Thread:MarshallsiAnjingBomba/@comment-33037880-20160527071143/@comment-26491957-20160527074930

I'm going to start off by saying that traditional Chinese naming puts the family name first followed by the personal name.

In China, their registration totally uses Putonghua (no matter what dialect region the person is born in) and Pinyin for Latin script. From what I mostly see the arrangement is:
 * [surname / family name] [first personal name][second personal name (if exists)][third personal name (if exists)] (without spaces for personal names)

In Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore, it may be:
 * 1) [surname / family name] [first personal name]-[second personal name (if exists)]-[third personal name (if exists)] (with hyphens for personal names)
 * 2) [surname / family name] [first personal name] [second personal name (if exists; first-letter caps)] [third personal name (if exists; first-letter caps)] (with spaces for personal names)
 * 3) [surname / family name] [first personal name][second personal name (if exists)][third personal name (if exists)] (without spaces for personal names)
 * 4) [personal name(s) (non-Chinese)] [surname / family name] (without spaces for personal names)

This is just what I'm used to. Outside China, names (registered or not) may be different between Latin script and Chinese script. It's also possible that Hongkongers and Taiwanese have non-Chinese names in Latin script while they use totally different names or Chinese rendering of the foreign names in the Chinese script. In that case, I guess it's more preferable to use the already existing Latin-script name.