用拼音做名字，应该把姓氏放前面还是放在后面

Wangbo231 wrote:

中文里的大姓（张王李赵）在跟英文的 first name 组合时候，很容易重名。我之前用Frank,但是最近看到 Proz 里早就有人在用了，而且跟我的语言对一样，领域也差不多，所以索性改成拼音。
按照英文习惯，是把姓氏放在后面。不过我发现越来越多的文章开始把姓氏放在前面了，包括很多国外的网站（比如Yahoo）上的很多新闻在出现拼音名时都按照中文的姓名顺序写，这样也有好处，毕竟在读中文名字时候比较方便，如果颠倒过来读就比较别扭了，三个字的名字还好，两个字的名字就显得更加不习惯。现在似乎两种方式都存在，有点乱套。各位有什么高见。

lbone wrote:



姓和名都用拼音时，我实际见到越来越多的人把姓的拼音放在前，名的拼音放在后。
国家领导人好像基本都这样的。可以去wiki核查一下他们的英文词条。
当然，如果你个人愿意反过来，应该也没问题吧。

Mandy YU wrote:

In Europe, at least in French-speaking parts of Europe, people tend to capitalise all the letters in surnames, to avoid confusion, for example, XI Jinping, or Jinping XI.

I always think it a better solution.

Z-Kong wrote:




I have recently seen a file where the surname is capitalised and put in front of the name. I think this is pretty good solution to comply with Chinese tradition, and makes it easier to distinguish which one is the surname.

jyuan_us wrote:



An average English reader could think of the capitalization as a typo error.

Regions of the Sinosphere

In modern Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, the family name is placed before the given names, although this order may not be observed in translation. Generally speaking, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese names do not alter their order in English (Mao Zedong, Kim Jong-il, Ho Chi Minh) and Japanese names do (Kenzaburō Ōe).[34] However, numerous exceptions exist, particularly for people born in English-speaking countries such as Yo-Yo Ma. This is sometimes systematized: in all Olympic events, the athletes of the People's Republic of China list their names in the Chinese ordering, while Chinese athletes representing other countries, such as the USA, use the Western ordering.[citation needed] (In Vietnam, the system is further complicated by the cultural tradition of addressing people by their given name, usually with an honorific. For example, Phan Văn Khải is properly addressed as Mr. Khải, even though Phan is his family name.)

coolfool wrote:

If write to English-speaking readers, put the surname at the rear.

Michael Moss wrote:

Even within the legal community there is no consensus on the right way to do this. I have been requested to format to almost every style already posted here by different clients!
My personal preference is to keep the surname first, because I think it confuses things. When the Chinese translate a foreigner's name, they usually keep the foreign order as well. such as "汤姆 克鲁斯"

Michael Moss wrote:

Even within the legal community there is no consensus on the right way to do this. I have been requested to format to almost every style already posted here by different clients!
My personal preference is to keep the surname first, because I think it confuses things. When the Chinese translate a foreigner's name, they usually keep the foreign order as well. such as "汤姆 克鲁斯"