When Maria Elena Gomez was born in 1933, in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, her father, Julio Cesar Gomez, was 35 and her mother, Matea Samayoa Lopez, was 39. She died on 12 May 1993, at the age of 60.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Manuel, Carlos, Luis, Jesus, Francisco, Miguel, Pedro, Jorge, Ramon, Rafael.
Spanish (Gómez): from a medieval personal name, probably of Visigothic origin, from guma ‘man’. Compare De Gomez .
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.
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