Galician
16Abreu is a surname of Galician and Portuguese origin, with its precise etymology uncertain but thought to derive from a Germanic personal name. The name is believed to have been introduced to the Iberian Peninsula during...
Andrade is a surname of Galician origin, which emerged in the 12th century as the family name of the knights and lords of the small parish of San Martiño de Andrade (St. Martin of Andrade), in the municipality of Pontede...
Botello is a Galician occupational surname that originally referred to a maker of bottles, from the Galician word bottela meaning "bottle". Like many occupational surnames, it would have been adopted by artisans and trad...
Coello is a Galician surname, a cognate of the Portuguese Coelho. Both derive from the word for "rabbit", likely originating either as a nickname for someone resembling a rabbit (e.g., swift or timid) or as an occupation...
EtymologyFerreira is a Galician and Portuguese surname. It denotes a person from a town named after its proximity to an iron mine, deriving from the Latin ferrum meaning "iron". The name is toponymic, referring to places...
Ferreiro is a Galician surname that is the Galician cognate of the Italian surname Ferrari. Like its counterparts across the Romance-language world, Ferreiro originally denoted a metalworker or smith, deriving from Latin...
Ferreyra is a Galician and Portuguese surname, a variant of Ferreira, which originates from the Latin word ferrum ("iron"). The name therefore topographically denotes a person from a town near an iron mine or, in a broad...
Ferro is a surname of occupational origin, meaning "iron" in both Galician and Italian. It derives from the Latin word ferrum, referring to the metal. The name originally designated a worker in iron, such as a blacksmith...
Nogueira is a toponymic surname of Galician and Portuguese origin, derived from the common noun nogueira meaning "walnut tree." The term itself comes from the Late Latin nucarius, which is ultimately derived from Latin n...
Pereira is a Galician and Portuguese surname derived from the Galician and Portuguese word pereira, meaning "pear tree," ultimately from the Latin pirum ("pear"). This makes it a toponymic surname, referring to someone w...
Pereiro is a Galician surname, functioning as a variant of the more common Portuguese and Galician surname Pereira. The name derives from the Galician and Portuguese word pereira, which means "pear tree," ultimately from...
Pereyra is a Galician and Portuguese surname, a variant of Pereira. Like Pereira, it derives from the Galician and Portuguese word pereira meaning "pear tree", ultimately from Latin pirum ("pear"). The name originated as...
Puga is a Galician surname derived from the noun puga, meaning “thorn, prickle.” It originated as a topographic name for someone who lived near a thorny place or as a nickname for a person with a prickly temperament. The...
Quiroga is a Spanish surname of toponymic origin, originally denoting a person from the town of Quiroga in Galicia, northwestern Spain. The toponym Quiroga itself is believed to derive from a pre-Latin root, possibly of...
Rocha is a Portuguese and Galician cognate of the English surname Roach, derived from the word for "rock" (Portuguese/Galician rocha). It originates from Late Latin rocca, a term possibly of Celtic origin, and referred t...
Vilar is a surname found in Catalan, Galician, and Portuguese cultures. Its origin lies in a toponymic term that described a small settlement or farm. The name derives from Late Latin villare, a derivative of Latin villa...