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Professor Professorson? Anyone?

@Alice I just remembered Professor P. Professorson, didn't know complete name

If you are a male the son is appended to your fathers name for your rear name or something something 🤷‍♂️

@Alice so you was talking about him or something else that I didn't understand?
PS- he was fake professor on that show.

I wonder when they will implement gender neutral rearnames in iceland tho 🤔😋

@karma when you get a sex change and your name is still son...

I don't know if it's still like this in Iceland but in Sweden, forever ago, if my father's name were Magnus my surname would be Magnusson. It worked like this in Iceland, Norway and Sweden. (I think. Read about this in school a long time ago.)

@olback Yep, and for females it would be the father's name (yeah, I know) appended by -dottir

Sony Ericsson

What about ðottir?

@olback Yup, except it still works like this in Iceland, every generation. So you don't share your last name with your family, unless you have same-gendered siblings (or when Hjálmar Hjálmarsson names his son Hjálmar Hjálmarsson)

@karma Iceland is super progressive when it comes to LGBT rights... except for naming. To keep the naming system "working" they basically have two lists of names: female and male. You must pick a first name from the list according to the gender of the baby, no other names allowed.

Transgenders in Iceland can actually be recognized by the name on their passport: They would have a female first name with a last name ending in -son (or the other way around).

Also, technically, the suffixes are -sson and -sdóttir, because Jon gets a son who is called Jon's son or Jonsson.

Names in Iceland are their father's + son.