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my full name is Alexis Santisteban, i am a male,i am hispanic, my parents are from mexico so are my grandparents, all i know about my family history is that my great grandfather and a brother of his moved to mexico from Spain not sure when,(i apologize for my last post)and sorry that all the info i got
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I'm no Spanish expert but I'd say it means St. Stephen - santo 'saint' and Esteban 'Stephen'. I'm pretty sure some linguistic phenomenon whose name I can't remember happened and made it Santisteban, which is less of a tongue-twister than Santo-Esteban because of the two consonants in a row not forming a diphtong.
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You'll find the origin of Santisteban at http://ancestrylibrary.com/facts/Santiesteban-name-meaning.ashx
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