Talk:Rarity/@comment-11368569-20130708175615/@comment-1276314-20130807235209

If you can call any of the main 6 having a last name, if surname is the same thing. Take Pinkie Pie as an example: there are many chars with Pinkie as the first word, then something else as the second, so it sounds more like a Japanese convention where they use Surname Firstname, like Uzumaki Naruto as an example: Naruto is his first name aka given name, Uzumaki the surname, so if we again take Pinkie Pie, 'Pie' is her first/given name and Pinkie her surname [IMO Naruto Uzumaki sounds weirdish, so it must be a compromise in Japanese; in the case of a Finnish name you can use either direction but Firstname Surname is the usual]. Or how about Twilight Sparkle, there's at least 1 other char with 'Twilight' in the name with different second word, so this sounds more like the Japanese convention Surname Firstname if you think the chars with 2-words name have first+surname.