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Somewhat related and worth pointing out is that the whole world does not use family names, or the family name as a last name. My wife was annoyed when she came to the US and every form has a “first” and “last” field, but she doesn’t have a last name. Her passport for example, only has a “name” field.
Somewhat related and worth pointing out is that the whole world does not use family names, or the family name as a last name. My wife was annoyed when she came to the US and every form has a “first” and “last” field, but she doesn’t have a last name. Her passport for example, only has a “name” field.
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> Some names are as short as one letter I recently read a French political news story referring to O. It must be a misprint, I thought at first. But there is a French cabinet minister named Cedric O. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9dric_O
A French colleague's last name is "Le". As in, the main stopword in French.
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I don’t get why people still take it for granted that a woman should change her name on getting married and use the husband’s name. People should have the names assigned to them at birth or whatever they’ve changed it to as per their wish. I personally find the changing of names on marriage as an erasure of identity, even if the person is ok with it because of internalization or cultural conditioning.
I find it actually demeaning, but people often couldn't care less. There are laws in France from revolution times [0] that basically set your name in stone because anyone using whatever name they liked without need for any paper trail basically cause administrative and bureaucratic hell. But nowadays even the administration works around that to comply with the tradition with things like "nom d'usage" (you can see it…
Somewhat related and worth pointing out is that the whole world does not use family names, or the family name as a last name. My wife was annoyed when she came to the US and every form has a “first” and “last” field, but she doesn’t have a last name. Her passport for example, only has a “name” field.
I am from Tamilnadu, India. We don't have a common family name as last name. And our names mostly have single word. Here children add their father's name as last name. And women once get married will have their husband's name as last name. My name is Kumaran and my father's name is Rajendhiran. So, my full name is Kumaran Rajendhiran.
1. Given name + group descriptor (profession, locality, tribe, etc. such as Jim Baker or Joan Rivers)
2. Given name + parent’s given name and gender (such as Dwayne Johnson or Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir)
Iceland is especially fun, as they not only append a parentage name, but alongside -son and -dottir they’ve introduced a gender neutral suffix (-bur), and they don’t want you to make up first names out of the blue!
“[Iceland’s] Personal Names Committee maintains an official register of approved Icelandic given names and governs the introduction of new given names into Icelandic culture.” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Naming_Committee
Probably a good list, but far from exhaustive.
Wrong things that programmers believe: https://boingboing.net/2016/10/18/wrong-things-that-programm...
https://github.com/ironarachne/namegen
It doesn't have the volume of names that this one does, but it does have custom rules for names (e.g., Icelandic last names), and it can generate Thai names.
It's missing 9/10 of the most popular Croatian surnames, or to be more generous 3/10 if you agree that the Anglicised version of Knežević etc. is the same name. IMO they are not the same.