What's the difference between English surnames and first names?

Last name is last name is last name. Name is name, name is name. For example: Michael Jordan. Michael is a first name and Jordan is a last name.

1, China's personal name is composed of surname and first name. For example, if a China person's name is Zhu and Jun is his first name.

2. In English, "name" comes first, so it is called name, also called Christian name. "Last name" is placed at the last party, so it is called surname or surname, also called surname. If john wilson is translated into john wilson, John is the first name and Wilson is the last name.

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Source of English name:

I. Personal name

According to the custom of English-speaking people, when a baby is baptized, it is called the Christian name by the priest or parents or relatives. In the future, I can take a second name after my Christian name. The sources of English names are as follows:

1. Names in the Bible, Greek and Roman mythology, ancient celebrities or literary masterpieces are adopted as Christian names.

2. Take the names of ancestral places, mountains and rivers, birds and animals, fish and insects, flowers and trees as Christian names.

3. Different variants of Christian names.

4. Take a nickname.

5. Use word formation to create new Christian names, such as reverse order and merger.

6. Take the mother's maiden name as the middle name.

Second, the surname

For a long time, the British had only a first name and no last name. It was not until the16th century that the use of surnames became widely popular. According to experts' estimation, there are as many as 6.5438+0.5 million surnames in English-speaking countries. The etymology of English surnames mainly includes:

1. Borrow Christian names directly, such as Clinton.

2. Add affixes to Christian names to express blood relationship, such as suffixes -s, -son,-ing; Prefixes M'-, Mc-, Mac-, Fitz-, etc. Both mean the son or descendant of so-and-so

3. Attach identity affixes before Christian names, such as St.-, De-, Du=, La-, Le-.

4, reflect the names, landforms or environmental characteristics, such as streams, hills, etc.

5. Reflect identity or occupation, such as Carter and Smith.

6, reflect personal characteristics, such as: black, Longfellow.

7. Borrow animal and plant names, such as birds and rice.

8. It is formed by merging two surnames, such as Edward Burne-Jones.

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