Hello kalima,
There is quite a variety of naming conventions around the world, and
matters can become even more confused when traditional patterns are
mixed with other forms.
In one of the examples you give, Begum is not actually a family name.
It is a Muslim term of respect for a woman. It can precede or follow
the personal name of the woman, thus giving the appearance of either a
title or a surname: Begum Naseem, or Naseem Begum. Bibi is another
such term used for a woman, for example, Bibi Amina or Amina Bibi. In
such a case, it is unacceptable to refer to a woman as Mrs Begum.
Muslim male names can include a religious name, such as Mohammed, in
addition to the personal name. Again, it can either precede or follow
the personal name, for example Hafiz Mohammed or Mohammed Hafiz.
Again, it is unacceptable to refer to a man as Mr Mohammed.
There is great variety in Muslim naming conventions and surnames are
not always used. Here are some further examples:
Zaynab binte Akbar means Zaynab, daughter of Akbar, and Ibrahim bin
Abdul Aziz means Ibrahim son of Abdul Aziz. In this convention,
Ibrahim’s son Zulkifli would be Zulkifli bin Ibrahim, not Zulkilfi bin
Adbul Aziz.
Sometimes, more than one generation of anceestry appears in a name, as
in:
Saud bin Abdul al-Aziz bin Saud Al Saud al-Kabir
In traditional Gujarati practice, a personal name is followed by the
first name of the father and then by a surname. When a woman marries,
she drops her father’s name and surname, and adds on her husband’s
first name and his surname (but not his father’s name)
If Nita Jayant Patel marries Sanjay Bharat Vadgama, she becomes Nita
Sanjay Vadgama.
In addition, the personal name of a woman can take the ending –bai or
–ben, and a man’s personal name can take the ending –bhai: Nitaben
Sanjay Vadgama, Sanjaybhai Barat Vadgama
Hindus can have a personal name, middle name and surname. In such
cases, a woman will take her husband’s surname. The surname can be a
family name, but it can also be a subcaste name.
So if Jyoti Devi Sharma marries Raj Lal Vasani, she becomes Jyoti Devi
Vasani.
However, some Hindus choose to dispense with the surname, and to use
their middle name in place of a surname. This is usually to indicate
that they have rejected the caste system. If the couple mentioned
above took this decision, we would refer to them as Mrs Devi and Mr
Lal.
Sikhs have a personal name, a middle name and a family name. The
middle name is a religious name. It is always Singh for men and Kaur
for women. Most personal names can be used for either sex. The
family name is a reflection of caste. However, the Sikh religion is
against castes, and so many Sikhs do not use the family name. Some
families take on the male religious name Singh and use it in place of
a surname. A woman will take her husband’s family name only if he
himself uses it. Normally, however, you do not address Sikhs by their
family names anyway. So you can have Mrs Baljit Kaur, who is married
to Mr Davinder Singh. If her husband’s family has taken on the name
Singh, she will be Mrs Baljit Singh, without the Kaur. If he does use
a family name, eg Mr Davinder Singh Panesar, she will retain the Kaur
and become Mrs Baljit Kaur Panesar.
In Iceland, last names are formed from the father’s first name, adding
arson (son of) for a male, eg Helgi Halfdanarson and dottir (daughter)
for a woman, eg : Herdis Petursdottir. A woman does not change her
last name on marriage.
In Spain, and Spanish-speaking countries, the personal name is
followed by the father’s surname and then by the mother’s surname,
giving two surnames. Sometimes, people decide to use only the first
of these two surnames in informal situations. On marriage, a woman
drops her second (mother’s) surname and replaces it with her husband’s
first (father’s) surname. When Maria Arroyo Garcia marries Miguel
Gonzales Morales, she becomes Maria Arroyo de Gonzales (I’ve also seen
women’s names without the “de” before the husband’s surname) and can
also call herself Maria Gonzales. Their son’s name would be Pablo
Gonzales Arroyo.
Filipinos use a personal name followed by the mother's surname and
then by the father's surname. When she marries, a woman drops her
mother’s surname, moves her father’s surname to first place, and
follows it with her husband’s second (father’s) surname. If Juana
Soriano Tecson marries
Pedro Navarro Chavez, she becomes Juana Tecson Chavez. Their children
will also have the surnames Tecson Chavez
Examples and explanations from the following resources, which include
other examples as well:
Names and Forms of Address, Chapter 8 of the Equal Treatment Bench
Book, produced by the Equal Treatment Advisory Committee of the
Judicial Studies Board, to provide guidance for judges and magistrates
in the courts of England and Wales.
http://www.jsboard.co.uk/etad/benchbook/mf_08.htm
Names in a Global World by Stephanie Dodge (article from www.hr.com
reproduced on the website of the Minneapolis Star Tribune at
http://startribune.hr.com/index.cfm/2/A87F9867-D8EC-42E0-801730C9EB56136C
To access this article at HR.com, you will need to register with the
site).
Naming Systems. A booklet produced by Security International Ltd.
http://www.securitysi.co.uk/serv02101namingsystems.pdf
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