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Wait till you get into some Dutch surnames "van der Kleij", "van den Bosch", "de Jager" which are not patronyms. They would still fit into "first name, last nam
by ozim 7y ago
Wait till you get into some Dutch surnames "van der Kleij", "van den Bosch", "de Jager" which are not patronyms. They would still fit into "first name, last name" pattern. Because you assume what is last name can have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tussenvoegsel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tussenvoegsel
Though a lot of pages in NL have separate field for it.
- pmontra 7y agoOr German ("von Trips") or Italian ("De Sica") and possibly other countries. Anyway, people who move to other countries have to adapt. For the database of a local business is often a good idea to stick with the format of official documents because everybody has to fill out forms on government websites, regardless where they were born. Ids, taxes, healthcare, schools etc.
- earthboundkid 7y agoArabic culture will sometimes adopt a name after you have a child as “father of X”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunya_(Arabic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunya_(Arabic)
- DeathArrow 7y agoYes, Arabs use "Ibn" and jews use "Ben". Slavs use father's name and "ich" suffix. People in Iceland use different kind of patronimics. You can either use just one name field if your logic doesn't need a name or surname or provide two fields for name and surname and let the user handle the splitting. I have three first names. When I fill a form, if it's an official form or if it's for business purposes I fill all my names as first name, if not, I only write the name I use.
- earthboundkid 7y agoIbn is a patronym, but a kunya is the other way: your name is the name of your child. E.g. Palestine’s Abbas is also “Abu Mazen”, the father of Mazen.