Last Names - Caleb

In Costa Rica, and most of Central America, last names are really confusing. This is how it works:

Everyone has two last names, a first last name and a second last name. For example, the father could be named Diego (first name) Rojas Chacón (two last names) and the mother could be named María José (first name) Rodríguez López (two last names). If they decided to name their son Luís Carlos, then his full name would be Luís Carlos Rojas Rodríguez.

The names never change when they get married so husbands and wives almost always have different last names. You always have one of the last names of each of your parents, but the last name of your mother doesn't get passed down any more generations after that. This means that the women would pass a name down to their children, but not their grandchildren.