Based on the topical life stories of fifteen single mothers from Turkey, this article traces the act of naming as a practice of social and legal boundary making and as a means of undoing patrilineality and to seek acknowledgement for a new maternal family. Analyzing the politics of naming in the stories of these single mothers, this contribution first discusses the stigmatizing aspects of conventional patrilineal and marital family naming in Turkey. It traces changes in the registration of family names, how single mothers decide on the registration of the father’s first name, and their concerns and strategies during these legal, bureaucratic procedures. Whereas family law reform has given more rights to single biological and adoptive mothers, they still remain affected by the emotional aspects of a stigmatized practice. Strategically planning their future and that of their children, one solution is to use naming to merge their maternal families with their own paternal families.

本文以土耳其十五位单身母亲的热门生活故事为基础，追溯命名行为作为一种社会和法律界限的实践，以及作为一种消除父系关系和寻求对新母亲家庭的承认的手段。本文分析了这些单身母亲故事中的命名政治，首先讨论了土耳其传统父系和婚姻家庭命名的耻辱方面。它追溯了姓氏登记的变化，单身母亲如何决定父亲的名字登记，以及他们在这些法律、官僚程序中的担忧和策略。尽管家庭法改革赋予了单身亲生母亲和养母更多的权利，但她们仍然受到污名化做法的情感方面的影响。