Names After an Eternal Bond Between Sun and Moon Miqo'te

[Iscah]

Moonkeeper surnames are actual family names, but Sunseeker surnames are individual and it's the tribe letter that is their family name. (We were actually discussing recently here that it's likely Miqo'te would continue to carry that tribe name as a family name even if they left the tribe.)

So if you wanted to share a surname it would make more sense to both take the Moonkeeper family name.

I'm not sure you would take the Sunseeker tribe letter if you're not formally joining the tribe, but that's up to your personal take on the lore. More likely, hypothetically any children your characters might have could be given both the tribe letter and your family name, as they belong to both clans.

Taking her name - or rather: her tribe-letter - would, if you want to stay lore-conform, require you to also change your last name to either Tia or Nunh.
I would see that as a feasible option - with changing your name to Nunh being the better one, probably - seeing how a Seeker-Male can become a Nunh by leaving his tribe and starting his own family, which would be what you and your wife are kinda doing, I guess... thats probably not 100% correct lorewise, but I think its an explantion one could live with.

I don't think it would be a good idea to take the Nunh title *and* the indicator of an existing tribe - you're basically declaring yourself nunh of that tribe.

The naming lore page does mention that a tia can become a nunh by forming his own tribe (though also that it "requires several females", but we’re applying it creatively anyway), but doesn't say anything about how that tribe would be named. How do they invent a new tribe name if all the letters are already taken? Pick a syllable?

The only other non-standard name I can think of is M'zhet, who wasn't using any title when he was "out of the tribe", and it seemed to be significant when he 'reintroduced' himself to everyone as M'zhet Tia.

It's possible you could just continue to use your own surname and be clearly outside of the tribe structure.

You may also want to think about the in-story status of your wife's (and your) relationship to her tribe. Is she breaking out of a traditional tribe structure where she would have been expected to mate with the nunh, and now she's eloped with an outsider? Are they not so possessive, and fine with you "marrying into" the tribe (and not fitting the formal structure)? Or was she out on her own and belonged to X tribe "in name only" anyway? Is she proud to identify as a member of the tribe?