Talk:Writing Adolescent Fiction/Character names/Spanish

There are definitely many surnames considered as hispanic but that are not from spanish language (or castellano or spanish ). Because you are including in the same group surnames that some people can consider as french surnames as 'Aguirre',Aguire ,Aguerre ,D'aguerre,Daguerre,.............).

What I want to tell you is that there are in your list many last names or surnames as Ayala, Orozco ,Ibarra,Bolivar,Guevara ,Uribe,Urdaneta,Legazpi,Zumarraga,(see 'list of basques'-wikipedia) ....,etc etc that you are considering as Hispanic when other people could consider them as French. The question is that those surnames are not spanish(hispanic) nor french (francophone) ,because actually they are Basque surnames (Basque=vasco,Euskara,lingua navarrorum,vascuence ) .So it can be considered Europeans that spread to America ,but They dont mean anything in Spanish nor in French.They dont mean anything in Chinese either ,because their meaning can be solved only in basque and after that can be  translated to many other languages as English,Chinese ,Spanish,French or whatever you want.

So they can wrongly considered as 'hispanic' or  as 'francophone' ,but actually those surnames are not spanish nor french nor chinese nor whatever ,because they are basque.

In that list you have met in the same group (as 'hispanic') surnames that are from 'Castellano'(spanish) language,from 'Euskara'(basque), from 'Catala'(Catalan ),....,that are present in many citizens of Spain,France and Americas'.. . It would be interesting to study surnames etymology before including them as spanish .Some people of Spain  sometimes try to include them as Spanish or Hispanic ,.....,but Spain lost its colonies in America more that one century ago,...

Thank you very much.