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One people group in my novel use a Russian inspired family name system, where the children get a patronymic, except in my world it would be a matronymic. And the matronymic comes before their given name, then their family name. So Ingvar’s daughter’s first name is Ingvariyna but she’s known as Eirwen. Still working out the masculine versions of the matronymics.

The same people also see it as something like a dishonor to name a child after their parent. It’s seen as the parent failing at life so much that they need to give their child the same name in order to redeem that name.