Two word surnames

[Avishai (Marta)]

There’s more interesting read in this thread (linking to James’ post, but whole thing is worth a read):

Asian name formats

This is something we’ve discussed a lot internally. As you’ve seen already, the current implementation does not work for names other than those of that “traditional” English format (I saw you used the phrase “Western”, but e.g. Icelandic and Spanish names behave differently). My personal favourite resource on global naming conventions comes from the W3: personal names around the world. This refutes any global concept of “family name” or “given name”. I’d also add that Hugo (our Head of Design) …

@TonyHoyle Very good article, thanks, made me smile!