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Honduran Last Names

These Honduran last names range from Spanish family names like Zelaya, Mejía and Reyes to the English names of the Bay Islands and the Arab names of San Pedro Sula, each listed A to Z with its meaning.

153 real surnames with meanings, A to Z.

A

  • Acosta

    Coast or hillside

    Spanish

  • Aguilar

    Place of eagles

    Spanish

  • Alvarado

    From a place name in Spain

    Spanish

  • Álvarez

    Son of Álvaro, a given name of Germanic origin

    Spanish

  • Amador

    Lover; one who loves

    Spanish

  • Andino

    From a Spanish place name; or of the Andes

    Spanish

  • Arita

    Possibly Basque, from haritz, oak

    Spanish

  • Arzú

    Basque place-name surname; common among the Garifuna

    Spanish

  • Atala

    Possibly from Arabic Atallah, gift of God

    Arabic

  • Ávila

    From the Spanish city of Ávila

    Spanish

B

  • Baltazar

    From Balthazar, one of the Magi

    Spanish

  • Banegas

    Possibly from Vanegas, a Spanish place name

    Spanish

  • Barahona

    From a place in Soria

    Spanish

  • Bardales

    Hedges of brush or brambles

    Spanish

  • Bendeck

    Palestinian-Honduran family name; meaning uncertain

    Arabic

  • Bernárdez

    Son of Bernardo; common among the Garifuna

    Spanish

  • Bodden

    English surname of Bay Islands families; meaning uncertain

    English

  • Bográn

    Honduran surname of uncertain Spanish origin

    Spanish

  • Bonilla

    From Bonilla, a place name in Castile

    Spanish

C

  • Cacho

    Piece or chunk; common among the Garifuna

    Spanish

  • Cálix

    Chalice; possibly a devotional name

    Spanish

  • Canahuati

    Palestinian-Honduran family name; meaning uncertain

    Arabic

  • Canales

    Channels; from a place name

    Spanish

  • Cárcamo

    Possibly Basque; meaning uncertain

    Spanish

  • Cardona

    From Cardona, a town in Catalonia

    Spanish

  • Carías

    Possibly from a Spanish place name; meaning uncertain

    Spanish

  • Carranza

    From a Basque valley in Biscay

    Spanish

  • Castillo

    Castle; one who lived near a castle

    Spanish

  • Castro

    Hillfort; from Latin castrum

    Spanish

  • Cayetano

    From Gaeta in Italy; a Garifuna family name

    Spanish

  • Cerrato

    From El Cerrato, a district of Palencia

    Spanish

  • Chávez

    Keys; possibly from the Portuguese town of Chaves

    Spanish

  • Chinchilla

    From Chinchilla, a town in Albacete

    Spanish

  • Colón

    Dove; the Spanish form of Columbus

    Spanish

  • Cooper

    Barrel maker; a cooper by trade

    English

  • Corrales

    Pens or yards for livestock

    Spanish

  • Cruz

    Cross; a devotional name

    Spanish

D

  • Díaz

    Son of Diego

    Spanish

  • Discua

    Honduran surname of uncertain origin

    Spanish

  • Durón

    Honduran surname of uncertain Spanish origin

    Spanish

E

  • Ebanks

    English surname of Bay Islands and Cayman families

    English

  • Elvir

    Honduran surname of uncertain origin

    Spanish

  • Escoto

    Scot; one from Scotland

    Spanish

  • Espinal

    Thorny place; from espino, hawthorn

    Spanish

  • Espinoza

    Thorny place; from espino, hawthorn

    Spanish

  • Euceda

    Honduran surname of uncertain origin

    Spanish

F

  • Facussé

    Palestinian-Honduran family name; meaning uncertain

    Arabic

  • Faraj

    Arabic for relief or comfort

    Arabic

  • Fiallos

    Honduran surname, possibly Galician; meaning uncertain

    Spanish

  • Figueroa

