where does the last name santamaria come from
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title: Marcus (name) text: writer Mark the Evangelist ("Μάρκος"). There are other variants. Marcus ranks in the top 100 most popular boy names in Australia, Canada, England, Scotland, Sweden, and Wales since the 1990s, as well as the top 200 most popular boy names in the US since the 1960s. Marcus developed as a patronymic or toponymic surname in Italy, southern France, and Spain around 1000 A.D., attributable to religious monasteries and sanctuaries named Sanctus Marcus (or its many variants). The surname was used as an identifier for area of origin. The first historical record of the surname was in the year 1390 in title: Peña (surname) text: Peña (surname) Peña or de la Peña is a Spanish habitation surname. The origin of the surname can be traced directly to the Middle Ages. The earliest public record of the surname dates to the 13th century in the Valley de Mena (Burgos) in the Kingdom of Castile. The origin of the last name is in present-day Galicia, Spain. The Peñas lived, originally, near a cliff or rocky land. Records indicate that the name derives from the Spanish word "peña" meaning "rock," "crag" or "cliff." The bearers of this surname proved their noble descent in the Order of Saint James title: Mariano text: Mariano Mariano is a masculine name from the Romance languages, corresponding to the feminine Mariana. It is an Italian, Spanish and Portuguese variant of the Roman Marianus which derived from Marius, and Marius derived from the Roman god Mars (see also Ares) or from the Latin "maris" "male". Mariano and Marian are sometimes seen as a conjunction of the two female names Mary and Ann. This name is an homage to The Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus. Mariano, as a surname, is of Italian, Spanish and Portuguese origin from the personal name "Mariano", from the Latin family name "Marianus" (a title: Ariana (name) text: the name Ariadne (; ; "most holy", Cretan Greek "αρι" [ari] "most" and "αδνος" [adnos] "holy"), the daughter of Minos, King of Crete, and his queen Pasiphaë, daughter of Helios, the Sun-titan, from Greek mythology. Ariana was first used in the English speaking world in the nineteenth century. It is also sometimes treated as a Welsh name, an elaboration of Welsh: "arian" “silver.” In the United States, the name Ariana was listed as the 78th most popular name for babies in 2006, with Arianna at 77. Ariana (name) Ariana is a feminine Persian name, popular in many languages. Arianna and title: San Roman (surname) text: San Roman (surname) San Roman refers to a family line of Spanish and Italian origin. The term San Roman in Spanish or Castilian refers to ' St. Roman ' and the name is a habitual name from any of the persons from the local church or shrines of Saint Roman. There are about 18,089 Documents Available on San Roman Ancestry, Alongside 9,475 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths on record, 4,291 Military Records and 1,020 Immigration Records on this family group that originates from Spain. Due to Spanish Colonial Expansions and emigrations into those territories controlled by Spain, the San Roman family