Moose-tache wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 1:40 amThat's what I thought. But when linguoboy said Montserrat could serve as its own name, and the person in question insisted on only Maria, it kind of sounds like they were both stand-alone names, each separately representing the virgin Mary. Hence, I asked him a clarifying question.
Both can be standalone names, but when they're conjoined with "de", then this is considered a single multipart given name--in the same way that hyphenating English surnames transforms them from two distinct surnames to one double-barrelled surname.
Caballé was responding to people who thought her given name was solely "Montserrat" (which is the name she typically went by) and not "Maria de Montserrat"--in the same way that someone who goes by "Joe" might have to clarify that their actual given name is "Joseph".
Moose-tache wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 12:15 am
Yeah, those baby name sites are AI generated. You can type almost anything into google with "baby name" attached and it will point you to some confident bullshit.
Anyway, I came back because I remembered another Name Fact. The most common surname in Croatia is Horvat, which is just another form of the word "Croatian" in the Serbo-Croat language. So the next time you read a hacky sci-fi premise where a character named Norfmo is from the planet Norfmo, before you judge the author too harshly, consider that they might simply be from the Balkans.
There are also quite a few Germans with the surname Deutsch, though this is not one of the most common surnames - but nothing out of the ordinary, either.
