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...
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...