Alvaro Segura <asegura / facilnet.es> writes:

> Officially in Spain we have one first name (simple or compound) and TWO
> family names, one from the father and one from the mother (in that order
> by default, but can be changed). And women don't change their name when
> they marry. Often the first (paternal) family name is enough, but a
> proper identification needs the second (maternal) one too.
> 
> And again this is hard to fit in american style forms that require a
> (proper) first name, a middle name and a (family) last name.

Well you still have it easy compared to (most) Indonesians, who don't 
have family names at all, only one or sometimes more given names.
(Some of them do have family names, notably the Chinese minority,
but the majority doesn't.)
Some Indonesian students have had problems enrolling in US universities
because of that...

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen