When coming to meet a person in Mongolia or to make a business or a deal. one should really understand the name structure of Mongolian people; The Mongols are people who are proud of their culture and therefore a person from the West has to work hard and understand before he misrepresents and harms the person in front of him, thereby losing his trust, so chances are that a deal will not come out of it.
The Mongolian Name structure
Mongolians do not use surnames in the way that most Westerners do; Since the socialist period, a patron is used instead of a surname. If the father's name is not legally established the matronymic is written before the given name. Therefore, if a man with given name Tsakhia has a son, and gives the son the name Elbegdorj, the son's full name, as it appears in passports and the like, is Tsakhia Elbegdorj.
Many gender-neutral name components refer to auspicious qualities such as eternity or happiness: some examples are Mönkh 'eternal', Erdene 'jewel', Oyuun 'mind', Altan 'golden', Saikhan 'fine' and Enkh 'peace'. Many names include the names of places, including mountains, rivers etc., e.g. Altai or Tuul.
Nicknames
When addressing a familiar person, names are shortened, most commonly by choosing one of the parts of the name and adding a vowel, Like a woman named Delgerzayaa might be called Delgree, Zayaa or Deegii, a man named Arslandorj might become Askaa, or so on.
