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[Map] Usual name order in European countries (jlai.lu)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is not correct for Romania: officially it’s Surname + Given-name, live in Hungary.

Not true for Greece, it’s just First-name + Surname. It just happens that some Surnames are derived from the father’s name (think “Anderson”).

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

In Spain of course your parents have 2 surnames too. So your first surname is your father's first surname, his 2nd surname is dropped ( first surname of his mother ) Your second surname is the first surname of your mother, her 2nd gets dropped too.

In the end always the name line of the females get dropped.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's so shitty. In the Netherlands they've just started to allow 2 surnames. One of the best proposals I've heard is that you would take your father's father's name, and your mother's mother's name. That way men continue the male name line, and women continue the female name line.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But then siblings don't share the same last name, which might maybe cause administrative issues down the line?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They do! Siblings both carry their father's father's name and their mother's mother's name.

Kids of siblings will not have the same family name if the siblings have different gender, but that shouldn't be an issue

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Interesting! But then how do you deal with the next generation?

Boy Adam-Bernard marries Girl Copper-Dale
What are their children's last names?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

See my comment above:

One of the best proposals I’ve heard is that you would take your father’s father’s name, and your mother’s mother’s name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Oh sorry, it makes sense indeed!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Historically, yes; however, they passed a law some years ago to allow for the mother's surname to be the first surname, as it happens in Portugal. Nonetheless I am not sure how popular this is.