Government support for matronymics has been around since the mid-1990s. Giving the mother’s surname to offspring was encouraged within the one-child policy (which was relaxed in 2016), to ...

A lot of them were derived from women’s first names, which is known as “matronymics.” The existence of last names like Belkin, Dvorkin, Malkin, and Rivkin, derived from Belka (Beyle), Dvorka ...

BISHKEK, July 4 (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan's Constitutional Court has ruled that adults can choose to use middle names based on the name of their mother rather than their father, in a surprise nod to ...

Some worry that the push for matronymics, the use of a second name derived from a person’s mother rather than their father, has enabled a concentration of presidential power. The life cycle of a ...