It has been said that there are only ninety-nine family names in Vietnam. Why ninety-nine is a question. The legend is that the first occupants of the territory of Vietnam were divided into 100 families. This figure is, of course, too low for today, but actually there are perhaps no more than 300 names for a population of 38,000,000. This is not so surprising. After all, in China, there are only 450 family names.
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By the 18th century almost all Ukrainians had family names. Most Ukrainian surnames (and surnames in Slavic languages in general) are formed by adding possessive and other suffixes to given names, place names, professions and other words. Surnames were developed for official documents or business record keeping to differentiate the parties who might have the same first name.