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On Sun, 7/20/14, Freelance Traveller <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:

 Subject: [TML] Naming patterns (was: Re:  Question)
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Sunday, July 20, 2014, 8:16 AM

 In many Spanish-speaking areas, it was at one time common
 for a wife to
 combine her husband's family name with her own. There were
 several
 patterns for doing this, but in all cases the husband's name
 was last -
 for example, "Inez Rodriguez de Gomez" or "Inez Rodriguez y
 Gomez".
 Sometimes the latter form carried through to children, so
 that it was
 theoretically possible for a woman to end up with a name
 like "Maria
 Gomez y Rodriguez de Castro y Barilla" - and no, those
 weren't separate
 names; everything from the G to the final A was part of her
 single
 surname.

 Jeff Zeitlin, Editor
 Freelance Traveller
     The Electronic Fan-Supported
     Traveller╝ Fanzine and Resource

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In Mexico something similar still prevails;

When a co-worker from Mexico was married she changed her official name to 'XXXX XXXX de la XXXX'.

Mexico also requires two 'last' names on their official docs.

I've seen several instances, documented in the local newspaper, where local athletes who desired to claim Mexican citizenship, in order to play on national teams, had to provide their mother's surname to add to official Mexican documents as official names in Mexico are required to include the surnames of both parents.