Comments on: What’s Behind Hispanic Last Names?

By: Conchi

Conchi — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 16:08:11 +0000

Here in Spain, long time ago when a girl got married it used to add his husband
last name at the end of hers like you said, but now we don´t do it anymore (it sounds very posh and I think another reason it is because also is kind of like the wife is a husband possession. We just keep our name as it is because. I am married and I didn’t change my name at all.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 17 Sep 2016 01:03:30 +0000

In reply to Diego. This was new information to me. Thank you for your contribution :-)

By: Diego

Diego — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 18:47:25 +0000

Hi, it’s very interesting what you’re saying here, I live in a Spanish speaking country and yes, we use both surnames from our parents, however when a girl gets married, it’s been changing a bit in recent years.

In your example you used Susana Rodriguez. A couple of years ago if she got married, in my country she’d be called: Susana Rodriguez de García, but right now people is tending to change a bit for: Susana García.

Well I say this for what I see in my country, I live in Colombia, I don’t know about other Spanish speaking countries, but anyway… I loved this post. 🙂