patronyms

They cannot handle patronyms, and for many people every local document (except passport and tax card) uses initials, for example.

Interestingly thought it's easy to find press releases and related material from the Icelandic government itself which uses Icelandic patronyms as surnames.

Surnames developed around the 13th century in Britain, before that it was patronyms meaning we could recognise people via association.

Iceland comes to mind, where patronyms and matronyms are still the standard.

That's not the case with patronyms, so this usage has never developed.

Luckily I live in Armenia now, which not only has its own alphabet, but also has a tradition of armenising Slavic patronyms!

Campaigns to assign permanent patronyms have typically taken place, as one might expect, in the context of a state's exertions to put its fiscal system on a sounder and more lucrative footing.

I read a ton of articles that routinely use a persons first name, why suddenly should proper formality be artificially upheld in context of a culture that uses patronyms?

People in Norway used to use patronyms (like Olsen, son of Ole, Sjursdatter, daughter of Sjur), and tack on the name of the farm they lived on if there was need for further differentiation.

(Which is fair, I guess, as Armenian patronyms are commonly russified in Slavic countries.) Anyway, the transliteration of Cyrillic at least is not really standardised in my experience.

The invention of permanent, inherited patronyms was, after the ad­ministrative simplification of nature (for example, the forest) and space (for example, land tenure), the last step in establishing the necessary preconditions of modern statecraft.

We know there are big disparities of academic success by ethnic group (cf the whole harvard discrimination against asians controversy), and there are also big concentrations of patronyms by ethnic groups (or at the minimum first letters that are more common in one part of the world than another).

I would consider all of surnames, patronyms, and matronyms, to be "family names" in the broad sense.

Oh, and in Iceland they use patronyms, it means her son/daughter will be called ("last name") Blaersson/Blaerdóttir (something like that) Edit: see comment below, son/daughters have their father's name, not mother's.

Wait till you get into some Dutch surnames "van der Kleij", "van den Bosch", "de Jager" which are not patronyms.

“Son” is not extremely common, even in patronyms.

Patronyms and matronyms are sort of ambiguous, but would probably be categorized as surnames.