Name of Mexico of the country is the "United Mexican States" (), since it is a federation of thirty-two states. The official name was first used in the Constitution of 1824, and was retained in the constitutions of 1857 and 1917. Informally, "Mexico" is used along with "Mexican Republic" ("República Mexicana"). On 22 November 2012, outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderón proposed changing the official name of the country to "México". Anahuac (meaning land surrounded by water) was the name in Nahuatl given to what is now Mexico during Pre-Hispanic times. When the Spanish conquistadors besieged México-Tenochtitlan in 1521, it was almost completely destroyed.
Nazar (given name) Nazar (given name) Nazar is a masculine name with multiple origins. As used by Christians, it means "from Nazareth," the town where Jesus Christ was said to have lived. The etymology of "Nazareth" from as early as Eusebius up until the 20th century has been said to derive from the Hebrew word נצר "netser", meaning a "shoot" or "sprout", while the apocryphal Gospel of Phillip derives the name from "Nazara" meaning "truth". Nazario is an Italian and Spanish version of the name, Nazaire is a French version and Nazariy is a Ukrainian and Russian form. Other variants in use include