15 Puerto Rican Surnames That Reveal Where Your Family REALLY Came From

An Irish surname and a childhood in Puerto Rico fit together perfectly well. The island’s family histories run through places like Corsica, the Canary Islands and Curaçao, with stops that a name alone can’t explain. Power and Mattei offer a glimpse of those journeys. Following a particular family takes more digging, especially when migration, marriage or a clerk’s spelling changed what ended up on the birth certificate.