About male renaissance names
How male renaissance names are built
A result pairs a given name with a surname: a 220-entry male given bank and a 186-entry female given bank draw against a large 862-entry surname pool. "Enrrique de Perea" is the male pattern, "Abdona de Vallego" the female, and "Jose de Santa Ana" another male pair. The de particle is stored as part of the surname entry.
Enrrique de Perea
Enrrique (given, male bank) + de Perea (surname)
male given name plus a surname entry that includes the de particle
Abdona de Vallego
Abdona (given, female bank) + de Vallego (surname)
female given name plus a surname entry that includes the de particle
José de Santa Ana
José (given, male bank) + de Santa Ana (surname)
male given name plus a surname entry that includes the de particle
Naming notes
The surname pool is the largest slot at 862 entries against smaller given-name banks, so surnames vary widely while given names repeat sooner. Many surname entries keep the attached de particle (de Perea, de Vallego, de Santa Ana, de Luz) as a single stored value. Period label: Spanish Golden Age, roughly the 15th to 17th centuries.
Questions about male renaissance names
- Why do surnames begin with de?
- The bank stores the de particle as part of the surname entry, so de Perea and de Santa Ana are single stored values rather than a separate prefix slot.
- Why does the surname vary more than the first name?
- The surname pool holds 862 entries against 220 male and 186 female given names, so first names repeat sooner across draws.
- What period does this fit?
- It carries a Spanish Golden Age label, roughly the 1400s to 1600s, with the period spellings kept from the source data.