Appendix:Cebuano surnames

This appendix of Cebuano (Bisaya) surnames is meant to complement the contents of Category:Cebuano surnames. This will focus generally on surnames in Cebuano-speaking regions or of Cebuano speakers.

For the purposes of this page, the regions used to determine which surnames will be included here are Central Visayas, Leyte and Biliran, Zamboanga Peninsula (except Zamboanga City), Northern Mindanao, Sarangani, Davao Region, and Caraga (excluding the Surigao provinces) as well as few parts of Hiligaynon-speaking provinces of North Cotabato, South Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat.

For information about surnames in the Philippines, see Appendix:Filipino surnames.

Note: While surnames are not generally written with diacritics (excluding the tilde in Ñ), surnames from Spanish or in Spanish orthography are marked with accents according to Spanish spelling rules for etymological and pronunciation purposes. Others may be marked with diacritics following Cebuano rules.

Background[edit]

Many surnames by Cebuanos (including Visayans in Mindanao) come from the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos by Governor-General Narciso Clavería in 1849, whose majority of it are Spanish surnames, but also includes may surnames from Basque, Catalan, Galician, Chinese, Philippine languages (Tagalog, Kapampangan, Cebuano) and some foreign languages. The degree of implementation of the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos varied by province; especially in rural Cebu and the island provinces, there are many instances the surnames in a particular municipality begin with the same letter. Cebuano-language surnames which are in the Catálogo can be found at Category:Cebuano surnames in the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos.

In addition to names from Spanish and other Iberian languages, there are also many indigenous Cebuano surnames. Most of these surnames are concentrated in Cebu and Siquijor. Some of these predate the Catálogo.

Cebuano-speaking Filipino Chinese (usually from Fujian) usually have multiple-syllable surnames for those that came during the colonial era, usually those ending with -son/-zon (from Hokkien 孫／孙 (sun)); others kept them (and romanized them according to Spanish orthography) or adapted surnames borne by most Filipinos. Chinese migrants that arrived in the Philippines since the end of the colonial era usually have single-syllable surnames.

Indigenous surnames[edit]

While most Cebuanos and Visayans (included assimilated migrants of other ethnic groups) have surnames from Spanish and other languages, there are also many surnames with indigenous roots. These are spread across the whole Cebuano-speaking area, but is most concentrated especially in Cebu and Siquijor.

Most Cebuano indigenous surnames are spelled in Spanish orthography, but there are also a significant number of which that has been "nativized".

Here is a list of some common indigenous Cebuano surnames. The region where they originated is marked on the right:

