She Got Me Pregnant: Episode 67

As in Icelander I feel obliged to help you out with the naming question ;)

A few decades ago, children who did not have a father would usually take their grandfather's name and add the -son or -daughter to it to form their last name. But recently that has changed and now parents can pick either person's name as the basis for their child's last name. You can also use both, which is more uncommon, but sometimes done (recently a fair amount of young people have added their mothers name to their last name, or dropped their fathers name alltogether and replaced it with their mothers). You are also allowed to use your middle name for your child's last name, so there's quite a few possibilities when forming your child's last name - none of them are considered "strange" anymore and a child with their mother's name (plus son/daughter) is very unlikely to get teased about it.

Have an example:

Anna Lára and Kristín María have a son. His last name could be any of the following:

Önnuson, Kristínarson, Láruson, Maríuson, Önnu- og Kristínarson, Kristínar- og Önnuson, Láru- og Maríuson, Maríu- og Láruson, Önnu- og Maríuson, Maríu- og Önnuson, Láru- og Kristínarson, Kristínar- og Láruson.

Any children they have after that don't have to have the same last name as their son - and I know of people who have used one parent's name for some of their children and the other parent's name for the rest.

What does "Önnu" mean?

hey annar íslendingur! ég var farin að halda að ég væri ein hérna haha

i hope this is the only time we have to wait 2 weeks to watch this again, it's far to long to wait haha... well, this one was really good! go iceland for having a big jump on us all :) that is really exciting, and i'm really happy about iowa because my home town is trimont, so i came home from bball, and took a visit to iowa after i found out about the marriage law being passed :) trimont is 15 miles from iowa boarder, so even though i am not there, i feel a major part in that because i live so close, and used to travel there a lot for workouts :) so... GO IOWA! farm countries making the first big steps :)

..or at least the first open one, if not the first ever on (or mabe not)??! Either, thats still great news.. (esp for politics).

 

 

 

Thank you so much for the name information, Rudua! (And sorry for the delayed thanks; we were on vacation for a week.) We'll make sure to mention it in a future vlog (though probably not the very next one, since we taped it before reading comments--we're still unpacking and generally recovering from being away).

Yes, very good news in Iceland and Iowa (and now Maine, too)!

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Dana Rudolph
Mombian: Sustenance for Lesbian Moms
http://www.mombian.com