    Galician for fig tree grove

    Spanish

  • Flores

    Flowers; possibly son of Froila

    Spanish

  • Fuentes

    Springs or fountains

    Spanish

  • Funes

    From Funes, a town in Navarre

    Spanish

G

  • Galeas

    Honduran surname; possibly from galeas, galleys

    Spanish

  • Gálvez

    Son of Galve

    Spanish

  • García

    Possibly from Basque for young or bear

    Spanish

  • Girón

    Strip of cloth or banner

    Spanish

  • Gómez

    Son of Gome, possibly from Gothic guma, man

    Spanish

  • Guevara

    From a Basque place in Álava

    Spanish

  • Guillén

    Spanish form of William

    Spanish

  • Guity

    Garifuna surname; meaning uncertain, possibly French

    Garifuna

  • Gutiérrez

    Son of Gutierre; Germanic for army ruler

    Spanish

H

  • Handal

    Possibly from Arabic hanzal, colocynth, a bitter gourd

    Arabic

  • Hawit

    Palestinian-Honduran family name; meaning uncertain

    Arabic

  • Hernández

    Son of Hernando; Germanic for bold journey

    Spanish

  • Herrera

    Forge or ironworks; place of iron

    Spanish

  • Hyde

    Hide, a medieval measure of land

    English

I

  • Irías

    Possibly from a Spanish place name; meaning uncertain

    Spanish

J

  • Jackson

    Son of Jack; common in the Bay Islands

    English

K

  • Kafati

    Palestinian-Honduran family name; meaning uncertain

    Arabic

  • Kafie

    Palestinian-Honduran family name; meaning uncertain

    Arabic

  • Kattán

    Possibly from Arabic qattan, cotton merchant

    Arabic

L

  • Laboriel

    Possibly French; a Garifuna family name

    French

  • Lagos

    Lakes; from a place name

    Spanish

  • Lambert

    Germanic for bright land; used by Garifuna families

    French

  • Lanza

    Lance or spear

    Spanish

  • Larach

    Palestinian-Honduran family name; meaning uncertain

    Arabic

  • Leiva

    From Leiva, a town in La Rioja

    Spanish

  • Lobo

    Wolf; a nickname for a fierce person

    Spanish

  • López

    Son of Lope; wolf

    Spanish

M

  • Mahomar

    Possibly from Arabic Muammar, long-lived

    Arabic

  • Mairena

    From Mairena, a town near Seville

    Spanish

  • Maldonado

    Ill-favored; old nickname

    Spanish

  • Maradiaga

    Basque place-name surname; very common in Honduras

    Spanish

  • Martel

    Hammer; a smith or strong man

    Spanish

  • Martínez

    Son of Martín; dedicated to Mars

    Spanish

  • Matute

    From Matute, a village in La Rioja

    Spanish

  • McNab

    Scottish; son of the abbot

    Scottish

  • Medina

    From Arabic madina, town

    Spanish

  • Mejía

    Possibly from Messiah or a Galician place name

    Spanish

  • Membreño

    Possibly from Membrío, a place in Cáceres

    Spanish

  • Méndez

    Son of Mendo

    Spanish

  • Mendoza

    Basque for cold mountain

    Spanish

  • Midence

    Honduran surname of uncertain origin

    Spanish

  • Molina

    Mill; from a place with a mill

    Spanish

  • Moncada

    From Montcada, a place in Catalonia

    Spanish

  • Mondragón

    From Mondragón, a Basque town

    Spanish

  • Montoya

    From a Basque place name in Álava

    Spanish

  • Moreno

    Dark-haired or dark-skinned

    Spanish

  • Murillo

    Little wall; from a place in La Rioja

    Spanish

N

  • Nájera

    From Nájera, a town in La Rioja

    Spanish

  • Nasralla

    Arabic Nasrallah, victory of God

    Arabic

  • Nasser

    Arabic for helper or victor

    Arabic

  • Navarro

    From the kingdom of Navarre

    Spanish

  • Nicolás

    Victory of the people

    Spanish

  • Norales

