has anyone ever seen the Mandonado variation for Maldonado? I have some
records where the names are used as variations of one another.

It might be a good project to one day start putting together a database
of the different variations of the more common surnames.

I'd also love to form a database with the various given names and
nicknames for these nicknames.

thanks,

joseph

Maldonado, Baldonado, Mandonado
Varela, Barela
Rodriguez, Rodrigues
Gomez, Gomes

Gonzales, Gonsales, Gonzalez, Gonsalez (i'm not sure I've seen this last
one)

Perez, Peres

ps: feel free to add to this list. . .