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Help[Facts] Re: Middle names in Spanish names?
in reply to a message by ellen2321
Hm, well one of my good friends is Mexican and she has quite a few mns. I mention it in this post: http://www.behindthename.com/bb/arcview.php?id=476439&board=baby
Also, my hometown has a high population of people from Mexico and so I have a lot of Mexican friends and I, while I can't remember their names, a lot of them tend to have quite a few mns as well. In Mexico family is super, super important - especially remembering and honoring your elders and your ancestors (hence Dia de los Muertos - The Day of the Dead, which a lot of people think is just Mexico's Halloween but it isn't. It's a holiday that honors the spirits of deceased family members). Because of this many parents give their children names of family members who were important to them - parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and so one person can have up to a dozen mns.
Though I'm sure that just like anywhere else there are people with no mns, one mn or just two or three mns. It seems from observation (and again, let me merely state it is an observation, not a hard fact) that multiple mns are a common thing.
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Also, my hometown has a high population of people from Mexico and so I have a lot of Mexican friends and I, while I can't remember their names, a lot of them tend to have quite a few mns as well. In Mexico family is super, super important - especially remembering and honoring your elders and your ancestors (hence Dia de los Muertos - The Day of the Dead, which a lot of people think is just Mexico's Halloween but it isn't. It's a holiday that honors the spirits of deceased family members). Because of this many parents give their children names of family members who were important to them - parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and so one person can have up to a dozen mns.
Though I'm sure that just like anywhere else there are people with no mns, one mn or just two or three mns. It seems from observation (and again, let me merely state it is an observation, not a hard fact) that multiple mns are a common thing.
- Serenity
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