My name is Elena and I live in Móstoles, a big city in the south of Madrid. Here, the most common names are María, Carmen… (for the girls), and José, Juan, Javier… (for the boys), although there are actually a lot of foreigner names in Madrid, how, Mireya, Gael, Kevin, Nicole, Zaira, Erick, Jonathan, Amira…
The common family names in Spain are Martín, García, Fernández… My family name is Rodríguez, it is a very common family name too and it is distributed by all the country.
We use Mr or Mrs and their family name when we are in the job or speak with a important person but, when we are with friends, colleagues of work, we don’t use them.
When the name is long, sometimes, we use the short form, like, Fran is the short for Francisco; Santi is Santiago; Marga is Margarita...
We use also pet names as “cari” (I don’t like anything), “bichín”…
Leni.