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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. Filipino middle names - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Surnames by country - Wikipedia

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    A common Filipino name will consist of the given name (mostly 2 given names are given), the initial letter of the mother's maiden name and finally the father's surname (i.e. Lucy Anne C. de Guzman). Also, women are allowed to retain their maiden name or use both her and her husband's surname as a double-barreled surname , separated by a dash.

  5. Catálogo alfabético de apellidos - Wikipedia

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    The dissemination of surnames were also based on the recipient family's origins. For example, surnames starting with "A" were distributed to provincial capitals, "B" surnames were given to secondary towns, and tertiary towns received "C" surnames. [8] Families were awarded with the surnames or asked to choose from them. [9]

  6. Datu - Wikipedia

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    A pre-colonial couple belonging to the datu or nobility as depicted in the Boxer Codex of the 16th century.. Datu is a title which denotes the rulers (variously described in historical accounts as chiefs, sovereign princes, and monarchs) of numerous Indigenous peoples throughout the Philippine archipelago. [1]

  7. Filipino styles and honorifics - Wikipedia

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    The title can be spelled separately from a person's name (e.g. "Lakan Dula"), or can be incorporated into one word (e.g. "Lakandula"). 16th and 17th-century Spanish colonial accounts of lakan being used in Philippine history include: Lakandula, later baptized as Don Carlos Lacandola, the ruler of Tondo at the advent of Spanish conquest

  8. List of Philippine place names of Spanish origin - Wikipedia

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    Maria, Siquijor (Spanish given name; contraction of its original name Santa Maria.) Maria Aurora, Aurora (Spanish given name. Named after Filipino presidential daughter Maria Aurora Quezon.) Mayorga, Leyte (named after the Spanish island of Mallorca.) Medellin, Cebu (named after the village of Medellín in Badajoz, Spain.)

  9. Category:Surnames of Filipino origin - Wikipedia

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