When Hipolito López López was born in 1848, in Moca, Espaillat, Dominican Republic, his father, Santiago López, was 19 and his mother, Vicenta López Pérez, was 16. He had at least 2 daughters with Ynocencia Lizardo Gomez. He died in October 1877, in Moca, Moca, Moca, Espaillat, Dominican Republic, at the age of 29.
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Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Juan, Manuel, Carlos, Luis, Jesus, Francisco, Pedro, Miguel, Jorge, Raul, Ramon, Mario.
Spanish (López): patronymic from the medieval personal name Lope ‘wolf’. This is one of the commonest of all Spanish surnames. In the US, it is the twelfth most frequent surname. Compare De Lopez .
Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Spanish surname (see 1 above) at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later), some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholics.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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