Aguiar is a surname of

Galician-Portuguese Galician-Portuguese ( gl, galego-portugués or ', pt, galego-português or ), also known as Old Portuguese or as Medieval Galician when referring to the history of each modern language, was a West Iberian languages, West Iberian Romance languag ...

origin. Its etymology comes from the

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

word ''aquilare'', translating to "eagle's nest". Notable people with the surname include: * Antone S. Aguiar Jr. (1930–2014), American judge and politician * Bruno Aguiar, Portuguese footballer *

Ernani Aguiar Ernani Henrique Chaves Aguiar (born 30 August 1950 in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian composer, choral conductor, and musicologist. Life and career A scholarship winner to the Argentine Mozarteum, Aguiar studied under vario ...

, Brazilian composer, choral conductor, and musicologist *

Guma Aguiar Guma Leandro Aguiar (May 31, 1977 – disappeared June 19, 2012; declared legally dead January 29, 2015) was a Brazilian-born American energy industrialist and millionaire businessman who split his time between the United States and Israel. Agui ...

, Brazilian-born American energy industrialist *

João Aguiar (writer) João Casimiro Namorado de Aguiar (28 October 1943 – 3 June 2010) was a Portuguese writer and journalist. He spent his youth in Portuguese Mozambique. Aguiar was born and died in Lisbon. After working for a time in the Portuguese tourist indus ...

(1943–2010), Portuguese writer and journalist *

João Aguiar (swimmer) João Carlos da Silva Paquete Aguiar (born September 8, 1983) is an Angolan swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. He represented Angola, as a 17-year-old, at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and held numerous Angolan titles and meet reco ...

Joselia Aguiar Joselia Aguiar is a Brazilian writer. She was born in Salvador, Bahia in 1978. She has a PhD in history from the Universidade de São Paulo. She worked at Folha de Sao Paulo and curated the International Literary Festival of Paraty (Flip) in 2017 ...

, Brazilian writer *

Luis Aguiar Luis Bernardo Aguiar Burgos (born 17 November 1985) is an Uruguayan professional footballer who plays for Club Oriental de Football as an attacking midfielder. Club career Born in Mercedes, Soriano Department, Aguiar started his career with ...

, Uruguayan footballer *

Fernando Aguiar Fernando João Lobo Aguiar (born 18 March 1972) is a Canadian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He was arguably Canada's second most successful player to have competed in Portugal, after Alex Bunbury, and was ...

, Portuguese-born Canadian soccer player

See also