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All my kids have two mns, making three in all, and none of them hyphenated. Three names work well to identify people with familiar fns and lns, but they do take up a lot of space on forms etc. Four names total would be even more inconvenient. Personally, I find hyphenated names inconvenient: as a teacher, I found that hyphenated kids spent a lot of time explaining, correcting, doing it again ... is it really worthwhile? Rather use Mariana than Mary-Anna, for instance. Without knowing the actual names, there isn't any more I can say.