Surname law
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Surname law can refer to any law regulating the use of surnames.
Iran
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Shah Reza Pahlavi ordered Iranians to adopt surnames during his reign.[1]
Japan
The law in Japan requires a married couple to have a common surname. Most commonly it was the wife who took her husband's name. However, this law has been recently challenged on gender equality grounds.[2] Japan is the only country in the G8 countries that has a formal law requiring a person to change their surname on marriage.[2]
Thailand
According to the current law, Person Name Act, BE 2505 (1962), to create a new Thai name, it must not be longer than ten Thai letters, excluding vowel symbols and diacritics.[3] The same law also forbids the creation of a surname that duplicated any existing surnames, but there are some duplicates dating to the time before computer databases were available to prevent this.[4] Some creations added the name of their location (muban, tambon or amphoe) into surnames, similar to family name suffixes.[5][6][7]
Turkey
On 21 June 1934, Turkey adopted the Surname Law which required all its citizens to adopt and use Western-style surnames. Only names with Turkish origin was permitted. Minorities had to change their old family names in order to fit in with racial discrimination politics of the modern turkey.
See also
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20060912101324/http://www2.hawaii.edu/~majid/draft_papers/secularization/secularization.html
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Guardian, 11 January 2011
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