Talk:Scandinavian family name etymology

Finland names?
No mention of the naming system used in Finland? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.127.152.206 (talk) 00:31, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Because Finland isn't part of Scandinavia.·Maunus· ƛ · 02:41, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Neither is Denmark. Do try to be consistent.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.228.162.7 (talk) 16:25, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Denmark is part of Scandinavia.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 09:37, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Denmark is not located on the Scandinavian Peninsula. It is "Scandinavian" culturally, but then so are the Finns, or at least the Finland Swedes by any rational interpretation.  Do try to be consistent.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.221.254.164 (talk) 07:00, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Scandinavia. &#58;bloodofox: (talk) 03:26, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Sometimes also: Finland Bataaf van Oranje (Prinsgezinde) (talk) 01:21, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Scania, which gave name to Scandinavia, was Danish until 1658 (and the cultural center of medieval Denmark). Since you can not suddenly exclude a country from a certain region because it loses a province Denmark is always included in Scandinavia (also because of the obvious cultural and linguistic similarity with Sweden and Norway). The English definition of Scandinavia is much broader than the one used in the region and broadly parallel to the concept of the Nordic countries ("Norden"), but as Finland is linguistically different and naming etymology is a linguistic phenomenon it makes little sense to include it within this article. Swedish names in Finland have similar origin to the ones in Sweden. The Icelandic naming system is so special that it is better served with a separate article.

Paid to change surnames?
Scott Kim says:
 * Kim is overwhelmingly the most common last name in Korea, my country of ancestry: much worse than Smith in the USA, though not as bad as Jorgensen in Denmark, where the government will pay you to change your last name.

The article says:
 * Later acts have attempted to motivate people to change to surnames that would allow safer identification of individuals.

So how does the Danish government "motivate" name changes? What changes are allowed? --Error (talk) 12:41, 29 July 2017 (UTC)