 In Israel, traditional patronymic forms have become European-style patrilineal surnames.For example, Yoram ben Yehudah or Hannah Bar-Ilan may not be literally the son and daughter of Yehudah and Ilan, but rather the male and female descendants of men called, respectively, ben Yehudah and Bar-Ilan.There is a wide range of family name affixes with a patronymic function.