>>Preceded by the grandparents's names preceded by the great grandparents' names preceded by ...
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>>Of course, that's how a lot of surnames are formed. Ben (son of) etc.
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>As you know, Ben is the Hebrew version. Mac/Mc and O' are similar. Fitz is illegitimate son of. And, of course, we have names like Robertson, Smithson, Johnson, ...
...Which would then translate into Robertov, Kovachev, Jovanov... (-ov is simply 's) and into Robertovich, Kovachevich and Jovanovich (-ich is like a -ling) in the next and further generations. Similarly in Hungary there are last names ending with -fi (son of), though not too often).