When Raymond Alex Espinosa was born on 7 July 1912, in Monterey, California, United States, his father, Theadore Patricino Espinosa, was 27 and his mother, Maria Madeline Guadalupe Vasquez, was 15. He lived in Castroville, Monterey, California, United States for about 10 years. He died on 17 October 2005, in Salinas, Monterey, California, United States, at the age of 93.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Carlos, Luis, Manuel, Jesus, Miguel, Jorge, Pedro, Francisco, Raul, Roberto.
Spanish: habitational name from any of numerous places called Espinosa, from a collective form of espina ‘thorn’.
Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Spanish 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.
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