Spain and Portugal
Renaissance Period: c 1400 - 1600 A.D.

In 1460, the Iberian peninsula was divided into Castile-León, Aragon (in the east), Navarre (in the north), and a strip of Granada, which hung on in the south. Portugal, ruled by the House of Avis, lay to the west.

Female Spanish Names

Isabella - The name of the great queen (1)

Male Spanish Names

Alonso - (1)
Ambrosio - (1)
Antonio - (1)
Cristóbal - (1)
Diego - (1)
Enrique - (1)
Félix - (1)
Fernando - (1)
Francisco - (1)
Garcilaso - From Toledo (1)
Gonzalo - (1)
Guillén - Writer from Valencia (1)
Hernando - (1)
Iñigo - (1)
Jerónimo - Name from Aragon (1)
Jorge - (1)
José - (1)
Juan - (1)
Luis - (1)
Miguel - (1)
Pánfilo - (1)
Pedro - (1)
Rodrigo - (1)
Sebastián - (1)
Tomás - (1)

Spanish Last Names

Berruguete - (1)
de Acosta - (1)
de Borgoña - (1)
de la Vega - (1)
de Morales - (1)
de Narváez - (1)
de Soto - (1)
de Villena - (1)
de Zurita - Name from Aragon (1)
Eleano - (1)
Guzmán - This family were the Dukes of Medina Sidonia - (1)
López - (1)
Manrique - (1)
Navarro - (1)
Vázquez - (1)
Velázquez - (1)

Male Portuguese Names

Afonso - (1)
Diogo - (1)
Duarte - (1)
Fernão - (1)
João - (1)
Nuno - (1)
Pêro - (1)
Tristão - (1)

Portuguese Last Names

Barbosa - Established a school in Portugal (1)
Cão - (1)
da Covilhã - (1)
da Cunha - (1)
de Barros - (1)
Gomes - (1)
Lopes - (1)
Pereira - (1)
Tristão - (1)

Sources:

1 - Handbook to Life in Renaissance Europe, Sandra Sider, New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Created January 2011