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)
- Fischer
- Zhang via concept surface "Chinese surname"
- Tozzer
- Williams
- Dern
- Fey
- Garfinkle
- Gumbel
- McGuire
- Newman
- Boyega
- Geronimi
- Phelps
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Jin
via concept surface "Chinese surname"
surface form: Jin (Chinese surname associated with Kaifeng Jews)
- Sauvestre
- Bowen
- Truzzi
- Dewey
- Fuld
- Darlington
- Šatan
- Seriff
- Rudin
- Singer
- du Plessis via concept surface "family name"
- de Mille
- Heinsohn
- Tuka
- Rashad
- Desgrange
- Bode
- Leutze
- Cox
- Guth
- Stott
- Yang via concept surface "Chinese surname"
- Riggs
- Bühler
- Messier
- Pandey
- Rosenbaum via concept surface "family name"
- Hoffman
- Schmidt via concept surface "family name"
- Fenty
- Šťastný
- Whitney
- Abrams
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Shi
via concept surface "Chinese surname"
surface form: Shi (surname associated with Kaifeng Jews)
- Gao via concept surface "Chinese surname"
- van Raalte