About one third of the most common Goan surnames or rather Portuguese surnames end in - ES - as follows: Alvares, Borges, Fernandes, Goes, Gomes, Gonsalves, Lopes, Marques, Martyres, Mendes, Menezes, Moraes, Nunes, Paes, Pires, Rodrigues, Sales, Simoes, Soares, Tavares, Teles, Vales; to this list we could add Dias, Gracias, Mascarenhas, Viegas, Barros Quadros, Remedios and Martins.
The ES in Portuguese means SON OF just like Johnson ( son of John ) or Russian Ivano vitch son of Ivan or in Arabic as Ibn or Bin
