When they get married and or get children they can pick only one to continue. So that the names don’t get super long indeed.
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Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 weeks agoI don’t really like both as a compromise.
What if your children did the same? And their children too?
After a while you’d have 30+ names in your last name.
kryptonidas@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
Wrrzag@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
They get one per parent, not all of the previous ones. The child of Juan Lopez Sánchez and Ana Heredia Marín would be called Firstname Lopez Heredia. If this child had a child with Luisa Ribera Zapatero the kid would be Firstname Lopez Ribera.
By default the fathers last name goes first, but they can decide to swap the last names to put the mother’s first.