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Re:Gonzalo Guerrero by pelagicAustral on Sunday May 11, 2025 @12:11PM (#43954752)
Talk about turning your luck around...

Somehow not mentioned in the Wiki page, but Guerrero actually means Warrior in Spanish. So I get the last name comes from him (?), unverifiable of course.

Re:Gonzalo Guerrero by Azkron on Sunday May 11, 2025 @12:47PM (#43955018)
"Guerrero" is a common last name in Spain.
Re:Gonzalo Guerrero by taveras on Sunday May 11, 2025 @12:51PM (#43955049)
How did you come to that conclusion? The last name Guerrero predates the 1500s by centuries.
Re:Gonzalo Guerrero by LtdJorge on Sunday May 11, 2025 @12:53PM (#43955059)
Why would the last name come from him and not the other way?
Re:Gonzalo Guerrero by yard2010 on Sunday May 11, 2025 @01:24PM (#43955290)
There's that lovely phenomenon, I can't recall the name, of people that live to their name. Like a cook who's named Jon Cook, a gardener who's named Phil Gardener, you get it.

So this.

Re:Gonzalo Guerrero by enricozb on Sunday May 11, 2025 @01:41PM (#43955428)
nominative determinism
Re:Gonzalo Guerrero by mistercheph on Sunday May 11, 2025 @01:44PM (#43955457)
It's name itself serving as a kind of fate for what it refers to
Re:Gonzalo Guerrero by pelagicAustral on Sunday May 11, 2025 @02:32PM (#43955871)
Is that "bootstrapping"?
Re:Gonzalo Guerrero by AStonesThrow on Sunday May 11, 2025 @04:32PM (#43956907)
Well, it may surprise you to know that surnames such as "Cook" and "Butler" are occupational and actually derive from men, centuries ago, who were actually cooks or butlers and eventually coined a newfound surname from that occupation (which may often be passed down father-to-son.)

So if a modern fellow is named "Jon Cook" it may indeed be a regression hearkening back to one or more of his ancestors and how they were named.

I am more accustomed to "nominative determinism" being associated with a person's given name, and how they grow up to take on a given role.

Re:Gonzalo Guerrero by celticninja on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @05:38PM (#43978035)
Re:Gonzalo Guerrero by jxjnskkzxxhx on Sunday May 11, 2025 @08:31PM (#43958507)
Or a librarian named Mr Bookman.
Re:Gonzalo Guerrero by matheist on Sunday May 11, 2025 @02:00PM (#43955597)
"Guerrero" comes from Spanish "guerra", which is cognate to English "war". They both derive from a common proto-Germanic root.