When Maria Aparecida Silva was born on 19 January 1969, in Divinópolis, Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil, her father, Sebastião Otavio Silva, was 33 and her mother, Maria Madalena de Jesus, was 34. She died on 3 October 2007, at the age of 38.
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1935–1983 Male
1934– Female
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1966–2008 Male
1969–2007 Female
1975–1991 Male
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Manuel, Carlos, Juan, Luis, Jesus, Mario, Fernando, Francisco, Pedro, Roberto, Miguel. Portuguese Joao, Paulo, Joaquim, Agostinho, Duarte, Henrique, Serafim, Vasco, Ilidio, Adao, Afonso, Altair.
Portuguese, Galician, and Italian: habitational name from any of the many places called Silva in Portugal, Galicia (Spain), and Italy, or a topographic name from (Old) Portuguese and (Old) Galician silva ‘wood’, later ‘bramble’. Compare Da Silva and Silba .
Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Iberian surname (see 1 above) at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later), some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholics.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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