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The Filipino given name Dranreb was invented by reversing the spelling of the English name Bernard, and someone calling himself Nosrac bears the legal name Carson. Joseph Ejército Estrada , the 13th president of the Philippines , began as a movie actor and received his nickname Erap as an adult; it comes from Pare spelled backwards (from ...
Filipino given names (2 C, 4 P) S. Surnames of Philippine origin (6 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Filipino names" ... This page was last edited on 20 April 2024, ...
The pronunciation of both the former president's and the province's current name in Spanish, English and Filipino places the emphasis on the first syllable ("KE-son") and not on the last ("ke-SON"), which the erroneous Spanish spelling variant Quezón [91] suggests. Quirino. Spanish surname.
"As the Philippines were a Spanish colony for 333 years, there’s a wide overlap between Filipino names and Spanish names, which are really popular in the U.S.," Humphrey said.
Don Marcelino, Davao del Sur (Spanish name. Named after Filipino pioneer Marcelino Maruya.) Don Victoriano Chiongbian, Misamis Occidental (Spanish name. Named after Filipino-Chinese politician Victoriano Chiongbian.) Donsol, Sorsogon (Spanish name. Named after Don for Mister and Sol for sun.) Doña Remedios Trinidad, Bulacan (Spanish name.
Pages in category "Filipino masculine given names" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... This page was last edited on 15 May 2008, at 16: ...
Pages in category "Filipino given names" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... This page was last edited on 18 December 2022, ...
Having a Hispanized Filipino-Chinese surname signifies that a Chinese person has become Catholic. Some adopted the surnames of their Spanish godparents, while others combined modified Chinese names and added honorifics such as -co, -son, and -zon at the end. Many of them intermarried with Filipinos and were integrated into Philippine society.