HelynHERMINIAHENRIQUAHERMOSA

kosephouentes · January 5, 2006, 1:00am

Helyn said:

The old name is now a family secret…hmmm

what a cool cool story. . . .so is “hmmm” an abbreviation for
the name as in:

HERMENEGILDO
m Spanish,
Portuguese [note: does this name also work in the feminine form?]

Spanish and Portuguese form of a Gothic name which meant “complete
sacrifice” from Germanic ermen “whole, entire” and gild
“sacrifice”.

HERMINIA f Spanish
Spanish feminine form of HERMINIUS
Roman name which was possibly of unknown Etruscan origin, but could also be derived from the name of the god HERMES. In Roman legend this was the name of a companion of Aeneas.
Names that are related to HERMINIA:

ERMINIA f Italian

ERMINIO m Italian

HERMINE f German, French

HERMÍNIA f Portuguese

HERMINIA f Spanish

HERMÍNIO m Portuguese

HERMINIO m Spanish

HERMINIUS m Ancient Roman

or maybe its:

INMACULADA

Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
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Means "immaculate" in Spanish. This name is given to commemorate the Immaculate Conception of Mary.

HENRIQUA: feminine form of Henrique (rules the home)

HERMOSA: beautiful

prima this last one fits. . .Helyn Hermosa, thanks for sharing that story.

I have a cousin whose mother was supposed to be Adelaida but when it came time to record the name they couldn't figure out how to spell it and she was named Adela.

joseph

ps: and an old story that I just love to repeat when I have the opportunity is about my two ggg grandfathers Jose Tadeo Diaz who were twin brothers both with the same names (I wonder how come they did that? I would love to know what their nick names were so they could tell which was being called). Also later my great grandfather Julio Puentes who was really christened: Jose Julio de Jesus Puente had two sisters who were named the same (girls named Marcos probably Maria Marcos) without one dieing as a child. I can understand naming another sybling the same name if the first sibling died. Our families had their reasons. Maybe like Irma said they were born at the same time of year for the Marcos name.