Males do not take family names, as they are each considered the ‘origins’ of new families. The tribe names are originally based on traditional beastkin, scalekin, or cloudkin totems, which are said to protect the tribe. Over time, this resulted in the changing of the pronunciation to more closely resemble the pronunciation of the Eorzean letter than that of the original word.
The names of these tribes contained many sounds which were difficult to represent with the existing Eorzean alphabet but the fact that there were the same exact number of tribes as letters in the Eorzean alphabet was taken as a sign that they were destined to make the new realm their home, and so assigned each tribe with a letter/sound that was closest to its name. In the mass exodus which occurred during the Fifth Umbral Era, 26 Seeker of the Sun tribes crossed the seas (which had frozen solid as a result of the Calamity) to Eorzea in search of food and warmer climates.
The first name is always proceeded by a letter representing their tribe. Many of the other races in Eorzea cannot accurately reproduce this sound, so the aitches end up going silent when read (Bee, Kooz, Pash). The extra aitches we see in names such as “B hee,” “Kuz h,” and “Pa hsh” represent a slight hissing/spitting sound that is made when the name is pronounced by the cat-like Miqo’te. Most males have simple, one or two syllable names.
The Miqo'te naming conventions are intricate, and vary between the Seekers of the Sun and Keepers of the Moon, though both make heavy use of apostrophes and aitches ("h"s), and provide easy ways to decipher each individual's lineage.
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