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It's interesting how many Latin American countries do names.
The girl: Maria FathersLast Name MothersLastName.
Let's call her Maria Cruz Lopez.
The boy: Juan FathersLastName MothersLastName.
Let's call him Juan Ortiz Arellano.
They marry; she keeps her names but adds "de Arellano" to them. Now in these countries, if you can only use 1 last name for whatever reason, you use the first one (the dad's last name), so they'd be Maria Cruz and Juan Ortiz.
What happens here a lot, though, is that when a Latino kid who's just come to this country comes to school to register, the secretary thinks that "Arellano" is Juan's last name and that Ortiz is his middle name and he goes through all his years of school as Juan Arellano.
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