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Re:Why don't more men take their wife's surname when they ma... by nkristoffersen on Sunday July 29, 2018 @02:49PM (#17639650)
Iceland has a fun system for last names.

You last name is your fathers (or rarely, your mothers) name plus a 'son' or 'dottir' at the end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_name

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Re:Why don't more men take their wife's surname when they ma... by flak48 on Sunday July 29, 2018 @03:44PM (#17639894)
Such a suffix based on the father's name is called a patronymic, and is not just Icelandic, but seen throughout the world, mostly Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronymic

In Russia and other Slavic nations, the -ich patronymic is used:

>> a man named Ivan with a father named Nikolay would be known as Ivan Nikolayevich or "Ivan, son of Nikolay"

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