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A new law in Spain could lead to a boom in children 0 main family names start with the letter 'A'.
1 now, Spanish kids have carried 2 parents' surnames -- their fathers' always in first place and their mothers' in second. In everyday use, 3 people give 4 the first surname.
5 legislation submitted to parliament on Wednesday would give mothers equal rights to fathers in deciding 6 parent's surname goes first. If they can't 7 , it will be alphabetical order that decides.
"Names such as Abad or Alvarez have a promising 8 in Spain," said the conservative daily ABC. "For others 9 Zurbano or Zamora, survival will be more complicated."
The leading centre-left daily El Pais said the Spanish 10 simply wanted to extend the principle of equality to the symbolic social realm of family names.
The legislation will be examined 11 the Justice Commission of the parliament's lower house until November 10 for possible amendments. It could be two years before it 12 into force.
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Alphabetic order may decide kids' surnames in Spain
