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Garza – 335,829 – From Basque and Galician, Spanish meaning "heron", used as a descriptor or as part of a place name. Velásquez – 331,510 – Son of Velasco; Estrada – 324,103 – From various places called Estrada, meaning "road", from Latin stata "via" denoting a paved way. [3]
The naming customs of Hispanic America are similar to the Spanish naming customs practiced in Spain, with some modifications to the surname rules. Many Hispanophones in the countries of Spanish -speaking America have two given names, plus like in Spain, a paternal surname (primer apellido or apellido paterno) and a maternal surname (segundo ...
Women began increasingly working in factories, working in portable food carts, and owning their own business. “In 1910, women made up 14% of the workforce, by 2008 they were 38%”. [1] Mexican women face discrimination and at times harassment from the men exercising machismo against them. Although women in Mexico are making great advances ...
Spanish naming customs. Spanish names are the traditional way of identifying, and the official way of registering, a person in Spain. They are composed of a given name (simple or composite [a]) and two surnames (the first surname of each parent). Traditionally, the first surname is the father's first surname, and the second is the mother's ...
Quinceañera. A quinceañera (also fiesta de quinceañera, quince años, fiesta de quince años, quinceañero and quinces) is a celebration of a girl's 15th birthday that is common in Mexican and other Latin American cultures. [1] The girl celebrating her 15th birthday is a quinceañera (Spanish pronunciation: [kinseaˈɲeɾa]; feminine form of ...
Carmen (given name) Our Lady of Mount Carmel sculpture from Beniaján, Spain. The "vineyard of God" origin is from Hebrew karmel; the "song" origin is from Latin carmen (3rd decl subst). The two origins are unrelated. Carmen is a feminine given name in the Spanish language. It has two different origins, with its first root used as a nickname ...
Xóchitl (Mexican Spanish pronunciation: [ˈʃotʃitɬ]) [1] is the Hispanicized version of "xōchitl", the Nahuatl word for flower (Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈʃoːtʃitɬ]) is a given name that is somewhat common in Mexico and among Chicanos for girls. [2] [3] The name has been a common Nahuatl name among Nahuas for hundreds of years.