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A name derived from the name of your mother or a maternal ancestor.

        matrònim
        1
        Wherefore she has gotten her name in the good books of the sociological philosophers who uphold the matronymic theory touching early society.
        A Second Book of Operas
        1
        The Iroquois Indians, among whom Morgan lived, were a typical maternal or metronymic people.
        Sociology and Modern Social Problems
        2
        Among many tribes of the North American Indians this metronymic or maternal system was peculiarly well-developed.
        Sociology and Modern Social Problems
        3
        Strictly speaking, therefore, there has never been a matriarchal stage of social evolution, but rather a maternal or metronymic stage.
        Sociology and Modern Social Problems