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1. What are common names where you come from?
In Brasil the names common are Jose, Pedro, Joäo, Roberto, all this for men, and Maria, Ana, Aparecida for women.
2. Is your family name common?
My family name is Nicolau. This name is not common in Brasil.
3. Does your family name tell you anything about your family (e.g., where you come from)?
No, it doesn`t.
4. Some English names refer to trades or professions, such as Butcher or Baker. Does your name mean anything? Are there any names in your country that do?
No, it doesn`t. In my country there are names that mean do, such as mecänico, tintureiro, etc.
5. Are any names from other countries popular in your country? Which ones?
There are some names from other countries popular im my country, such as Pablo from Spain or Lucas from Italy.
6. In your country when you meet someone for the first time what name do you use? How do you know when you can use their first name?
In Brasil we use to the first name.
7. In your country do you ever use surnames without a title (e.g., Mrs or Mr)? When could you do this? Why would you do it?
In my country it`s not common to use surnames each others, but in some occasions it is polite to use, for example, when you talk to old people or superior.
8. There are common pet names in English that show affection, such as honey, darling or pet. What words are used in your language?
There are common pet names in my country, such as fofo, paixäo, querido, in the others.

My name is Diego - Didac in catalan -Valls. I live in La Garriga, 35 kilometres from Barcelona in the north direcction. I'm married and I have two girls. This is my first exercice for the noticebook.

What are common names where you come from?
Maria, Jose, Francisco, Antonio, Pedro, Rosa

Is your family name common?
No. My name is Diego. It's not an usual family name. The translation in catalan is Dídac

Does your family name tell you anything about your family (e.g., where you come from)?
Mi first surname is Valls in reference to the city of Valls in the south of Catalonia, and the second, Meca, is in reference to the sacred city of muslims in Saudi Arabia.

Some English names refer to trades or professions, such as Butcher or Baker. Does your name mean anything? Are there any names in your country that do?
No, my name does mean anything about professions, but there are a few names in spanish refer to professions: carpinterio, carnicero, panadero, labrador, tornero,

Are any names from other countries popular in your country? Which ones?
This is a funny history. The origin of lots of this names is the TV serials from UK or Southamerica: Jhonatan, Jeniifer, Angeline, Michael...

In your country when you meet someone for the first time what name do you use? How do you know when you can use their first name?
The first name and the surname. We use the first name only if we have some confidence with the other person-

In your country do you ever use surnames without a title (e.g., Mrs or Mr)? When could you do this? Why would you do it?
We use Sr. Sra or Srta. Ww use this when we don't have confidence with this person. It's a polite way to speak.

There are common pet names in English that show affection, such as honey, darling or pet. What words are used in your language
For example, cariño, cari, churri, niña, etc.

1. What are common names where you come from?
I come from Girona and common names in this area are: Maria, Nuria, Marta, Anna and Cristina for women and Josep, Carles, Aleix and Marc for men.
2. Is your family name common?
My family name is Deulofeu. This name is quite common in Girona.
3. Does your family name tell you anything about your family (e.g., where you come from)?
My family name it's in catalan language so it means that we are from this country.
4. Some English names refer to trades or professions, such as Butcher or Baker. Does your name mean anything? Are there any names in your country that do?
No, it doesn`t. In my country there are names that mean do, such as Ferrer, Fuster, Boter.
5. Are any names from other countries popular in your country? Which ones?
There are some names from other countries like Martori from Italy.
6. In your country when you meet someone for the first time what name do you use? How do you know when you can use their first name?
In my country when we meet a person for the first time we usually use his first name, except if this person could be a old person or someone like your boss in your work.
7. In your country do you ever use surnames without a title (e.g., Mrs or Mr)? When could you do this? Why would you do it?
In my country when we are talking with friends or relatives never use a surname with a tittle. But in some occasions it is polite to use, for example, when you talk to old people or superior.
8. There are common pet names in English that show affection, such as honey, darling or pet. What words are used in your language?
There are common pet names in my country like "reina", "estimat", "carinyu".

