Puerto Rican Last Name Generator

Island surnames from Rivera to Mattei

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Get Puerto Rican last names, from island leaders like Rivera, Ortiz and Colón to Corsican and Mallorcan arrivals like Mattei, Santoni and Rullán, plus double surnames in father-then-mother order like Torres Irizarry.

About Puerto Rican last names

Puerto Rican surnames are Spanish at the core. Rivera, Rodríguez, Ortiz, Colón, Meléndez, Maldonado, Negrón, Pagán, Quiñones and Vélez are among the names you meet most often on the island, and a few of them, such as Colón, Negrón and Pagán, are more at home in Puerto Rico than almost anywhere else in the Spanish-speaking world.

The nineteenth century added new layers. The Royal Decree of Graces of 1815 opened the island to Catholic settlers from friendly countries, and families arrived from Corsica, France, Ireland and the German states, alongside new arrivals from Spain's own Mallorca, Catalonia and Canary Islands. Corsicans settled the coffee country around Yauco and left names such as Mattei, Santoni, Pietri and Fraticelli. Mallorcans, many of them from the town of Sóller, and Catalans brought Ferrer, Rullán, Mayol and Bauzá. Canarian families carried Betancourt and Curbelo, and Basque ones Igartúa and Olavarría.

Like most of the Spanish-speaking world, Puerto Ricans use two surnames: the father's first surname, then the mother's. This list mixes single surnames with double ones in that order, so you can name one person or a whole family. A surname here tells you where a name came from, not where any one family did, and no last name proves ancestry.

How to choose Puerto Rican last names

Build a full name in the island order: given name, father's first surname, mother's first surname. A character named Carmen Torres Irizarry has a Torres father and an Irizarry mother, and is Carmen Torres for short.
Keep the accents. Colón, Pagán, Negrón, Vélez and Meléndez are stressed on the marked syllable, and dropping the mark changes how the name is read.
For a family from the coffee towns of the southwest, a Corsican surname such as Mattei, Santoni or Pietri sits naturally next to a Spanish one.
In the United States many Puerto Ricans use only the first surname, or join the two with a hyphen so both survive on forms. Decide which habit your character follows and stay with it.
Pair a very common surname with a rarer one, such as Rivera with Quilichini or Ortiz with Zalduondo, when a character has to stand out in a town full of Riveras.

Frequently asked questions

What are the most common Puerto Rican last names?

Rivera, Rodríguez, Ortiz, Colón, Santiago, Torres, González and Vázquez are among the surnames you will meet most often in Puerto Rico. Meléndez, Maldonado, Negrón, Pagán, Quiñones and Vélez are everyday names too. All of them are in this list, next to several hundred that are much rarer, such as Nigaglioni, Serrallés and Olazagasti.

Why do Puerto Ricans have two last names?

Puerto Rico follows the Spanish custom: a child takes the father's first surname followed by the mother's first surname. Both are part of the full name, and a woman traditionally keeps her own surnames when she marries. In this list a double entry such as Vega Berríos or Colón Avilés reads father's side first, mother's side second.

Why are there Italian, French and Irish surnames in Puerto Rico?

In 1815 the Spanish Crown's Royal Decree of Graces invited Catholic settlers from friendly countries to the island. Corsicans, whose surnames look Italian, came in large numbers, along with French, Irish, German and other families. That is why Mattei, Pierluisi, Beauchamp, O'Neill and Riefkohl are Puerto Rican surnames today.

Does a surname from this list show that someone is Puerto Rican?

No. Almost every name here is also carried in Spain, in other parts of Latin America or in the countries the later settlers came from. A surname can point to where a name started, but it says nothing certain about one person or one family.

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All 500 Puerto Rican last names

This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 31 names

Acevedo
Adorno
Agostini
Agosto
Agront
Alayón
Albino
Alemañy
Alers
Algarín
Alicea
Alvarado
Alvelo
Amengual
Amézquita
Andino
Andújar
Antonetti
Antongiorgi
Aponte
Aramburu
Arbelo
Arbona
Arizmendi
Arocho
Arrillaga
Arzuaga
Avilés
Ayala
Ayala Valentín
Ayuso

B: 33 names

Báez
Ballester
Balseiro
Barceló
Bartolomei
Battistini
Bauzá
Bayrón
Beauchamp
Bennazar
Benvenutti
Berastain
Bernier
Berríos
Betances
Betancourt
Biaggi
Bird
Birriel
Bisbal
Blasini
Blondet
Bonet
Boneta
Borrero
Bosques
Bothwell
Bracero
Bultrón
Burgos
Burgos Claudio
Burgos Collazo
Busquets

C: 47 names

Cabán
Cajigas
Calo
Cancel
Candelario
Capó
Caraballo
Carattini
Carballo
Carrasquillo
Carrero
Carrión
Cartagena
Casals
Casañas
Casiano
Castañer
Centeno
Cerdá
Cervoni
Cestero
Chardón
Chévere
Cintrón
Cirino
Claudio
Clavell
Colberg
Coll
Collazo
Colom
Colombani
Colón
Colón Avilés
Colón Curbelo
Concepción
Corchado
Coriano
Cortijo
Cosme
Cotto
Couvertier
Crespo
Cruz
Cruzado
Cuadrado
Curbelo

D: 22 names

Dalmau
Dávila
De Choudens
De Gracia
De Jesús
De La Rosa
De Santiago
Del Moral
Del Rosario
Del Toro
Del Valle
Déniz
Díaz
Díaz Cruz
Díaz Ferrer
Doménech
Dominicci
Dorta
Duchesne
Dumeng
Dumont
Duprey

