[Lauchenoiria]

A note on Lauchenoirian and Kerlian naming customs, so as to reduce any confusion:

Lauchenoirians generally use either the common paternal surname, or Spanish naming customs, depending upon their ancestry. So Leanna Walker is the daughter of Grant Walker, and Leanna Walker is her full name. Josephine Alvarez is the daughter of Raymundo Alvarez Ortega and Clarissa Gallego Mártez and her full name is Josephine Alvarez Gallego.

In Kerlile, husbands take their wife's surname, and children have the maternal family name. So Joanna Greenwood is daughter of Wilma Greenwood. In Kerlile, lesbians have been allowed to marry (but not gay men) since 1992, and custom has developed of adding their wife's surname after their own. Sonja followed this custom and became Sonja Viratnen-Alvarez (taking only Josephine's first surname).

Lauchenoirians will often refer to both Josephine and Sonja using only 'Alvarez' (much to Sonja's annoyance), while Kerlians will usually refer to Sonja using 'Viratnen' as Kerlians do not recognise marriages to foreigners as legitimate.