1 Marta, Montserrat,Josep, Miquel, Ramon are common names in my country.
2, 3 My family name is really uncommon , it doesn't say anything about my family.
4 My family name doesn't mean anything like trade or professions, but in my country you can find a lot of these ones.
5 Recently, some people in my country has named their sons with foreign names of TV actors: Jessica, Jonathan,...
6 . 7 The name we use the first time we meet someone it depends of the age ; if they're old we are very respectful, if not we prefer to be more direct. In the first case we use surnames with a title and in the second without.
8We don't like to use pet names because in our languaje sometimes they sound ridiculous ( colometa, pardalet, pixurrin, borilleta, ...)