 In Spain, a woman does not change her legal surnames when she marries.In some Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America, a woman may, on her marriage, drop her mother's surname and add her husband's surname to her father's surname using the preposition "de" ("of"), "del" ("of the", when the following word is masculine) or "de la" ("of the", when the following word is feminine).For example, if "Clara Reyes Alba" were to marry "Alberto Gómez Rodríguez", the wife could use "Clara Reyes "de" Gómez" as her name (or "Clara Reyes Gómez", or, rarely, "Clara Gómez Reyes".