Abing – Cebu
Adlaon – Misamis Oriental
Adlawan – Cebu
Alaya-ay – Siquijor
Alilong – Mactan
Am-is – Siquijor
Angot – Siquijor
Apiag – Siquijor
Arong – Mactan
Aying – Mactan
Bacalso – Cebu
Baclayon – Bohol
Baclohan – Mandaue
Bacus – Cebu
Baguio – Cebu
Bahian – Misamis Oriental
Balaba – Bohol
Balacy – Siquijor
Balansag – Negros
Balucan – Siquijor
Bantilan – Siquijor
Bangquiao – Siquijor
Baring – Mactan
Baroro – Siquijor
Baroy – Siquijor
Basubas – Mandaue
Bation – Siquijor
Batucan – Northern Cebu
Bongcawel – Siquijor
Bonghanoy – Metro Cebu
Bongo – Mandaue
Bontilao – Metro Cebu
Bontuyan – Mactan
Booc – Mactan
Borongan – Siquijor
Buhian – Siquijor
Bulay-og – Zamboanga del Norte
Cabahug – Cebu
Cabalhug – Mactan
Cabaluna – Cebu City
Cabatingan – Cebu
Cagampang – Bohol
Cagas – Bohol
Cailing – Misamis Oriental
Calamba – Bohol
Calasang – Zamboanga del Norte
Calimpon – Siquijor
Calunod – Siquijor
Calusag – Siquijor
Canoy – Northern Mindanao
Capuyan – Northern Cebu
Catian – Misamis Oriental
Cayanong – Leyte
Cutad – Siquijor
Dagohoy — Bohol
Daligdig – Iligan
Daniot – Mandaue
Daug – Siquijor
Dimpas – Mandaue
Dongon – Siquijor
Duhaylongsod – Siquijor
Duhaylungsod – Siquijor
Dungog – Cebu
Ermac – Iligan
Gabutan – Mactan
Goc-ong – Cebu
Gumahad – Siquijor
Gumisad – Siquijor
Igot – Cebu
Inihao – Mactan
Inoc – Cebu
Inot – Mactan
Jabagat – Misamis Oriental
Jumalon – Siquijor
Jumao-as – Northern Cebu
Jumawan – Siquijor
Kadusale – Negros
Kilat – Siquijor
Ladian – Siquijor
Lantaca – Siquijor
Lapinig – Siquijor
Lauron – Cebu
Lawas – Cebu
Limpangog – Mactan
Lomoljo – Siquijor
Looc – Siquijor
Lubas – Mactan
Lubguban – Siquijor
Lumantas – Misamis Oriental
Lumasag – Misamis Oriental
Lumingkit – Siquijor
Lumongsod – Mactan
Maagad – Misamis Oriental
Macalisang – Siquijor
Magale – Mandaue
Maghinay – Siquijor
Maglangit – Siquijor
Maglasang – Northern Cebu
Maglinte – Siquijor
Magsalay – Siquijor
Magsayo – Siquijor
Mahinay – Cebu
Mahusay – Mactan
Malicay – Siquijor
Malinao – Cebu
Malingin – Mactan
Malolot – Siquijor
Maloloy-an – Mactan
Maloloy-on – Cebu
Malongo – Siquijor
Malubay – Southern Leyte
Manatad – Cebu
Manayon – Mactan
Mangubat – Cebu
Maquiling – Misamis Oriental
Marababol – Mandaue
Maranga – Mactan
Maturan – Southern Leyte
Nanoy – Mactan
Ocao – Siquijor
Omandam – Siquijor
Omolon – Mactan
Ompad – Mactan
Ompoc – Misamis Oriental
Ontoy – Siquijor
Ongue – Siquijor
Oyao – Mactan
Paalisbo – Siquijor
Pacquiao – Cebu
Paculba – Siquijor
Padayhag – Siquijor
Paghasian – Siquijor
Paglinawan – Northern Mindanao
Pahugot – Mactan
Pangatungan – Mactan
Paquibot – Mactan
Patalinjug – Mactan
Patalinghug – Mactan
Patigdas – Mactan
Pilapil – Leyte
Pitogo – Southern Cebu
Potot – Mactan
Quilantang – Cebuano
Sabanal – Negros
Salac – Siquijor
Siaton – Mandaue
Silawan – Mactan
Simbajon – Bohol
Sumalinog – Bohol
Sumile – Siquijor
Suminguit – Siquijor
Sungahid – Mandaue
Taghoy – Mactan
Talingting – Mactan
Tamparong – Siquijor
Tampus – Cebu
Tingcang – Siquijor
Tocmo – Bohol
Tomarong – Siquijor
Tudtud – Mandaue
Tumapon – Siquijor
Tumulak – Cebu
Tuñacao – Mactan
Ugsang – Mactan
Wagwag – Mactan
Ylaya – Cebu City
Ymbong

Surnames from other languages[edit]

Most other surnames by Cebuanos or Visayans are from other languages, especially Spanish:

Spanish[edit]

Main article: :Category:Cebuano surnames from Spanish

Most Spanish-derived surnames are spelled as they are, except that acute accents are stripped off (Ñ is retained). There are many spelling variants, usually due to seseo in Philippine Spanish and the influence of Cebuano phonology.

