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From: young@yale.ARPA (Jonathan Young)
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Subject: Re: Name Changes a case history
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Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 12:20:17 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 27 12:20:17 1985
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Organization: Yale University CS Dept., New Haven CT
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Keywords: patronymic, matronimic
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In article <4206@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>Suppose both spouses keep their names and hyphenate the kids.
>Said kids grow up and marry other similarly-hyphenated people.
>What do they name THEIR kids?
>
>Perhaps both spouses should choose a (shared) new surname
>when they marry?  Perhaps kids should choose a new (non-hyphenated)
>surname when they leave their parents?

One possibility would be to designate one half of the hyphenated
name as "patronymic", to be inherited from the father, and the other
half as "matronymic" (this word isn't in my dictionary), inherited
from the mother.  Thusly, mother Alice A-B and father Bob C-D name
their kids Cathy and Dan A-D.  (Or C-B if you're feeling that way).

This also deals nicely with the problem of naming kids by a previous
marriage.

I believe that at least one (african? spanish?) culture actually
uses this system.

		--- Jonathan (...decvax!yale!young@UUCP or young@yale.ARPA)