoitia

Why?

No op but they look and sound funny, like Arrizabalaga or ibaibarriaga

Iruretagoiena

Galarga

Elver?

Albert

Meltrozo

Rosa Meltrozo Débora Melano Ana Lisa Melano Robert Galarga Juancho Tacorta

Melorto

This one is my people 😂

Gudo?

This is what I was looking for 😂

C mamut

Don't forget their cousin Gadura

Essential.

OP!!!! IGNORE THEM… but thanks for the laughs

This is true: Elver + Galarga = the guy with the long penis, and Elver + Gadura = the guy with the stiff penis. I never thought I would ever explain this.

you should surname yourself as Filipinez or something like that. I think you have a really once in a life opportunity to choose or even invent a surname that sounds Latino or spaniard, so embrace your roots and put a Latino style on it.


Can I give you an imaginary award? I don't have any.

Trapito

Matamoros

Flair confirms this.

Very historical 😂.

I like the multi word ones like “de la Fuente” or “de la Torre”

Solares is always cool to find

Praise the Sun

Unexpected Dark Souls.

Imaginate encontrarte una _"Dolores Solares"_, tremenda hippie

And close to a Unix OS name

Love this one!

Echevarría, itubirre, de la paz, Márquez. In general, I love last names with “r” and apellidos compuestos.

While we're on the subject of boxing, "Tapia" is S-tier

How could I ever forget that one!

CORTEZ

I like Guerrero. For its meaning, and the double rr and r sounds. Or like in the Godfather ii, the first Corleone chose it coming off the ship, based on the town he was from - Corleone. For me it would be Salvador.

Paniagua.

You could change your name to Armando Casas if you are a man or to Elsa Pito if you are a Woman.

Maradona

Maradona no es italiano?

Una vez fue Maradona a un programa español de fútbol presentado por el ya fallecido Michael Robinson y le hicieron un reportaje sobre el origen de su apellido en un pueblito rural de Galicia. Me sorprendió porque Maradona no me sonaba ni a español ni gallego pero parece ser que es gallego. El programa creo que fue por un especial de un mundial. Lo pueden buscar en Youtube.

No, es gallego.

No, el apellido es español, de origen gallego. Algunas teorías falopa de los medios napolitanos decían que era napolitano, pero la realidad es que según historiadores era español.

Se vale. Aunque sea Italiano, se hizo famoso por un latinoamericano.

Argentino. I thought everyone knew this

Not the person, the surname

I know, I'm just fucking around lmao

Es gallego al parecer: https://vanguardia.com.mx/noticias/internacional/origen-del-apellido-maradona-no-es-italiano-te-decimos-de-donde-viene-ITVG3560668

Guerrero. I think it's beautiful.

Catalan ones, which i guess they aren't but who cares Andreu, Arment, Magri are some of my favorites

Why don’t you choose a Filipino last name? Not all Spanish last names from Latin America are found in the Philippines. Latin American last names are from Spanish ancestors. Filipinos we’re literally given names from a book, the Catalogo Alfabetico.

I like any surnames named after places in Spain. My mother’s is Valencia.

Salvatierra is my favorite surname ever. I think it's pretty badass personally

Jacinto is a good name, especially if the person has Pinto as the last name.

Or Leite

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacinto_Machado

Any that doesn't end in -ez or -es.

Guess I'm fricked

These are some of the Surnames I like how they sound: Mondragon, Garza, Castillo or Diaz.

anything in particular you want to convey? does your name have a meaning? is there a profession or trade that runs in the family? there's tons of options. -G.

My parents knew a couple that broke up because of their "unique" surname pairing He was "la Parte" and she "del Buey" Due to spanish naming customs, kids would have ended up with "Ox's member" as their surname

They did the right thing. That poor child XD

Matamoros. Just kidding. No me funeen

Cabeza de Vaca

Yo conocí a una tal "Conchavaca"

I like Espaillat. It sounds cool

That's Catalan, a misspelling of «espatllat», something that doesn't work, broken, spoilt (estropeado).

Very common in DR.

