Board Thread:Chapter and Episode Discussions/@comment-4704473-20141106114903/@comment-25636323-20141107083020

Kyubii31 wrote: Avatar Silver wrote: Kyubii31 wrote: I have a question, is bolts last name Uzumaki or Hyuga because this wikia states his name as uzumaki but if they were going by the japanese naming traditions(like all the other characters do) his name would be Bolt Hyuga. How are people named in the Naruto world? Sometimes the father passes it down (Choji -> Chocho Akimichi) but then we get a curveball and the mother passes it down (Minato Namikaze -> Naruto Uzumaki). Is it like you said and based on rank, and the kid keep the name of greater rank, do the parents decide, or something else?

I'm really not sure but I would like it cleared up How I understand it, all characters except Naruto had their fathers last name. The reason for Naruto recieving his mother's name I believ it was mentioned in the manga. One conversation with Minato, Minato states that he had a lot of enemies and that it would cause problems for the village and Naruto if they knew he was his son.