The origin of Obama's name

Obama's surname is neither Obama nor Obama. Obama is the Chinese translation of his surname, which means his surname is Obama and his full name is Barack Hussein Obama. Take this name as an example. Let's talk about English names. Before his first name, Barak was given by his parents, Hussein was his middle name, and Obama was his father's surname. English names generally include these three parts, and the middle name can often be omitted.

Let's talk about the translation of English names. Different from our China names, foreign surnames are rarely repeated, while there are many surnames Li and Zhang in China. China's names are unique, and everyone doesn't want to repeat them, do they? But just a few foreigners' names, Henry and Mary, are easy to repeat, so when we translate them into Chinese, we actually translate their surnames, which makes it easier to distinguish them.

By analogy, when we say Shakespeare and Goethe, they are just their surnames, which is a phenomenon in translation.