1. What are common names where you come from? I was born in Moroco, but i’m spanish. I’m leaving in Tarragona since I was 14 and here, the most common names are: Puig, Martí, Suñé...
2. Is your family name common? I don’t think so. In all my life I only have met one Valero.
3. Does your family name tell you anything about your family (e.g., where you come from)? No it doesn’t.
4. Some English names refer to trades or professions, such as Butcher or Baker. Does your name mean anything? No it doesn’t. Are there any names in your country that do? There aren’t many
5. Are any names from other countries popular in your country? Yes there are since we have a lot of immigration . Which ones? The names Singh, Annoi and Forester.
6. In your country when you meet someone for the first time what name do you use? We use the name that this person wants. How do you know when you can use their first name?
7. In your country do you ever use surnames without a title (e.g., Mrs or Mr)? Yes I do. When could you do this? Whe we have to comunicate somthing with a formal writing or conversation. Why would you do it? Because we want to have a formal comunication.
8. There are common pet names in English that show affection, such as honey, darling or pet. What words are used in your language? We used words like cariño, cielo, tesoro...

1.What are common names where you come from?
I'm from Barcelona and the most common names are: Montse, Maria, Núria, Anna, Jordi, Marc, Arnau, etc.
2.Is your family name common?
Yes, it's Morales and it's very common in Spain and America.
3.Does your family name tell you anything about your family (e.g., where you come from)?
No, it doesn't.
4.Some English names refer to trades or professions, such as Butcher or Baker. Does your name mean anything? Are there any names in your country that do?
No, I don't think so. But there are names as Fuster, Herrero, Labrador, Zapatero, etc.
5.Are any names from other countries popular in your country? Which ones?
Yes, there are a lot. For example: Jonathan, Jennifer, Michael, etc.
6.In your country when you meet someone for the first time what name do you use? How do you know when you can use their first name?
We use our first name. We use their first name if we know very well the person (if we are friends).
7.In your country do you ever use surnames without a title (e.g., Mrs or Mr)? When could you do this? Why would you do it?
We use Mrs or Mr in a polite way, in a formal conversation (or letter), etc.
8.There are common pet names in English that show affection, such as honey, darling or pet. What words are used in your language?
In Spanish we use "cariño", "reina", etc.

1. What are common names where you come from?
Her in Spain, we can find lots of people called José, Antonio, Francisco, Alfredo and so on, and in Catalonia where I am form, names as Oriol, Sergi, Ot or Pere are also well known.
2. Is your family name common?
Not so common. My family name is Ros, and you can look up a few ones from telephone guide, but another ones as Pérez, Martínez or Garcia are widely more common family names here where I live.
3. Does your family name tell you anything about your family (e.g., where you come from)?
Not in my case, there are often family names related to the place the family came, or the name of ancient people from the family, but not mine.
4. Some English names refer to trades or professions, such as Butcher or Baker. Does your name mean anything? Are there any names in your country that do?
Not my name, from what I know. Anyway, in Spain yes, they are. Some names as Carnicero, Sacristán, Barbero, and even Verdugo, had their beginnings in professions.
5. Are any names from other countries popular in your country? Which ones?
Yes, some names as Michael, Kevin Costner, Iratxe, Wilson and a lot of them. They became popular from TV series, other foreign people that stay here nowadays, or geographical regions close to our country, that linguistically influence it.
6. In your country when you meet someone for the first time what name do you use? How do you know when you can use their first name?
It depends on the context; in a professional meeting we must use Family name, but sometimes, from the common relationship, when people get in touch can also use the first name, in a less formal way.
7. In your country do you ever use surnames without a title (e.g., Mrs or Mr)? When could you do this? Why would you do it?
We use only the surname at school, because is usual to have several identical First names in the same classroom, so the teacher makes a difference calling them by using the surname. This is the same reason to do so in a job, so among job mates could be usual too, to refer each other by the surname. Sometimes the reason to use the surname is related to its particular sound, which gives more personality to the owner than his name.
8. There are common pet names in English that show affection, such as honey, darling or pet. What words are used in your language?
Her we can use short names as “blanquita” or “bolita” to show affection, but we often use other kind of names as Luna, Perla or other ones with a well known meaning, but used only for pet names.

