Patronym

The trip is a silly justification of his throwaway joke of a surname—the Nordic patronym Carlson—but the way the show transports itself to Iceland is anything but half-assed.

Although Domnall is generally supposed to have been childless, it has been suggested that Giric was a son of Domnall, reading his patronym as mac Domnaill rather than the commonly supposed mac Dúngail.

Although surnames are static today, dynamic and changing patronym usage survives in middle names in Greece where the genitive of the father's first name is commonly the middle name.

Although there were several families bearing the patronym "Eyquem" in Guyenne, his family is thought to have had some degree of Marrano ( Spanish and Portuguese Jewish ) origins.

Gerhardsen passed his own patronym on to his children as a family name.

Qadiriyya was his patronym.

The prefix "Mac" is used to form a patronym, such as "Mac Coinnich" – or the anglicized 'Mackenzie' – son of Coinneach/Kenneth.

Women never adopt their husbands' patronym, rather they keep theirs for life.