Majority of
surnames carried by Filipinos are either Spanish or indigenous in origins. Some
surnames of the Spaniards are names of places in Spain and other countries. With
Spanish contacts especially during the era of colonization, some Filipinos have
Spanish surnames as a result of Spanish
ancestry or adaptation of the decree on November 21, 1849, by Spanish Governor
General of the Philippines Narciso Claveria Y Zaldua urging the inhabitants to
select and adopt surnames based on the list provided in the Catalogo Alfabetico
de Apilledos.
Below is a
list of Spanish surnames that are derived from places in Spain that some
Filipino families also carry as their own. Some of the names have changes in
Spelling when used by Filipinos.
Abenoja (Abenojar),
Agudo, Alava, Albarracin, Alcantara, Alcaraz, Alcazar, Alfaro, Almazan, Almonte,
Aragon, Arevalo, Astorga, Atienza, Avila, Barcelona, Barrameda, Barriero, Bilbao,
Brosas (Brozas), Burgos, Cadiz, Cartagena, Caspe, Collado, Cordova, Cuenca, Daymiel
(Daimiel), Escatron, Espina (La Espina), Estremadura (Extremadura), Figueras, (Figueres),
Figueroa, Fontanosas, Galvez, Garlito (Garlitos), Girona, Granada, Guadalupe,
Jaca, Ledesma, Ligazpi, Linares, Logroӣo, Lugo, Madrid, Manzaӣares, Martos, Mayorga, Molina, Mondejar, Monsanto, Monteroso (Monterroso),
Montilla, Monzon, Navarra/Navarro, Olivenza, Onda, Oropesa, Palencia, Pamplona,
Peӣafiel, Peralta, Poblete, Quezada, Quintanar,
Quinto, Robledo, Sagunto, Sahagun, Salamanca, Salas, Salcedo, Saldaӣa, Santander, Sepulveda, Sevilla, Soria, Talavera, Teruel, Toledo, Tolosa,
Tortosa, Trillo, Trujillo, Valdepeӣas, Valencia,
Vigo, Villahermosa, Viloria, Zafra, Zamora, Zaragosa
Spaniards
also bear surnames that are derived from other places or countries, and when
they do, the word or the spelling of these names is Hispanized. Below is a list
of some of those names that are also adopted by Filipinos including names of
places in the Philippines that are only used by them as surnames.
Avelino
(Avellino, a City in Italy), Babilonia (Babylonia), Bacolod, Baguio, Basilan, Bayona (Bayonne,
a port in France), Beja (a Portuguese city), Belen (Bethlehem), Belgica
(Belgium), Bohol, Bordeos (Bordeaux, a city of France), Braganza (Braganca,
Portugal), Capistrano (Capestrano, a town in Italy), Cerdeӣa (Sardinia, an island of Italy), Chavez (Chaves, a city In Portugal), Cuba,
Damasco (Damascus), Davao, Egipto (Egypt), de Asis (Assisi, a town in Italy), Evora (a city in Portugal), Filipinas,
Florencio (Florence, a city in Italy), Gante (Ghent, a city in Belgium), Israel,
Jerusalem, Jordan, Lamigo (Lamego, a city in Portugal), Luzon, Medina (a city
in Saudi Arabia), Montenegro (a country in Southeast Europe), Napoles (Naples,
a city in Italy), Padua (a city in Italy), Pedroso (a municipality in Portugal), Piamonte (Piemonte, a
region in Italy), Rabat (the capital of Morocco), Ravena (Ravenna, a city in
Italy), Surigao, Tiro (Tyre, a city in Lebanon), Tolentino ( a town in Italy), Valenzuela
(little Valencia), Villareal (Vila Real, a city in Portugal)