E: 11 names

Echeandía
Echegaray
Echevarría
Egozcue
Elzaburu
Emmanuelli
Encarnación
Erazo
Escalera
Espada
Esquilín

F: 23 names

Fantauzzi
Farinacci
Fas
Febles
Febo
Febus
Feliciano
Ferré
Ferrer
Figarella
Figueroa
Figueroa Lugo
Flores
Font
Fontánez
Fortuño
Franceschi
Franceschini
Franqui
Fraticelli
Freytes
Frontera
Fuster

G: 21 names

Galloza
Gandía
García
Garrastegui
Gaud
Gautier
Gaztambide
Géigel
Gelpí
Gerena
Gierbolini
Gilormini
Giorgi
Goenaga
González
González Gerena
González Matos
Goyco
Guadalupe
Guilbe
Guillermety

H: 6 names

Hance
Hernández
Hernández Alicea
Hiraldo
Hostos
Huertas

I: 5 names

Igartúa
Ilarraza
Irizarry
Iturregui
Iturrondo

J: 5 names

Janer
Juarbe
Juliá
Jusino
Justiniano

K: 3 names

Kercadó
Krans
Kuilan

L: 34 names

La Luz
La Santa
La Torre
Laboy
Lacén
Lacourt
Lafontaine
Laguerre
Lamberty
Lamboy
Lamourt
Landrón
Lanzó
Laporte
Laracuente
Larrauri
Larregui
Lassalle
Laureano
Lavergne
Leandry
Lebrón
Lecároz
Ledée
Lind
Lizardi
Lloréns
López
López Carrasquillo
Lozada
Lucchetti
Luciano
Lugo
Luiggi

M: 52 names

Machín
Maisonet
Malaret
Malavé
Maldonado
Maldonado Aponte
Mangual
Manso
Marchand
Mari
Mariani
Marqués
Marrero
Martell
Martínez
Martínez Mulero
Mártir
Martorell
Marxuach
Matías
Matos
Mattei
Mayol
McClintock
Medina
Medina Feliciano
Mejías
Melecio
Meléndez
Meléndez Maisonet
Meléndez Ocasio
Melián
Mendía
Mercado
Merced
Mignucci
Minguela
Mir
Mojica
Molinari
Monclova
Monllor
Monroig
Monserrate
Montáñez
Morales
Morales Quiles
Morales Santoni
Moret
Moscoso
Mulero
Muñiz

N: 15 names

Natal
Natali
Nater
Navedo
Nazario
Negrín
Negrón
Negrón Del Valle
Negroni
Nevárez
Nieves
Nieves Sostre
Nigaglioni
Noble
Nolla

O: 25 names

O'Neill
Ocasio
Olán
Olavarría
Olazagasti
Olivencia
Oliveras
Olivieri
Olmeda
Olmo
Oppenheimer
Oquendo
Orama
Orengo
Orlandi
Oronoz
Orsini
Orta
Ortiz
Ortiz Bauzá
Ortiz Matías
Ostolaza
Otaño
Otero
Oyola

P: 34 names

Pabón
Padín
Padovani
Padró
Padrón
Pagán
Palau
Palmieri
Pantojas
Paoli
Parrilla
Passalacqua
Pellot
Peraza
Pérez
Pérez Cintrón
Pérez Quiñones
Pesquera
Picó
Pierantoni
Pierluisi
Pietri
Piñero
Piovanetti
Pizá
Placeres
Poggi
Pol
Polanco
Pomales
Portalatín
Power
Pratts
Pumarejo

Q: 6 names

Quiles
Quilichini
Quiñones
Quiñones Dávila
Quiñones Piñero
Quirindongo

R: 35 names

Raffucci
Ramírez
Ramos
Ramos Betancourt
Ramos Mayol
Ravelo
Rentas
Resto
Rexach
Reyes
Riefkohl
Rijos
Rivera
Rivera Arzuaga
Rivera Oquendo
Rivera Pabón
Robles
Roche
Rodríguez
Rodríguez Olmeda
Rohena
Roig
Rolón
Román
Rondón
Rosa
Rosado
Rosado Zayas
Rosaly
Rosario
Rosario Centeno
Rosselló
Rossy
Rubert
Rullán

S: 36 names

Sabater
Salvá
Sánchez
Sánchez Fraticelli
Sanes
Sanjurjo
Santaella
Santaliz
Santiago
Santiago Cabán
Santini
Santoni
Santos
Sárraga
Sastre
Seda
Segarra
Sein
Sellés
Semidey
Sepúlveda
Serrallés
Silvestrini
Skerrett
Solá
Soliván
Sostre
Soto
Soto Pietri
Souchet
Souffront
Steidel
Stella
Stubbe
Sued
Surillo

T: 17 names

Tañón
Tavárez
Tejera
Tellado
Texidor
Tió
Tizol
Tollinchi
Torréns
Torres
Torres Huertas
Torres Irizarry
Torruella
Tous
Travieso
Trías
Troche

U: 5 names

Ubiñas
Umpierre
Unanue
Urdaz
Usera

V: 25 names

Valcárcel
Valedón
Valentín
Vázquez
Vázquez Malavé
Vázquez Nazario
Vecchini
Vega
Vega Berríos
Vega Rolón
Veguilla
Vélez
Vélez Cotto
Vélez Zeno
Veray
Verdejo
Vicéns
Viera
Vilá
Villafañe
Vincenty
Virella
Viruet
Vivoni
Vizcarrondo

W: 2 names

Wirshing
Wiscovitch

Y: 2 names

Yanes
Yordán

Z: 5 names

Zalduondo
Zambrana
Zayas
Zengotita
Zeno