11 Facts About Family name

In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community.

Traditionally in many European countries for the past few hundred years, it was the custom or the law for a woman, upon marriage, to use her husband's surFamily name and for any children born to bear the father's surFamily name.

The structure of the Japanese name was formalized by the government as family name + given name in 1868.

The first known instance in the United States of a woman insisting on the use of her birth Family name was that of Lucy Stone in 1855, and there has been a general increase in the rate of women using their birth Family name.

Family name'storically, children born to unwed parents or extremely poor parents would be abandoned in a public place or anonymously placed in a foundling wheel.

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In Czech and Slovak, the pure possessive would be Novakova, Hromadova, but the surFamily name evolved to a more adjectivized form Novakova, Hromadova, to suppress the historical possessivity.

SurFamily name origins have been the subject of much folk etymology.

In some instances, when an individual's first surFamily name is very common, such as for example in Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the second surFamily name tends to gain preeminence over the first one in informal use.

In Portugal, a person's full name has a minimum legal length of two names and a maximum of six names .

Family name was often referred to in 12th-century documents as "Soeiro Mendes, senhor da Maia", Soeiro Mendes, lord of Maia.

Only during the Early Modern Age, lower-class males started to use at least one surFamily name; married lower-class women usually took up their spouse's surFamily name, since they rarely ever used one beforehand.