Dato Bautista Borja
This name appears in A List of Philippine Baptismal Names, published in 1905.
Dato — given name.
Bautista — mother's maiden surname, Spanish / Biblical, Baptist (Spanish, ultimately from Greek baptistes).
Borja — father's surname, Spanish, tower (from Spanish placename Borja, ultimately of Arabic origin).
7 syllables. Initials DBB.
Dato ends on a vowel and Bautista starts the next syllable. That break is ordinary.
Usual stress in the Philippines: the first syllable.
Pairs well with first names of two to three syllables ending in consonants to balance the open terminal vowel.
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