names

[mars02]

Hi Everybody!

How is your weekend going? Come on, it is Friday!

I’m Ana, it is a very common name in Spain. It’s very difficult to don’t know any person with this name, but I don’t know what is “worse” my name or my surname: Gonzalez. Yeah, yeah, I know… I have a very common name and surname, what can I do? But I like both.

It’s very common to short names, I think it is the same in all the world. Or, if you are friendly with someone you call him/her with a diminutive as Anita, Carlitos, Juanito,… as me, a lot of friends call me Anita.

In Spanish people use pet names as cari or cariño, amor, cielo, chiqui, pichurri,… I don’t like them but everybody does…

Ok, have a nice weekend!

See you soon!

[FB]

Hi,

I'm Filipa from Portugal. In my country names like Ana, Maria or Inês are very common for women, and Manuel, Bruno or João for man.

I think that my family name, Borges, isn't a common surname. I don't know much people with this surname.

In Portugal names of trees are very used like Pereira or Oliveira.

Normally, when I met someone I call him/her for him/her title followed by their surname.

We use pet names to show affect, the most common can be love!

Have a nice weekend!