We all surely have some (or some) acquaintances with the last name Rodríguez or González.

And it is that these are the most common surnames of several Latin American countries.

Rodríguez is the most frequent last name in Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic and Paraguay, according to the Forebears.io site.

While in Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and Paraguay, the most common is González.

García, the most common surname in Ecuador, was also the most frequent in Spain in 2021.

In Latin America, patronymic surnames abound: those that originally designated ancestry, affiliation or belonging to a lineage and usually end with the suffix -ez, such as López or Sánchez

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They were formed from the name of the father and a suffix was added (Fernando - Fernández).

This infographic shows the most common surnames in Latin America, by country.