Myths and realities of the Spanish surnames ending in -ez

The last names, although at first glance they do not seem like it, have their magic.For example, have you ever wondered why many surnames in Spain end in -ez?Well, this and other curiosities is what we want to explain in Cadena 100, since surnames, like everything in life, have their origin and reason for being.

Surnames that cross borders

Surnames, like names, have enormous sociocultural significance.In addition, they go from generation to generation.In the case of names, the thing goes from fashions and epochs but, if we talk about the surnames, it is not something we can change at will.Unless we know, although in some cases it has come to be innovated and, in few exceptions, the children have been put to the mother's surname ahead of the paternal.In Anglo -Saxon countries, only one last name is taken.

Although the surnames have been able to undergo changes, with the passage of so many years of humanity, the truth is that they maintain the roots are intact or with minimal variations, with which they pass from one country to another.Specifically, in Latin America there are very popular surnames in Spain.Thing that does not happen so much with proper names.To this, we must add that our country had its colonies in these geographical areas for centuries.Hence, many surnames have crossed the ocean.

The origin of the termination in -ez

We have to go over centuries ago.Until the Middle Ages!We discovered that -it means "son of", although it is unknown where it comes from -it has come to say that from the Basque or the Visigoth -but between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the last names began to be used with this termination, to distinguishThe different high social classes.Over the years, this reached Castilla and Navarra.Something super curious is that, of the same name, this surname was born.That is, if the father is called Fernando, the surname that put his son or daughter was Fernández.The same could happen with González, from Gonzalo, or Rodríguez de Rodrigo.

El apellido más común en España

Finally, we want to tell you which most common name in Spain and, incidentally, the Top 5. The last name García Gan.Nothing less than almost a half and a half people take it, well above the Rodriguez, with more than 930 thousand, those who closely follow the González, 927 thousand.Then, Fernández with 910 thousand and López, more than 870 thousand.We will never go to sleep without having learned something new.

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