#Spanish Surnames

[soulshines]

spanish  surnames   :   a  masterlist   

below  the  cut  you’ll  find  a  list  containing  #  150  spanish  surnames  sorted  alphabetically  .  these  are  some  of  my  personal  favorites  so  please  enjoy  and  consider  giving  this  post  a  like  /  reblog  if  you  found  it  useful  !

acevedo

águila

aguirre

almada

alonso

ángeles

aragón

araiza

arias

arjona

armas

arriaga

atenas

augusto

ávila

ayala

báez

barrera

bautista

beltrán

blanco

bolívar

bonilla

bracho

cabrera

camacho

cardoza

carrera

casillas

castañeda

castillo

cervantes

claudio

cortés

costa

cuervo

dávalos

dávila

de aguilar

de alba

de carvajal

de la vega

de lucena

de narváez

de peralta

del río

escobar

escobedo

espino

espinosa

estrada

farías

fernandino

ferrera

fierro

galindo

gamboa

gavilán

garza

granada

granados

grijalba

guardado

guerrero

heredia

herrera

hurtado

ibáñez

ibarra

jiménez

jaramillo

lafuente

leal

león

leyva

lima

lira

lombardo

lozano

luna

maldonado

maltés

marciel

miranda

molina

montano

montenegro

montoya

moralo

naranjo

navarro

nieto

noriega

novo

obregón

olivero

olmeda

olmos

orozco

osuna

ortega

ortiz

palomar

paz

pedrosa

peralta

perdomo

pineda

prado

reyes

reynoso

rivas

rivera

robles

rocha

rodríguez

rojas

romero

román

rubio

salinas

salvador

sandoval

santángel

santiago

serrano

solano

solar

soto

sáez

toro

ureña

uriarte

uribe

usaga

uveda

valdiva

valencia 

valentín

valenzuela

vargas

vega

velarde

ventura

vidal

vivero

zambrano

zamora

zelaya

zepeda

#surname masterlist #last names masterlist #spanish surnames #spanish last names #surnames #rph #indie rp #indie rph #name help #name inspo #mine .

[arthursfuckinghat]

I wonder when Javier is going to offhandedly mention how the gang has been pronouncing his last name wrong the entire time he's been with them

#they say it like “escuela” which means school #unless its international then forgive me aha #I'm not fluent in spanish but I held onto it after studying it in school so I find it a bit funny how they pronounce his last name #it would be pronounced like “escue-ya” the double ll usually makes a “ya” sound (unlike welsh thats a v different double ll pronounciation) #“escuella” isn't even a word or a surname in itself funnily enough #javier is just too cool I guess #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #mick squeaks #javier escuella

[wolfythewitch]

You don't have to answer this but- I'm Spanish and I heard that in the Philippines they have, to some extent, some Spanish influence (culturally Speaking).

So I wanted to know if that is, by any chance, true? Or at least partially

I mean. Yeah agsjdh. Over 300 years of colonization will do that to you

#wolfy tedtalks #anon #this is light hearted but yes #a lot of filipino words and food have spanish origin #even a lot of surnames here are technically spanish

[wildflowercryptid]

more katy & saguaro content — i like to think that katy brings saguaro samples of menu items she's work-shopping so she can get his input on them.

#if you're wondering where i got hugo from it's saguaro's name in the spanish translation and i thought it'd make a cute first name for him #saguaro sounds more like a surname to me idk #also i drew this before the other secretsweets drawing i shared so that's why he looks a lil wonkier here #i need to practice drawing him more... #pokemon #pokemon scarlet and violet #pkmn sv #instructor saguaro #pokemon saguaro #gym leader katy #pokemon katy #secretsweetsshipping #ship : katy & saguaro #this can be read as platonic tho #🎨 : mj draws

[notmoreflippingelves]

Just came to the belated and unfortunate (?) realization that Esteban Flores's full name technically means "flower crown" in English.

#love this for him and hate this for him #i mean technically it's 'flowers' plural and 'crown' singular but still #i mean tbf there's probably another word there too but as we don't know his dad's surname; “flower crown” is all we have to go on #i mean i was already planning on doing a flower crown edit for him at some point but like I'm gonna have to now #esteban flores #chancellor esteban #elena of avalor #it's easy to overlook since corona is used for crown more often in spanish #and it requires one to know that esteban is the spanish for stephen and that stephen comes from the greek for "crown' #or more specifically “surrounding the crown”/“holding the crown” #but still #my special little guy #i am kissing him on the forehead upon which i have placed a flower crown #maybe daisies in honor of his dead mom's name? (no that's too mean. he can have orchids instead)

[werewolfthing]

