where does the last name peña originate from
Peña (surname) Pe単a or de la Pe単a is a Spanish habitation surname. The origin of the surname can be traced directly to the Middle Ages. The earliest public record of the surname dates to the 13th century in the Valley de Mena (Burgos) in the Kingdom of Castile. The origin of the last name is in present-day Galicia, Spain. The Pe単as lived, originally, near a cliff or rocky land. Records indicate that the name derives from the Spanish word pe単a meaning "rock," "crag" or "cliff."[2]
Rocha (surname) Rocha (Portuguese pronunciation: ['ʁɔʃɐ]) is a Portuguese language surname. Its origin can be French,[1] but it can be also a Jewish-Portuguese Sephardic surname.[2][3] It literally means “rock” or “boulder” in Portuguese; for instance, “rochas sedimentares, metamórficas e magmáticas” means “sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks”. It is also a topographical surname that is found in Portugal as “da Rocha” or simply Rocha, literally, "one who is from/of the rock".