if a wife has to adopt her husband's surname doesnt it mean that the number of surnames whould be decreasing. In a million years will everyone have the same surname?
2007-01-24 22:29:07 · 4 answers · asked by Whore_of_Babylon 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
A wife doesn't "have" to take her husband's surname, and it's becoming more and more common not to, or to hyphenate their surname.
It might be a slow process, but surnames can disappear over time. If a family unit only has daughters, and they all adopt their husband's surname when they marry, then that family's surname won't be carried on.
However, the number of surnames are not decreasing, because people get legal name changes on a daily basis. Some of these names are completely original, adding new names to the list. Other people change their names to better fit into a society that they've moved to. We'll never all be "Smith."
2007-01-24 22:36:34 · answer #1 · answered by baka_otaku30 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ha thats really interesting actually....i guess it's a possibility but i dont think there will be a time when there will only ever be one surname, and actually less and less women are taking their husbands names these days so it would take millions and millions of years and by then we'll have destroyed ourselves through global warming anyway so....
2007-01-25 06:33:19 · answer #2 · answered by вℓαмє_¢αиα∂α 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It may be decreasing but it'll never get to one surname.
If we get to one surname, we must be inbreeding and we'd eventually start to look like cavemen again.
Stay away from your sister, stay away from your first cousin!
Family reunions is not a place for speed dating.
2007-01-25 06:50:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Names are being complemented by numbers.. like ID, to identify ourselves
And life goes on!
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2007-01-25 06:39:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