    Garifuna surname of the north coast; meaning uncertain

    Garifuna

  • Núñez

    Son of Nuño

    Spanish

O

  • Ordóñez

    Son of Ordoño

    Spanish

  • Ortiz

    Son of Orti or Fortún; fortunate

    Spanish

  • Oseguera

    Possibly from a Spanish place name; meaning uncertain

    Spanish

P

  • Padilla

    Frying pan; from a Castilian place name

    Spanish

  • Pavón

    Peacock; a nickname for a proud person

    Spanish

  • Paz

    Peace; from Our Lady of Peace

    Spanish

  • Pérez

    Son of Pedro; rock

    Spanish

  • Pineda

    Pine grove; from a place name

    Spanish

  • Ponce

    From the Latin name Pontius

    Spanish

  • Portillo

    Small mountain pass

    Spanish

  • Posadas

    Inns; one who kept or lived near an inn

    Spanish

R

  • Ramírez

    Son of Ramiro; famed counsel

    Spanish

  • Ramos

    Branches; from Palm Sunday

    Spanish

  • Rápalo

    Possibly from Rapallo in Liguria, Italy

    Spanish

  • Reyes

    Kings; from the feast of the Three Kings

    Spanish

  • Rivas

    Riverbanks; one who lived by a river

    Spanish

  • Rivera

    Riverbank; one who lived by a river

    Spanish

  • Rodas

    Possibly from Rhodes, or a Spanish place name

    Spanish

  • Rodríguez

    Son of Rodrigo; famous ruler

    Spanish

  • Romero

    Pilgrim to Rome; also rosemary

    Spanish

  • Rosa

    Rose; from a devotional or place name

    Spanish

  • Rosales

    Rose gardens; from a place name

    Spanish

  • Rosenthal

    German-Jewish; rose valley

    Jewish

S

  • Sabillón

    Honduran surname of uncertain Spanish origin

    Spanish

  • Salgado

    Salted; old nickname

    Spanish

  • Salinas

    Salt pans; from a place with salt works

    Spanish

  • Sambulá

    Garifuna surname of the north coast; meaning uncertain

    Garifuna

  • Sánchez

    Son of Sancho; holy

    Spanish

  • Sierra

    Mountain range; one who lived in the hills

    Spanish

  • Sikaffy

    Possibly from Arabic iskafi, shoemaker

    Arabic

  • Sosa

    From Sousa, a place in Portugal

    Spanish

  • Suazo

    Possibly Basque; common among mestizos and Garifuna

    Spanish

T

  • Torres

    Towers; from a place with towers

    Spanish

  • Turcios

    Honduran surname of uncertain origin

    Spanish

U

  • Urbina

    Basque for place of two waters

    Spanish

V

  • Valladares

    Galician; walled enclosures

    Spanish

  • Varela

    Rod or staff; also a Galician place

    Spanish

  • Vargas

    Sloping meadows; from a Cantabrian place name

    Spanish

  • Vásquez

    Son of Vasco; the Basque

    Spanish

  • Velásquez

    Son of Velasco; little crow

    Spanish

  • Villeda

    Possibly from a Spanish place name; meaning uncertain

    Spanish

W

  • Warren

    Game park or enclosure

    English

  • Woods

    One who lived by the woods

    English

Z

  • Zablah

    Palestinian-Central American family name; meaning uncertain

    Arabic

  • Zelaya

    Basque for field or meadow

    Spanish

  • Zúniga

    From Zúñiga, a Basque village in Navarre

    Spanish

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  • Figueroa

    Galician for fig tree grove

    Spanish

  • Urbina

    Basque for place of two waters

    Spanish

  • Woods

    One who lived by the woods

    English

  • Banegas

    Possibly from Vanegas, a Spanish place name

    Spanish

  • Navarro

    From the kingdom of Navarre

    Spanish

  • Torres

    Towers; from a place with towers

    Spanish

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    Spanish names at the core of Honduran last names

