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by PaulDavisThe1st 496 days ago
I would like to know more about the conditions under which Spanish family names became "X y Y" rather than "X" or "Y".
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Inheriting both surnames is traditional, picking one is nontraditional or foreign. The interesting option is between using a conjunction or not (Paul Davis Thefirst or Paul Davis y Thefirst), which seems mostly a matter of sounding better or, as Wikipedia suggests, disambiguating between first names and surnames (if it precedes the conjunction it is a surname).