Primary voices are statutes and official guidance. Secondary voices are comparative lawyers. Tertiary is this atlas.
People
- Mannanafnanefnd 1991– · Iceland — The committee
The most famous naming veto in English-language media.
- German Standesamt / commentators ongoing · Germany — Namensrecht
Daily operators of a high-friction code.
- Japanese Ministry of Justice ongoing · Japan — Jinmeiyō + koseki
Inventory and household file.
- Spanish civil-status reformers 2000s– · Spain — Two-surname order
Proved that lineage order is legislation.
- U.S. state legislators various · United States — Petition rules
Publication, fees, felony bars.
- Claudia Goldin (context) b. 1946 · United States — Marriage-name choice
Shows what happens when law leaves a choice — identity economics, not a statute draft.
If they cannot point to an article number, they are not doing name law.