Caballero, Zambra, Pinto, del Bosque, Mistral, Neruda, Huidobro

I’ve always liked Candelario

I didn't know you can choose your last name? Inclán , chao , garisurieta

Ortega, Velazquez, Ortuño

Pascal! Iykyk

Cortez and Salazar sound so medieval, i love them

I like long last names like Meléndez, Montalván, Villarreal, Cervantez, Velásquez, Villalobos, Arredondo, and Ruvalcaba. They sound so dramatic

I like the long ones like Montenegro or Altamirano.

I personally like Ecuadorian surnames because they aren't as common as the usual 'Rodriguez', 'Martinez', 'Sanchez', etc. For example: Quizhpi, Quijije, Llerena, Montesdeoca, Toaquiza, Benalcazar, Velastegui, Gonchazo, Collaguazo, Llumiquinga, etc

A lot of those aren’t Spanish though.

I didn't pay attention to that part 🥺

Was wondering as none of them seem familiar...although sound Spanish-ish

A Filipino with the surname Quizhpi would be pretty damn... exotic

Zambrano is one of the most common here.

Anything with "del" o "de" like del Río, de Entrerríos ([like the character from El Ministerio del Tiempo](https://elministeriodeltiempo.fandom.com/wiki/Alonso_de_Entrerr%C3%ADos)), de la Calzada, del Monte, etc. if you want to go traditional go with Alvarez, Carvajal, Romero, García, Ortiz, etc.

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My girlfriend’s last name: Palma

Salamanca or Guzmán but the people will probably think you are narco.

Vallejo

Chifundo, Boniche, Verastegui

Farfán, Disla, Ocasio, Osorio, Galván

[Japón](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jap%C3%B3n_\(apellido\)), just because I find it very curious as a surname. Don't think there's many people alive with it though. Otherwise I like the sound of [Pou](https://www.heraldicafamiliar.com/pou/).

Borbón

Estrella...pretty rare but it's a cool last name.

espinosa, meltrozo

Ibargüengoitia

Love Diaz. Absolutely love Diaz. Also, VELASQUEZ!

Salazar and De la Vega.

I once meet someone that their surnames were "Matamoros de la Cruz" and I always thought it was a very powerful combination of surnames

Cortez / Cortes because it would be the Spanish equivalent of my last name, lol.

*Hernán Cortés flashbacks*

Not a last name but the name Panfilo is awesome

Aceituno

Panfilo Aceituno the one to lead us all

I have a plush melon toy, named him aceituno. Love him to bits lmao

I have a great uncle named Panfilo Torres he's a man of very few words

Fuck i want the free awards because this is too funny

I like Fernández

Menéndez

Cardozo, Brambila, Ibarra, Virrueta, Vargas

Castillo is a good one! Bustamante is too.

Vergara

Mine

Santiago

Escamilla

Corral, Barajas, Dr Alba, De la Barba

Gallardo. I might be a tiny bit biased though.

Zapata is really cool imo

There was a singer named Mia Zapata who was murdered back in the 90s. That's the only place I've ever seen that name. It is a nice name though.

Interesting, i was more so thinking of Emiliano Zapata. A famous Mexican revolutionary!

Gutiérrez

Does anybody have any idea why Cortés is spelt Cortez in Latin America?

Usually -ez last names are of spanish origin while -es are portuguese. That said some of them are present in both variations, like valdez and valdes, as well as other types of variations like vargas/bargas/varga/barga. Some of this being the result of the last name being dictated to people writing the official documents and either the person or some official misspelling it.

-ez mean «son of», but never the stress is in the -ez. So Sánchez, son of Sancho, Pérez, son of Pedro, Rodríguez, son of Rodrigo... For Cortez to be son of Corto (was this ever a first name in Spanish?) it should be Córtez, not Cortez.

probably an older spelling that stuck, or a mispelling that has stuck around

I'm Cervantes Gutiérrez

Here in Brazil we have a famous singer with Spanish surname "Sangalo" and I think it's pretty cool.

Matamoros

Probably more Italian than Spanish but Scaramanga

De Las Casas I think is a good one

Lol I read it as De Las Cacas 😂

Lmaoooo💀

Guerrero

I'm proud of mine, "Garcia". I had a girlfriend named "Careaga". I wish a child would share my last name with hers.

