Spaces are also common in last names. Among our friends and neighbors we have surnames like La Rosa, Van Meter, Del Toro, Di Giovanni. We expected that there would be ambiguity around whether the two names were middle and last, and even joked about the poor grad students trying to figure out how to cite her work. We did not expect that major institutions (like the state we live in or a multinational bank) would be incapable of storing a last name that contained a space.