Appendix:Ilocano surnames

This appendix of Ilocano surnames is meant to complement the contents of Category:Ilocano surnames. This will focus generally on surnames in Ilocano-speaking regions.

For the purposes of this page, the regions used to determine which surnames will be included here are Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union, Abra, Apayao, Cagayan, Isabela, Nueva Vizcaya and Quirino.

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 Tagalog rules.

Background

Many surnames by Filipinos 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, but it was strictly implemented across much of Ilocos Sur, resulting in many cities and towns having surnames of most locals beginning with the same letter (e.g. A in Vigan, G in Candon plus Banayoyo). Ilocano-language surnames which are in the Catálogo can be found at Category:Ilocano surnames in the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos.

In addition to names from Spanish and other Iberian languages, there are also many indigenous Ilocano surnames. Most of these surnames are concentrated in the Ilocano homeland. Only a few of them already existed before the Catálogo.

Indigenous surnames

Listed here are some Ilocano surnames which originate in the Ilocano language. Provided after each surname is their region of origin. Some of these surnames are more common outside of the Ilocos provinces due to historical migrations.

Agbayani - Ilocos Norte
Aglipay – Ilocos Norte
Agpaoa – Ilocos Norte
Agtarap – Ilocos Norte
Bagaoisan – Ilocos Norte
Bumanglag – Ilocos Norte
Duldulao – Ilocos Norte
Dumlao – Ilocos Norte
Ulep – Ilocos Norte
Vinoya – Ilocos Norte (but common in Pangasinan due to migrations)

Foreign-origin surnames

Spanish

Basque

Chinese

Quiocho - Chinese

Latin

Corpuz

Other Philippine languages

Ragasa
Taruc

Most common

Below is a list of the 50 most common surnames in each of the Ilocano-majority provinces. Independent cities within the Ilocano area are also treated as province-level divisions. From west to east (Ilocos region, Cordillera, Cagayan Valley), from most to least populous province.

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

By province and province-level division:

La Union

Ilocos Sur

Ilocos Norte

Isabela

Gaddang, Pangasinan or Tagalog surnames are explicitly marked.

Cagayan

Ibanag surnames are explicitly marked.

Nueva Vizcaya

Ibanag surnames are explicitly marked.

Quirino

Ifugao surnames are explicitly marked.

Santiago City

Gaddang and Ibanag surnames are explicitly marked.