• Then the first part is interpreted (in the US, anyway) as a middle name, not as part of the last name. I did run into a recently married woman who did that: dropped her middle name, moved her last to the middle, and used her spouse’s last name.

    More commonly, places that don’t take hyphens tend to just run the two names together: Axel-Smith becomes AxelSmith.

    Programmers can be really dumb.

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      61 month ago

      As someone who’s mexican I encounter that more than one would think since I have 2 last names and it gets weird sometimes since I also have a middle name.

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          41 month ago

          Something that could happen in Mexico for a name is Juan Maria as a first, Guillermo David as a middle and Gonzales De Mercado as a last name. Technically 7 words and totally a thing but not common at all, anymore at least.

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      11 month ago

      This kind of makes me want to name my kid Pascal-Case