Thanks Lionel,

At first look the names do appear to be Hispanic. These
names were used as given, and not surnames.

The BEARD family used them. Of course the BEARDs may have a
mixture of any other ethnicity. But this clan seemed to live
in a tightknit group of Scots/Irish/German.

At one time there was an Etomolgy site on the web, which
listed dozens of names and meanings, that now I can no
longer find.

Janet

ps:  thanks for the reminder on Anglicized/Americanized. I
was just being lazy after a 20hr computer search...  I knew
I was writing the wrong word, but honestly was too lazy to
look it up,  which I will defend as "temporary
braindeadedness!" <>