Ciriaco Balangkig Saloma, manager of the Bohol Power Grid of the National Power Corporation in the 1980s and Celerina Gatal Aya-ay, a public school teacher, both from Baclayon, Bohol.
Additionally, names of Arab-Hebrew origins that are seldom used by the Muslim Arabs are widespread among Malays, such as the female names of Meriam or Miriam (the Arabs commonly spell it as Maryam), Saloma and Rohana.