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A few years ago I was unable to register a new Australian company via the automated systems because one of our directors has a hyphenated middle name and the various agencies concerned normalised this in differing ways, leading to rejection at a validation step. Resolving this turned a process of a few minutes into a multi-week telephonic saga.

I subsequently learned that many folks faced with the same problem simply didn’t bother and instead left intentionally erroneous/incomplete (but consistent, and thereby validating) data in the registers.

>>inopin+(OP)
An Aussie friend has a hyphenated last name and has had so many headaches in her life due to it she made everyone she knew swear they wouldn’t inflict that on their future children

>>testin+Nu
Some cousins of mine have hyphenated surnames (Mothers-Fathers)... but in practice they just go by their mother's surname, only on official paperwork do they use their father's too. They aren't disowning their father's surname–they aren't estranged from him or anything, their parents are still together–they just prefer it this way.