matronymic

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It will also allow the use of traditional patronymic and matronymic names used by the Frisian minority, which entail children’s surnames being based on their father’s or mother’s first name.

From Seattle Times • May 17, 2024

But citizens over the age of 18 can choose to swap the patronymic for a matronymic based on the name of the mother.

From Reuters • Jul. 4, 2023

Kapalova, who runs a museum of feminist art, said she would seek further legal changes in the predominantly Muslim nation of 7 million to ensure a child can have a matronymic from birth.

From Reuters • Jul. 4, 2023

Wherefore she has gotten her name in the good books of the sociological philosophers who uphold the matronymic theory touching early society.

From A Second Book of Operas by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

And my matronymic, Bratley, should have established my financial position for life.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 by Various