 In the Northern Caucasus, the Chechens and to a certain extent the Ingush officially registered father's names as family names.The Kists did not follow this practice.Instead, after migrating to Georgia, the Kists started adding the Georgian endings to their patrimonial names, particularly suffix -"shvili" (meaning "child" in Georgian), or sometimes suffix -"dze" (which means "son" in Georgian), or still other times the Georgian suffix -"uli" (indicating "belonging to" or "descended from").