You may not have three names on display, so all native Spanish speakers are out and so are lots of Chinese people.
Also Vietnamese.
Koreans may fall under this as well, depending on how they choose to spell their name in Latin letters - if they opt to hyphenate instead, they'll fall under that provision. Whether it's "Kim Jong Il" (too many names!) or "Kim Jong-Il" (evil hyphen!), they lose either way. (Some write their names together, à la "Kim Jongil", but I think that's less common than "separate" or "hyphenated".)
Hyphens will also remove a fair number of German people, either due to family names (Leutheuser-Schnarrenberger, Koch-Mehrin, ...) or to given names (Hans-Jürgen, ...). And "no spaces in your first name" will catch a few who go by two words that are always together and are, in effect, a single (albeit compound) given name (Eva Maria, possibly also Peter Harry Carstensen).
If your legal, tax name doesn't fit the policies, then Google tells you, edit it until it does.
Do they care about your legal name? I thought they wanted the name on your ID, which may not be your current legal name in common-law countries where your legal name can be essentially whatever you choose it to be.
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Date: 2011-08-22 12:24 pm (UTC)Also Vietnamese.
Koreans may fall under this as well, depending on how they choose to spell their name in Latin letters - if they opt to hyphenate instead, they'll fall under that provision. Whether it's "Kim Jong Il" (too many names!) or "Kim Jong-Il" (evil hyphen!), they lose either way. (Some write their names together, à la "Kim Jongil", but I think that's less common than "separate" or "hyphenated".)
Hyphens will also remove a fair number of German people, either due to family names (Leutheuser-Schnarrenberger, Koch-Mehrin, ...) or to given names (Hans-Jürgen, ...). And "no spaces in your first name" will catch a few who go by two words that are always together and are, in effect, a single (albeit compound) given name (Eva Maria, possibly also Peter Harry Carstensen).
If your legal, tax name doesn't fit the policies, then Google tells you, edit it until it does.
Do they care about your legal name? I thought they wanted the name on your ID, which may not be your current legal name in common-law countries where your legal name can be essentially whatever you choose it to be.