Lopes Family History
Lopes Name Meaning
Portuguese and Galician: patronymic from the medieval personal name Lopo (from Latin lupus ‘wolf’). Spanish: variant or altered form of López (see Lopez ). Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Portuguese 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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022