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Spanish names are the traditional way of identifying, and the official way of registering, a person in Spain. They are composed of a given name (simple or composite [ a ] ) and two surnames (the first surname of each parent).
Some countries have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. Countries are listed alphabetically by their most common name in English. Each English name is followed by its most common equivalents in other languages, listed in English alphabetical order (ignoring accents) by name and by language.
The naming customs of Hispanic America are similar to the Spanish naming customs practiced in Spain, with some modifications to the surname rules.Many Hispanophones in the countries of Spanish-speaking America have two given names, plus like in Spain, a paternal surname (primer apellido or apellido paterno) and a maternal surname (segundo apellido or apellido materno).
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Loss of the initial e; Loss of the ending i; Middle, accentuated, e became the diphthongized form ie Old Spanish X was pronounced /ʃ/ as in Basque, like an English sh.Old Spanish /ʃ/ then merged with J (then pronounced the English and later the French way) into /x/, which is now spelled J and pronounced like Scottish or German ch or as English h.
In Castilian Spanish, the initial J is similar to the German ch in the name Bach and Scottish Gaelic and Irish ch in loch, though Spanish j varies by dialect. Historically, the modern pronunciation of the name José in Spanish is the result of the phonological history of Spanish coronal fricatives since the fifteenth century, when it departed ...
Alejandro is the Spanish form of the name Alexander. [ 1 ] Alejandro has multiple variations in different languages, including Aleksander ( Czech , Polish ), Alexandre ( French ), Alexandros ( Greek ), Alsander ( Irish ), Alessandro ( Italian ), Aleksandr ( Russian ), and Alasdair ( Gaelic ).
Jaime is a common Spanish and Portuguese male given name for Jacob (name), James (name), Jamie, or Jacques. In Occitania Jacobus became Jacome and later Jacme.In east Spain, Jacme became Jaime, in Aragon it became Chaime, and in Catalonia it became Jaume.