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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 ...
The Spanish surname category provides the most common surnames in the Philippines. [6] At the course of time, some Spanish surnames were altered (with some eventually diverged/displaced their original spelling), as resulted from illiteracy among the poor and farming class bearing such surnames, creating confusion in the civil registry and a ...
The law does not allow one to create any surname that is duplicated with any existing surnames. [16] Under Thai law, only one family can create any given surname: any two people of the same surname must be related, and it is very rare for two people to share the same full name. In one sample of 45,665 names, 81% of family names were unique. [17]
Pages in category "Surnames of Philippine origin" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Abuel;
[5] [14] By way of comparison, the 2000 census found the most common surname in the United States – Smith – had fewer than 2.4 million occurrences and made up only 0.84% of the general population. The top 100 surnames accounted for only 16.4% of the US population, [3] and reaching 89.8% of the US population required more than 150,000 ...
Politics of the Philippines. The Senate of the Philippines is the upper house of Congress. The Senate is composed of 24 senators, each elected to a six-year term, renewable once, under plurality-at-large voting: on each election, the voters vote for up to twelve candidates, with the twelve candidates the highest number of votes being elected in.
Narciso José Anastasio Clavería y Zaldúa, 1st Count of Manila ( Catalan: Narcís Josep Anastasi Claveria i Zaldua; May 2, 1795 [1] – June 20, 1851) was a Spanish army officer who served as the Governor-General of the Philippines from July 16, 1844, to December 26, 1849. Clavería is widely recognized as a reformist and modernizing ...
Vergel Aguilar, son of Filemon – mayor of Las Piñas (1995–2004; 2007–2016) Imelda Tobias-Aguilar, wife of Vergel – mayor of Las Piñas (2004–2007; 2016–present) April Aguilar-Nery, daughter of Vergel – vice mayor of Las Piñas (2019–present) Elizabeth Aguilar-Masangkay – barangay chairman of Putatan, Muntinlupa.