Editing Spanish naming customs (section)

===Registered names===
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The ''{{Lang|es|Registro Civil}}'' (Civil Registry) officially records a child's identity as composed of a [[given name|forename]] (simple or composite) and the two [[family name|surnames]]; however, a child can be religiously [[Baptism|baptized]] with several forenames, e.g. [[Felipe Juan Froilán de Marichalar y Borbón|Felipe Juan Froilán de Todos los Santos]]. Until the 1960s, it was customary to baptize children with three forenames: the first was the main and the only one used by the child; if parents agreed, one of the other two was the name of the day's saint. Nowadays, baptizing with three or more forenames is usually a [[royal family|royal]] and [[nobility|noble]] family practice.