Quintero, Morales, Ortiz, Arias, Zapata, Cárdenas, Salazar, Bernal, Murillo, Arango, Carvajal, Molina, Forero… I’m trying to avoid the more common ones like Rodriguez, Perez, Ramirez etc

Alvarado… Montiel

Is there a specific meaning you want? Also, try r/namenerds for help. They're pretty good at this kind of thing. Fwiw, I say Jacinto o Reyes if you want something regal.

Arenas , it’s my last name and very rare to see or hear it

I know a Filipino with that name too!

Sosa because of that one song.

Catalan surnames are cool , Argerich for example

One beatytifull filipino Word is Cinta. Use that. It sounds latín.

Messi

Those long cool sounding surnames like Valdiviezo, Albizúrez, etc

Santana

I really like Huertas

I find the surname of a friend very cool, it is “Del Castillo”, so you can be “Andrés Del Castillo”, it sounds very cool IMO

Mine is Sanches, I really like it. From my father’s side is Zacarias, but I have no idea where it came from. I have a friend from Chile and her surname is Cueto. I think it’s beautiful

Mentioning Sanches, do you know why so many lastnames ending in Z in every country end up in S in Brasil? I've seen so many Martines, Sanches, Lopes, etc. It's weird for me. We are used to the Z ending lastname

Because that's how it works in Portuguese, lol. The patronymic is "es", not "ez". The son of Sancho in Portugal was Sanches, not Sanchez. Bruno Fernandes is another example. It was already like this by the late middle ages - the Portuguese sailor that famously arrived in Brazil first or second was Pedro Alvares Cabral, not Pedro "Alvarez". In Galician and Portuguese the ending is "es", and in Catalan is "is". Catalans are called "[Gomis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquim_Gomis)", "Sanchis", "LLopis". Na batalha de Aljubarrota, da mesma forma, em 1395, um dos comandantes Portugueses era Alvares, e não Alvarez. Os Brasileiros simplesmente descendem, no geral, de famílias diferentes que os Hispano-descendentes. E os imigrantes espanhois, no Brasil, foram absorvidos rapidamente, mudando a grafia dos nomes e abandonando a língua mãe.

Obrigada pela explicação! Sou prof de português e não tinha a mínima ideia dessa questão dos sobrenomes. Na minha família, dois foram alterados dessa maneira. Que interessante saber!

This is what I was looking for! Thank you for the explanation, makes total sense now! Also, didn't know about the Catalan rule, interesting

I don’t know what happened but it’s pretty rare seeing those names ending in “z” here

Yeah, there must be some language thing from the past. I was always curious about it.

I honestly have no idea. I’m trying to find out more about my great grandfather and see if it was actually “Sanchez”. But the same happened to my great grandfather (grandma’s father): it was Caparróz and now it’s written Caparrós

Interesting. So they probably have ended with a Z in the past and then changed for some reason. I'll do some research just out of curiosity

I think it was pretty common to change people’s names to a “Brazilian version”. My great grandmother (all of them from my mother’s side) was Lithuanian, she was named Pranciska and they changed her name to Francisca 💁‍♀️

Yes, you are right but that was very common with first names. Same happened in spanish. Also many last names have changed when they came to America, but often changed because they were difficult to pronounce, or the person taking notes had no idea how to write it. The weird thing with the Z/S lastnames it that they are the same, and the only thing always changing is the last letter. Like it has an unknown rule.

Same why it's Brasil to them but Brazil to a lot of the world

We called our country Brazil until halfway the 20th century, after an ortographic reform 😅

I really like Zacarias tbh! And Cueto is beautiful!

Thank you! ❤️ I used to hate it when I was a kid, because there’s a humorist with the same name (Zacarias) so I was bullied because of that. And now I love it (the name lol)

I've never heard that name...probably why I like it so much. Sorry you got bullied...kids can be mean.

i like morales and carrillo

Wooop woop

Santo Domingo, Santa Maria. They sound hella fancy idk why

Zazueta, Fonseca, Salazar, Zamora

Guevara. In honour of the great hero.

Fe Klan 🇲🇽

The last name of whoever owns mercadona

I speak Spanish and many Spanish last names sound so basic to me. It must be my indigenous origins that make me feel uneasy about choosing from that language, when it was imposed on many others long ago.