Arroyo Surname Meaning & Origin (Spanish)

Meaning and formation

Arroyo is a Spanish surname connected with a watercourse or irrigation channel. It comes from Spanish place names containing arroyo, a word of pre-Roman origin, and was borrowed into Tagalog as a surname. Philippine bearers include the senator and lawyer Joker Arroyo and the equestrian also named Joker Arroyo. Their shared name belongs to two different people with different careers. Former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo uses Arroyo as her married surname through her husband, Jose Miguel Arroyo; Macapagal is her birth family name.

Dictionary pronunciation

• Tagalog: /ʔaˈɾojo/ · Wiktionary ↗
• Spanish: /aˈroʝo/ · /aˈroʃo/ · /aˈroʒo/ · Wiktionary ↗

In the 1849 Catálogo transcription

The linked transcription records the following spelling and page position. Open the edition link to locate the printed page.

• arroyo · page 8 · column 6 · row 62 · Transcription ↗ · Digitized edition ↗

Public figures with this surname

Elected officials in the 2001 list

Arroyo has 3 records in the OpenHalalan transcription of the 2001 COMELEC elected-candidate lists.

Contains information from OpenHalalan by Robert R. Leung, available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. ODbL 1.0 ↗ · Download surname counts