When a child is born, the question comes up again: his surname, hers, hyphenated combination or an altogether new name?

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Both he and his newspapers were popular with hyphenated Americans, who were pleased to find themselves affectionately portrayed even in the comic strips.

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In 2008 Cem Ozdemir, a Swabian of Turkish origin, became co-chairman of the Greens, the first hyphenated German to lead a big party.

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Claudia Altman-Siegel, the first non-Spanish child in Massachusetts to be given a hyphenated combination of her mother's and father's surnames, phoned me from San Francisco.

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Some 40-50 years after emigrants from its north African colonies stepped off the boat in Marseille, there is no hyphenated term for their French-born children or grandchildren.

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Hyphenated names may only last for one generation.

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Netanyahu's Zionism was not a hyphenated one.

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