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López or Lopez is a surname of Spanish origin. It was originally a patronymic , meaning "Son of Lope", Lope itself being a Spanish given name deriving from Latin lupus , meaning " wolf ". Its Portuguese and Galician equivalent is Lopes , its Italian equivalent is Lupo , its French equivalent is Loup (or Leu ), its Romanian equivalent is Lupu or Lupescu , its Catalan and Valencian equivalent is Llopis and its basque equivalente is Otxo .

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5-770: López is the fifth most common Hispanic surname globally and in Spain and the USA. It is the most common surname in the province of Lugo . It is the most common Spanish surname in the United Kingdom . As of 2014, 34.8% of all known bearers of the surname López were residents of Mexico (frequency 1:40), 10.0% of Spain (1:52), 8.2% of Guatemala (1:22), 7.3% of the United States (1:547), 7.1% of Colombia (1:75), 5.0% of Argentina (1:96), 3.8% of Venezuela (1:88), 2.7% of Honduras (1:36), 2.7% of Peru (1:131), 2.6% of

10-649: A common language, Galician . Some people, especially the older generation, are monolingual in Galician. There are only a few people bilingual in Galician and Castilian: just over 10,000 inhabitants. Even in the capital, the vitality of Galician in conversation is very strong. The inhabitants speak several variants of Galician in the province of Lugo. They have the characteristics of being the closest to León isoglosses and therefore also Castilian. That makes them they some grammatical and phonetic signs that are mistakenly considered influences of Castilian or of Leonese. However,

15-436: Is 331,327 (2018), of whom a quarter live in the capital Lugo . The capital city was an ancient Celtic settlement named in honour of the god Lugh (see Lyon ), later Latinised as Lucus Augusti , and which became one of the three main important Galician-Roman centres alongside Braccara Augusta and Asturica Augusta (modern Braga and Astorga respectively). The province has 67 municipalities. The vast majority of people have

20-497: The Philippines (1:438), 2.5% of Nicaragua (1:27), 2.1% of Cuba (1:62), 1.8% of Ecuador (1:99), 1.6% of El Salvador (1:44), 1.4% of Paraguay (1:56), 1.3% of Chile (1:148) and 1.1% of Bolivia (1:104). In Spain , the frequency of the surname was higher than average (1:52) in the following regions: In Guatemala , the frequency of the surname was higher than average (1:22) in the following departments: In Mexico ,

25-551: The frequency of the surname was higher than average (1:40) in the following states: Province of Lugo Lugo is a province of northwestern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of Galicia . It is bordered by the provinces of Ourense , Pontevedra , and A Coruña , the principality of Asturias , the State of León , and in the north by the Cantabrian Sea ( Bay of Biscay ). The population

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