Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more

Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more by bluejay2 on Monday February 10, 2025 @11:11AM (#43001876)

You see this in Spanish a lot too. Diaz is son of Diego, which is still a common enough name. But there seem to be many more examples where the corresponding name is now rather uncommon from what I can tell. I am thinking of examples such as Menendez, Ortiz, Juarez, and Ordonez.

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Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more by pavel_lishin on Monday February 10, 2025 @11:22AM (#43002023)

Both my endodontist and dentist have names ending in -ez, so I looked it up.

I wonder if this is a common pattern across all cultures and languages - if surnames share some sort of phonetic pattern, does it almost always indicate a patronymic, or (whatever the term for your profession/place of origin) is?

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Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more by mathieuh on Monday February 10, 2025 @11:32AM (#43002135)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_nominals

It comes from the Indo-European genitive.

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Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more by madcaptenor on Monday February 10, 2025 @11:20AM (#43001991)

López, Gómez, Gutiérrez, Suárez, ...

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Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more by mjd on Monday February 10, 2025 @01:18PM (#43003353)

The examples that come to mind for me are Rodríguez, Martínez, González, Nunez, Hernández / Fernández, Sánchez.

Rodríguez, Martínez, and Hernández are the 9th, 10th, and 11th most-common surnames in the USA.

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Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more by barreira on Thursday February 13, 2025 @05:28PM (#43042267)

Same in Portuguese but with an -es

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