People tended to live in small, cut off communities and they would know everyone in this community by face and name. These groups would only mix on very rare occasions, so there was no need to use surnames in these small villages. As technology and medicine became more advanced, the popula...
A unique feature of Chinese surnames is that most are made up of just one syllable, represented by a singleChinese character. While multi-character surnames do exist, they are quite rare. One of the mostinterestingfacts is that almost86%of the population shares just100 surnames, with the top...
The endings of male and female surnames likewise differ. Furthermore, every female surname has 3 variants: one for an unmarried girl (ending by -aitė, -ytė, -ūtė or -utė), one for a married woman (-ienė) and one optional marriage-neutral, introduced in the 2000s per a Eu...