Editing Matronymic (section)

==Asia==
===India===
Some matrilineal communities in South and North-East India, like the [[Nairs]], [[Bunt (community)|Bunts]] and [[Khasi_people|Khasi]], have family names which are inherited from their mother. Matronymic names are common in [[Kerala]].<ref>[http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/2594/12/12_chapter%203.pdf Mother's name becoming common in naming conventions in Kerala (page 201)], shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in; accessed May 18, 2017.</ref> Daughters take the names of their mothers as the second part of their name.{{cn|date=May 2017}}

===Indonesia===
Some [[Minangkabau people]] use this naming system, many people, however, have no surname at all. People of [[Enggano Island]] also use a matronymic system. They also have family name/surname ({{lang|id|marga}}).

===Kyrgyzstan===
In July 2023, the [[Constitutional Court of Kyrgyzstan]] decided that adults may have the right to use a matronymic instead of the traditional patronymic on their official documents.<ref>{{cite news |title=Жителям Кыргызстана разрешили использовать матчество вместо отчества |url=https://meduza.io/news/2023/07/03/zhitelyam-kyrgyzstana-razreshili-ispolzovat-matchestvo-vmesto-otchestva |trans-title=Residents of Kyrgyzstan permitted to use matronymic instead of patronymic |access-date=3 July 2023 |work=[[Meduza]] |language=ru}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Podol'skaya |first=Dar'ya |title=Ошибка в трактовке. Конституционный суд разъясняет свое решение по матчеству |trans-title=Error in interpretation. Constitutional court clarifies its decision about matronymics |url=https://24.kg/vlast/269463_oshibka_vtraktovke_konstitutsionnyiy_sud_razyyasnyaet_svoe_reshenie_pomatchestvu/ |access-date=3 July 2023 |work=24.kg |date=3 July 2023 |language=ru-RU}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Kyrgyz court allows 'matronymics' in a surprise nod to women's rights |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/kyrgyz-court-allows-matronymics-surprise-nod-womens-rights-2023-07-04/ |access-date=5 September 2023 |work=[[Reuters]] |date=4 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> After pushback from conservative groups, the court reversed its decision in November.<ref>{{cite news |title=В Кыргызстане снова запретили брать матчество вместо отчества |url=https://www.sibreal.org/a/v-kyrgyzstane-snova-zapretili-brat-matchestvo-vmesto-otchestva/32679596.html |access-date=7 December 2023 |work=Сибирь Реалии |date=10 November 2023 |language=Russian}}</ref>

=== Arabia ===
 
The book ''Kitāb man nusiba ilá ummihi min al-shu‘arā’'' (the book of poets who are named with the lineage of their mothers) by the 9th-century author Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb is a study of the matronymics of Arabic poets.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.2307/594132|publisher=Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 62, No. 3 (September 1942), pp. 156-71|title=Muḥammad Ibn Ḥabīb's "Matronymics of Poets"|last=Levi della Vida|first= Giorgio|pages=156–71|author2=Ḥabīb, MuḥAmmad Ibn|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|volume=62|issue=3|year=1942|jstor=594132|last3=Habib|first3=Muhammad Ibn}}</ref> There exist other examples of matronymics in historical Arabic.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://atensubmissions.nexiliscom.com/6-2006LoP.shtml|title=Brickbat's - May 2006 LoP Page|first=Linda M.|last=Miku|website=atensubmissions.nexiliscom.com|access-date=18 May 2017}}</ref><ref>Forster, Charles. ''The Historical Geography of Arabia'', Volume 2, University of Michigan, Duncan and Malcolm, Page 27</ref>

===Mongolia===
While most [[Mongolian names]] today are [[Patronymic#Mongolia|patronymic]], some Mongolians are known to be matronymic. This could be due to, for example, an [[Father absence|absence of the father]] such as in the case of [[Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat]], the first elected president of Mongolia.

===Philippines===
[[Filipino name]]s legally use the [[maiden name]] of the child’s mother as a [[middle name]] as opposed to the Anglo-American use of additional given names. Filipino children born to [[unwed mother]]s, if not legally claimed by the father nor adopted by anyone else, automatically bear their mother’s maiden name as their surname and sometimes her middle name as her siblings would.

===Taiwan===
[[Amis people]]'s daughter names are followed by the mother's name, while a son's name is followed by his father's name. [[Seediq people|Seediqs]] often get to choose which of their parents’ name to go after their own.

===Vietnam===
Some [[Vietnamese names]] also function this way, as less of a "tradition" than a style or trend, in which the mother's maiden name{{citation needed|date=May 2022|reason=There's no such thing as a Vietnamese "maiden name". Ethnically Vietnamese women do not change their family names.}} is the child's middle name.