Do you put a hyphen in your hispanic surnames? (Anderson: school, university)

[qazz12]

For example:

Pedro Luis García Reyes > Pedro Luis García-Reyes

Anthony De los Santos Gómez > Anthony De los Santos-Gómez

[qazz12]

For example:

Pablo Alberto Pérez Rodríguez

In U.S. it would be:

Pablo A. Pérez
or
Pablo A. Pérez-Rodríguez


In U.S. you can not use your 2 surnames, hence some people put the hyphen.

[HockeyMac18]

Originally Posted by qazz12

For example:

Pablo Alberto Pérez Rodríguez

In U.S. it would be:

Pablo A. Pérez
or
Pablo A. Pérez-Rodríguez


In U.S. you can not use your 2 surnames, hence some people put the hyphen.

Out of curiosity, do people moving to the US from a Hispanic country generally drop one surname when anglicizing their name? Or hyphenate? Which is more common? Or maybe that's what your thread is about?

[saibot]

In the US, people generally go by just one surname, even if they are Hispanic. I have seen hyphenated Hispanic surnames, but they are definitely not the norm.

Some non-Hispanics also have hyphenated surnames (such women who add their husband's surname to their maiden name, e.g. Mary Jones becomes Mary Jones-Green), but again, this is rather rare. Having two surnames is cumbersome. Most people don't want to bother with it.

[qazz12]

Originally Posted by HockeyMac18

Out of curiosity, do people moving to the US from a Hispanic country generally drop one surname when anglicizing their name? Or hyphenate? Which is more common? Or maybe that's what your thread is about?

I don't know, I have dual citizenship but I've never lived in US. I've seen university webpages of hispanic professors and some of them use their two surnames.

[HockeyMac18]

Originally Posted by qazz12

I don't know, I have dual citizenship but I've never lived in US. I've seen university webpages of hispanic professors and some of them use their two surnames.

Yea, I've worked with a few people from Mexico in my old and new (research) jobs, and none of them used their two surnames in their daily lives here - but on their resume and their linked in profiles, they listed two surnames (non hyphenated). At first, I naively thought they were listing their middle name, until I looked into it more (I was unfamiliar with the two surname system).

[payutenyodagimas]

to honor my spouse' father, I just added my last name to her last name when we got married. so her surname now is like this : Garcia-Cruz (Garcia her last name when she was single and Cruz my last name)


but of course our daughter follows my last name which is Cruz and her middle name is Garcia

[qazz12]

Originally Posted by HockeyMac18

Yea, I've worked with a few people from Mexico in my old and new (research) jobs, and none of them used their two surnames in their daily lives here - but on their resume and their linked in profiles, they listed two surnames (non hyphenated). At first, I naively thought they were listing their middle name, until I looked into it more (I was unfamiliar with the two surname system).

Same in Latinamerica: in the daily lives one surname is used, but for official documentation and in school two last names are written.
Peculiarly, in Brazil and Portugal they use mother's surname before father's surname.

[qazz12]

Originally Posted by payutenyodagimas

to honor my spouse' father, I just added my last name to her last name when we got married. so her surname now is like this : Garcia-Cruz (Garcia her last name when she was single and Cruz my last name)


but of course our daughter follows my last name which is Cruz and her middle name is Garcia

García, not as a surname?

[saibot]

Many people in the US put the mother's maiden name as the child's middle name.

For instance, my nephew is Malcolm Anderson Smith (name changed slightly). His mother's maiden name was Anderson. He has no other middle name.