IS THAT HIS NAME

#hypergryph: ok guys how can we name this latino character #employee with the common spanish surnames wikipedia page open: i have an idea #arknights

[eliseliedl]

#the sims #simsblr #gamingedit #the sims 2 #simsedit #the sims 2 ds #retro gaming #giuseppi ruedi #giuseppi mezzoalto #creaciones #i like the spanish version of his surname more tbh #anyone else had a crush on him as a child? no? just me? okay 😳

[mgert-m]

SOME NEW EL FILI DOODLES

here's the au for some of the doodles:

I love this au, i wish elias was in el fili

#el filibusterismo #el fili #el noli #art #doodle #el noli fandom #spanish surname au #elias #simoun #placido penitente #juanito pelaez #basilio

[tombware]

Idk if anyone cares but if Astarions surname is meant to sound spanish-adjacent then itd be pronounced an-coo-NEEN (so like, coo like the actual word, and neen like neet)

#mind you i dont think if they pronounced it ingame theyd pronounce it like this at all i fear #i can only dream that they pronounce it an-ca-NEN or an-CA-nen #an-queue-NIN is worst case scenario. horrible #also the most likely thing is that they mashed syllables and thought oh pretty! #and then the accent was used to make it look fancy or elven or some shit #But the end result is very spanish anyways #The last syllable being -ín... #We have the surname bellerín for example #we also use it to make words small. Botella (bottle) Botellín (small bottle) #I hope we never get a canon pronunciation. #or at least one that i hate

[ohitslen]

Rewatching Stampede because yes I have better things to do but also seeing Nai playing “Duet” by himself sounding the same way it did when Vash played with him, he really must have invested a lot of time into pulling that off and it just makes my gut roll in a certain way that I’m just-

#(this time on Spanish because I will consume this in as many languages as I am able to grasp) #it’s so SAD??? everybody and their moms knows how Nai’s love for Vash issss particular #but at some point early on many traumas ago; he genuinely just loved his brother for who he was #yeah I’ve read whole essays and character studies about how ‘twisted’ for a lack of a better word rn Nai’s love is #but we really need to think back at the time in where it was just that #pure love towards his little brother whom he treasured so much and then we all know shit just went from bad to worse #thinking about them in a very normal and casual way (I’m going insane) #I could talk about them for hours despite my knowledge being lacking but hey it’s still fun #gosh I love this series so much im going to implode #lenssi rambles #trigun #vash the stampede #millions knives #nai saverem #THAT IS A TAG AND IM CRYING AT THE SURNAME UEHEHEBWGHHHHG #vash saverem #trigun stampede

[nocturnus33]

Colonialism is to be asked about my mother's maiden name, when in Latin America we women always keep our surname, even after getting married.

Despite the jokes about Spanish names being too long, I proudly carry two surnames. My name is composed of my first name and the last name of each of my parents. I do not need to hypheminate it. It is my full name. Is it too dificult to understand?

There is no "maiden name" for us, it is -and always will be- my mom's first surname, which also is one of my two last names.

We have two surnames. We honour our father and mother without requiring women to give up their names when they marry. For example, in (José) Pedro (Balmaceda) Pascal's case, Pascal is the part of his surname that came from his mother: Mrs. Verónica Pascal.

So, please don't ask me again about my mother's "maiden" name again. Ask me about my name, and I'll give you my first and both my surnames.

#micromachism #chauvinism #surnames #spanish language #Latin #colonialism #pedro pascal #personal rant

[baoreal]

In Spain do you take both you mother and fathers last name cause I love MotoGP and follow Marc Marquez and his full name is Marc Marquez Alenta so I assumed he’s got both his parents last names and I’ve seen it with other Spanish athletes, and if you have kids does the fathers or mothers last name get past on?

Yes! Everybody in Spain has two surnames (myself included hehe), because we get both our father’s first surname and our mother’s first surname. It’s important to note that Spanish women don’t take and historically have never taken their husband’s surname when they marry, they simply keep the two surnames they were given at birth. So in the end both parents maintain two sets of completely different surnames, and the kid gets the first from each set. As to which goes first, the father’s or the mother’s, it’s up to the parents to decide; though traditionally it’s usually the father’s that is put first. So, in Marc’s case, his surnames are Márquez i Alentà because his father’s first surname is Márquez, and his mother’s first surname is i Alentà, and he inherited both.

This is also why Mr. F1 driver Carlos Sainz Vásquez de Castro Cenamor Rincón Rebollo Birto Moreno de Aranda de Anteriuga Tiapera Deltun has so many surnames. It’s because you can simply follow the thread of your father’s second surname, then your mother’s second surname, then your paternal grandfather’s second surname, then your paternal grandmother’s second surname, then your maternal grandfather… all the way until you run out of family records, essentially. Even I end up with like 7 surnames if I start counting back 😋.

