Hispanic Names
by gamaral on Jul.07, 2009, under wisdom
Well after meeting a few euro people face to face y noticed that they have a hard time not just reading, writing, printing or remembering my name but also making heads or tails of it, so this my primer.
FULL NAME: Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas
NAMES: Guillermo Antonio
FAMILY NAMES: Amaral Bastidas
FIRST NAME: Guillermo
MIDDLE NAME: Antonio
SURNAME: Amaral (my fathers surname)
LAST SURNAME: Bastidas (my mothers surname)
If you want to reduce a latin name you can take out both MIDDLE NAME and LAST SURNAME or just use their initials:
Guillermo Amaral
Guillermo A. Amaral B.
How to call me
You have the following options:
- gamaral
- Guillermo
- Memo
- William
- Billy
- Willy
- Wonka
- Antonio
- Anthony
- Tony
4 Comments for this entry
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July 7th, 2009 on 3:13 pm
I’d just like to point out that this is *Hispanic* name, not Latin name.
Portuguese names don’t follow that convention. The father’s surname is last. If the mother’s surname is present, it comes before the father’s surname. Sometimes, a child will have both surnames from the mother, followed by both surnames from the father (which makes that 4 surnames).
In France, most people have three first names, but they never ever use them, except in official (government) documents. They are always known with by a first name and one surname.
July 7th, 2009 on 3:24 pm
You sure like to have things complicated :)
You can call me Dread.
July 7th, 2009 on 3:56 pm
What about “Toño”?
July 11th, 2009 on 5:25 am
It might be harder to say than the others, that’s why i didn’t add it to the list.