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Icelanders has a typical way of naming themselves and it will amaze most of us as its very unique feature of Iceland's culture. Being the descendant's of the Vikings they keep the trace of peoples by recognizing their father's name. Thus came into existence of naming the children after their father's name. To some Icelandic names may sound a tough thing but its really simple. Since Icelandic names follow the old system of patronymics so every Icelandic names has a system of adding "son" or "dottir" to the possessive of the individual's father name. Women's even don't have the tradition to change their name after marriage.
Icelandic names are always pronounced with their father's name but the naming of son after their ancestors is still predominant in Iceland's culture. Thus name reversal is a common thing in Icelandic names. Let's follow a common example like Ari Thorgilsson is the father of Icelandic History and his son named as Thorgils Arason, whose son possessed the name as Ari Thorgilsson. Referring to the Icelanders by their surnames is a pointless thing and everybody follows the first name. So the naming system in Iceland follows the following process. Son is named as , boys first name plus the father's first name as the "surname" whereas girls are named as, girls first name plus father's first name as in the girls surname.
According to sources in the year 1855, there were 108 family names in Iceland but there was a significant increase in the year 1910 and they became 297.In 1925, the legislation law then made the rule of adoption of Icelandic family names and patronymic a mandatory requisition for getting the Icelandic Citizenship. Within a time span lesser number of individuals will have a family name and larger sections will have dropped them in regard to the Traditional naming system. Some typical Icelandic Baby names are Falda,Sula and Varick.
As the Icelandic Culture has this unusual naming pattern and its quite notable that Icelander's can trace back their family line to 13th century so this process of Icelandic name is in good use and Every single individual in Iceland is in first name basis.
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