Maldonado
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish Maldonado.
Proper noun[edit]
Maldonado (plural Maldonados)
- A surname from Spanish.
Statistics[edit]
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Maldonado is the 249nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 121526 individuals. Maldonado is most common among Hispanic/Latino (93.71%) individuals.
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Possibly from McDonald when Irish Catholics fled religious persecution to settle in Galicia. Or possibly a Calque of French mal donné (literally “reluctantly given”), referring to a boon reluctantly granted by a French monarch.
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Maldonado m or f by sense
- a Spanish surname
Proper noun[edit]
Maldonado m
- Maldonado (a department of Uruguay)
- Maldonado (a city in Uruguay)
See also[edit]
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Spanish
- English terms derived from Spanish
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from Spanish
- Spanish terms calqued from French
- Spanish terms derived from French
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ado
- Rhymes:Spanish/ado/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish proper nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish nouns with multiple genders
- Spanish masculine and feminine nouns by sense
- Spanish surnames
- es:Departments of Uruguay
- es:Places in Uruguay
- es:Cities in Uruguay