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View Name: Junípero


JUNÍPERO
GENDER: Masculine
USAGE: Various
Meaning & History
This was the name assumed by the 18th-century Spanish Franciscan monk Miguel José Serra, a missionary to California. He named himself after one of Saint Francis's companions, who was named from Latin iuniperus "juniper".
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