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López

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Lopez
Coat of arms of Hidalgo families named López
Pronunciation/ˈlpɛz/
Spanish: [ˈlopes] (seseante)
Spanish: [ˈlopeθ] (Castilian)
Origin
LanguageSpanish
Meaning"son of Lope" (wolf)
Region of originSpain
Other names
Variant formsLopes (Portuguese), Lupo (Italian), Loup (French), Lupu (Romanian)
Frequency comparisons:[1]
López in the Spanish provinces

López or Lopez is a surname of Spanish origin.[2] It was originally a patronymic, meaning "Son of Lope", Lope itself being a Spanish given name deriving from Latin lupus, meaning "wolf". Its Portuguese and Galician equivalent is Lopes, its Italian equivalent is Lupo, its French equivalent is Loup (or Leu), its Romanian equivalent is Lupu or Lupescu, its Catalan and Valencian equivalent is Llopis and its Basque equivalent is Otxo.

López is the fifth most common Hispanic surname globally and in Spain and the USA.[citation needed] It is the most common surname in the province of Lugo. It is the most common Spanish surname in the United Kingdom.

Geographical distribution

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As of 2014, 34.8% of all known bearers of the surname López were residents of Mexico (frequency 1:40), 10.0% of Spain (1:52), 8.2% of Guatemala (1:22), 7.3% of the United States (1:547), 7.1% of Colombia (1:75), 5.0% of Argentina (1:96), 3.8% of Venezuela (1:88), 2.7% of Honduras (1:36), 2.7% of Peru (1:131), 2.6% of the Philippines (1:438), 2.5% of Nicaragua (1:27), 2.1% of Cuba (1:62), 1.8% of Ecuador (1:99), 1.6% of El Salvador (1:44), 1.4% of Paraguay (1:56), 1.3% of Chile (1:148) and 1.1% of Bolivia (1:104).

In Spain, the frequency of the surname was higher than average (1:52) in the following regions:

In Guatemala, the frequency of the surname was higher than average (1:22) in the following departments:

In Mexico, the frequency of the surname was higher than average (1:40) in the following states:[3]

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Jesús Antonio López, psicólogo social panameño y uno de los principales psicólogos sociales latinoamericanos.

References

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  1. "López Surname Meaning and Distribution". forebears.co.uk.
  2. Pedro Morote Pérez (1741). Antiguedad, y blasones de la ciudad de Lorca, y Historia de Santa Maria la Real de las Huertas ... por Francisco Joseph Lopez Mesnier, en la calle de Zambrana. pp. 214–.
  3. Lopez surname distribution