• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    On Spain we have two last names, one for the father other for the mother.

    And while before the father’s was always the first, since many years couples of newborn babies can choose the order of the surnames.

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        First last name. Example:

        Mother: Maria García Perez

        Father: Juan Rodríguez Domínguez

        Their kids can be named:

        Adela García Rodríguez

        or

        Adela Rodríguez García

        Ans once selected the order with the first kid all the kids from the same couple must follow the same order.

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          So it’s the mother’s father’s name, or the names of both grandfathers. Still patrilineal

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            I mean, if you go that way, when surnames where created in the middle ages it was the name of the man.

            All spanish surnames ending in -ez mean “son of”. And it’s always male names.

            But change has to start at some point.