Spanish views from a small town

Talking about names yesterday, I remembered that a few years ago the drink Aquarius made a commercial you can see  here in the little town of Huerta de Rey in Burgos. Part of the hook was that the residents were in the commercial and introduced themselves. They criticized their mayor because his name was, boringly, Antonio, and asked that Aquarius change his name. The problem was that his name was too normal. After all, Huerta de Rey is the town with the strangest names in all of Spain. Joviniano, Herundina, Fredesvinda, Especioso, Burgundófora, Dulcardo, and many others are the names of actual inhabitants of the town. There is a story, and it goes back to the end of the nineteenth century. The town was always small and never went far above the thousand inhabitant mark. There was a lot of cross marriages in the families, and despite the custom of inheriting the patronymic and the matronymic, last names tended to be the same. Pedro Lopez García could easily have had a cousin ca...