When Maria Peña Peña was born on 2 September 1970, in Mascota, Jalisco, Mexico, her father, Santiago Peña Santana, was 42 and her mother, Maria Ines Peña Peña, was 43. She died on 26 July 1972, in her hometown, at the age of 1.
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1927–1987 Male
1927–2012 Female
1970–1972 Female
A name derived from Mapia, one of the Greek forms of Miriam. Maria is found as a male name as well as a female name. Viscount Montague, of Cowdray, Sussex, who succeeded to the title as second viscount, was christened Anthony Maria Browne. In Camden's Remains (p. 44), referred to in Delicie Literarise, occurs Thomas Maria Wingfield; and there was also a Sir Edward Maria Wingfield. The name appears to have been adopted in the latter family from Mary, daughter of Henry VIII. Compare Notes and Queries 5th S. ii. 73, 316, 478. Marie is frequently found as a male name in France and in other parts of the Continent.
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