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The Basque-speaking territories (the Basque Autonomous Community and Navarre) follow Spanish naming customs (given names + two family names, the two family names being usually the father's and the mother's). The given names are officially in one language or the other (Basque or Spanish), but often people use a translated or shortened version.
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).
The common spelling of this given name in different languages is a case of interlingual homography. Similar cases occur in English given names (Albert, Bertrand, Christine, Daniel, Eric, and Ferdinand) that are not exclusive to the English language and can be found namely in French with a different pronunciation under exactly the same spelling.
Justo Tejada (born 1933), Spanish football player; Justo Takayama (1552–1615), Japanese Christian and samurai; Justo Villar (born 1977), Paraguayan football player; Middle name. Antonio Justo Alcibar (born 1944), Argentine football player; José Justo Corro (1794-1864), Mexican president; José Justo Milla (1794–1838), Honduran military leader
The middle name in its natural sense would have been the second name if the person had one, but it is never counted as an individual's given name. Filipino Spanish, additionally, usually drops Spanish accents on names. American typewriters did not have an accent key, making the accent use archaic for print and documents.
The earliest documented Basque surnames occur on Aquitanian inscriptions from the time of the Roman conquest of Hispania and Gallia Aquitania.For the most part these can be easily identified with modern or medieval Basque surnames, for example ENNECONIS (the personal name Eneko plus the Latin genitive ending -IS, stem augmented by -N) > Enekoitz.
It is a surname of patronymic origin; it was originally a given name in Medieval Spain. The name originated in the Basque Country and means "the wolf", from the Basque vocabulary word otso/otxo meaning "wolf" (the suffix -a in the Basque language represents the definite article). In Standard Basque, the name is spelled otsoa or otxoa.
Rodríguez (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈðɾiɣeθ], [roˈðɾiɣes]) is a Spanish-language patronymic surname of Visigothic origin (meaning literally Son of Rodrigo; Germanic: Roderickson) and a common surname in Spain and Latin America. Its Portuguese equivalent is Rodrigues. The "ez" signifies "son of".