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Surnames were largely introduced to Thai culture only by the 1913 Surname Act. [19] The law does not allow one to create any surname that is duplicated with any existing surnames. [ 20 ] Under Thai law, only one family can create any given surname: any two people of the same surname must be related, and it is very rare for two people to share ...
The general Thai public hardly knows about this system, not to mention knows how to transcribe their names with it. Therefore, people come up with their own romanization of their names. It is very common to find two people with the same Thai names (given names or surnames) but spelling their names differently in the Latin alphabet. [10]
Pages in category "Thai-language surnames" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Adireksarn; B.
Thai-language surnames (51 P) T. Thai given names (2 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Thai names" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
The common Korean surname Kim is also the common Chinese surname Jin, and written 金. The common Mandarin surnames Lin or Lim (林) is also one and the same as the common Cantonese or Vietnamese surname Lam and Korean family name Lim (written/pronounced as Im in South Korea). There are people with the surname of Hayashi (林) in Japan too.
Pages in category "Surnames of South Asian origin" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Ung adopted the name the bandit called him—làm (藍) means 'blue', the colour he was wearing, and sâm might have referred to 衫 'shirt' or 三 'three', for him being the third son—as a token of good fortune, and members of the family from the third generation have used it as their Thai surname. [6] The word lamsam has since entered Thai ...
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