Now in PR and in most of Latin America this has evolved to the wife keeps her fathers last name and also adopts her new husbands fathers name traditionally with de of before it to denote the relationship Maria Garcia de Perez or Garcia of themarried to the family Perez always the fathers name because we are a patriarchal society in that regard.

Puerto rican last names. Puerto Rico used the Spanish practice of using the last names of both parents. There are people in Puerto Rico whose last name is Ponce. A child born would be given a first and middle name and then the first last name of the father followed by the first last name of the mother.

Answered 5 years ago. Acosta Agustín Albino Alicea Almodóvar Alvarez Arroyo Ayala Báez. Thats going back to my grandparents.

Rivera is a surname of Spanish and Italian origin which was the old spelling of ribera the Spanish word for riverbank. Is Rivera a Puerto Rican last name. The lack of seseo in Castilian is why Spaniards sound to us as if they have a lisp.

Tomas Rivera y Castro. This page was last edited on 5 August 2018 at 0852 UTC. Maria Luisa Rivera Y Garcia Titina Feliciano Y Rivera Leon Garcia Y Feliciano Ceiba 1945.

Spanish Names Puerto-Rican Variant When people ask you for your last name apellido for anything official you need to be more careful than you realize because they use a Spanish convention for surnames. Technically it is considered Castilian CastellanoLinguistically what makes it distinctive is it features the seseo and yeísmo which are also found in Puerto Rican Spanish. A main city on the South of Puerto Rico is named after Ponce de León.

The most common Puerto Rican surnames Sanchez 128384 Rivera 114777 Diaz 107640. Rivera is also a northern Italian variation of the mostly Sicilian surname Ribera. Spanish Name GAMEZ is a Latin spelling of its.