When Otilio Hernández Castillo was born on 13 December 1910, in Caltepec, Puebla, Mexico, his father, Ignacio Hernandez Gallardo, was 24 and his mother, Antonia Fabiana Castillo De La Cruz, was 16. He died in 1911, in his hometown, at the age of 1.
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Rebellion spreads throughout Mexico. After attack on Ciudad Juárez, Díaz resigns. Madero returns in triumph to Mexico City and is elected to presidency. Emiliano Zapata publishes Plan of Ayala demanding quick reforms.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Carlos, Manuel, Jesus, Luis, Francisco, Pedro, Miguel, Jorge, Mario, Raul, Ramon, Roberto.
Spanish (Hernández): patronymic from the personal name Hernando (see Fernando ). The surname has also been established in southern Italy, mainly in Naples and Palermo, since the period of Spanish dominance there. Hernandez (including in the sense 2 below) is the eleventh most frequent surname in the US. Compare De Hernandez .
Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the name in 1 above at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later), some Jewish descendants retained the surname that their families had adopted as Roman Catholics.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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