On June 30, the Constitutional Court in Kyrgyzstan passed a groundbreaking ruling allowing citizens to choose a matronymic over patronymic in their names. People in Kyrgyzstan can now add an appendage ...

The campaign by Kapalova led to an unprecedented ruling by the Kyrgyz Constitutional Court two weeks ago to allow adult citizens to swap their patronymic to a matronymic based on their mother’s ...

On June 30, the Kyrgyz Constitutional Court handed her a mixed victory, ruling that any Kyrgyz citizen over age 16 could choose between a patronymic and a matronymic on their identity documents ...

But citizens over the age of 18 can choose to swap the patronymic for a matronymic based on the name of the mother. Kapalova, who runs a museum of feminist art, said she would seek further legal ...

A feminist activist in Kyrgyzstan has lost her legal bid to endow her children with her own name as a matronymic, instead of the patronymic of her estranged partners. The ruling made by the Supreme ...

While patronymics are common in several cultures, children in Central Asia are not allowed, by law, to be given a matronymic, a mother’s name. Cases involving the politics of naming and its ...

Matronymic and patronymic surnames are among the oldest of surnames and were common in Europe. In Ireland and Scotland the “O” in O’Brien and the “Mac” in MacDonald both translate to ...