Sometimes the word 'de' is added between the two surnames to indicate that the second surname is her husband's. To continue the example, my wife's surnames before we got married:. In today's world, many women do not change their name for professional or personal reasons. In the case of our family, my wife still goes by her original surnames, Padilla Falto. It is interesting to note that either way, the woman in the marriage never changes her first surname.
My wife continues to be Mrs. This is very different from the US, where if the change occurs at marriage, the woman assumes the husband's last name. This presents yet another source of confusion. Because my wife is Mrs. Padilla, I am often called Mr. Padilla, which often makes me turn around and look for my father in-law.
However, it can be a source of fun at the expense of phone tele-marketers. When they call and ask for Mr. Padilla, I always tell them that he does not live at this address. There is one more aspect to the surnames, namely what happens when we have children.
Well, the whole circle of life begins again literally. And, as you can tell, we are back to the beginning of the explanation. Marquez, or more formally the son of Mr. And if you send a letter to the family of Arancha Sanchez Vicario, you would address it to the Sanchez Vicario Family.
In general in the US, the family as a group is addressed by the last name of the husband. In Hispanic circles, the family is addressed by the combination of the first surname of each of the partners in the marriage, which is the same of the surnames of the children of the marriage. Another interesting effect of the two surnames is that in Hispanic cultures you do not see the "I" first , "II" second , etc.
The child is automatically differentiated from the parent by the combination of father-mother surnames. So, my son, even if he was named Manuel, he would not have the same full name as me because it will include my wife's surname. You might have noticed that in many cases, a hyphen is added to separate the two surnames.
This is done artificially to satisfy the strict implementation of software systems that assume that a space is not a legal entry in the last name field. Molly Weissman, for example, who changed her middle name to Lister when she changed her last name, published some work as a journalist before her marriage. In addition to using both last names on Facebook, she sometimes refers to herself as Molly Lister Weissman in more formal online settings, too, such as her outgoing work-email signature, so her current work retains some identifiable link to her old articles.
Scheuble also points to Kim Kardashian West as a recent example, who started going by two surnames in some contexts after her marriage to Kanye West, but uses only her maiden name in her handles on Instagram and Twitter. Danielle Tate is the founder of MissNowMrs. But Tate has also observed an uptick, specifically in the last 18 months or so, in women seeking guidance as to how to change their legal names to include two last names, no hyphen.
However, when I moved to the States for graduate school, I quickly learned that I needed to hyphenate my surnames if I wanted to have a chance of keeping both of them, because without it, my first one used to disappear from important documents. Even with the hyphenation, I still am. I understand the confusion.
I do not blame them. It is frustrating. During my first two years in graduate school, a variety of situations made me question, multiple times, if I really wanted to insist on using both of my surnames.
I later understood from talking to peers that the uncomfortable comments and misuse of my surnames were a form of microaggression, perhaps unconscious, and that I was not the only Hispanic experiencing it.
Names are important. We use them to identify ourselves and they become part of our identity. Thus, as important as it is to pronounce names correctly, it is equally important to write and use them correctly.
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