Lupescu

Not to be confused with Lupu (surname).

Lupescu
Family name
Pronunciation	Romanian: [lupescu]
Meaning	"son of Lup" (Wolf)
Region of origin	Romania
Language(s) of origin	Romanian
Related names	López (Spanish), Lopes (Portuguese), Lupo (Italian), Loup (French)

Lupescu is a surname of Romanian origin, derived from the Romanian word lup ("wolf"), from Latin lupus ("wolf"). Its Italian equivalent is Lupo, its French equivalent is Loup, its Spanish equivalent is López, and its Portuguese equivalent is Lopes.

The name may refer to:

Magda Lupescu (1895–1977), mistress of King Carol II
Ioan Lupescu (b. 1968), retired Romanian footballer
Nicolae Lupescu (b. 1940), retired Romanian footballer
Valya Dudycz Lupescu (b. 1974), Ukrainian-American writer
Miss Lupescu, a character from Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book

Family and given names derived from the word "wolf"

Germanic	Volf, Ulf Wolfe, Wolf, Wolff, Wulf, Woolf, De Wolfe Wolfson, Wolfsohn Wolfowitz

Romance	Lupus Loup, Leloup Lobo López, Lopes Lupo Lupu, Lupul, Lupescu

Slavic	Wilk, Wilczek, Wilczyński Vlk Vuk, Vukić, Vuković, Vučić, Vujić (and numerous variants) Volkov, Volchenkov Vovk

Other	Farkas Kurt Otxoa Ze'ev/Zev

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