Does everyone have a patronymic name?

I know that anyone born in a USA hospital has to be given a name. (to follow with social security guidlines) I'm not sure about other countries. Also, recently a mom and dad wanted to give their...

A patronymic is a name that tells who your father was. With patronymics, if John has a son named James, James would be known as James Johnson. If James Johnson later had a son named Thomas, Thomas...

A Patronymic name is a name based on the personal name of one's father. Patronymics were widely used everywhere in past centuries but most present-day western countries no longer use them, nore does...

so you can be notified when some one is trying to yell out for you because you wouldn't know who they were talking to they can call you a you and you would have no idea that they are talking to you.

so we can identify people