Do you think people should have 2 last names instead of only one?

Question

I mean the last names from your mom and dad, not only the one from your dad.

Answer 1

I like it; it allows for the transcendence of both your father's and your mother's family names. I took my father's and mother's family names. The only thing is that here in the States, when dealing with official documentations, I have to write them with a hyphen in the middle, which I think is really ugly. If I don't, people think that my first last name (my father's) is actually my middle name...
But besides that I really like it a lot.

EDIT:
Haha, I just read tommiecat's response. It doesn't work that way, at least not in Mexico haha. Just as I have two last names, my mom has two. Her own father's name and her mother's name. The name that transcended through her was her father's (my grandfather's). When I have children, their name will consist of their first name, their middle name (maybe), my husband's family name, and then my family name (my first last name: my dad's family name).
So in the long run, if done like it is done traditionally, transcendence of family name only lasts through the male lineage. In other words, if my parents had only raised girls, my dad's family name would not go further than my children's names, because it would be their second last names. But my brothers carry my dad's first last name and my mom's first last name, and will allow for the transcendence of my dad's first last name for as long as they have boys in the family.
Also, my grandfather's first last name will not transcend through my children (or even my brothers' children), because it is our second last name.
Hope you understood.

Answer 2

Actually some countries like Spain or Mexico are like that

Answer 3

If you followed that senerio you would end up with very complicated names

example say moms maiden name is smith
dads name is jones
childs name is smith-jones

child marries spouse with similar type of name
like brown-green

then their child would end up with smith-jones-brown-green

see what happens doing that?

Answer 4

not for me.

my mom was a smith and married a smith:) so one name is sufficient

Answer 5

in Spain , yes

Answer 6

no that's just confusing and pointless

Answer 7

yeah if they what it