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All over the world, López (Lopez , López , Лопес , along with others...) is a common gender-neutral first name. The given name López is habitual in Latin America and the Caribbean, particularly Guatemala, where it is quite a common epicene name, Puerto Rico, where it is quite a rare unisex name, and the Dominican Republic. In absolute terms, this name is the most popular in Guatemala, the United States, and Cameroon. More prevalently, López is the last name as well as the forename.
López is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Lopez , the operatic character in the opera Betrothal in a Monastery by Sergei Prokofiev and Lopez , the operatic character in the opera Der Stier von Olivera.