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I have never seen the new Solo movie, so this may be a dumb question, but really, what is Chewbacca's last name, if he has one? Han just calls him Chewie, Chewbacca, or thing's like that, and never (as far as I remember) mention's his last name. I have wondered this for a while, and would be grateful for a reliable, canon answer (not based on a comic or that Star Wars Christmas special or something similar) if that is possible.

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According to The Star Wars 7, the adaptation of Lucas's original shooting script, Chewbacca is part of the Sawa Tribe, later renamed to "the Great Kaapauku tribe".

[In] the Legends book titled "The Star Wars 7", Chewbacca and his family are identified as the "Sawa Tribe" among other clans on Kashyyyk. The name means that they are one of the most powerful tribes on the planet, with the father being the prince and his name is "Auzituck" in the book. In the sequel to the book, called "The Star Wars 8", the family has a new alias under "the Great Kaapauku tribe"

Admittedly, this is almost certainly no longer the official continuity.

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  • So I can just call him "Chewbacca of the Sawa Tribe", and that counts as a last name? – Captain James T. Kirk Nov 02 '21 at 16:01
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    The purpose of surnames has historically been to tie yourself to a larger group, such as a family, such as the Arabic nisbah, "al-Farsī" meaning "of the Persians". – FuzzyBoots Nov 02 '21 at 16:12
  • Yes, the first thing I thought of when I read this answer was Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and I'm still not totally sure he has a last name either. – Captain James T. Kirk Nov 02 '21 at 16:14
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    That said, as far as I know, Chewie has not identified himself using that name, and not every culture uses surnames as part of the name, so his (transliterated) full name may simply be "Chewbacca". – FuzzyBoots Nov 02 '21 at 16:14
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    :) Or it's just nicknames, like how one of my college friends dated both "Airforce Ed" and "Asshole Ed" and just about everyone in the engineering program for our years knew exactly which Ed was which. :-D Admittedly, "Airforce Ed" changed to "Stalker Ed" by his Senior year due to a few incidents that led to a restraining order... – FuzzyBoots Nov 02 '21 at 16:18
  • @CaptainKirk “You can call him anything you like, he won’t come anyway.” – Silly but True Nov 02 '21 at 16:49
  • z and t just don't seem like plausible consonants for a Wookie ("Auzituck") – Yorik Nov 02 '21 at 16:50
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    Surnames are not universal. The use of surnames dates back to antiquity in China, but is less than a thousand years old in Western culture. In Indonesia, most people do not have surnames; for instance, Sukarno and Suharto are complete names. – Invisible Trihedron Nov 02 '21 at 17:04
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    @InvisibleTrihedron: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ – FuzzyBoots Nov 02 '21 at 17:15
  • @FuzzyBoots, as I understand it, the purpose of surnames is tax. The taxman more than anyone else needed a way of distinguishing the various Johns in a town from each other. – Pete Nov 02 '21 at 22:19
  • Hmm every time I've seen his father brought up it's been Attichituk or some similar spelling – IG_42 Nov 02 '21 at 22:21