Why do people from philippines have spanish last names?

The Philippines were under Spanish rule for a very long time, but they also have Chinese and Mongolian influences. That's why the names sound Hispanic, but are slightly different than Hispanic names. The language is called Tagalog, and it sounds a lot like Spanish mixed with Asian languages. My mother and law and sisters-in-law speak it all of the time. That's also why Filipino people look different than like Japanese or Chinese Asians and eat more Hispanic type foods. It had a huge influence on their culture. My mother-in-law tells me that my son looks like a mestizo, which is basically a word still used today to describe the Filipino/Spanish mixture.

we speak tagalog(filipino) but i think like at least 30% of our language is spanish? like when we listen to spanish people talk, we can make up a bit of what they are saying. the philippines was a colony of spain for more than 300 years. that made most of our culture similar to the spaniards. we only got our freedom from the US but they also colonized us for 30 years. then after that, the japanese for 3 years. we've only been free for a little time that i dont know what we're doing to our country:( oh and one more thing. my last name is spanish too. the filipinos are considered as the spanish asians by some because of our mixed heritage. like you cant classify us as brown or white or something because everyone has a different heritage.

The Philippines were a Spanish colony for more than 300 years. They have Spanish last names for the same reasons that Mexicans and Argentinians and Cubans have Sapnish last names.

the Philippines was a Spanish colony from the 16th century and an American territory from the 20th century. Ferdinand Magellan claimed the Philippines for Spain April 27, 1571. He named the Philippines after the king. Some Spanish immigrated there and married the native Filipinos. That is why Filipinos sometimes have Spanish surnames. Also tagalog has some Spanish words and similar words to Spanish. For example, squash in Spanish is "calabaza", and in Tagalog it's "calamansi". lol its not a stupid question. there are many curious minds out there. Btw, I gave you a star! Good Luck ♥xoxo♥

You really don't know your history do you? ^_^ In the service of Spain, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew started their voyage around te world (first one to accomplish this) on September 20, 1519. When they go to the Philippines they name it so after the Spanish king, Philip II of Spain. Spanish names come from imperialism that took place. In the Philippines the offical languages are Tagalog and English.

because when the Europeans were traveling the world conquering other nations the Spaniards conquered the Phillipa islands and subdued the people kind of the same thing they did to the Mayans (Mexicans) the women were forced to marry Spanish but some of them engaged in matrimony volunteer some of them were also forced to learn the Spanish language

we speak tagalog in the philippines which contain some spanish....this is bcoz spain used to own philippines... we also talk more of an american english rather than british or anything else..

Spanish is the official language of the Philippines, which belonged to Spain from 1565 to 1898. Tagalog, Chabacano, Cebuano, Ilokano, and Hiligaynon are native languages of the Philippines.

The Philippines were under Spanish rule for a very long time.