Spanish Names

Spanish names sit on Latin with two other layers pressed into them: Visigothic Germanic from the early middle ages, and Arabic from eight centuries of al-Andalus. A second strand is devotional rather than etymological — names taken from titles of the Virgin Mary, which are place names and abstractions rather than personal names.

Languages behind these names Latin Hebrew Germanic Greek Spanish from Latin

30 names, very rare — fewer than 25 babies a year, in United States

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