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 uncertain Spanish

2 names, rare — 25 to 99 a year, in United States

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