Hope this clarified it!

#a talks #ask #welcome to the wonderful world of Spanish surnames #they’re a very complicated affair especially when you start bringing compound surnames into it #i Alentà is a compound surname meaning that it’s made up of two different words (‘i’ and ‘Alentà’) but it constitutes a single surname #isn’t that fun? #marc marquez #carlos sainz

[daily-spanish-word]

last name, surname el apellido

Imagine Apple’s CEO changing his last name to Apple, just to avoid any confusion: ‘Tim Apple’.

Spaniards have two surnames. Los españoles tienen dos apellidos.

Picture by Daniel Lobo on Flickr

#name #last name #surname #apellido #apple #tim cook #spanish #vocabulary #vocab #español #hint #mnemonic #wotd #word of the day

[solmints-messyocdiary]

Ophelia Fie Yvette de Cervantes Galán or just Ophelia de Cervantes Galán.

She's Spanish with Danish and French origin because I said so. 🎤💁🏻‍♀️

#I picked cervantes because it sounds nice AND it belongs to one of the most well-known and important writers of spanish literature #Galán because many knights had that surname #in hispanic countries the kids keep both the parents surnames #oc: ophelia de cervantes galán

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

my favourite part about elections is that the electoral papers give me tons of names to include in my list of names™️

#which btw i could share in a google doc or something if anyone wants it!! #it's a big list of spanish names and surnames i use for fictional spanish characters #i just use a random number generator and select the name and both surnames randomly #to get a realistic spanish name :)

[cetospandiglia]

I feel no patriotic love for Spain and in fact I yearn for its inevitable demise but when foreigners start dealing with the fact that their family name system heavily favours men's family names I am reminded that not everything about this country sucks lmao

If you don't know what I'm talking about, ever since medieval Castille everyone involved in a marriage has kept their surnames, and the children inherit the father's first family name as their first family name and the mother's first family name as their second. The origin of this practice is in no way feminist, but in modern day Spain it means that there's no debate around keeping your own name because it's always been yours to keep. Children carry both their parent's surnames and it's been a good while now since it was passed into law that even if the default order is Givenname Fathersname Mothersname, that is now optional.

It is not unusual for Spaniards to go by their mother's family name if they just happen to like it. 2 presidents ago we had José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (José Luis given name, Rodríguez father's family name & Zapatero mother's family name) aka just Zapatero, and his minister of interior and succesor at the front of the main centerleft party in Spain Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba aka Rubalcaba (he lost the election).

In fact, I remember vividly a moment, shortly after Rubalcaba lost the election if I'm not mistaken, when he was leader of the opposition and as a mark of disrespect he was referd to as "Sr. Pérez" instead of "Sr. Pérez Rubalcaba" or "Sr. Rubalcaba", it was a whole thing with the (parlamentary) left complaining about the fact that the right intentionally used the man's first surname because it sounds less remarkable (Pérez is one of the most common Spanish surnames while Rubalcaba is not, I don't think I've ever heard of other people named Rubalcaba besides the guy in question), and the right calling the left loony because Pérez is literally the guy's first surname and refering to people by the first surname is the normalest thing to do.

Some very famous people you might have heard of that prominently use their mother's family name are Picasso (painter, Pablo Ruiz Picasso, 1881-1973), Velázquez (painter, Diego Rodríguez de Silva Velázquez, 1599-1660), Federico García Lorca (poet, 1898-1936), Javier Bardem (actor, Javier Encina Bardem, 1969-), Antonio Banderas (actor, José Antonio Domínguez Bandera, 1960-)

This is also not exclusive to Spain, I didn't know it but Chile's Pedro Pascal uses his second surname as artistic name, his full name is José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal.

This is not to say all these people are feminists (in fact Picasso was a known misogynistic abuser) or to say Spain is an extremely feminist country (from what I know, nowadays it's a country with a very strong feminist movement but I don't think this has anything to do with it). This is just a historical coincidence probably derived from the fact that noble people sometimes had more important mothers than fathers and they wanted to be able to carry ALL their family names.

(Also, one curious thing is that looking up people who use their mother's surname none of them were women, idk if I just haven't looked hard enough or if it's more common for men to do it.)

I'm not trying to make a point here. End of post.

#spain #surname #family name #keeping your name #José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero #Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba #Pablo Picasso #Diego Velázquez #Javier Bardem #Antonio Banderas #Pedro Pascal #politics #feminism #spanish #chile