When Adelita Fallas Arrieta was born on 6 October 1952, in Alajuela, Alajuela, Costa Rica, her father, Miguel Fallas Fallas, was 32 and her mother, Vitalina Arrieta Herrera, was 32. She died on 31 July 1986, at the age of 33.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Luis, Carlos, Geovanny, Humberto, Juan Carlos, Mario, Rodrigo. Jewish Isadore, Meyer.
English (Yorkshire): variant of Fallis or topographic name from Falhouse in Thornhill, Yorkshire. The placename has the same origin as Fallows .
English (of Norman origin): from Falaise in Calvados, France. Or, a habitational name from Anglo-Norman French faleise, faloise ‘cliff’, for someone who lived on or by a cliff.
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