as a Last Name
- 604,088
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Lopez
Meaning & Origins
Spanish (López): patronymic from the medieval personal name Lope (from Latin lupus ‘wolf’). This is one of the commonest of all Spanish surnames.
| 24th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 604,088
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Puerto Rico
- has the most people named Lopez per capita
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