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9. Most people from Mexico have four names:

First, Middle, Surname, Mother's maiden

As in the US, often the middle name isn't used. However, some go by their middle name.

Sometimes baptismal names are involved and everyone is a Maria or Joseph. This is an old tradition.

Everyone in colonial Mexico was Ma ...or Jph..kinda like Mr or Mrs or Maria, Joseph, eventually Joseph was changed to Jose.

When baptismal salutations were common, middle names were not common. Guadalupe Ramirez Ortiz = Maria Guadalupe Ramirez Ortiz or Ma Guadalupe Ramirez Ortiz