>>Which areas of India use the "son of" formulation for names? I knew somebody from Goa where the names went something like
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>>Is this common throughout India or only in that area?
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>Probably all over the India this is a practice but I am sure the Western India has this convention.
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>So my name is Bhavbhuti (first) Yagnik (Dad's name) Nathwani (surname).
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And your son's name would be?????
>>Does the same thing happen with female names?
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>Female names follows this pattern until she marries, then she get the husband's name as the middle and husband's surname as her surname.
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>BTW your company's name is Paramit Corporation any (North) Indian connection? :)
One of the co-founders is Vietnamese. The other is Indian -- and from some of the brief conversations we've had I would expect him to be from North India.
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