впервые столкнулась с термином "postname" ("postnom" во французском варианте) в паспорте Демократической Республики Конго. Помогите, пожалуйста, советом, как лучше перевести. Я предполагаю, что это второе имя или фамилия, но, возможно, ошибаюсь. Буду очень признательна за дельный совет.

" [One of Mobutu's policies was] de-westernization. He ordered everyone to replace their Christian or European names with Zairean ones. People's first names (given names) were now to be called "pre-names".

Finally, he decided that everyone should also have a “post-name” after their surname to give them an additional identifier. The post-name was to be that of one or more of your ancestors, but it could be the name of a village, a clan or some personal attribute.

The post-name is the last name but not the family name, which now comes in the middle. [Thus Jean Mabeku, for example, could become Sésé Mabeku Bongo, with Sésé as the new, 'Zairean' pre-name and Bongo as the post-name].

Just to complicate things further, if you ask a Congolese man his name, he will first give you his surname (now his middle name), followed by his pre-name (first name). Then, if you ask, he will give you his post-name.

This causes no end of confusion in official documents, church records and when trying to sort names into alphabetical order."

So now you know....