Legal analysis
According to this article, children can take their father's surname or their mother's surname. Taking the father's surname or the mother's surname means taking the parents' surname as your own surname, that is, the children's surname is the same as the father's or mother's surname. After the child is born, parents can negotiate whose surname will be the child's surname. If the husband is surnamed Wang and the wife is surnamed Li, their children can be surnamed Wang or Li. At present, most children take their father's surname. Names are written symbols and signs that identify and represent a single natural person and distinguish it from other natural persons. Name is an important symbol of natural person's personality characteristics and the object of natural person's name right. The significance of a name is that it distinguishes a natural person from other natural persons in law, which is convenient for him to participate in social activities, exercise various rights entrusted by law and undertake corresponding obligations. First names include last name and first name. Among them, the surname is a sign of some kind of blood genetic relationship, which indicates the family blood system to which individual natural persons belong. It can also be said that a surname is a name that indicates personal identity. Some people think that citizens have the right to decide their own names and no one has the right to interfere. Parents' naming is a denial of children's right to name themselves. In fact, children are born without civil capacity, and parents' determination of their children's surnames is the embodiment of parents' exercise of parental rights. When a child becomes an adult, he can change his name from his father's surname to his mother's surname or from his mother's surname to his father's surname. Children born out of wedlock usually take their mother's surname or their father's surname. Stepchildren can keep their original surname, that is, the surname used by their parents before remarriage, or the surname of their parents or stepmother after remarriage. If the stepson is discriminating, he should respect his own opinion. If a stepchild changes his or her father's or stepmother's surname in childhood, he or she has the right to change his or her original surname in adulthood.
legal ground
Article 10 15 of the Civil Code of People's Republic of China (PRC) * * * A natural person shall take his father's surname or his mother's surname, but in any of the following circumstances, he may choose a surname other than his father's surname or his mother's surname: (1) Choose the surnames of other immediate elders and blood relatives; (2) Choosing the surname of the supporter because of the support of a person other than the legal supporter; (three) there are other legitimate reasons that do not violate public order and good customs. The surnames of natural persons of ethnic minorities can follow their own cultural traditions and customs.