A surname is a hereditary family name shared by members of a family, typically passed down through generations and used to identify lineage or ancestry.
Observed surface forms (41)
- family name ×529
- English-language surname ×119
- German-language surname ×41
- Chinese surname ×18
- patronymic surname ×16
- occupational surname ×15
- Irish surname ×14
- Indian surname ×10
- Italian-language surname ×10
- Japanese surname ×10
- Jewish surname ×5
- Russian-language surname ×3
- hyphenated surname ×3
- Bengali-language surname ×2
- Chinese-language surname ×2
- Roman family name ×2
- cognomen ×2
- dynastic surname ×2
- surname of Japanese origin ×2
- Belgian surname ×1
- Bengali surname ×1
- Burmese surname ×1
- Cantonese romanization of surname Chen ×1
- Cantonese romanization of surname Tan ×1
- Central Asian surname ×1
- Gujarati surname ×1
- Khatri surname ×1
- Norman surname ×1
- Scandinavian surname ×1
- Serbian-language surname ×1
- Vietnamese surname ×1
- Vietnamese-language surname ×1
- compound surname ×1
- ethnonymic surname ×1
- family name combination ×1
- family name group ×1
- familyName ×1
- fictional surname ×1
- habitational surname ×1
- married surname ×1
- surname of Norman origin ×1
Instances (753)
- Hodgkin
- Schwarzschild
- Carnicer
- Léon
- Bertrando
- Lane
- Davies
- Wiesner
- Chára
- Flanagan
- Aubert
- Simms
- Phillips
- Gable
- Crowfoot via concept surface "familyName"
- Chapman
- Jandali via concept surface "family name"
- Jewel of Western India via concept surface "cognomen"
- Blume via concept surface "family name"
- Patel
- Rodriguez
- Clarke
- Groves
- Moynier
- Whitfield
- of Savoy via concept surface "dynastic surname"
- Parks
- Guillén
- Downey
- Salzmann
- Maunoir
- Fawcett
- Zobrist
- Field
- MacLeod
- North
- May
- Robinson
- Sauvy
- Amery
- Levy via concept surface "family name"
- Fourier
- Tomonaga via concept surface "Japanese surname"
- Born
- Alexanderson
- Bethe
- Good
- Harrison
- Lee
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Kirkwood (surname)
surface form: Kirkwood