1. What are common names where you come from? In Catalonia, where I come from, a common girl names are Montserrat, Núria, Anna, Mercè, Maria, and a common boys girls are Jordi, Josep, Joan, Pere, Jaume.
2. Is your family name common? My family name is Sensada. This is not common in the city where I live which is Sabadell but is common in Berga a city 100 km away from where I live.
3. Does your family name tell you anything about your family (e.g., where you come from)? No it does. May be there is an ancient meaning from which the name comes from, something related with “census” but I’m not sure about it.
4. Some English names refer to trades or professions, such as Butcher or Baker. Does your name mean anything? Are there any names in your country that do? Yes, in my country there are some family names related to professions, such as Carnicé, Ferrer. My family name may be has the meaning of census bud spelled in a different way.
5. Are any names from other countries popular in your country? Which ones? Yes there are many of them. Spaniard names as Fernandez, Gonzalez, Díaz.
6. In your country when you meet someone for the first time what name do you use? How do you know when you can use their first name? It depends of the context you meet him/her. If you meet that person in a business context we use the full name, I mean, first name and family name together. In personal context we mainly use our first name.
7. In your country do you ever use surnames without a title (e.g., Mrs or Mr)? When could you do this? Why would you do it? Yes, sometimes we do this, but only in a informal way.
8. There are common pet names in English that show affection, such as honey, darling or pet. What words are used in your language In Catalan, my language, we say pet names such as nina, carinyo, bitxo, cel among other.

Hello,
In Catalonia there are a lot of common names, some of them are Jordi, Josep, Joan for a boy and Núria, Montserrat, Maria for a girl. My family name is not common at all in Catalonia. About the names that refering some professions they are also common in Catalonia, and they sound as Fuster, Carnicer, Sabater, Ferrer, Pont, Prat, etc. I've read that my surname is come from the north of Spain, exactly from Navarra, but there is another branch in the south. It identified the family who lived or had got the land near the river.
In my country every day is increasing the number of persons who are named after a famous singer or actor, Jennifer, Kevin, Johnatan are names that nowdays our spanish parents give to their children.
In my country hardly ever we use surnames without a tittle, but if we are talking with someone that we don't know and in a formal context (introduction, etc) we use surnames with a tittle (Sr. or Sra.).
The nickname's use is common between some social groups, but pet names are such common and here are some of them, joia, amor, carinyu, bixet, rei, tresor. Also we can hear gordito, negrita, means chubby and blacky, when the speaker is come from Argentina and wants to show affection.

1.What are common names where you come from?
The most common names in country are Jordi, Marc, Marta, Anna. You have interest you could discover the most common names in the government statistics (INE, Institut estadística de Catalunya)
2.Is your family name common?
Yes, my family name, Martínez, is quite common, it means Martin's son. We're a big family.
3.Does your family name tell you anything about your family (e.g., where you come from)?
Yes, Martínez, add the sufix ez to the family name or father name (Martin). The sufix "ez" means "son of", and then, like I've said before means Martin's son,
4.Some English names refer to trades or professions, such as Butcher or Baker. Does your name mean anything? Are there any names in your country that do?
Yes there are a lot of catalan surnames that mean jobs: ferrer, herrero, fuster, carpintero, pastor, capità, pagès, etc.
5.Are any names from other countries popular in your country? Which ones?
Yes there are many american names like Jessica, Christian, Jonathan. However, In the last years the typical catalan names have boost.
6.In your country when you meet someone for the first time what name do you use? How do you know when you can use their first name?
It's an old fashion to use the family name to call a person but if you don't have any confidence with him. When you have some confidence with a person we usually call him by his first name, sometimes by his family name, but always in an informal way.
7.In your country do you ever use surnames without a title (e.g., Mrs or Mr)? When could you do this? Why would you do it?
Yes, when you have confidence with the person. Otherwise we'd use the title Mr. Mrs. Ms.
8.There are common pet names in English that show affection, such as honey, darling or pet. What words are used in your language?
We use words that express love like: carinyo, amor, etc.