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@ mleku
2025-02-19 18:55:38
yeah, the history of the legalization of last names in the netherlands is quite interesting... a lot of "dutch" people don't really know where their ancestors come from going back before this decree came into force
it reminds me of this funny french guy i met in auckland... he would always refer to me as "david from brizzy" because prior to going to NZ i was living in brisbane, australia
the legalization of these names is really quite recent, i'm sure that it wasn't that long ago, but maybe earlier, that it was legalized in eastern europe but like you say, the names literally refer to father and place of birth... the bulgarian customs are very clear about this, they have this thing where there is a second name but it's the father's "first" name altered to the gender of the person, so the daughter of a man Ivan Valkov with a daughter Mariyana would be called Mariyana Ivanov Valkov