Name of a United France-Spain

The Bourbon Crown, maybe, to piggyback off of the historical Crown of Aragon covering all the territories that Aragon owned.
 
Two examples IRL would be Saudi Arabia and the Ottoman Empire.
In the first case inhabitants (or rather citizens) are generally called Saudis, but the country is also more informally called just Arabia. Generally people used to say Ottoman when talking about something coming from the empire without a part in mind, but they still talked about individual regions and nationalities, turkey and Turks were still common.

I think the country would likely be called just Bourbon Empire (rather than kingdom especially if it has a colonial empire), its nationals would generally be called Bourbons (which would also be the adjective related to the empire) but they would also be refered by their regions, French would still be called French, Same for Catalans... actually castillans may become more common as a demonym in English, France and Spain would still be used to talk about them respectively, although if the center of power moves toward France then France may become quasi synonymous with the empire in informal situations just like turkey was under the ottomans
 
Bourbon Empire/Kingdom

Well, calling it France or Spain would hurt some egos, France-Spain in the vain of Austria-Hungary just doesn't roll off the tongue.

FTFY.

With regards to the OP, i think "France and Spain" rolls off the tongue sufficiently well. Since a Bourbon super-monarchy might also include chunks of Italy, this part of their realm could technically be considered, even if mostly in more official nomenclature.

The Franco-Spanish Empire

The Gallo-Hispanic Empire

The Dual Monarchy

The Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Cortes and the Lands of the Holy French Crown of Charlemagne, the Empire of All Spains and the King of all Franks

Cisiberia and Transiberia

The Atlantic Empire

Holy Latin Empire
 

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A reminder that depending on the time period, this also includes a fair chunk of Italy. Because of that, I don’t see a claim to being the legitimate successor to the Western Roman Empire is out of the question.
 
Two examples IRL would be Saudi Arabia and the Ottoman Empire.
In the first case inhabitants (or rather citizens) are generally called Saudis, but the country is also more informally called just Arabia. Generally people used to say Ottoman when talking about something coming from the empire without a part in mind, but they still talked about individual regions and nationalities, turkey and Turks were still common.

I think the country would likely be called just Bourbon Empire (rather than kingdom especially if it has a colonial empire), its nationals would generally be called Bourbons (which would also be the adjective related to the empire) but they would also be refered by their regions, French would still be called French, Same for Catalans... actually castillans may become more common as a demonym in English, France and Spain would still be used to talk about them respectively, although if the center of power moves toward France then France may become quasi synonymous with the empire in informal situations just like turkey was under the ottomans

This seems pretty plausible. But if it is only France and Spain, not including Bourbon Italy, then would that not be a bit awkward?
 
Franco-Iberian Empire talk makes me think Portugal is going to have a heart attack.

I think Portugal is royally screwed in a timeline with a lasting France-Spain.

There's also no reason to believe that the Italian Bourbons would be included just because France and Spain unite.

It is very hard to believe a formal single state would be formed by the Bourbons, given their legitimacy is based historical precedents. More likely both states exist legally but with a single monarch and Spain as a vassal state. Dual Monarchy seems like the best option on that basis, with Franco-Spain a second ooption. It is also possible Aragon and Castille get separated again to keep Spain divided under French dominance. If Italian bits get added, Bourbon Empire.
 
You guys have been playing too much EUIV. Countries in the 17th-18th centuries didn't simply make up names for themselves. If the King of France conquered Spain, he'd still be the King of France. If he inherited the Kingdom of Spain, he'd be the King of France and Spain, but they'd still be two separate countries. There would be informal names and names later given by historians (like the Angevin Empire and the Iberian Union to give examples), but those would not be "official" names used by the government.
 
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