Lopes Family History
Lopes Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Manuel, Jose, Carlos, Fernando, Luis, Julio, Mario, Americo, Armando, Jorge, Alvaro, Ana. Portuguese Joao, Joaquim, Ilidio, Martinho, Paulo, Serafim, Anabela, Duarte, Mateus, Aderito, Afonso, Agostinho.
Portuguese and Galician: patronymic from the medieval personal name Lopo (from Latin lupus ‘wolf’).
Spanish: variant or altered form of López (see Lopez ).
Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Portuguese surname (see 1 above) at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later), some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholics.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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