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In a message dated 8/15/05 1:54:29 AM, Sanguinegirl83@... writes:


> I've been lucky enough to have short enough last names all
> my life to fit, but have always wondered how people with long or hyphenated
> names cope with that.
>

My last name has been Adams and Gill and Dodd. Very short.
My cousin's was Merrifield and when she had to learn to spell it I
appreciated Adams.

There's a rare surname in New Mexico that is C de Baca
It's old, and pronounced "see de Baca" but is short for Cabeza de Baca.
Nobody has used it that way for a long time--hundred years?).

Martinez is very commonly abbreviated "Mtz." even though it's not so long but
people will see that and say "Martinez."

Manzanares and Jaramillo are the only other very long names I'm thinking of
(form-filling-wise) but England and Spain might be the places to look for
overly-long and hyphenated last names.

Sandra


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A 'school at home' friend of mine named her daughter "Jessica Katarina" " Blankensopp"
Very pretty... but I felt so sorry for the little girl when her mom was making her write it over and over at age 6.
Not sure where Blankensopp originanated from, her father has a lot of Native American in him.
Dena





SandraDodd@... wrote:

In a message dated 8/15/05 1:54:29 AM, Sanguinegirl83@... writes:


> I've been lucky enough to have short enough last names all
> my life to fit, but have always wondered how people with long or hyphenated
> names cope with that.
>

My last name has been Adams and Gill and Dodd. Very short.
My cousin's was Merrifield and when she had to learn to spell it I
appreciated Adams.

There's a rare surname in New Mexico that is C de Baca
It's old, and pronounced "see de Baca" but is short for Cabeza de Baca.
Nobody has used it that way for a long time--hundred years?).

Martinez is very commonly abbreviated "Mtz." even though it's not so long but
people will see that and say "Martinez."

Manzanares and Jaramillo are the only other very long names I'm thinking of
(form-filling-wise) but England and Spain might be the places to look for
overly-long and hyphenated last names.

Sandra


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