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Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "In the Western tradition of surnames, there are several types of double surname (also double-barreled surname). If the two names are joined with a hyphen, it may also be called a hyphenated surname.In British tradition, a double surname is heritable, and mostly taken to imply upper class origin, reflecting an alliance of a woman of higher class who married below her social status. It was then common for her and her husband to assume a double surname so as not to diminish the social status of the woman and to gain for her husband a higher social status. This double surname would then become heritable by the couple's descendants; such was the origin of e.g. Spencer-Churchill. Some of these names were formed in order to preserve a family name which would have become extinct in the male line, connected to the inheritance of a family estate. Such was the case with the Harding-Rolls family. In Hispanic tradition, double surnames are the norm, and not an indication of social status. A person will take the (first) surname of his father, followed by the (first) surname of his mother (i.e. his maternal grandfather's surname). The double surname itself is thus not heritable, but a true patronymic. These names are combined without hyphen (but optionally combined using y "and"). In addition to this, there are heritable double surnames (apellidos compuestos) which are combined with a hyphen.In German tradition, double surnames are taken upon marriage, written with or without hyphen, combining the husband's surname with the wife's (more recently the sequence has become optional under some legislations). These double surnames are "alliance names" (Allianznamen) and as such not heritable.↑ ↑"@en }

• Double-barrelled_name abstract "In the Western tradition of surnames, there are several types of double surname (also double-barreled surname). If the two names are joined with a hyphen, it may also be called a hyphenated surname.In British tradition, a double surname is heritable, and mostly taken to imply upper class origin, reflecting an alliance of a woman of higher class who married below her social status. It was then common for her and her husband to assume a double surname so as not to diminish the social status of the woman and to gain for her husband a higher social status. This double surname would then become heritable by the couple's descendants; such was the origin of e.g. Spencer-Churchill. Some of these names were formed in order to preserve a family name which would have become extinct in the male line, connected to the inheritance of a family estate. Such was the case with the Harding-Rolls family. In Hispanic tradition, double surnames are the norm, and not an indication of social status. A person will take the (first) surname of his father, followed by the (first) surname of his mother (i.e. his maternal grandfather's surname). The double surname itself is thus not heritable, but a true patronymic. These names are combined without hyphen (but optionally combined using y "and"). In addition to this, there are heritable double surnames (apellidos compuestos) which are combined with a hyphen.In German tradition, double surnames are taken upon marriage, written with or without hyphen, combining the husband's surname with the wife's (more recently the sequence has become optional under some legislations). These double surnames are "alliance names" (Allianznamen) and as such not heritable.↑ ↑".