Talk:Maldonado (surname)

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 * Lorenzo Ferrer de Maldonado - adding the link here for future reference; Maldonado was a Portugese explorer who claimed to have discovered the Northwest Passage; see "Apocryphal Voyages" chapter here.Skookum1 (talk) 14:53, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Alonso de Maldonado, Spanish laywer, found him by searching for "de Maldonado" rather than simply "Maldonado". Should such names be here, or does the "de" require a different dab page?  Or just a section here?Skookum1 (talk) 09:23, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Meaning of Maldonado
The idea that 'Maldonado' is the Spanish form of MacDonald is ridiculous on the face of it. The name is a compound of Spanish 'mal' meaning badly, and 'donado', meaning given. Thus 'maldonado' is usually translated as 'ill-favored', although 'misbegotten' might be a better translation.

Honestly, the Spanish form of MacDonald! Is there a Scottish form of Mendoza?

But I don't want to get involved in an edit war with people named Maldonado. I'll leave this for someone braver than I to correct.

--Tex (talk) 19:59, 4 March 2009 (UTC)