These ancestral names can then be traced back many generations.

The family would host a potlatch and bestow the new ancestral name on the person.

Travelers and cartographers in colonial times often changed the ancestral names of such hills.

She by-passed the ancestral names of her husband.

The actual ancestral name and clan name of Mozi is not known.

It may be that, because he was likely born into the lower classes, he did not have an ancestral or clan name.

It is specified Arthur was given the ancestral name of a legendary leader.

These ancestral names are considered important, as many have been passed down through generations.

She took her mother's ancestral name, van Deurs, when her parents separated.

Hawai'i is an ancestral name brought across the Pacific by the Polynesians.