The family tree branch won't end if the baby does not get his last name.... They keep branching out either way....
The baby should get the father's last name if the father is going to be in the baby's life and support it...
If john is so upset about the family name ending, they can hyphenate the last name, or give his last name for one of the baby's middle names....
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Or give John's last name as the baby's first name... My grandpa, dad, and brother have the first name of Pearson after my great grandma who saved my great grandpa from two attacking Mexicans that were trying to jump his claim on a gold mine back in California in the 1870's...
The Mexicans each had knives and great grandpa had his bare hands... There were originally three Mexicans with knives, but grandpa put his mining pick through the skull of one of them and took him out... Then fought the other two bare handed... After getting cut up, he decided to run and at least split them up... He hid behind a large rock and a woman came up over the hill and handed him a loaded revolver.... He shot one Mexican the other ran off...
She nursed him back to health.... If it wasn't for her coming over the hill with the revolver, I most likely wouldn't be here today... She had an intuition to go over the hill with a revolver and turned back three times before finally going over the hill - and they say there is no such thing as ESP....
That is how they met, and my grandpa ended up marrying her...
