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in reply to a message by Gingersnap
I think the grandmother was embarrassed that she got the name from pop culture and so made up the story about the Bible.
The closest name in my name dictionary from Mexico is Ademaro. On this site that's only listed as Italian, but a great many names of saints have the same form in Italian and Spanish and are at least occasionally used in both Italian and Spanish speaking countries. -is has been a very productive suffix for newly created names in Latin America for quite a while now.
This is probably a fairly recent creation because the earliest example of it I can find on Ancestry.com is a birth record from New York City from 1963.
The closest name in my name dictionary from Mexico is Ademaro. On this site that's only listed as Italian, but a great many names of saints have the same form in Italian and Spanish and are at least occasionally used in both Italian and Spanish speaking countries. -is has been a very productive suffix for newly created names in Latin America for quite a while now.
This is probably a fairly recent creation because the earliest example of it I can find on Ancestry.com is a birth record from New York City from 1963.
This message was edited 4/26/2024, 8:25 AM
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