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[Map] Usual name order in European countries (jlai.lu)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is not correct for Romania: officially it’s Surname + Given-name, live in Hungary.

Not true for Greece, it’s just First-name + Surname. It just happens that some Surnames are derived from the father’s name (think “Anderson”).

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Very very long. I was entering a friend from Madeira into my phone a few weeks ago, and theirs was technically 7 names long.

Add to that the "so, which is your surname?" and getting 4 possible answers, all of which are in fact surnames.

There is also my friend who is half Spanish, half Portuguese. All his names shuffle around all the time depending on who he's speaking to.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is kinda weird... Yeah, they can get big. Most usual is to have 4 names (2 first names + mother + father)

Anyway, it's kinda weird because I wouldn't give anyone more than first and last name... And that's what most people do, (unless we're in the rare situation where two people share the same first + last name). Why was your friend making you write his full name?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

It was mostly to accentuate the stupidity of the whole situation, rather than directly being a bastard :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

When someone asks for my surname, sometimes I give my mother's surname, sometimes my father's surname and sometimes both, depending on my mood