Brazilian men take on wives' surnames

Interesting. I know only one man who took his wife's name. He was from Afghanistan and his wife was American. He felt sympathy for his wife's father that he had no sons and the family name would not live on in that generation, so he took his wife's name to perpetuate it. He also found it easier for his friends to pronounce.

That's rather unusual for an Afghan to marry outside the race/culture.....but what can you do. Well, at least he's willing to assimilate.

Two of my friends have taken their wives surnames; a couple have taken both names.

It's not that unusual here, but people still wonder more about it than the other way around :wink:

macho reputation??

Yeah, riiiiiiight!

I was going to say that, but I get kinda tired of correcting it stateside.

Ok you guys confused me in the macho thing - can you explain it more?
TIA

We use a different system here. Wives don't take their husbands surname and by the way neither does the husband take his wife's.
Families identify themselves with two surnames, the one corresponding to the father followed by the mother's surname.

Like this: First name, Father 1st last name, Mother 1st last name.

Frankly I don't understand the need to change your last name to the one of your husband/wife

Athos


Athos, neither do I. I assume it a hold over of the old social status of women as the property of their husbands---or their fathers.

BBB

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So what happens in the following generation? For example, if a man from Father Last Name A - Mother Last Name B marries a woman from Father Last Name C - Mother Last Name D, is the child going to have the last name of Father Last Name A - and Mother Last Name C (because his/her father's 1st last name is A and his/her mother's 1st last name is C)? And if that's true, then only the father's family name will be carried on past the second generation anyway, right?

By the way, I'm from America, and I am used to only the father's last name being passed on, so this is completely new to me. I'll apologize ahead of time if any of this sounds ignorant.

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Athos wrote:
We use a different system here. Wives don't take their husbands surname and by the way neither does the husband take his wife's.
Families identify themselves with two surnames, the one corresponding to the father followed by the mother's surname.

Like this: First name, Father 1st last name, Mother 1st last name.

Frankly I don't understand the need to change your last name to the one of your husband/wife


So what happens in the following generation? For example, if a man from Father Last Name A - Mother Last Name B marries a woman from Father Last Name C - Mother Last Name D, is the child going to have the last name of Father Last Name A - and Mother Last Name C (because his/her father's 1st last name is A and his/her mother's 1st last name is C)? And if that's true, then only the father's family name will be carried on past the second generation anyway, right?

By the way, I'm from America, and I am used to only the father's last name being passed on, so this is completely new to me. I'll apologize ahead of time if any of this sounds ignorant.

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Athos wrote:
We use a different system here. Wives don't take their husbands surname and by the way neither does the husband take his wife's.
Families identify themselves with two surnames, the one corresponding to the father followed by the mother's surname.

Like this: First name, Father 1st last name, Mother 1st last name.

Frankly I don't understand the need to change your last name to the one of your husband/wife


So what happens in the following generation? For example, if a man from Father Last Name A - Mother Last Name B marries a woman from Father Last Name C - Mother Last Name D, is the child going to have the last name of Father Last Name A - and Mother Last Name C (because his/her father's 1st last name is A and his/her mother's 1st last name is C)? And if that's true, then only the father's family name will be carried on past the second generation anyway, right?

By the way, I'm from America, and I am used to only the father's last name being passed on, so this is completely new to me. I'll apologize ahead of time if any of this sounds ignorant.

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Athos wrote:
We use a different system here. Wives don't take their husbands surname and by the way neither does the husband take his wife's.
Families identify themselves with two surnames, the one corresponding to the father followed by the mother's surname.

Like this: First name, Father 1st last name, Mother 1st last name.

Frankly I don't understand the need to change your last name to the one of your husband/wife


So what happens in the following generation? For example, if a man from Father Last Name A - Mother Last Name B marries a woman from Father Last Name C - Mother Last Name D, is the child going to have the last name of Father Last Name A - and Mother Last Name C (because his/her father's 1st last name is A and his/her mother's 1st last name is C)? And if that's true, then only the father's family name will be carried on past the second generation anyway, right?

By the way, I'm from America, and I am used to only the father's last name being passed on, so this is completely new to me. I'll apologize ahead of time if any of this sounds ignorant.

The first Czechoslovak President (got into office in 1918) took his wife's name as his middle name - Tomas Masaryk became Tomas Garryque Masaryk - or TGM as everybody knew him.
Unheard of at the time in Central Europe.

That's right, only the father name will be carried on past the second generation.

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