Board Thread:Supergirl discussions/@comment-9346948-20170307020403/@comment-3221148-20170308185636

Xandermcc wrote: Kir the Wizard wrote: "Mon-El" is probably not his real name. I mean, why would he have a Kryptonian surname? That is not a surname. It is the name of their house. The house of El. (we would call that a last name, but rules are different on Krypton) You... You know that "surname", "last name" and "dynasty name" are all the same thing? Just that them being "a House" signified their nobility?

(I suppose the exception would be Japanese, who have the surname go as the first name, and given name as last name, for example, Tokugawa Iemitsu)