Spanish Surnames

Spanish surnames can often be a source of confusion for those not familiar with their structure and they way they're formed.

As a Spanish translator interested in the cultures of various Spanish-speaking countries, you know that there is a difference in how English and Spanish surnames are formed.

As you'll recall, the difference between the two is that Spanish surnames are usually composed of the father's surname followed by the mother's surname.

You need to make sure that you keep this in mind in case you ever have to deal with names in your translations. Be sure to remember, though, that Spanish cultures can vary in how they treat Spanish surnames, and when Hispanics move to an English-speaking country, they may often drop one of their surnames to avoid confusion.

Below I've put together a list of the most common Spanish surnames in the U.S., in case you're interested.

If you'd like more in-depth compact resources, you can search the various books about Spanish surnames at Amazon.

Spanish Surnames A Abeyta Abrego Abreu Acevedo Acosta Acuña Adame Adorno Agosto Aguayo Águilar Aguilera Aguirre Alanis Alaniz Alarcón Alba Alcala Alcántar Alcaraz Alejandro Alemán Alfaro Alicea Almanza Almaraz Almonte Alonso Alonzo Altamirano Alva Alvarado Álvarez Amador Amaya Anaya Anguiano Angulo Aparicio Apodaca Aponte Aragón Araña Aranda Arce Archuleta Arellano Arenas Arevalo Arguello Arias Armas Armendáriz Armenta Armijo Arredondo Arreola Arriaga Arroyo Arteaga Atencio Ávalos Ávila Avilés Ayala B Baca Badillo Báez Baeza Bahena Balderas Ballesteros Banda Bañuelos Barajas Barela Barragán Barraza Barrera Barreto Barrientos Barrios Batista Becerra Beltrán Benavides Benavídez Benítez Bermúdez Bernal Berríos Bétancourt Blanco Bonilla Borrego Botello Bravo Briones Briseño Brito Bueno Burgos Bustamante Bustos C Caballero Cabán Cabrera Cadena Caldera Calderón Calvillo Camacho Camarillo Campos Canales Candelaria Cano Cantú Caraballo Carbajal Cardenas Cardona Carmona Carranza Carrasco Carrasquillo Carreón Carrera Carrero Carrillo Carrion Carvajal Casanova Casares Casárez Casas Casillas Castañeda Castellanos Castillo Castro Cavazos Cazares Ceballos Cedillo Ceja Centeno Cepeda Cerda Cervantes Cervántez Chacón Chapa Chavarría Chávez Cintrón Cisneros Collado Collazo Colón Colunga Concepción Contreras Cordero Córdova Cornejo Corona Coronado Corral Corrales Correa Cortés Cortez Cotto Covarrubias Crespo Cruz Cuellar Curiel D Dávila de Anda de Jesús Delacrúz Delafuente Delagarza Delao Delapaz Delarosa Delatorre Deleón Delgadillo Delgado Delrío Delvalle Díaz Domínguez Domínquez Duarte Dueñas Duran E Echevarría Elizondo Enríquez Escalante Escamilla Escobar Escobedo Esparza Espinal Espino Espinosa Espinoza Esquibel Esquivel Estévez Estrada F Fajardo Farías Feliciano Fernández Ferrer Fierro Figueroa Flores Flórez Fonseca Franco Frías Fuentes G Gaitán Galarza Galindo Gallardo Gallegos Galván Gálvez Gamboa Gamez Gaona Garay García Garibay Garica Garrido Garza Gastélum Gaytán Gil Girón Godínez Godoy Gómez Gonzales González Gracia Granado Granados Griego Grijalva Guajardo Guardado Guerra Guerrero Guevara Guillen Gurule Gutiérrez Guzmán H Haro Henríquez Heredia Hernádez Hernandes Hernández Herrera Hidalgo Hinojosa Holguín Huerta Hurtado I Ibarra Iglesias Irizarry J Jaime Jaimes Jáquez Jaramillo Jasso Jiménez Jimínez Juárez Jurado L Laboy Lara Laureano Leal Lebrón Ledesma Leiva Lemus León Lerma Leyva Limón Linares Lira Llamas Loera Lomeli Longoria López Lovato Loya Lozada Lozano Lucero Lucio Luevano Lugo Luján Luna

M Macías Madera Madrid Madrigal Maestas Magaña Malave Maldonado Manzanares Mares Marín Márquez Marrero Marroquín Martínez Mascareñas Mata Mateo Matías Matos Maya Mayorga Medina Medrano Mejía Meléndez Melgar Mena Menchaca Méndez Mendoza Menéndez Meraz Mercado Merino Mesa Meza Miramontes Miranda Mireles Mojica Molina Mondragón Monroy Montalvo Montañez Montaño Montemayor Montenegro Montero Montes Montez Montoya Mora Morales Moreno Mota Moya Munguía Muñiz Muñoz Murillo Muro N Nájera Naranjo Narváez Nava Navarrete Navarro Nazario Negrete Negrón Nevárez Nieto Nieves Niño Noriega Núñez O Ocampo Ocasio Ochoa Ojeda Olivares Olivárez Olivas Olivera Olivo Olmos Olvera Ontiveros Oquendo Ordóñez Orellana Ornelas Orosco Orozco Orta Ortega Ortiz Osorio Otero Ozuna P Pabón Pacheco Padilla Padrón Páez Pagan Palacios Palomino Palomo Pantoja Paredes Parra Partida Patiño Paz Pedraza Pedroza Pelayo Peña Perales Peralta Perea Peres Pérez Pichardo Piña Pineda Pizarro Polanco Ponce Porras Portillo Posada Prado Preciado Prieto Puente Puga Pulido Q Quesada Quezada Quiñones Quiñónez Quintana Quintanilla Quintero Quiroz R Rael Ramírez Ramón Ramos Rangel Rascón Raya Razo Regalado Rendón Rentería Reséndez Reyes Reyna Reynoso Rico Rincón Riojas Ríos Rivas Rivera Rivero Robledo Robles Rocha Rodarte Rodrígez Rodríguez Rodríquez Rojas Rojo Roldán Rolón Romero Romo Roque Rosado Rosales Rosario Rosas Roybal Rubio Ruelas Ruiz Ruvalcaba S Saavedra Sáenz Saiz Salas Salazar Salcedo Salcido Saldaña Saldivar Salgado Salinas Samaniego Sanabria Sanches Sánchez Sandoval Santacruz Santana Santiago Santillán Sarabia Sauceda Saucedo Sedillo Segovia Segura Sepúlveda Serna Serrano Serrato Sevilla Sierra Sisneros Solano Solís Soliz Solorio Solorzano Soria Sosa Sotelo Soto Suárez T Tafoya Tamayo Tamez Tapia Tejada Tejeda Téllez Tello Terán Terrazas Tijerina Tirado Toledo Toro Torres Tórrez Tovar Trejo Treviño Trujillo U Ulibarri Ulloa Urbina Ureña Urías Uribe Urrutia V Vaca Valadez Valdés Valdez Valdivia Valencia Valentín Valenzuela Valladares Valle Vallejo Valles Valverde Vanegas Varela Vargas Vásquez Vázquez Vega Vela Velasco Velásquez Velázquez Vélez Véliz Venegas Vera Verdugo Verduzco Vergara Viera Vigil Villa Villagómez Villalobos Villalpando Villanueva Villareal Villarreal Villaseñor Villegas Y Yáñez Ybarra Z Zambrano Zamora Zamudio Zapata Zaragoza Zarate Zavala Zayas Zelaya Zepeda Zúñiga