Lopez
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Frequency: (72076)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Spanish (López): patronymic from the medieval personal name Lope (from Latin lupus ‘wolf’). This is one of the commonest of all Spanish surnames.
GIVEN NAMES: Spanish 47%. Juan (932), Manuel (727), Carlos (599), Luis (558), Jesus (527), Francisco (437), Pedro (393), Miguel (386), Jorge (348), Raul (323), Ramon (321), Mario (307).
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Oxford Dictionary of Family Names
Dictionary of American Family Names. Copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks. All rights reserved.
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