A DAY TO REMEMBER. On Friday, March 17, students from the UF College of Medicine class of 2017 discovered where they will spend the next four years â or more â of their medical careers.
Revealed: Why hispanic surnames dominate most common women's name combinations in America. 1  More than 38,000 Americans have the name James Smith. 2  On a list of the top 13 most popular full names in the U.S., the majority of the last names were Smith. 3  All but one of the most popular female full names have Spanish origins.
1 However, Spanish patronymic surnames were most often formed by adding suffixes meaning son of, such as-es, -as, -is, or-os (common to Portuguese surnames) or an-ez, -az, -is, or-oz (common to Castilian or Spanish surnames) to the end of the father's name. ( 2 Leon Alvarez-Leon son of Alvaro). (Leon Alvarez-Leon son of Alvaro). 2  Geographical Surnames-Another common type of Hispanic last name, Spanish geographical surnames are often derived from the location of the homestead from which the first bearer and his family came from or resided in (Ricardo de Lugo-Ricardo from the town of Lugo).