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  2. Double-barrelled name - Wikipedia

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    A double-barrelled name is a type of compound surname, typically featuring two words (occasionally more), often joined by a hyphen. Notable people with double-barrelled names include Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Sacha Baron Cohen, and JuJu Smith-Schuster. In the Western tradition of surnames, there are several types of double surname (or double ...

  3. Naming customs of Hispanic America - Wikipedia

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    The court ruled: "Debtor's last name did not change when he crossed the border into the United States. The 'naming convention' is legally irrelevant[.]" [15] In other words, under the California implementation of the Uniform Commercial Code, the debtor's "true last name" was Juárez (his maternal surname). Using the full name, including both ...

  4. Spanish naming customs - Wikipedia

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    Spanish naming customs. Spanish names are the traditional way of identifying, and the official way of registering, a person in Spain. They are composed of a given name (simple or composite [a]) and two surnames (the first surname of each parent). Traditionally, the first surname is the father's first surname, and the second is the mother's ...

  5. Portuguese name - Wikipedia

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    Portuguese name. A Portuguese name, or Lusophone name – a personal name in the Portuguese language – is typically composed of one or two personal names, the mother's family surname and the father's family surname (rarely only one surname, sometimes more than two). For practicality, usually only the last surname (excluding prepositions) is ...

  6. Alphabetical order - Wikipedia

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    For French, the last accent in a given word determines the order. [14] For example, in French, the following four words would be sorted this way: cote < côte < coté < côté. The letter e is ordered as e é è ê ë (œ considered as oe), same thing for o as ô ö.

  7. Surname - Wikipedia

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    A surname, family name, or last nameis the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal namethat indicates one's family. [1][2]It is typically combined with a given nameto form the full nameof a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name.

  8. Nobiliary particle - Wikipedia

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    Nobiliary particle. A nobiliary particle is a type of onomastic particle used in a surname or family name in many Western cultures to signal the nobility of a family. The particle used varies depending on the country, language and period of time.

  9. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

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    For ease of use, the [i] in front of the last name, and the ending _ve, were dropped. If the last name ends in [a], then removing the [j] would give the name of the patriarch or the place, as in, Grudaj - j = Gruda (place in MM). Otherwise, removing the whole ending [aj] yields the name of founder or place of origin, as in Lekaj - aj = Lek(ë).