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Santa María.
Headword:
Santa María.
Principal English Translation:
a name, used something like a surname, for example, by don Luis de Santa María, the indigenous governor of Tenochtitlan, as attested in a document from 1563; a name such as this was sometimes eventually shortened to just María, which is how some men came to have the name María, such as José María
Santa María was also, of course, the patron saint taken by many indigenous communities, and added to the indigenous place name