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My favorite surname detail is that in Iceland you surname is derived from your father. So Björk Guðmundsdóttir is the daugher (dóttir) of Guðmund. Her brother
by abruzzi 11y ago
My favorite surname detail is that in Iceland you surname is derived from your father. So Björk Guðmundsdóttir is the daugher (dóttir) of Guðmund. Her brother would have the last name Guðmundson. I'm not sure if any of the other nordic countries do the same. Russia put the patronymic in the middle name. Anyway is interesting in that it carries genealogy info without having a long established family name.
- pavel_lishin 11y agoThe patronymic is also frequently used - to address someone respectfully, you'd use their first name and patronymic, not their first-and-last name. (e.g., Dmitriy Alekseyevich Kuznetsov would typically be addressed as Dmitriy Alekseyevich in just about any non-informal context.)