• mumblerfish@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    On that note, Picasso’s full name is quite impressive

    Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso

    • catloaf@lemm.ee
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      23 hours ago

      Spanish names are different because they’re familial. Most of this guy’s names are given. Strictly speaking, in the Anglosphere, only the final name is familial (though it may rarely have spaces in it), the rest are given.