Under the Swedish patronymic system of naming, my grandfather and his brothers would have been named Anderson, since Anders was the name of their father.

In medieval times, a patronymic system similar to the one still used in Iceland emerged.

There is a parallel to this in the Isle of Man where few signs remain of the old Manx language patronymic system remain.

The people of the magic world are named using a patronymic system.

The Burmese people have no customary patronymic or matronymic system and thus there is no surname at all.

Use of the patronymic system is required by law, except for the descendants of those who had acquired family names before 1913 (about 10% of the population).

In the Jewish patronymic system the first name is followed by either ben- or bat- ("son of" and "daughter of", respectively), and then the father's name.

Naming of individuals at this time used the patronymic system, where a child had a given name followed by the name of the father.

His name would have been Hendrick Hendricks Falkenberg using the patronymic system, but he is never called this in any known public record.

The Dutch in New York, for example, used the patronymic system of names until 1687 when the advent of English rule mandated surname usage.