Question: is jimenez a mexican last name?
Answer: Jiménez (Galician and Portuguese: Ximenes, Catalan: Ximenis or Eiximenis, Sicilian: Scimemi or Scimeni) is a surname of Iberian origin, first appearing in the Basque lands. Jiménez is a patronymic construction from the modern-styled given name Jimeno, plus the Spanish suffix -ez, meaning "son [of]".