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Unusual Filippino name
Hadn't heard this one before.Cherrandi Abucay SurnameShe's not sure where her parents came up with this. The fn is prn shur-RAHN-dee. Combo of Cheri and Randi? And the only name I've seen similar to Abucay is a Hispanic version of Habakkuk - Abacuc - on a guy.Thoughts?

~Lillian~
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AbucayThe second name, Abucay, comes from a Filipino place name (Abucay, Bataan), known because there is the second oldest church of Philippines (Santo Domingo Abucay).According this link, it is from Tagalog origin:http://www.asiafolks.com/index.php?showtopic=138&mode=linearplus
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Found this nice story about a (possible) origin of the name Abucay:
http://www.tambayanet.com/bataan/abucay.htmlOf course hard to say whether it really happened this way. At least I verified "kinaykay" to really mean something along the lines of digging, like in the expression "kinaykay ng manok" ("the digging of the chicken") that one can find with Google, and I know that "abo" means "ash" in Tagalog.
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It could be.That seems a logical explanation to the place name. Perhaps it is another folk etymology involving Europeans and missinterpretations of words and place names, but it is plausible.
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