Jerico Cruz Vargas

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Jerico — given name (May 2021 #210), Biblical / Spanish, city of the moon or fragrant place (Hebrew).

Cruz — mother's maiden surname, Spanish / Biblical, Cross (Spanish).

Vargas — father's surname, Spanish, thatched hut, steep slope, or water meadow (Spanish).

Jerico is a biblical given name with Cruz (spanish) and Vargas (spanish).

Derived from the Hebrew place name Yeriho (Jericho), historically associated with the Canaanite city whose walls fell in the Book of Joshua. In the Philippines, it is widely utilized as a given name, frequently spelled as Jerico or Jericho, popularized by Christian familiarity…

How it sounds
3–1–2

6 syllables. Initials JCV.

Jerico ends on a vowel and Cruz starts the next syllable. That break is ordinary.

Usual stress in the Philippines: the middle syllable.

A multi-syllable first name ending in a vowel creates a smooth phonetic transition into the initial 'V' and crisp terminal 's' of Vargas.

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