ItsOnlyMe said:

Did I say it correctly? See? I have a good memory and I LOVED what you me and AzureStar shared back in the days..

I think I still have the paper somewhere with all the words on..

In Spain no-one takes the other's last names. It has always been like that.
My father has 2 last names and so does my mother.
I have both my father and my mother's first last names

Mr Manuel A B marries Mrs Maria C D and have a kid named Manolito A C

No hyphens either

NAMING NAMES IN OTHER PLACES

Though anthropologists know of no world cultures in which men uniformly take on their wives' family names upon marriage, there are some variations in the naming traditions for wives and children. Among them:

In many Middle Eastern nations, including Iran, Yemen, Jordan and Syria, Muslim women retain their own names after marriage out of respect for their fathers. In some cases, they must get a court order if they wish to go by their husband's surname.

In Spain and several Central American and South American nations, including Venezuela, many married women traditionally retain their birth names. Children typically get the surnames of both parents, though the father's is usually the one used by the child and handed on to the next generation.

In Iceland, most people do not have family names. Instead, someone's second name usually indicates who their father is. For example, Joe's son John is known as John Joeson, John's son Jay would be Jay Johnson, and so on. Novel first names must be approved by the Icelandic Naming Committee. Sometimes the mother's name is used instead, although it is rare and usually indicates a rift with the father.

In the United Kingdom, Prince Charles' full formal name is Charles Mountbatten-Windsor, taking and generally using the family name, Windsor, of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. Mountbatten was the family name of the queen's husband, Prince Philip. The naming of Charles and his siblings required an act of Parliament in 1960 and was done to preserve the Windsor name.

Sources: University of Southern California, University of Chicago, BBC News, George Mason University

In Hungary people go by surname first, so their first name actually becomes their last name.

PANDURITO said:

Yes, there's a sidebar in the link that talks about other countries. I should have copied that too. Here it is: