If Naruto doesn't have any family how can his name be Uzumaki Naruto?

[rjkiller]

I realy dont know so can someone explain it

[Koyuki]

If your parents die, do you lose your family name?

[Sapphire]

He wasn't badass enough to not have a last name like Garaa or Cher.

[Irenical]

If your parents die, do you lose your family name?

if I remember right he didn’t have parents. Wasn’t he the reincarnation of the nine tales or something like that? Most likely it was a cover up name, cus everyone in the village knew what he was but they weren’t aloud to talk about it. but then again I havent really paid attention to naruto in quite awhile so someone with a bit more knowledge might be able to help you out a lot more then me

[Munsu]

He was no reincarnation, he was a newly born and kyubi was sealed in him.

[bagandscalpel]

Let's see...

1) In the case of no knowledge of Naruto's biological parents existed thereafter the Kyuubi disaster, Naruto's benefactor (probably the 4th) named him such.

2) Named at birth.

Mystery solved, no?

[Winged Dancer]

Well, his parents prolly died during the Kyubi attack, so I'm betting he had been named by then.

If not, then maybe they have a system like in Oliver Twist, you know? Take a random letter out of the alphabet and give the boys a name that starts with it, or something. As far as I know, that was a normal procedure for naming orphans, at least for a while.