    Most Hondurans carry Spanish surnames. Hernández, López, Martínez, Rodríguez, García, Reyes, Mejía, Flores and Castillo are all very familiar, and several have a long presence in national life. Zelaya comes from a Basque word for a field or flat meadow, Mejía is often linked to Mesías, a religious name, and Lobo means wolf. Morazán recalls Francisco Morazán, the Honduran-born leader of the Central American federation, whose name is now carried by a department and many streets.

    Honduras uses two surnames, the father's first and the mother's second, so a man named Carlos Mejía Zelaya has Mejía from his father and Zelaya from his mother. Both appear on official documents, although people often use only the first. Political families show how names repeat across generations, with Zelaya, Lobo, Castro, Flores and Hernández all appearing in recent national leadership. None of these is rare, so sharing one does not imply a family link.

    Bay Islands, Garífuna and Miskito family names

    Honduras has several communities whose names differ from the Spanish norm. On the Bay Islands of Roatán, Utila and Guanaja, many English-speaking families descend from settlers from the Cayman Islands and elsewhere in the British Caribbean. Names like Bodden, Ebanks, McNab, Jackson, Cooper and Woods are common there, and Bodden and Ebanks are also classic Cayman names. These families often speak an English creole at home and Spanish in official settings.

    The Garífuna, descended from Carib, Arawak and West African people, were exiled from St. Vincent in 1797 and settled along the north coast around Trujillo, La Ceiba and Tela. Garífuna families carry names such as Guity, Sambulá, Norales, Bernárdez, Arzú and Laboriel, mostly Spanish, English or French in form. In La Mosquitia, Miskito families often carry English surnames from contact with British traders and Moravian missionaries, alongside Spanish ones from later Honduran administration.

    Arab-Honduran names and tips for research

    From the late 1800s, Christian Arab families, mostly from Palestine around Bethlehem and Beit Jala, settled in Honduras, especially in San Pedro Sula. Names such as Facussé, Larach, Kattán, Handal, Canahuati and Atala became well known in commerce and politics, and Carlos Flores Facussé served as president. Many of these families have been Honduran for several generations, and their names are as much part of the country as any Spanish one.

    For family research, civil registration records and older Catholic parish books are the main sources, and many are indexed by FamilySearch. Record both surnames for each ancestor, and watch for spelling differences such as Mejía and Mejia or Cárcamo and Carcamo, since accents are often dropped abroad. Large Honduran communities in Houston, Miami, New Orleans and New York mean these names now appear widely in the United States as well.

    Frequently asked questions

    What are the most common Honduran last names?

    Hernández, López, Martínez, Rodríguez, García, Reyes, Mejía, Flores and Castillo are among the most familiar names in Honduras. Most are Spanish patronymics or place names, and many Hondurans carry two of them because of the two-surname system.

    Why do some Hondurans have English family names?

    On the Bay Islands many families descend from English-speaking settlers from the Cayman Islands and the wider British Caribbean, and on the Mosquito Coast British traders and Moravian missionaries left English names among Miskito families. Names like Bodden, Ebanks and McNab are typical of Roatán and Utila.

    Where do Arab names in Honduras come from?

    Most come from Palestinian Christian families who arrived from the late 1800s onward, many from Bethlehem and Beit Jala. They settled mainly in San Pedro Sula and built businesses in trade and industry. Names such as Facussé, Larach, Handal and Canahuati are well known today.

    What does Zelaya mean?

    Zelaya comes from the Basque word zelai, meaning a field or flat meadow, and began as a name for someone who lived on level ground. It is one of the best known names in Honduras, carried by families across the country and by former president Manuel Zelaya.

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