{"id":4871,"date":"2016-02-03T14:20:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T14:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/?p=4871"},"modified":"2016-02-03T14:20:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T14:20:33","slug":"how-did-you-get-your-surname","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/how-did-you-get-your-surname\/","title":{"rendered":"How did you get your surname?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you know how you got your surname?<\/span><\/p>\n

It is regarded as a tradition for women to take their husband\u2019s surnames when they get married in Britain. It’s also the tradition for men to always be Mr but women will be Miss until they’re married and become Mrs. So if Miss Young married Mr Smith, she would become Mrs Smith. A survey in 1994 showed that 94% of British women decided to take their husband\u2019s surname when married. This \u2018tradition\u2019 is no longer as common today, with many women choosing to keep their own surname, or creating a double-barrelled surname.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Poland <\/a>many women choose to take their husband\u2019s surname when they get married. However, they have masculine and feminine endings to their surnames. My surname – Koszykowska – like many Polish names ends in ‘ski’ for males or ‘ska’ for females; my dad follows this rule, as does one of my uncles, but the other uncle keeps its simple by using ‘ski’ for his family. It’s thought that originally Polish surnames ending in ‘ski’ or ‘cki’ came from the places where people lived; so if you lived in Wola you would become Wolski.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"KOSZYKOWSKI\"<\/a>
The Koszykowski (and Koszykowska!) family<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In Iceland<\/a> the family name reflects the immediate father\u2019s name or in some cases the mother\u2019s. This is a more complex way of creating a surname compared to the British tradition. If J\u00f3n Einarsson had a son called Andr\u00e9, Andr\u00e9’s surname wouldn\u2019t be Einarsson; instead it would be J\u00f3nsson. This is a combination of his father\u2019s first name \u2018J\u00f3ns\u2019 (the s indicates that he is literally J\u00f3n\u2019s son) and the Icelandic word \u2018son\u2019. If J\u00f3n had a daughter her surname would be J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir, d\u00f3ttir being the Icelandic word for daughter. In some cases they may use the father’s middle name, or their grandfather\u2019s name.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Spain<\/a> it’s the norm for children to take the surname of the father and their mother\u2019s maiden name to form one surname. For example if Alejandro L\u00f3pez marries Daniela Rodriguez, their child Paula will take the father\u2019s surname L\u00f3pez as their second name and their mother\u2019s Rodriguez as their third; Paula L\u00f3pez Rodriguez. Then it gets slightly more confusing: if Paula marries she won\u2019t change her surname; instead she will add it to her name. For example, she marries \u00c1lvaro Arroyo; her name will become \u2018Paula L\u00f3pez Rodrigues de Arroyo\u2019. This continues when Paula has children, her mother’s surname will be dropped from their surnames to become \u2018L\u00f3pez Arroyo\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

Is there an interesting story behind your surname? Let us know!<\/span><\/p>\n

Alex<\/span><\/p>\n

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Do you know how you got your surname? It is regarded as a tradition for women to take their husband\u2019s surnames when they get married in Britain. It’s also the tradition for men to always be Mr but women will be Miss until they’re married and become Mrs. So if Miss Young married Mr Smith, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,150,24,991,1279,9],"tags":[201,1403,966,1404,1390,1278,251,7,8,1405],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}