A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (more specifically an avonymic), or an...

Sall is the surname of the Lam Toro dynasty (King of Toro) of Senegal in the 15th century. Moustapha Bayal Sall (born 1985), Senegalese football central...

traditional way of identifying a person's family name, given name, and patronymic name in East Slavic cultures in Russia and some countries formerly part...

A patronymic surname is a surname originated from the given name of the father or a patrilineal ancestor. Different cultures have different ways of producing...

name of a male ancestor. Patronymic may also refer to: Patronymic suffix, a suffix to indicate the patronymic derivation Patronymic surname, a surname originated...

first portion of the surname as a patronymic, normally a Spanish patronymic or more unusually a Basque patronymic, followed by the preposition "de",...

married. Some cultures, including Western ones, also add (or once added) patronymics or matronymics, for instance as a middle name as with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky...

Fitz (pronounced "fits") was a patronymic indicator used in Anglo-Norman England to help distinguish individuals by identifying their immediate predecessors...

most other naming systems in the modern Western world in that they are patronymic or occasionally matronymic: they indicate the father (or mother) of the...

Scandinavian countries during the time of surname formation. Forms of the patronymic suffixes include: -son, -sen, -fen, -søn, -ler, -zen, -zon/zoon, and -sson...