Enrile Surname Origin & Formation

Origin and formation

Enrile was already a family surname in Spain before its use by the Philippine political family. José Nicolás Enrile of Cádiz appears in a 1799 licence to travel to the Americas. In the Philippine family, Juan Ponce Enrile initially used his mother’s surname Furagganan. His father Alfonso Ponce Enrile later arranged a legal change to the paternal name. Juan’s son Jack also used Ponce Enrile, continuing that family form into another generation.

Dictionary pronunciation

• Tagalog: /ʔenˈɾile/ · Wiktionary ↗

Public figures with this surname

Elected officials in the 2001 list

Enrile has 1 record 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