Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. Resolving questions like this, which typically involve very common names (" Juan" is rarely a surname), often requires the consultation of the person involved or legal documents pertaining to them. However, "Juan" was actually his first surname. For example, the writer Sebastià Juan Arbó was alphabetised wrongly by the Library of Congress for many years under " Arbó", assuming that Sebastià and Juan were both given names. There are times when it is impossible, by inspection of a name, to correctly analyse it. Įach of these two surnames can also be composite in itself, with the parts usually linked by:įor example, a person's name might be Juan Pablo Fernández de Calderón García-Iglesias, consisting of a forename ( Juan Pablo), a paternal surname ( Fernández de Calderón), and a maternal surname ( García-Iglesias). However, this legislation only applies to Spanish citizens people of other nationalities are issued the surname indicated by the laws of their original country. The law also grants a person the option, upon reaching adulthood, of reversing the order of their surnames. Since June 2017, adopting the paternal name first is no longer the standard method, and parents are required to sign an agreement wherein the name order is expressed explicitly. The only requirement is that every son and daughter must have the same order of the surnames, so they cannot change it separately. Since 2013, if the parents of a child were unable to agree on the order of surnames, an official would decide which is to come first, with the paternal name being the default option. Spanish gender equality law has allowed surname transposition since 1999, subject to the condition that every sibling must bear the same surname order recorded in the Registro Civil ( civil registry), but there have been legal exceptions. For example, if a man named Eduardo Fernández Garrido marries a woman named María Dolores Martínez Ruiz (note that women do not change their name with marriage) and they have a child named José, there are several legal options, but their child would most usually be known as José Fernández Martínez. Traditionally, a person's first surname is the father's first surname ( apellido paterno), while their second surname is the mother's first surname ( apellido materno). The two surnames refer to each of the parental families. This does not affect alphabetization: "Lorca", the Spanish poet, must be alphabetized in an index under "García Lorca", not "Lorca" or "García".Ĭurrently in Spain, people bear a single or composite given name ( nombre in Spanish) and two surnames ( apellidos in Spanish).Ī composite given name comprises two (or more) single names for example, Juan Pablo is considered not to be a first and a second forename, but a single composite forename.
In these cases, it is even common to use only the second surname, as in "Lorca", "Picasso" or "Zapatero".
Both surnames are sometimes systematically used when the first surname is very common (e.g., Federico García Lorca, Pablo Ruiz Picasso or José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero) to get a more distinguishable name. " Miguel de Unamuno" for Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo) the complete name is reserved for legal, formal and documentary matters.
The practice is to use one given name and the first surname generally (e.g. Since 1999, the order of the surnames in a family is decided when registering the first child, but the traditional order is nearly universally chosen (99.53% of the time). Traditionally, the first surname is the father's first surname, and the second is the mother's first surname. They comprise a given name (simple or composite ) and two surnames (the first surname of each parent). Spanish names are the traditional way of identifying, and the official way of registering, a person in Spain. This article should be summarized in Surname#Spanish and a link provided from there to here using the template.
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