Talk:Surname law

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Merge or Expand

This one-sentence article should either be merged into the main Surname article, or it should be broadened to include more surname laws.

China, for example, has regulated the use of surnames since about the year 788; and that regulation includes a limit on how many different surnames and personal names are available for use. This, combined with that country's incredibly large population, has started to result in innocent people being arrested because so many people now have the exact same name as so many other people.

Ireland, meanwhile, began to require surnames - at least nominally - in AD 1004, pursuant to an edict by High King Brian Boru.

In Scotland, the surname became a highly self-regulated tradition as the core of the highly sophisticated Highland Clan System.

So, there is a great deal that one could discuss in an article about surname law. But if nobody's going to do it, this "article" should be merged into another.

71.198.146.98 (talk) 09:57, 19 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]