Template:Patronymic name

This article is about a person whose name includes a patronymic. The article properly refers to the person by their given name, Patronymic, and not as name.

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Parameters

{{Patronymic name|GivenName|Patronymic|Possessive}}

The template has three optional parameters

• GivenName – The given name of the subject. If left blank this will default to the first word of the page title
• Patronymic – The inherited name of the subject. If left blank this will default to the second word of the page title
• Possessive – The possessive determiner of the subject. If left blank this will default to 'their'

Usage

This template may be used at the top of an article to explain to readers which part of a patronymic name should be used to refer to the person in formal contexts. Patronymic names contain no family or last name. The person adopts the given name of their father, and sometimes also their grandfather afterwards.

Wikitext	Result
{{Patronymic name|Meles|Zenawi|his}}	This article is about a person whose name includes a patronymic. The article properly refers to the person by his given name, Meles, and not as Zenawi.

See also

• {{Patronymic names}}
• {{Family name hatnote}}
• {{Icelandic name}}
• {{Indonesian name}}
• {{Malay name}}
• {{Patronymic name}}
• {{Philippine name}}
• {{Portuguese name}}
• {{Spanish colonial name}}
• {{Spanish married name}}
• {{Western name order}} (primarily relevant to Hungarian names)
• WP:SUR

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