Vargas

Common Latino surname

Vargas is a Spanish and Portuguese surname, common throughout Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula.

Notable bearers include Getúlio Vargas, Brazil's longest-serving president, and the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa.

The name appears frequently in Hispanic communities: The Vargas family moved here from Guatemala.

Getúlio

president

Elected leader of nation

industrialization · nationalism · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · coup · revolution · provisional government · social welfare · economic development

cultural

pin-up

Attractive person's poster

Playboy · airbrush · burlesque · cheesecake · Hollywood · wartime · nose art · calendar · Americana · sensuality

surname

family

Related people together

lineage · patronymic · descent · bloodline · relatives · kin · Hispanic · Spanish · Portuguese · Filipino

Brazilian

Amazon

Greek warrior women

favela · South American · tropical · Portuguese-speaking

Opposites
POLITICAL IDEOLOGY (Getúlio Vargas context)

Vargasdecentralizers

Those who disperse authority

surname ethnolinguistic origin

VargasSmith

Ubiquitous English surname

Johnson · Williams · Jones · Brown · Miller

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G