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INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY — PUBLICATION NO. 11 



Milian and Millan, Monroy and Monrroy, Olayo 

 and Olallo, Ortiz and Ortis, Paez and Paiz and 

 Baes, Perez and Peres, Reynosa and Reinosa, 

 Santoyo and Santollo, Servin and Cervin, Sorio 

 and Soria, Tellez and Telles, Tovar and Tobar, 

 Urquieta and Hurquieta, Valdes and Valdez, 

 Valdovinos and Baldovinos, Vasquez and Vazquez, 

 Vergara and Velgara, Zavala and Zabala, etc. 

 Some of the variant forms have become standard- 

 ized; e. g., the true patronymics most commonly 

 are spelled to end in "-ez" rather than in "-es," 

 and the "-es" form usually represents ignorance 

 since that is a Portuguese and not a Castillian 

 termination. Even among educated people there 

 is not consistency, especially in the use of "b" 

 and "v," and it is not uncommon to find different 

 members of the same immediate famUy varying 

 in their spelling of the family name. Some var- 

 iants apparently have been crystallized for a 

 long tune and now represent different families, as 

 in Pedraza and Pedroza and in Ferreyra (Ferrera) 

 and Herrera, and a few of these were hsted 

 separately. 



The number of persons per family name ranged 

 from only 1 to 219. The first 4 family names 

 (Barriga, Herrera, Gonzalez, and Fuentes) em- 

 braced more than 17 percent of the inhabitants; 

 the first 10 names, 30 percent of the population; 

 and the first 25 names nearly 52 percent of the 

 people of QuLroga. The following list gives the 

 more important family names, arranged in the 

 order of number of individuals bearing each name. 

 These 101 names (each representing 8 or more 

 individuals) comprise more than 88 percent of 

 the total population. 



Surnames in Quiroga 



Number 

 _ ., bearing 



Family name: name 



Barriga 219 



Herrera 174 



Gonzdlez 144 



Fuentes 140 



Chdvez 99 



Garcfa 91 



Calder6n 86 



Rodrfguez 76 



Campuzano 72 



CorJa 70 



L6pez 68 



Medina 67 



Pena 66 



Valdovinos 64 



Ortiz 60 



Number 

 Famil}' name — Con. name 



Hernandez 60 



Estrada 60 



Torres 56 



Guzmdn 54 



Ponce 53 



Dfaz 50 



Gutierrez 50 



Chagolla 48 



Rivera 47 



Ruiz 47 



Flores 42 



Tovar 42 



Anita 41 



Vdzquez 41 



Ramirez 39 



Number 

 Family name — Con. name 



Vargas 39 



Rangel 38 



Aguilar 38 



Arriaga 36 



Pineda 33 



Farias 32 



Judrez 31 



Martinez 30 



Rico 29 



Cdzarez 28 



Pedraza 28 



Salmer6n 26 



Garnica 25 



Magos 25 



Meza 25 



Sierra 25 



Olayo 24 



Sdnchez 24 



Villanueva 23 



Gasca 21 



Servin 21 



VUlalobos 21 



Mordn 20 



Saucedo 20 



Espino 19 



Sixtos 19 



Cervantes 18 



Mexicano 18 



Robles 18 



Ayala 17 



Milidn 17 



Frutos 16 



Hurtado 16 



Villa 16 



Castro 14 



Magaiia 14 



The incidence of the remaining names was: 5 

 names with 7 persons, 6 names with 6 persons, 

 14 names with 5 persons, 13 names with 4 persons, 

 23 names with 3 persons, 21 names with 2 persons 

 and 68 names with 1 individual. The family 

 names represented by eight or fewer individuals 

 commonly were restricted to 1, 2, or 3 famUy 

 groups; and where there were only 1 or 2 persons 

 with a certain family name they most frequently 

 were women. Examples include : Espinoza, 5 per- 

 sons in 1 family ; Madrigal, 5 in 1 family ; Oseguera, 

 4 in 1 family; Quintana, 7 in 1 familj^; Baltazar, 

 7 persons, 6 in 1 family and the wife in another 

 family; Padilla, 7 persons, 3 in 1 family, and the 

 wives in 4 other families; Cacari, 2 persons, 2 

 wives; Alfaro, Guerrero, Mendiola, Solorio, and 

 Villegas, 1 person each, all wives or widows; etc. 



