Many Spanish given names honor the Virgin Mary. Girls are frequently given the name Maria or Maria followed by a suffix name and boys are sometimes given the name Maria as a middle name. Girls with Marian composite names may use the suffix portion of their name as their main informal name.
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, known for his detached reportorial style, did something out of character on Tuesday. He got personal. As part of a series of stories called The Person Who Changed My Life, the journalist spoke about his late father, Wyatt Cooper, who died when Anderson Cooper was just 10 years old. He gave me the sense that I had value, that my ideas mattered, Cooper said. Cooper isn't the only CNN personality opening up.
He is also one of the most high profile people to come out in recent years, given that he hosts CNN's 'Anderson Cooper 360' and his own daytime TV talk show. Cooper came out by giving permission for friend Andrew Sullivan, who is openly gay, to print an email exchange between them on the Daily Beast.IMELINE: ANDERSON COOPER'S LIFE SO FAR. 1967 - born Anderson Hays Cooper on June 3 to mother, heiress Gloria Vanderbilt and father, writer Wyatt Emory Cooper. 1970 - appears as guest on the Tonight show aged three with his mother.