Some Spanish-derived surnames (as well as certain native surnames) reflect archaic use of certain letters especially due to the letter usage and sorting order at the time of writing of the Catálogo; examples are the use of Y for initial I (e.g. Ybáñez; compare Ibáñez) and X for the Spanish /x/ (e.g. Roxas; compare Rojas). Some of these were either modernized, and some retained.

Abad
Abellana
Aguilar
Agustín
Alcántara
Alfaro
Álvarez
Aquino
Arcilla
Arcillas
Arellano
Ávila
Báñez
Basco
Bautista
Beltrán
Borja
Briones
Bustamante
Caballero
Cabarrubias (corruption of Covarrubias)
Cabrera
Camacho
Cañete
Carreón
Casas
Castañeda
Castillo
Castro
Ceballos
Ceniza
Cervantes
Chávez
Conde
Córdova
Cortés
Cortez
Cruz
Cuesta
Cuevas
Custodio
de Guzmán
de la Cruz
del Rosario
dela Cerna
dela Cruz
dela Peña
dela Rosa
dela Torre
Delima
delos Reyes
delos Santos
Díaz
Durán
Durano
Enríquez
Espinosa
Estrada
Estrella
Fajardo
Fernández
Flores
Francisco
Fuentes
Gallardo
Garces
García
Garrido
Godinez
Gonzales
Gutiérrez
Hermoso
Hernández
Hipólito
Ibáñez
Javier
Jiménez
Juntilla
Kintanar (from Quintanar)
Laguna
Lastimosa
Logroño
López
Loreto
Lozada
Lucero
Magallanes
Marquez
Martínez
Medina
Méndez
Mercado
Miguel
Miranda
Monsanto
Montejo
Montesclaros
Morales
Morillo (variant of Murillo)
Murillo
Navarro
Núñez
Ortega
Ortiz
Otero
Padilla
Palma
Parrilla
Peña
Peñalosa
Peñaranda
Pérez
Plaza
Polido (variant of Pulido)
Ponce
Quijano
Rama
Ramírez
Ramos
Reyes
Rivera
Roble
Robles
Rodríguez
Rojas
Romero
Rosales
Roxas
Ruiz
Salas
Salazar
Salinas
Salvador
Sánchez
Santillán
Santos
Sarmiento
Serrano
Sevilla
Solis (from Solís, with stress shift)
Soriano
Sotto (from earlier Soto)
Suárez
Tamayo
Tejada
Toledo
Tolentino
Torrejas
Torres
Valdez
Vásquez
Velasco
Vélez
Verano
Villamor
Villanueva
Villar
Villegas
Yáñez
Ybáñez
Zamora

Basque[edit]

Main article: :Category:Cebuano surnames from Basque

Catalan[edit]

Main article: :Category:Cebuano surnames from Catalan

Galician[edit]

Main article: :Category:Cebuano surnames from Galician

Chinese[edit]

Main article: :Category:Cebuano surnames from Hokkien

Most of these are romanized according to their Hokkien pronunciation. For each name, the equivalent Chinese character[s] are provided as well as their Mandarin form (based on Pinyin or Wade-Giles)

Monosyllabic

Ang (Hokkien 汪 (ang): "Wang")
Chiong (Hokkien 蔣／蒋 (chióng) "Jiang" or 鍾／钟 (chiong) "Zhong"/"Chung")
Chua (Hokkien 蔡 (chhòa) "Cai"/"Tsai")
Cui (Hokkien 郭 (koeh) "Guo"/"Kuo")
Dy (Hokkien 李 (lí) "Li"/"Lee")
Go (Hokkien 吳／吴 (gô͘) "Wu")
Lao (Hokkien 劉／刘 (lâu) "Liu")
Lim (Hokkien 林 (lîm) "Lin")
Sy (Hokkien 李 (lí) "Li")
Tan (Hokkien 陳／陈 (tan) "Chen")
Te (Hokkien 鄭／郑 (tēⁿ) "Zheng")
Uy (Hokkien 黃／黄 (ûiⁿ) "Huang")
Yap (Hokkien 葉／叶 (ia̍p) "Ye")
Yu (Hokkien 楊／杨 (iûⁿ) "Yang")

