FROM REDDIT : "Are Basque surnames associated with upper class people in your country?"

[RMuller]

FROM REDDIT : "Are Basque surnames associated with upper class people in your country?"

" Surnames such as Zorreguieta, Ormaechea, Camiroaga-- are they perceived as 'fancy' names that you associate with wealthy people? Do you know any average, ordinary people with Basque last names? "

https://www.reddit.com/r/asklatiname...h_upper_class/

[Paraguayo HFD]

Ayala is a Basque surname and I think it is very common throughout Latin America

[Erronkari]

Yes and no.
There are a lot of people with basque origin who trace their roots in colonial times and most of them are part of the élite.
But also there are other basque descendants like me, who have mostly recent ancestors in Euskal Herria, Navarre or Pyrenees Atlantiques and are mostly middle class.

Community basque here is important:

[Erronkari]

Ayala is a Basque surname and I think it is very common throughout Latin America

Aguirre and Ibarra it seems are too and quite common too, even though depending where.
I’ve heard that Muñoz was basque too but I am not sure really.

[RMuller]

Ayala is a Basque surname and I think it is very common throughout Latin America

Basque family traced to Infante don Vela, son of King don Sancho Ramírez of Aragon.

https://forebears.io/surnames/ayala

[TheWolf97]

No siempre, algunos apellidos vascos son comunes en cualquier clase social

Enviado desde mi SM-A022M mediante Tapatalk

[Andullero]

FROM REDDIT : "Are Basque surnames associated with upper class people in your country?"

" Surnames such as Zorreguieta, Ormaechea, Camiroaga-- are they perceived as 'fancy' names that you associate with wealthy people? Do you know any average, ordinary people with Basque last names? "

https://www.reddit.com/r/asklatiname...h_upper_class/

Yep, Goicochea being one of those. But the ones that take the cake for upper classness here are the Catalan ones (Puig, Llibre, Barceló, Mallol, etc.), not a single one of them can be found on the hoi polloi here.

[Latinus]

No, they aren't common in Brazil. Chiq surnames here = Italian, Germans and Iberians that aren't super typical, like Dantas, Pinheiros, Andrade, Mello, Bittencourt, etc.

[Erronkari]

No, they aren't common in Brazil. Chiq surnames here = Italian, Germans and Iberians that aren't super typical, like Dantas, Pinheiros, Andrade, Mello, Bittencourt, etc.

Camargo e De Camargo.
E outro e Loiola se nao me engano…

[Latinus]

Camargo e De Camargo.
E outro e Loiola se nao me engano…

Camargo is relatively common, but Loyola isn't.