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Originally Posted by mikephoen
Some friends of mine gave their kids hyphenated last names. Her last name has 11 letters and his has 9. So including the hyphen, their kids have 21 character names! Good luck fitting that on a government form kids!
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I get why the wife would want to keep her maiden name. But why use both for the kids? Because it's "equal"?!?
I believe spanish (?) culture gives the kids both names, i.e. dad's last name and then mom's last name but they only use the one last name normally (dads):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_naming_customs