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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 ...
Concha (lit.: " mollusk shell" or "inner ear") is an offensive word for a woman's vulva or vagina (i.e. something akin to English cunt) in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Mexico. In the rest of Latin America and Spain however, the word is only used with its literal meaning.
The term Don ( Spanish: [don], literally ' Lord ') [ a] abbreviated as D., is an honorific prefix primarily used in Spain and Hispanic America, and with different connotations also in Italy, Portugal and its former colonies, and formerly in the Philippines . Don is derived from the Latin dominus: a master of a household, a title with background ...
The Spanish language has two names: español (English: Spanish) and castellano (English: Castilian). Spanish speakers from different countries or backgrounds can show a preference for one term or the other, or use them indiscriminately, but political issues or common usage might lead speakers to prefer one term over the other.
Francisco. The name Francisco means “Frenchman” or “ free man .”. It is the Spanish cognate of the name Francis. Babies named Francisco are often nicknamed Frank, Frankie, Paco, Paquito ...
The name is complicated in Spanish in that Jaime and Jacobo are modern versions of James. [ citation needed ] Variants of Santiago include Iago (a common Galician language name), and Thiago or Tiago (a common Portuguese language name).
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 ...
Other names. Variant form (s) Mejías, Megía/Megías, Mexía/Mexia/Mexías. Mejía is a Spanish surname of Jewish origin dating back to the early 1500s. In Spain, the surname is predominantly found in Galicia and Toledo. It is also common in several Latin American countries, particularly Mexico, Honduras, and Colombia.