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fun fact I can't understand kannada or any monkey language at all. Panjabi and Hindi, yes. A bit of Bengali. But once you get to monkey languages, nnnnnooooo
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Frick me after a fricking couple
of generations that'll get really 
darn long
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It doesn't, you pass solely your father's name and your foid passes solely her father's name.
Example:
João Rizetti Albuquerque marries Maria Fernandes Sampaio. She then becomes Maria Fernandes Sampaio Albuquerque.
Their son is named Pedro Sampaio Albuquerque (the surnames of both his grandfathers).
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The fricking surname of the fricking woman's father
becomes a fricking middle 
name then, b-word?
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are probably the two most common
naming conventions
it's also common to see names as
especially on old folx
where the 2nd name is homage to some kind of saint or biblical figure
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My fiancé family
doesn't seem to follow 
that for whatever 
reason but idk if that was fricking an immigration 
thing or just how their family 
does it.
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Does she have more names or less?
I think it depends a bit on the local settlers, the Portuguese were notorious for giving their kids a billion names
The first
emperor's name was
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The French also give many names.
Macron's full name for instance is Emannuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron.
Pra falar verdade quase ninguém usa mais do que um nome a não ser que seja composto. Eu conheço um "Fernando Lucas Sebastião" mas todo o mundo chama o cara de Nando.
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Pinoys do too, wife and her family all have 4 names and for
I actually use the second first name while her family refers to her by the other. It's a Catholic thing I guess? 
I'll have to try to look into the origins of the practice more. 
@C333
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I can barely remember 1 name I'd be screwed in these cultures
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Not a catholic thing (Italians and French only have one surname for instance), it's the Iberian naming costume. But in Spain it's the opposite to Portugal and Brazil.
Father's surname first then mother's paternal surname second and you get called by the paternal surname, at least that's the standard for Spanish speaking Latam countries.
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They're mostly Portuguese and Native
with some african 
so it sounds odd that they don't. I'm kinda curious 
now
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Having several names is useful to dinstinguish people cuz I swear portugoloids only have like 10 surnames. You can throw a rock up the air in Brazil and it will strike either a Silva, Souza or dos Santos.
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She only has one surname? Because we mentioned that's a thing here too, it's not mandatory to have 2 surnames
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Yeah but it sounds uncommon unless your family
are fricking recent migrants from Europe 
from what y'all're saying. I might ask them about that later 
I'm kind of curious 
now
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Eu com os meus dois nomes e dois sobrenomes. O meu pai é a mesma coisa, só a familia da minha mãe tinha costume de um só sobrenome mas eu percebo que isso é bem comum entre descendentes de alemães ou italianos.
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Is not a middle name, it's a surname and it has legal validity.
A middle name would be Pedro Miguel Sampaio Albuquerque, on this case Miguel is the "middle-name", though we call it "segundo nome" or "second name", I have a friend with a third name, there are plenty like that too. The mom's full name could be Maria Luisa Fernandes Sampaio Albuquerque, that's the name on her ID card, passport and other legal documents. Again, she would go socially as Maria Albuquerque.
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