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A patronymic is a surname formed from the name of the owner's father or a paternal ancestor, used by a culture in place of a family name that is handed down from generation to generation. As an interesting note, while some cultures exist that do use matronymics (names derived from one's mother), more often in a culture that uses patronymics, taking such a name is a sign of illegitimacy. Taken to extremes, can easily form the basis for an Overly Long Name. See also I Am X, Son of Y Examples of Patronymic include:

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  • A patronymic is a surname formed from the name of the owner's father or a paternal ancestor, used by a culture in place of a family name that is handed down from generation to generation. As an interesting note, while some cultures exist that do use matronymics (names derived from one's mother), more often in a culture that uses patronymics, taking such a name is a sign of illegitimacy. Taken to extremes, can easily form the basis for an Overly Long Name. See also I Am X, Son of Y Examples of Patronymic include:
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  • A patronymic is a surname formed from the name of the owner's father or a paternal ancestor, used by a culture in place of a family name that is handed down from generation to generation. As an interesting note, while some cultures exist that do use matronymics (names derived from one's mother), more often in a culture that uses patronymics, taking such a name is a sign of illegitimacy. One of the cultures that used matronymics in the old days without it being an obvious sign of illegitimacy was the English culture. It was traditional for posthumous children in medieval times to take their mother's name as a surname, and kids faced with a sucky patronym and a cool matronym were free to choose the latter. Custer, Beaton, Izzard, Madison, and Parnell are only a few of the many matronyms used in English as surnames. There are only a few cultures on modern Earth that still retain the use of a patronymic (Eastern Europe, Russia, Iceland, Malaysia, and Arabic countries); it just gets awkward as the populations get high, so most of these cultures (with a notable exception of Iceland, which does not have surnames bar a select few families that have had them since before taking up family names was forbidden by law) cheat by adopting proper surnames or other monikers as well. Not so for alien species in Science Fiction. Most alien races have Only One Name, and among those who don't, it's usually a patronymic. Especially proud warrior races. Less often, but still more common than a proper surname, a character will use a locative name (Such as Xev of B3K from Lexx). Various Jaffa in Stargate SG-1 have used either (and the cultural bias is demonstrated by Master Bra'tac, who always referred to General Hammond as "Hammond of Texas"). The proudest of the warrior races have both. Taken to extremes, can easily form the basis for an Overly Long Name. See also I Am X, Son of Y Examples of Patronymic include:
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