How could someone end up with the last name "Espana?"?

Question:

How could someone end up with the last name "Espana?"?

cuz that is my last name and i know that it is a country, but i want to know how someone got that name.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: In addition to being named after their fathers, people were also named after places where they lived, either past or present. Place names come in several different categories. First, someone can be named after a village or town where they were born or have lived. People are rarely named after the town in which they are currently living, but after they leave that town and move to a new place they can be named after the town where they used to live. So someone named Ben who used to live in York came to be known as Ben of York or more simply Ben York.
Another form of a place surname occurs when people are name after a geographic feature that they lived near or on. People who lived near a hill or a mountain might have been called Hill (English), Maki (Finnish), Jurek (Poland), etc. People who lived near a lake or stream might have been called Loch (Scottish), Rio (Spanish) or Brooks (English). People were named after woods, stones, fields, swamps, fenced places, valleys, etc. People could be named after something simple like a place where grass grew (the -ley at the end of many surnames means this) or they could have been named because they lived on (or near) a field where barley was grown (Berland).
Place Surnames can often be found with prepositions meaning "of" or "from" attached to them. This can be seen in names like De Berry (of Berry) or Van Ness (From Ness)

So, going by this logic, it is likely that they took the name after they left Espana!!

Of course the only true way to now for sure is to trace your own line, person by person, generation by generation. It is also more fun that way! Blessings.