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Pages in category "Thai-language surnames" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Adireksarn; B.
Last names became legally required of Thai citizens in 1913 with the passing of the Surname Act 1913. [2] [1] Until then, most Thais used only a first or given name. According to the current law, Person Name Act, BE 2505 (1962), to create a new Thai surname, it must be no longer than ten Thai letters, excluding vowel symbols and diacritics. [3]
The law does not allow one to create any surname that is duplicated with any existing surnames. [17] Under Thai law, only one family can create any given surname: any two people of the same surname must be related, and it is very rare for two people to share the same full name. In one sample of 45,665 names, 81% of family names were unique. [18]
Thai-language surnames (51 P) T. Thai given names (2 C, 7 P) ... The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Thai-language surnames (51 P) Surnames of Tibetan origin (2 P) Tibetan-language surnames (4 P) Surnames of Turkish origin (1 C, 43 P) Turkic-language surnames (9 C, 16 P)
The Thai script itself (as used to write Thai) has 44 consonant symbols (Thai: พยัญชนะ, phayanchana), 16 vowel symbols (Thai: สระ, sara) that combine into at least 32 vowel forms, four tone diacritics (Thai: วรรณยุกต์ or วรรณยุต, wannayuk or wannayut), and other diacritics.
Ratchasakun (Thai: ราชสกุล) refers to the surnames indicating royal descent from a Thai monarch of the Chakri Dynasty, first established in 1912 after King Rama VI enacted a series of laws granting surnames to the Thai people, with the laws expressly stating that all Thai citizens must have a "surname" indicating who they are related to, or whom they are descended from, [1] with ...
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