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Is "middle name" a separate concept in Sweden? In Germany, there is no middle name, but people can have more than one first name. So, Heinrich August Schmidt

Is "middle name" a separate concept in Sweden? In Germany, there is no middle name, but people can have more than one first name. So, Heinrich August Schmidt has a last name / family name (Schmidt) and two first names / given names.

n99 5y ago
There are two different definitions of "middle name". Almost every American middle name is a given name or a surname used in the middle.
wink 5y ago
Small nitpick, if you are* in Germany but have an e.g. Spanish name (e.h. Hector Garcia Gonzalez) then... that's 2 surnames without a dash. I have no idea what happens if you marry or have children, but your example is just the -most basic- version. *"you are" meaning you'd be a German citizen with a German passport.
- rglullis 5y ago
  > I have no idea what happens if you marry or have children When you marry, you get to define what is going to be the family name and then children born from that marriage get to be registered with that family name. In the case of foreign-born people, they can keep the naming rules from their original country. In the case of the marriage between foreigners from two different countries, you have to choose which rules are you going to follow, but the family name stays fixed. To us (Brazilian marrying a Greek) it was a very interesting process. I have two last family names, and Greek names are gender-conjugated (i.e, the last name changes whether you are a boy or a girl). It the end the simplest thing to do was to just keep only one my last family names.
- jannes 5y ago
  My German children have a last name with a space in it (ie. 2 last names, but not with a dash). This also shows up in their German passport. This is possible because you can make a “name declaration” where you choose to apply the naming law of another EU country.

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Is "middle name" a separate concept in Sweden? In Germany, there is no middle name, but people can have more than one first name. So, Heinrich August Schmidt

by hibbelig 5y ago

n99 5y ago
There are two different definitions of "middle name". Almost every American middle name is a given name or a surname used in the middle.
wink 5y ago
Small nitpick, if you are* in Germany but have an e.g. Spanish name (e.h. Hector Garcia Gonzalez) then... that's 2 surnames without a dash. I have no idea what happens if you marry or have children, but your example is just the -most basic- version. *"you are" meaning you'd be a German citizen with a German passport.
- rglullis 5y ago
  > I have no idea what happens if you marry or have children When you marry, you get to define what is going to be the family name and then children born from that marriage get to be registered with that family name. In the case of foreign-born people, they can keep the naming rules from their original country. In the case of the marriage between foreigners from two different countries, you have to choose which rules are you going to follow, but the family name stays fixed. To us (Brazilian marrying a Greek) it was a very interesting process. I have two last family names, and Greek names are gender-conjugated (i.e, the last name changes whether you are a boy or a girl). It the end the simplest thing to do was to just keep only one my last family names.
- jannes 5y ago
  My German children have a last name with a space in it (ie. 2 last names, but not with a dash). This also shows up in their German passport. This is possible because you can make a “name declaration” where you choose to apply the naming law of another EU country.