You cannot create your own surname at will. Only when the following conditions are met can you take a surname other than that of your parents:
1. You can take the surname of other direct elder blood relatives.
(For example, the surnames of grandparents and maternal grandparents)
2. The surname of the caregiver is chosen because the person is raised by someone other than the legal caregiver.
(That is, the child is raised by someone else - not the legal guardian, you can use this person's surname)
Creating a surname based solely on personal preference will affect cultural traditions and social ethics. It causes shock and violates social order and good customs, so it is not allowed.
Legal Basis
Article 99 of the "General Principles of the People's Republic of China and Civil Law" Citizens enjoy the right of name and have the right to decide, use and change their names in accordance with regulations. Interference, misappropriation, and counterfeiting by others are prohibited.
Legal persons, individual industrial and commercial households, and individual partnerships enjoy the right to name. Corporate legal persons, individual industrial and commercial households, and individual partnerships have the right to use and transfer their names in accordance with the law.
Article 22 of the "Marriage Law" states that children can take their father's surname or their mother's surname.
Article 1012 of the "People's Republic of China and Civil Code"__Natural persons enjoy the right of name and have the right to decide, use, change or permit others to use their names in accordance with the law, but they may not Violate public order and good customs.
Article 1013__ Legal persons and unincorporated organizations enjoy the right to name and have the right to decide, use, change, transfer or permit others to use their names in accordance with the law.
Article 1014__ No organization or individual may infringe on the name or title rights of others by interfering with, misappropriating, counterfeiting, etc.
Article 1015__ A natural person shall take his father's or mother's surname. However, if one of the following circumstances occurs, he may choose a surname other than his father's or mother's surname:
(1) Choosing the surname of other direct elder blood relatives;
(2) Choosing the surname of the caregiver because he is being raised by someone other than the legal caregiver;
(3) There are any irregularities Other legitimate reasons that violate public order and good customs.
The surnames of natural persons from ethnic minorities can follow the cultural traditions and customs of their own ethnic groups.
Article 1016. If a natural person decides, changes or transfers his or her name, or a legal person or unincorporated organization decides, changes or transfers his name, he shall go through the registration formalities with the relevant authorities in accordance with the law. However, the law provides otherwise. Except as specified.
If a civil subject changes its name or title, the civil legal acts performed before the change shall be legally binding on it.
Article 1017. Pen names, stage names, screen names, translated names, font sizes, names and abbreviations of names, etc. that have a certain social reputation and are used by others enough to cause public confusion, the same applies. Relevant provisions on the protection of name rights and name rights.