Those work. I think I was thinking of something else, but I will probably just have to run across it in the wild again to remember. I was going to say but forgot: C de Baca is one of my favorite local surnames, because it is the only surname I know that has an abbreviation baked in (for Cabeza, head; the name translates as 'head of the cow', which I interpret [perhaps wrongly] as 'head of the herd' - a herder or leader. And due to the [common across languages] B/V association, sometimes it is spelled Vaca, hinting at common ancestry with German 'Vieh' and Latin 'pecus'). Another favorite with variant spelling (if only for one generation) is Haozous/Houser. -Arlo James Barnes
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