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Names in the register

Flores

1 archival unit in this register name Flores. That means a person of this name appears in the document — nothing more. Whether they are your ancestor, and whether they were Jewish or converso, is what the document itself has to answer.

ReferenceArchiveDate
AHN, Inquisición, 148, Exp. 10Archivo Histórico Nacional1502

There is no official list of Sephardic surnames, and there never was. The commonest names in Portuguese Inquisition trials are Rodrigues, Lopes and Fernandes — a fact about Portuguese demography, not about Jewish descent.