Tell me about it. I'm Brazilian, a country where the vast majority of people will have at least two last names (typically one maternal, one paternal, but not u

Tell me about it. I'm Brazilian, a country where the vast majority of people will have at least two last names (typically one maternal, one paternal, but not uncommonly multiple from either or both parents), separated by spaces. I've immigrated to the US, where the standard is for people to have a single last name, or if they have multiple, they're separated by hyphens. To make my situation a little worse, legally I have two first names i.e. the second one is not registered as a middle name in any official document I have. I've dealt with systems that wouldn't accept my last names. I either had to join them together, or separate them by a hyphen. Some systems don't accept my legal double first name. When I got my driver's license in WA, the system accepted it but later had trouble generating the license identifier, so they had to manually apply the system's logic and enter it by hand. Some systems just ask you to enter your full legal name, and then try to be smart about figuring out what your first, middle, and last names are. So I end up with the first of my last names being registered as a middle name, and I can't edit it. Fortunately I'm close to being able to apply for naturalization, and that'll give me the opportunity to change my name. I'll just drop part of my first name and one of my last names and finally make it simple. Edit: another thing that's funny wrt names in my life is my family situation. My wife has her own two last names (it's not super common in Brazil for women to take their husband's last name), and she has a daughter from her first marriage. So we all have totally different last names, with only my wife and my stepdaughter sharing one of their last names. That caused us a little bit of trouble crossing the border to Canada once.