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        1. …in reply to @ArielOrtizBobea
          @ArielOrtizBobea Well, that’s a tricky question! My name is the name of my father and the name of my mother, so it’s two names. But hyphenated names can also be just one name.
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      1. …in reply to @simardcasanova
        @ArielOrtizBobea It’s more common to have hyphenated two names in younger generations because less and less people are married, and parents can decide to transmit their two names to their child
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      @ArielOrtizBobea But children can also use the two names of their parents if they want to I was born Simard and changed for Simard-Casanova ten years ago On official documents like my carte d’identité and my passport I actually have two family names: the former one and the new one
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    @ArielOrtizBobea So legally speaking I can use both
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      @ArielOrtizBobea (My sister also changed her name roughly at the same time as me)
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      1. …in reply to @simardcasanova
        @ArielOrtizBobea The hyphen is a bit complicated because when two distinct family names were added, the rule was to use an hyphen But the rule has changed and nowadays it’s a space (but the change is quite recent, maybe 5 years ago or something)
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        1. …in reply to @simardcasanova
          @ArielOrtizBobea Casanova comes from my grandfather, who was born in Corsica and moved to the continent after WWII But even if he was Corsican, he fully assimilated in Lorraine and I do not identify myself as Corsican at all – but as Lorrain
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