"Returning to a focus of just having one surname that is shared, but not taken from either his side or her side, is a little bit of a growing trend but it creates challenges around genealogy and tracing, so that's one of the downsides of it," Mr McCrindle said. Those opting to design a surname, either for themselves or their children, can consider creating an entirely new name, going back through their family history to choose an heirloom surname or crafting a name from two surnames. If a woman retains her own surname, often inherited from her father, the question of naming rights for children becomes a consideration.Ĭombining two surnames with a hyphen gets complex for future generations, especially if two people with double-barrelled surnames marry. He said that in Australia nine in 10 women took on their husband's name after marriage. Source: Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages via Swinburne University Children with newly created surname: 2.92%.Children with hyphenated and double-barrelled name that are a combination of parents: 2.46%.Children with surname that matches mum and no dad listed: 1.35%.Children with surname that matches mum but not dad/partner: 4.51%.Children with surname that matches dad/partner but not mum: 35.30%.Children with surname that matches both parents: 54.80%."So it was a very male-dominated approach." Surnames of children born in Victoria 2005-2010 "It was something I thought about because the future is exciting but legacy and tradition are important too," Ms Herrmann said.
"I'm meeting more people having those discussions now … when it came up in our antenatal classes people didn't even know it was a possibility, they hadn't considered it because they didn't know they were allowed to ," Ms Herrmann said.įor Ms Herrmann and her family, taking an unconventional approach to surnames had led to some confusion when she filled out paperwork such as school enrolment forms but, on the whole, wider family and friends had been accepting. Ms Herrmann believed more people were starting to think more about naming rights when they married or had children. Source: Attorney-General's Department, SA During the same year SA's Consumer and Business Services received 1,166 applications from adults to change their surname.
In South Australia in 2017 nearly 19,000 babies were born and of those 959 were registered with a different surname to their mother and father.You can adopt your spouse's surname without any further paperwork, in contrast to some European countries where the practice is discouraged by requiring a formal change of name application.You can can apply to change your name up to three times in a lifetime.Ī Japanese surname Amaya of unrelated origin also exists, "usually written with characters meaning 'heavenly valley'". It went against good behavior and it was a Gipsy surname. In the 1970s, the reasons for prohibition were that it could lead to confusion about gender. In 1939, according to the language politics of Francoist Spain, women named Miren Amaia had to change their names to María Fin ("Mary End"). The given name became popular in the Basque area after the 1877 novel Amaya o los vascos en el siglo VIII. In the first stages of the Reconquista, the city was part of the repopulating efforts of the Kingdom of Asturias in the border region of Bardulia, the primitive territories of Castile.
Variations include Amaia, Amayah, Ammaya, and Amya.Īmaya was one of the main villages of the Cantabri Celtic tribes, and played a key role in the Cantabrian wars during the Roman conquest of Hispania, and later, during the Visigothic Kingdom, as the capital of the Duchy of Cantabria. Other hypothesis is that the name derived from the Proto-Basque or Basque word Amaia, meaning "the end". The suffix io-ia is also used to form action names or toponyms, implying that the meaning of Amaya or Amaia is "mother city", as it will be called later, "the capital". The name of the village, in turn, has Indo-European roots and means "am (ma)" or "mother". The most recent statistics we have for the Amaya surname is from the 2010 census data. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. Amaya is a female given name and surname of Spanish, Japanese, and Arabic origins, derived from the village of Amaya and its neighboring mountain in Castile and León, Spain. Amaya, like all of the names we have data for, is identified by the U.S.
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