Question: All people in the world have a first and last name. Where did this structure come from?

Answer: In general, a surname is something unnatural and artificially invented. A person must have a name, the name of his father, some position, or a reference to an address. Let’s say: “Lumberjack Byaka, son of Shmyaka, from Kudykina Gora”—everything is clear, you cannot go wrong.

This has always been the case for all nations, the most extended identification of a person. Where the surnames came from, I do not know for sure, I did not research this subject.

Perhaps it refers to belonging to a tribe, a clan. After all, there used to be many different tribes that today are represented by one nation.

Of course, surnames also indicate ancestry identification. For example, the last name Abramov means that there was definitely an Abram in this family. How else to identify a person? You just need to point to a person.

In Kabbalah, the name of a person can indicate maximum spiritual achievement; this is the most important thing. What difference does it make to me what his or her name is in this life? But if he was a son of a special person and received his spiritual heritage from him, then, of course, this is important.

Usually a sage is called: “So-and-so, a student of such-and-such” not by his father, but by the origin of his school.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Meaning of a Person’s Name” 6/16/12

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