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AHello, my baby’s due in a few months. My husband aadhar/10th class all have 3 names – first name, community name as middle name and family name as surname. For personal but extremely important reasons, we wish to have either my husband’s first name or community name or maybe both in my baby’s legal documents skipping his family name. But then both their surnames wouldn’t match. Will skipping the family name in certificates/legal docs create any legal issues for the baby’s future? Just to clarify we are happily married. And we are Hindu. Please give us clarity on this. Thanks a lot
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PYou can name your child whatever you wish to. We (my husband, kids and I) all have different surnames. It’s not an issue at all.
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SIsn’t it weird.. people cannot associate the family together?
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POh no, no offense taken.
In my community, the surname of the child is the middle name (baptism name) of the father. So that means that the father and children will have e different surnames. And my surname is different as I chose to not change my name.
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PThat’s right.
In my culture, it’s the father’s baptism name (middle name) that is used as a surname for the children.
But we didn’t follow that and chose to use my husband’s first name instead as the kids’ surname. Just proves that none of it matters. Go ahead and name your child whatever you wish.
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BFollow practice in north India
Keep husband’s surname as baby’s surname
Husband name as middle name
Baby name as first name
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BIt’s widely followed practice all over India except couple of South Indian state. It’s always better to go with majority.
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INothing related to legal stuff. This is just something I really liked as it breaks caste identity.
During my stay in Europe, I discovered their child naming tradition, which is similar to south india.
The last name of children is based on father’s name and “ova” or “ov” is added based on the gender. Showing who’s the father of the child. No other family running titles.
Let’s say “Ivan” has 2 children, a girl and a boy from his partner, whom he names “Anastasia” and “Olexii”. The girl will have complete name as “Anastasia Ivanova”, whereas the boy carries the name “Olexii Ivanov”.
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UIf what you are said is a concern, that would have been a problem for like 70% Mallus.
Other than people who choose to keep caste names, most Mallus don’t have common last names with their parents since people get their fathers first name as last name. Christians tend to have a “biblical” middle name too.
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CBoth me and my sister use our mother’s surname instead of our father and its hasn’t caused any problems till now except for some people assuming and putting down my surname as my father’s which we had to get changed. We are from UP if that matters since for some reason everyone is from south india in the comments lol
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