Multisyllabic

Tagalog[edit]

Main article: :Category:Cebuano surnames from Tagalog

See also: Category: Tagalog surnames

Surnames from Tagalog are also common in Mindanao where they are borne by people of Tagalog origin whose ancestors migrated from Aurora, Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Zambales, Calabarzon, Marinduque and Mindoro to Mindanao from the late Spanish and American colonial periods and since postwar era seeking new and better life and various economic opportunities. Although of Tagalog origin, many Tagalogs, like any other ethnolinguistic groups from Luzon and Panay, had assimilated to the Cebuano-speaking majority in Mindanao, linguistically identifying themselves as Visayans.

Most common[edit]

Below is a list of the 50 most common surnames in each of the Cebuano-speaking provinces. Highly urbanized cities are also treated as province-level divisions. By region from north to south (Central Visayas, Eastern Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula, Northern Mindanao, Davao Region, Caraga), from most to least populous province.

Rankings listed are from regional individual surname data by Forebears, a genealogical and personal name database.

Distribution of surnames also vary widely across provinces and regions. Indigenous surnames predominate in Siquijor and Mactan; elsewhere, most are of Spanish origin. Lanao del Norte mostly have Maranao surnames, and Davao Occidental mostly have Lumad and Sangir surnames.

The most common surname in the Philippines, dela Cruz, mostly hardly appear to be common in Cebuano-speaking areas due to it getting replaced under the Catálogo in most provinces, especially Bohol, Siquijor and Camiguin; it is otherwise among the most common, usually trailing behind common Spanish surnames such as Flores, Cañete, Fernández, Ybáñez, Sánchez, Gonzales, Pérez, Caballero, García and Fuentes, as well as some indigenous surnames.

Cebu[edit]

Negros Oriental[edit]

Bohol[edit]

Cebu City[edit]

Lapu-Lapu City[edit]

Mandaue[edit]

Siquijor[edit]

Leyte[edit]

Southern Leyte[edit]

Ormoc[edit]

Zamboanga del Norte[edit]

Zamboanga del Sur[edit]

Zamboanga Sibugay[edit]

Bukidnon[edit]

Cagayan de Oro[edit]

Camiguin[edit]

Iligan[edit]

Lanao del Norte[edit]

Maranao surnames (either from Maranao or Arabic) are explicitly marked (and linked to their Maranao entries)

Ampaso (Maranao)
Ali (Arabic)
Maruhom (Maranao)
Sultan (Arabic)
Canoy
Sarip (Arabic)
Fernández
Flores
Pepito
Mangotara (Maranao)
Angni (Maranao)
dela Cruz
Mutia
Abdullah (Arabic)
Cañete
Sánchez
Samporna (Maranao)
Ameril (Arabic)
Mama (Arabic)
Omar (Arabic)
Jiménez
Usman (Arabic)
Ramos
Imam (Arabic)
Acmad (Arabic)
Arumpac (Maranao)
Reyes
Abubacar (Maranao)
Jumawan
Saripada (Maranao)
Abdul (Arabic)
Paglinawan
López
Ampuan (Maranao)
Pérez
Gonzales
Torres
Angnie (Maranao)
Didato (Maranao)
Generalao
Villanueva
Asum (Maranao)
Baguio
Maglangit
Magsayo
Balowa (Maranao)
Ibrahim (Arabic)
Bacus
Gómez
dela Peña

Misamis Occidental[edit]

Misamis Oriental[edit]

Davao City[edit]

Davao del Norte[edit]

Davao de Oro[edit]

Davao del Sur[edit]

Davao Oriental[edit]

Davao Occidental[edit]

Agusan del Sur[edit]

Agusan del Norte[edit]

Butuan[edit]

Dinagat Islands[edit]