YUROP

1210 readers

5 users here now

A laid back community for good news, pictures and general discussions among people living in Europe.

Other European communities

[email protected]

Other casual communities:

Language communities

Cities

Countries

founded 9 months ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

121

[Map] Usual name order in European countries (jlai.lu)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

30 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Identified errors:

This is not correct for Romania: officially it’s Surname + Given-name, live in Hungary.

Not true for Greece, it’s just First-name + Surname. It just happens that some Surnames are derived from the father’s name (think “Anderson”).

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Historically, yes; however, they passed a law some years ago to allow for the mother's surname to be the first surname, as it happens in Portugal. Nonetheless I am not sure how popular this is.