Six years after the adoption of the law allowing parents to give both the name of the father and that of the mother to their child, this possibility remains little used, the Sudpresse newspapers said on Friday.
Of the 100,051 children born in Belgium last year, just over 88% received the father’s name, around 5% that of the mother and just over 7% the double name (the father’s name followed by the mother in 5.6% of cases, that of the mother followed by the father in 1.4%).
If, in Flanders, 4.8% of children born in 2019 have received the double name, this percentage is twice higher in Wallonia (9.6% of cases) and even higher in Brussels (10.4%).
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