Imagine looking at your newborn daughter and think: yes, Pains, like her mother.

Imagine looking at your newborn daughter and think: yes, Pains, like her mother.
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  3. Those grandpas names are almost gone. I havent met a parent whos put a Josefina to her daughter or Saturnino to his boy.

  4. >Imagine looking at your newborn daughter and think: yes, Pains, like her mother.

    Cristianity is based around suffering in this life to reach a better one, so religious names represent this. Our grandparents were born in a very religious country which has shifted away from it since. So back then names like Dolores (pains), Angustias (anxieties), Milagros (miracles), Inmaculada (immaculate), Paz (peace), Remedios (remedies), Esperanza (hope), Soledad (loneliness) o Martirio (martyrdom), among others, where very common, but are extremely rare right now.

  6. Hahaha yes due to our history, our grandparents in the Philippines also had similar names.

    For grandpas, names like Saturnino, Procopio, there’s this historical figure named Epifanio de los santos.

  9. I have a Concepcion(my gm and my mom). We have a Serafin, Hipólita, Belen, Dolores, and Yndalicio amongst others. Yndalicio was born in the early or maybe the 1800s. Not sure if all of these are biblical, but different nonetheless.

  10. You can’t be too literal when it comes to names, because most names are sort of weird when you think about them.

    My own name, Dan, is a verb conjugation in Spanish: Ustedes dan. The literal translation would be “the day” in English, or short for “Daniel,” which means “God is my judge.” It also means “justice” in Hebrew and could mean “Danish” in Swedish.

    Here, for no reason, is a list of male Swedish names that come from the animal kingdom:

    Lo (lynx)
    Evert (wild boar)
    Leo (lion)
    Ulf (wolf)
    Björn (bear)
    Orm (snake)
    Joar (horse warrior)

    And last, but not least: “media hora” literally means “media whore” in Swedish if you pronounce the h.

    Ps. Dolores and Soledad are very beautiful names to my ears.

  17. The translatios are horrendous… “Josefina: thin Joseph”, it’s the same in all languages: Josephine, Giuseppina…
    “Soledad:Loneliness”, It would be Solitude. Plus all of them are short for Maria de(Our Lady) Las Angustias

  18. This is not biased 🤦 “Thin Joseph”… Josephine can be an English name as well.

    You can take only the last part, “Fina”, that could be translated as She-thin, or She-fine as well.

  19. The first time I heard Maria Jesús and José Maria i was just incredulous. Sounds so odd to an English speaker. Now I’ve lived in Spain for 15 years, I can say OP’s selection is the tiniest tip of the iceberg for bizarre religious names.

  20. All these names go with the “María de los”… before. So they all are advocations of Mary the Virgin.

    Personally I wouldn’t go for one of those, but I think Dolores (diminutives Mariola, Mariló, Lola or Loles), Soledad (diminutives Sole, Marisol or even Sol -meaning sun-) or Milagros (diminutive Mila) are ok.

    In Spain you can get only the last part of the name to register a newborn so you can take the beautiful and so you have Lola, Carmen, Valle, Sol, Pino, Bosque, Llanos, Covadonga, Montserrat, Almudena, Rocío, Macarena, Amparo and many others, some of them beautiful and kind of “hippy” IMO.

    Odd enough, when it comes to religious names we mix male + female, being the first name the one that defines gender, and so you have José María, Luis María, Juan María. Or María José (very very common even nowadays) or María Jesús…

  21. In Spain, almost no name survives with more than 2 syllables:
    Esperanza -> Espe
    Angustias -> Angus
    Remedios -> Reme
    Dolores -> Lola
    Trinidad -> Trini
    Purificación -> Puri
    Jesusa -> Chusa

  22. There’s a nice guy up the road called Policarpo. A lady down the road is called Torquata. Father-in-law is Martirià. I used to rent a flat from Soledad Montaña (lonely mountain). I could go on.

  29. Our favorite Spanish abuela name in our familia is Trinidad de la Luz Divina (Trinity of the Divine Light)

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