So...a Chinese/Korean surname vs English surname....

[Sugarbeach]

Just interested....someone mentioned on another thread that surnames have great significance and associations/meanings in their country, as much if not more than first names....which is interesting, and it occurred to me that under Baby Names section the focus is very much on first names...

The focus is on first names because you can't really (or not without difficulty) change your surname.

Are you a mixed couple with a Chinese/Korean father? If you want the father could change the name to that of the mother, and the whole family switches to the mothers name? It would seem quite strange if everyone except the father has a different name in the UK. (Though it's not strange actually in Chinese if the father is non-chinese for the children to take the mother's chinese name. A friend of mine just did this because the father doesn't have a chinese surname and they aren't allowed to just pick one that sounds similar to his on the birth certificate. So they put the mum's name down instead).

This is in Hong Kong btw. You have both a chinese name and an english name on the birth certificate. The boy was given the dad's surname in english.