Tradition has it that the household having one family name Meng has grown a Spanish gourd , bloom and bear fruit on roof surname is a household in dissepiment ginger.
However, some research has shown that if your surname, your family name, begins with a letter later in the alphabet, you could be at a disadvantage at school and in life.
If your family name is Chen, you had better not choose an English name beginning with the letter W (for example, Winnie), otherwise your initials will be: W.C.!
I am part of that, a little solemn with the feel of those long winters, a little complacent from growing up in the Carraway house in a city where dwellings are still called through decades by a family's name.
The daughters don't carry the family name, so in their minds they're like you know they'll be given away, they'll be taken away by somebody else and then they'll work for them, that family.