Naming Convention
In contemporary Western societies (except for Iceland, Hungary, sometimes Flanders (depending on the occasion) and most dialects in the south of the German language area), the most common naming convention is that of a given name, usually indicating the child's sex, followed by the parents' family name. In earlier times, Scandinavian countries followed patronymic naming, with people effectively called "X's son/daughter"; this is now the case only in Iceland and was recently re-introduced as an option in the Faroe Islands. It is legally possible in Finland as people of Icelandic ethnic naming are specifically named in the name law.
Different cultures have different conventions for personal names. This is a list of articles about particular cultures' naming conventions.
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Famous quotes containing the words naming and/or convention:
“The night is itself sleep
And what goes on in it, the naming of the wind,
Our notes to each other, always repeated, always the same.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
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—Martha Nussbaum (b. 1947)