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  2. List of people who adopted matrilineal surnames - Wikipedia

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    When she was to appear in a movie with her elder sister, Françoise Dorléac, she adopted the surname of her mother, actress Renée Simonot (born Jeanne Renée Deneuve) to distinguish herself from her sister. [89] Tamara Desni, born Tamara Brodsky, was a German-born British actress, the daughter of actress Xenia Desni. She adopted her mother's ...

  3. Matriname - Wikipedia

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    A matrilineal surname or matriname [1] [a] is a family name inherited from one's mother, and maternal grandmother, and so on whose line of descent is called a mother-line, mitochondrial line, or matriline. A matriname passed on to subsequent issue is unchanged, as compared to a matronymic, which is derived from the first name of each new mother.

  4. Surnames by country - Wikipedia

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    Children take the mother's surname as their middle name, followed by their father's as their surname; for example, a son of Juan de la Cruz and his wife María Agbayani may be David Agbayani de la Cruz. Women usually take the surnames of their husband upon marriage, and consequently lose their maiden middle names; so upon her marriage to David ...

  5. Surname - Wikipedia

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    First/given/forename, middle, and last/family/surname with John Fitzgerald Kennedy as example. This shows a structure typical for Anglophonic cultures (and some others). Other cultures use other structures for full names. A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family.

  6. Matrilineality - Wikipedia

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    Matrilineal surnames are names transmitted from mother to daughter, in contrast to the more familiar patrilineal surnames transmitted from father to son, the pattern most common among family names today. For clarity and for brevity, the scientific terms patrilineal surname and matrilineal surname are usually abbreviated as patriname and ...

  7. Matronymic - Wikipedia

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    A matronymic is a personal name or a parental name based on the given name of one's mother, grandmother, or any female ancestor. It is the female equivalent of a patronymic. Around the world, matronymic surnames are far less common than patronymic surnames. In some cultures in the past, matronymic last names were often given to children of ...

  8. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

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    For ease of use, the [i] in front of the last name, and the ending _ve, were dropped. If the last name ends in [a], then removing the [j] would give the name of the patriarch or the place, as in, Grudaj - j = Gruda (place in MM). Otherwise, removing the whole ending [aj] yields the name of founder or place of origin, as in Lekaj - aj = Lek(ë).

  9. Maternal death - Wikipedia

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    Indirect causes include malaria, anemia, [26] HIV/AIDS, and cardiovascular disease, all of which may complicate pregnancy or be aggravated by it. [27] Risk factors associated with increased maternal death include the age of the mother, obesity before becoming pregnant, other pre-existing chronic medical conditions, and cesarean delivery. [28] [29]