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The Filipino given name Dranreb was invented by reversing the spelling of the English name Bernard, and someone calling himself Nosrac bears the legal name Carson. Joseph Ejército Estrada , the 13th president of the Philippines , began as a movie actor and received his nickname Erap as an adult; it comes from Pare spelled backwards (from ...
Surnames of Filipino origin (22 P) I. Ilocano-language surnames (2 P) K. Kapampangan-language surnames (4 P) P. Pangasinan-language surnames (3 P) T. Tagalog-language ...
Pages in category "Surnames of Filipino origin" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Abrenica;
The dissemination of surnames were also based on the recipient family's origins. For example, surnames starting with "A" were distributed to provincial capitals, "B" surnames were given to secondary towns, and tertiary towns received "C" surnames. [8] Families were awarded with the surnames or asked to choose from them. [9]
One popular (but erroneous) origin of the name, mina de oro (Spanish for "gold mine"), was the result of the Spaniards giving meaning to a phrase that they could recognize, [71] despite the fact that no major gold-mining industry existed or exists in the island. [76] Misamis (Occidental and Oriental)
The surname, Tecson, is a Spanish transliteration of Philippine Hokkien Chinese: 德孫; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tek-sun; Tâi-lô: Tik-sun. Most Chinese Filipinos whose ancestors came to the Philippines prior to 1898 use a Hispanicized surname, spelled with Spanish orthography using the Abecedario (Spanish Alphabet).