Description : I know that suffixes "ez" and "es" denotes "son of" in the Spanish language; but, why the different endings? For instance, you may see the surname Gonzales or Gonzalez?
Last Answer : It has to do with the government taking a census. this practice started in B.C. (or b.c.e. for the heathens) and names were subject to the census takers who knew how to write, but not always ... . Some of these were like Johnson/Johnston, Gib/Gibb/Gibbs, White/Waite/Wit/Witt, and hundreds of others.