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Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more by PaulDavisThe1st on Monday February 10, 2025 @05:37PM (#43006189)
I would like to know more about the conditions under which Spanish family names became "X y Y" rather than "X" or "Y".
Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more by HelloNurse on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @05:39AM (#43011227)
Inheriting both surnames is traditional, picking one is nontraditional or foreign. The interesting option is between using a conjunction or not (Paul Davis Thefirst or Paul Davis y Thefirst), which seems mostly a matter of sounding better or, as Wikipedia suggests, disambiguating between first names and surnames (if it precedes the conjunction it is a surname).