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)
- Barry
- Hallidie
- 山本 via concept surface "Japanese surname"
- Spruance
- Carlin
- Burnett
- Owada via concept surface "Japanese surname"
- Rogers
- Liedtke
- Maginot
- Quarracino
- Swaray
- Mead
- Steinbrenner via concept surface "family name"
- Spínola
- Flinck
- Linares y Pombo via concept surface "compound surname"
- Ehrlich
- Koop
- Witherspoon
- Besant
- Burey
- Streicher
- Robertsen
- Jobs
- Tavares
- Cram
- Busch
- Huber
- Cooper
- Callahan
- Bennett
- O'Connor
- Reed
- Garrison
- Richie
- Agdal
- Bergeron-Cleary via concept surface "family name"
- Holtom
- Sorel
- Fuller
- Dempsey
- Mitchell
- Kœnig
- Vasilevsky
- Peretz
- de Lannoy
- Ai via concept surface "Chinese surname"
- Li via concept surface "Chinese surname"
- Zhao via concept surface "Chinese surname"