why are are Filipino names often words?

Question

I hope that makes sense and isn’t offensive or anything, I’m genuinely curious because I’ve tried googling it and haven’t found a lot. I’ve met a couple people recently where they have one or two first names and will have an additional either first or middle name(?) such as Salvacion, which sounds like the English word ‘salvation’. I assume this is a biblical thing, but the names sound more Spanish. I don’t know a lot about Filipino or Spanish culture nor their histories (religious or otherwise), could someone explain?

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Answer 1

Even in English there are plenty of somewhat common word names such as Grace, Ash, Sky, West, months like April and August, Deacon, and the list goes on.