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Summary of Question:	Use Of Clan Names
Category:	General Sikhism
Date Posted:	Monday, 5/27/2002 10:00 PM MDT

Waheguru Ji Khlasa, Waheguru Ji Fateh

Is it correct that as Sikhs, we should not attached a tag or clan name like Randhawa for instance after his name of Singh ?.
We started to use ours when my 4 daughters were born and apart from using "Kaur", their surname would have been "Singh", which I thought was inapproriate for a girl hence the use of our clan name (if that is a correct definition). I only recently came across this when reading a book on "Introducing Sikhism" by Surjan Singh.
Am I right is doing this though it was never intended to be anything else other than using it as our surname for legal purposes.
Thank you for your advise.
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Greetings and blessings to you in the Name of God and Guru. You daughters can alays be known as "_______ Kaur Singh". Or as you have attached your "family" surname, as we know it in the West, you are not using it as a caste distinction. When your children take Amrit, they can take on the Name of Khalsa if the Randhawa gets in the way.

God bless you, SKKK