Loera
A Spanish surname likely tied to a place name or local geographic feature, especially in northern Mexico and the American Southwest.
The #2,726 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 23,358 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Loera is a Spanish-language surname, and in form it most likely comes from a place name or a regional term for land or terrain. Many Spanish surnames of this type arose when people were identified by the town, estate, or landscape feature they came from. The exact original place behind Loera is not certain from broad onomastic evidence alone.
History
The surname is most strongly associated with Mexico and with Mexican American families in the United States, especially in the Southwest. Like many Hispanic surnames, it spread through migration from colonial and postcolonial Mexico into the U.S. borderlands and beyond. Because the name is relatively localized, its deeper origin is usually traced through family or regional records rather than a single universally accepted etymology.
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Fun fact
In U.S. census data, Loera appears as a distinctly Mexican-origin surname rather than a broadly pan-Hispanic one.