I did a lot of work on international name formats when I was doing a project to sanitise our database inputs. Sounds simple to verify a name looks right? It is not and the very first screwup I had to fix were ordinary (to me) names with apostrophes such as O'Reilly which were causing syntax errors in the SQL
Much more comprehensive problem than this however. A large part of the world does have a longer name format like the Spanish which you pointed out; Russia is the first one which springs to mind. Incidentally in the name you quote the second word "Maria" refers to his "allocated saint" something like that.
Other places don't have last names. For example Iceland - the famous singer Bjork, well that is her full complete name. Sometimes for convenience I believe she uses a last name something like Ralfsdaughter which just identifies her dad rather than truly being part of her name. A guy from India told me he had to flat-out invent a last name - he came from a small village where everyone knew each other.
tl;dr
If you're an American or British Anglo-Saxon then you've got it easy with just two names but don't get thinking it's a global norm.
I did a lot of work on international name formats when I was doing a project to sanitise our database inputs. Sounds simple to verify a name looks right? It is not and the very first screwup I had to fix were ordinary (to me) names with apostrophes such as O'Reilly which were causing syntax errors in the SQL
Much more comprehensive problem than this however. A large part of the world does have a longer name format like the Spanish which you pointed out; Russia is the first one which springs to mind. Incidentally in the name you quote the second word "Maria" refers to his "allocated saint" something like that.
Other places don't have last names. For example Iceland - the famous singer Bjork, well that is her full complete name. Sometimes for convenience I believe she uses a last name something like Ralfsdaughter which just identifies her dad rather than truly being part of her name. A guy from India told me he had to flat-out invent a last name - he came from a small village where everyone knew each other.
tl;dr If you're an American or British Anglo-Saxon then you've got it easy with just two names but don't get thinking it's a global norm.
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