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  2. Filipino name - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of Philippine city name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Hispanicized form of bakolod, an old Hiligaynon word for "hill" in reference to the hilly area in the city that is now the barangay of Granada. Bacoor. Cavite. Hispanicized form of bacood, derived from the Tagalog word which means "fence." [1] Bago. Negros Occidental. from bago-bago, a local shrub. Baguio.

  4. Filipino middle names - Wikipedia

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    Filipino middle names. Mug shot of Janet Lim-Napoles with her name on a placard showing "Janet Napoles y Lim". Notice the use of Spanish order of paternal and maternal surnames, which are Napoles and Lim, respectively, separated by the particle y. This is some background on history, popularity, and usage of middle names in the Philippines.

  5. Surname - Wikipedia

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    A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. [1][2] It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name.

  6. Surnames by country - Wikipedia

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    The patronymic custom in most of the Horn of Africa gives children the father's first name as their surname. The family then gives the child its first name. Middle names are unknown. So, for example, a person's name might be Bereket Mekonen . In this case, Bereket is the first name and Mekonen is the surname, and also the first name of the father.

  7. Category:Surnames of Filipino origin - Wikipedia

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    Villanueva (surname) Categories: Filipino names. Surnames of Asian origin. Surnames of Philippine origin.

  8. Catálogo alfabético de apellidos - Wikipedia

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    The Catálogo alfabético de apellidos (English: Alphabetical Catalogue of Surnames; Filipino: Alpabetikong Katalogo ng mga apelyido) is a book of surnames in the Philippines and other islands of Spanish East Indies published in the mid-19th century. That was in response to a Spanish colonial decree establishing the distribution of Spanish ...

  9. Category:Surnames of Philippine origin - Wikipedia

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