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Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by kh_hk on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @11:14PM (#19977396)
> One of my coworkers was from Spain and had a last name consisting of two words separated by a space.

It's two last names, father and mother first last names. I guess the same definition works, but it's worth noting that any last name might contain a space.

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Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by roberto on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @11:34PM (#19977505)
Not necessarily. My last name is Ferreira De Almeida. "Ferreira" comes from my mother, and "De Almeida", with space, comes from my father.

I started spelling it "Dealmeida" to avoid confusion.

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