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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 ...
The more than 140 cities in the Philippines as of 2022 have taken their names from a variety of languages both indigenous (Austronesian) and foreign (mostly Spanish).The majority of Philippine cities derive their names from the major regional languages where they are spoken including Tagalog (), Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Bicolano, Kapampangan and Pangasinense.
Fix name of Ilocos Norte: 01:07, 7 July 2023: 3,750 × 4,109 (1.72 MB) TagaSanPedroAko: Uploaded a work by TagaSanPedroAko from * Base map: File:Blank map of the Philippines (primary LGUs).svg by Hariboneagle * Common surname info: province/city-level surname statistics (estimates) at Forebears (2014) with UploadWizard
Surnames of Filipino origin (22 P) I. Ilocano-language surnames (2 P) K. Kapampangan-language surnames (4 P) P. Pangasinan-language surnames (3 P) T. Tagalog-language ...
Bearing the mother's maiden surname as the middle name or middle initial is more important to a majority of Filipinos than to use one of the given names as a middle name or middle initial. Filipino culture usually allocates equal value to the lineage from both mother and father except in some prominent families who practice a strictly ...
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The pre-colonial native Filipino script called baybayin was derived from the Brahmic scripts of India and first recorded in the 16th century. [13] According to Jocano, 336 loanwords in Filipino were identified by Professor Juan R. Francisco to be Sanskrit in origin, "with 150 of them identified as the origin of some major Philippine terms."
This should only be used for Filipinos born after 1900, but who normally prefer to render their name using Spanish naming order. {{ Philippine name |de la Cruz|ph=natural}} → In this Philippine name for natural children , there is no middle name nor paternal family name , but the surname or maternal family name is de la Cruz .