Guadalupe

Guadalupe is a feminine given name in the Spanish language.
The name initially designated a river in the province of Extremadura, Spain. It has been interpreted either as an Arabic word, or an Arabic/Latin compound word. In the first case, it would derive from Wadi-al-luben, in Arabic "hidden river"; in the second case it would derive from Wadi Lupe, a compound of Wadi (Andalusian Arabic for "river") and lupe (Latin for "wolf").
The name became famous as a result of a 14th-century Marian apparition and associated pilgrimate site, located in a town called Guadalupe near the source of the Guadalupe river. The apparition, and the statue associated with it, was originally known as "Our Lady of Guadalupe" and is now known as "Our Lady of Guadalupe, Extremadura" or "Our Lady of Extremadura".
Two centuries later, the name gained additional fame through association with another Marian apparition associated with the name Guadalupe. The apparition and the image it made famous became known as Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The Mexican Guadalupe supplanted her Spanish original both in name and in fame - to the point where doubts about her Spanish parentage have even been raised. There are some who contend that the Mexican "Guadalupe" is in fact a corruption of a word in the native Nahuatl language. Nonetheless it is fairly certain that the Mexican name "Guadalupe", as a title for the Virgin Mary, does in fact derive from the Spanish place-name, probably by some association of the Virgin with the Spanish cult of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Extremadura), which would have been strong at the time of the Spanish conquista of Mexico, and which claimed its own apparition, shrine and pilgrimage. The name's use in relation to the Marian apparition in Mexico has led to some controversy regarding its origin and meaning. The name's similarity to a variety of Nahuatl words and phrases have given rise to various hypotheses that "Guadalupe" was a corruption of these Nahuatl phrases - the idea being that the Spanish in 16th century Mexico found it difficult to pronounce Nahuatl. Such Nahuatl phrases include Coatlaxopeuh ("The one (female) that defeat the snake", interpreted as a reference to the serpent-Devil in the book of Genesis); Tequatlanopeuh (she whose origins were in the rocky summit"), and Tequantlaxopeuh ("She who banishes those who devoured us"). The first to suggest the corruption theory behind the name was Bercera Tanco, in 1675. However, every manuscript from the first 150 years following the apparition uses the name "Guadalupe", including the original text in Nahuatl, leading scholars to conclude that time provides "no historical evidence indicating that the Virgin was called by any of the names proposed". In fact, accounts of Spaniards' response to the story of the apparitions show that it was the native Mexicans who insisted on using the name "Guadalupe" for Mary. A number of Spaniards had urged that "Guadalupe" be abandoned for a Nahuatl name, like Tepeaquilla or Tepeaca.
Today, the name "Guadalupe" is relatively common in Hispanic countries, especially in Mexico, where it can be a personal name as well as a place name. As a personal name, it can be given to both boys and girls. Notable examples of men named Guadalupe are Guadalupe Victoria, the first President of Mexico, and Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo, a Mexican politician.

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Spanish place name, the site of a famous convent, means: river of the wolf, valley of wolves.

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Guadalupe Victoria	1786	First president of Mexico
2	Guadalupe Salcedo	1924
3	Guadalupe Marín	1895	Mexican model and novelist
4	Guadalupe Pineda	1955	Mexican singer
5	José Luis Pérez Guadalupe	1965
6	Ignacio Guadalupe	1960	Mexican actor, television actor and film actor
7	Guadalupe Dueñas	1920	Mexican writer (1920-2002)
8	Guadalupe La Chinaca	1914
9	Guadalupe Lancho	1971	Spanish actress
10	Guadalupe Martínez de Bejarano		Mexican serial killer
11	Guadalupe Docampo	1984	Argentinian actress
12	Guadalupe Nettel	1973	Mexican writer
13	Guadalupe González	1992	Paraguayan beauty pageant contestant
14	Guadalupe Borja	1915	First Lady of Mexico
15	Guadalupe Loaeza (:	1946	Mexican writer and journalist
16	Guadalupe Pérez Rojas	1994	Argentine tennis player
17	Guadalupe Miranda	1810	Mexican politician
18	Luis Guadalupe	1975	Peruvian footballer
19	Guadalupe Leuviah	1949	Argentinian actor
20	Guadalupe Larriva	1956	Ecuadorian politician
21	Guadalupe Castañeda	1965	Footballer
22	Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo	1964	Mexican politician
23	Guadalupe Pérez Arias	1921
24	Guadalupe Bragado
25	Guadalupe Sánchez	1891	Mexican military personnel (1891-1920)
26	Guadalupe Canseco	1962	Mexican diver
27	Guadalupe Worbis	1983	Association football player
28	Guadalupe Pérez Domínguez	1972	Mexican politician
29	Guadalupe Huerta	1920	American activist
30	Guadalupe Flores Salazar	1971	Mexican politician
31	Guadalupe Muñoz Sampedro	1896
32	Guadalupe Valdez	1957
33	Guadalupe Morales Rubio	1966	Mexican politician
34	Guadalupe Murguía Gutiérrez	1955	Mexican politician
35	Guadalupe Arizpe de la Vega		Mexican humanitarian and women's rights activist
36	Guadalupe Valenzuela Cabrales	1960	Mexican politician
37	Guadalupe Gracia García-Cumplido	1881	Mexican surgeon
38	Guadalupe Sabio	1978	Spanish biochemist
39	Antônio de Guadalupe
40	Guadalupe González Taño	1965	Spanish politician
41	Guadalupe Virginia Nevárez Morillón	1963	Mexican bacteriologist, parasitologist and chemist
42	Guadalupe Reyes Reyes	1931	Mexican poet and musician
43	Guadalupe Villa
44	Guadalupe Llori		Ecuadorian politician
45	Guadalupe Garcia McCall
46	Guadalupe Robles Medina	1959	Mexican politician
47	Guadalupe Calello	1990
48	Guadalupe Mondragón Cobos	1981	Mexican politician
49	Guadalupe Arbona Abascal	1965
50	Guadalupe Ruiz-Giménez	1947
51	Guadalupe Álvarez Luchia	1984	Argentinian composer
52	Guadalupe López	1987
53	Guadalupe Ortega Pacheco	1966	Mexican politician
54	Guadalupe Silerio	1971	Mexican politician
55	Guadalupe García Almanza	1960	Mexican politician
56	Guadalupe Romero	1993
57	Guadalupe García Noriega	1963	Mexican politician
58	Guadalupe González-Hontoria	1921
59	Pedro Fernández de Guadalupe
60	Guadalupe Grande	1965	Spanish poet
61	Guadalupe Lucero
62	Pedro de Guadalupe		Spanish sculptor
63	Guadalupe Miera Gómez	1959
64	Guadalupe Marino
65	Guadalupe Pérez	1983
66	Guadalupe Martín González	1960
67	Guadalupe Ortiz de Landázuri	1912
68	Guadalupe Raygoza
69	Guadalupe Aparicio	1934
70	Guadalupe Delgado Pineda