 Male members are identified by their family (Tharavad) name and female members move in with their husband's family after marriage and keep the husband's family name.The title "Guptan" is referred to commonly after the middle age.Married female members were earlier addressed as "Akathaal" (in short as "Thaal" − means the person who spends their life inside the house) and with time, the suffix transformed to "Ammal" and later to Amma and Gupta.