Does your Fathers last name go before your moms if you use both last names?

Question

when my brothers and I were born my parents think that they made a mistake filing the papers and for Example
pretend my name is Juan Orozco Jimenez
Juan:My First Name
Orozco: Fathers name giving to us as his kids when he married mom
Jimenez: Moms maiden name used because we wanted to have both last names...
so how would the name be used correctly
Juan Orozco Jimenez
or is it wrong if it is
Juan Jimenez Orozco?

Answer 1

I have mums maiden name first, then my husbands, that's how we were told it should be by the registrar.

Answer 2

I don't see how it matters, unless you treat Orozco as a middle name and use Jimenez as a last name, because then people might be confused and think your father is really your stepfather or something. Anyway the father's name usually comes first.

Answer 3

only one person answering your question bothered to look up some reliable information and give you a source. Everyone else is throwing out opinions.
The person who gave you accurate , independent info is the one that should get the 10 pts. (don't let it go to voting)
edit-
it absolutely matters in terms of WHERE THE FAMILY IS, and the cultural acceptance there. Mexican patterns will be standard, and the name(s) identify the person by those standards. Both names are used as legal identification purposes.
In the US, the father's name is the normal standard for childrens names, but even that can be circumvented by putting mom's name as babies surname on the certificate.

Answer 4

i think you are right. the mother's name comes first. so you would be juan jimenez orozco. but think juan orozco jimenez sounds better anyway. you could always change it. or continue to use the name you were given. when you or your brothers have kids you can pass on whatever name you want (or both).

Answer 5

Because it is a Spanish name, follow the Spanish directions. Modern American combinations are more tricky. Most married women follow the traditional custom of putting their maiden names first, as they would do if they didn't have a hyphen -- Mary Jones Smith --> Mary Jones-Smith. Their child, if hyphenated, would have the father's name first. My sister hyphenated her name for professional reasons, and chose to put her husband's name first because it keeps the family together alphabetically.

Answer 6

My husband had a buddy who had two last names. When he married, his wife took both of his also. If he's relaxed with both, and it's most important to him, then I feel a spouse will have to. But should you talk about it and he doesn't care, then I feel it can be up to the two of you to make a decision. It could be strange at parties although to have Mrs. Jones and Mr. Smith-Jones. Could be complicated to people whether you belong together.

Answer 7

Since the last names you mention are Spanish, you would write your father's last name before your mother's last name; for example, the immediate past President of Mexico is Vicente Fox Quesada, but he is usually called Vincente Fox.

Similarly, Winston Spencer Churchill's surname is a combination of Spencer (a male ancestor) who married a female ancestor (Churchill). Some married women in the United States and the United Kingdom, however, sometimes use their maiden name as a middle name; most notably, Hilary Rodham Clinton, who puts her last name before her marriage before her husband's last name.

Answer 8

Exerpt taken from a website:

"All Mexicans have two last names. The first is the father's last name and the second is the mother's last name. So Pedro Gonzales Ulba, of course, has a father named Gonzales and a mother named Ulba. And he is Senor Gonzales, using the father's last name and not the mother's"

Answer 9

I think the last name should be your fathers... and your mothers before that... so

juan jumenez-orozco

Answer 10

Usually Mom's first, for example, the children of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are the Jolie-Pitt children. That gives you the last name of your father when you use only one name as your last name, the Pitt children.

Answer 11

i dont think that there could have been a mistake to have made. it all depends on who wants the names where. as far as i know there is no proper or correct way to arrange names of the sort. your name is what it is, be proud of it and dont get caught up about what was supposed to be where, becuase honestly, from an english point of view, all those names are very similar.