from the Spanish Royal Family:
Sofía Margarita Victoria Federica
Sofía: the people shout that name when she was born, it also means
"philosophy" in greek
Margarita: any ideas?
Victoria: name of queens
Federica: her mother's name
Juan Carlos Alfonso María Víctor de Todos los Santos
Juan: for his father
Carlos: name of many great spanish kings
Victor: femenine of Victoria?
María de Todos los Santos: I believe this comes from the spanish tradition of putting religious names in all their people
Cristina Federica Victoria Antonia de la Santísima Trinidad
Cristina: spanish regent queen (Maria Cristina, mother of Alfonso XII)
Federica: her maternal grandmother's name
Victoria: name of queens
Antonia de la Santísima Trinidad: she was born on Saint Anthony of Padua's day
Queen Sofía continued the tradition for greek princesses to receive their grandmother's name in her daughters:
Elena
María Isabel Dominica de Silos: María from her paternal grandmother, the Countess of Barcelona María de las Mercedes de Borbón
Cristina
Federica Victoria Antonia de la Santísima Trinidad: Federica was her maternal grandmother's name, Queen Federica of Greece (born Princess of Hannover)
I believe Irene's name comes from Princess Irene, Infanta Cristina's aunt; if you notice her children's name carefully, one is named with
"spanish" names, the next is named with
greek names:
Juan Valentín de Todos los Santos
Pablo Nicolás Sebastián de Todos los Santos (by the way, Sebastian is the patron saint of Mallorca, so it's kind of a tribute to their dukedom)
Miguel de Todos los Santos
Irene de Todos los Santos
One question, do they actually use the surname
of Greece or use
SCHLESVIG-HOLSTEIN-SØNDERBURG-GLÜCKSBURG in their birth registration; if they do, their full names would be pretty long and complicated:
Cristina Federica Victoria Antonia de la Santísima Trinidad de Borbón and Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
