Different surnames are only allowed for international marriages. A 2016 Ministry of Health, Labour & Welfare survey found that among more than 600,000 marriages, just 4 percent of men took their ...

Meet the Kowalskis, Nowaks, Mickiewiczs and Lewandowskis – and find out out how these names came to be the most popular, symbolic, typical and also the strangest Polish surnames. Every name – and ...

A section of the Births and Registration Act, which prohibited a husband from taking on his wife’s surname upon marriage, was found to be discriminatory on the ground of gender. The two couples ...

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QUESTION: What is the origin of Kemi Badenoch's surname? Conservative leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch is married to banker Hamish Badenoch who has Celtic roots. The name Badenoch comes from the ...

Researcher Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch published the world’s most complete lists of Jewish surnames from the cities of Baghdad, Damascus, Cairo and Alexandria. (JTA) — In the late 1800s ...

Two husbands have been given the green light to use the surnames of their wives after a court overturned the provisions of an outdated law which prohibited this. A section of the Births and ...

The nine candidates vying to become prime minister have been differentiated by their stances on a law requiring married couples to share a family name. By Motoko Rich and Kiuko Notoya Reporting ...

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