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I am writing a book that covers Latin American history, but is written in English.

There are many Spanish names. Here I've listed some examples, and marked their surnames in bold:

  • Francisco “Pancho” Villa
  • Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
  • Diego de Vargas Zapata y Luján Ponce de León y Contreras
  • Domingo Jironza Pétriz de Cruzate

In indexes, I believe it is convention to include names in Last, First order:

  • Lincoln, Abraham
  • Smith, John

So how do I list these complex Spanish names, when the surnames often aren't at the end?

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it would work the same as english names. for the first name on the list "pancho" is a nickname so it wouldn't go into the last, first order. it would be Villa, Francisco. for longer names like Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Vázquez de Coronado is his last name. Vázquez de Coronado, Franciso would be the correct name to write it. but for middle names it would be something like Smith, John Doe

hope this helped!

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