The child's name is determined by the surname of the parents.

494. The Civil Code regulates matters relating to the right of children of married couples to a name, stipulating that the first surname shall be that of the father and the second, that of the mother.

Surname

Family Name

First name?

Right to a name

When a marriage is entered into, the spouses choose the surname of one of them, if they wish, as the common family name or each of the spouses keeps his or her premarital name, or the name of one spouse is combined with that of the other.

the last name be the last name of one of them, or they can both keep their own last names

When a Beninese woman married, she used both her maiden name and her husband's name.

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each marital partner can add the last name of his or her marital partner to his or her own last name

Share your name?

Women in Syria retain their name and family name after marriage.

How is your family name written?

Right to choose a family name

Name is Smith!

496. The Civil Code also regulates matters relating to the right of a woman to append her husband apos s surname to her own and to continue to use it until she remarries.

The husband determines the family name.

If the adoptive parents are unmarried, or are of the same sex and married to each other, the child keeps the surname he she already has unless an explicit choice is made for the surname of one of the adoptive parents.

the spouse's inability to carry out her responsibility as wife 2).

If the marital partners do not have the same last name, they will, by mutual consent, agree in the last name of the child.

At the same time, however, they are under the husband's family name and under no circumstances do women have the right to give their family name to their children.

Custom Fields

With regard to article 16, paragraph 1(g), concerning the choice of a family name, a profession and an occupation, nothing in the State religion or law prevents a woman from keeping her own family name or forces her to take her husband apos s family name.

Made it optional for a married woman to use her husband apos s surname on personal identity documents

Now, come on, Humbert and that was not your surname.

If the parents have different names, the child is given either the father's name or the mother's name, as the parents decide.

Article 319 of the draft code provides that marriage does not authorize the wife to take the family name of the husband.

The Act grants women the right to choose a family name.

They make me ashamed of the name I was born with.

He also asked that he be allowed to assume his wife's surname.

Your voice explained to me that Mason isn't.

A Jane Doe. Nobody knows her real name.

It seems to me that you are free to choose your own name, then.

She retains her maiden name and given name.

Maybe then my name will be worth something to you.

I remember him. You shared the same name.

Their civil documents, however, are transferred into the husband's family name.

He for whom nothing is written may write himself a clan.

My firstborn... Who I hoped would bear my name in honor and dignity,

Once this choice has been made, any subsequent children take the same surname.

All women in Syria, which is to say 100 per cent, keep their original family name.

340. Spouses are free to choose their own profession, occupation and name.

she suffers a physical disability or falls victim to an incurable disease or 3).

I need your surname. Symmetrical objects generally spell it for me.