Surname meaning and origin
López
Spanish: Son of Lope ("wolf")
Pronounced LOH-pes (Spanish [ˈlo.pes], in Spain [ˈlo.peθ]; US English LOH-pez)
Where the name comes from
- SpanishSon of Lope ("wolf")Lope < Latin lupus "wolf"Patronymic. DAFN: "Spanish (López): patronymic from the medieval personal name Lope ‘wolf’." DAFN’s entry for Lope: "from the old personal name Lope from Latin lupus ‘wolf’." The origin of the Spanish -ez patronymic ending is debated: proposals include a Latin genitive, a pre-Roman (Iberian or Basque) suffix, and Latinized Gothic genitives; none is settled.
- Sephardic JewishIberian surname kept by converso descendantsDAFN records adoption at conversion to Roman Catholicism and retention by some descendants after a later return to Judaism.
López across traditions
- Spain and the United States. DAFN: "one of the commonest of all Spanish surnames. In the US it is the twelfth most frequent surname."
Who carried it
- Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794–1876): Mexican general and political leader.
- Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Born 1953): President of Mexico, 2018–2024.
Forms in other languages
Lopes (Portuguese and Galician), Llopis (Catalan), De López, Lope
López in letter-number systems
Hebrew, Greek and other traditions gave every letter a number, and read meaning into the totals. These are the counts, computed; the readings are inside the Innerverse.
122
Hebrew Standard
5
Hebrew Ordinal
59
English Simple
354
English Sumerian
49
English Reverse
122
Greek Isopsephy
5
Chaldean
5
Pythagorean
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