I found this educational. The tradition of inheriting your parents' surname is not all that old, particularly in the English-speaking world. Surnames only started appearing in England after the Norman Conquest in 1066, and many families resisted surnames for centuries thereafter, associating their imposition with feudal government and taxation.
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