Editing Hyphen (section)

==== Personal names ====
{{See also|Spanish naming customs#Hyphenation|Portuguese name#Hyphenation}}

Some married couples compose a new [[surname]] (sometimes referred to as a [[double-barrelled name]]) for their new family by combining their two surnames with a hyphen. Jane Doe and John Smith might become Jane and John Smith-Doe, or Doe-Smith, for instance. In some countries only the woman hyphenates her birth surname, appending her husband's surname.

With already-hyphenated names, some parts are typically dropped. For example, Aaron Johnson and Samantha Taylor-Wood became [[Aaron Taylor-Johnson]] and [[Sam Taylor-Johnson]]. Not all hyphenated surnames are the result of marriage. For example [[Julia Louis-Dreyfus]] is a descendant of Louis Lemlé Dreyfus whose son was Léopold Louis-Dreyfus.