surname
C132
concept
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.
All labels observed (67)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| surname canonical | 10,177 |
| family name | 4,380 |
| English-language surname | 593 |
| German-language surname | 307 |
| Italian-language surname | 195 |
| Japanese surname | 158 |
| Chinese surname | 121 |
| Russian-language surname | 114 |
| Irish surname | 110 |
| patronymic surname | 63 |
| Indian surname | 48 |
| occupational surname | 47 |
| fictional surname | 36 |
| hyphenated surname | 35 |
| Jewish surname | 29 |
| Roman family name | 25 |
| compound surname | 21 |
| cognomen | 20 |
| Scandinavian surname | 11 |
| Vietnamese surname | 10 |
| Chinese-language surname | 9 |
| dynastic surname | 9 |
| familyName | 9 |
| literary surname | 7 |
| surname of Japanese origin | 6 |
| Bengali-language surname | 5 |
| habitational surname | 5 |
| romanized surname | 5 |
| Bengali surname | 4 |
| feminine surname form | 4 |
| surname category | 4 |
| surname variant | 4 |
| Norman surname | 3 |
| Vietnamese-language surname | 3 |
| ancestral name | 3 |
| family surname | 3 |
| feminine surname | 3 |
| American surname | 2 |
| Gujarati surname | 2 |
| Serbian-language surname | 2 |
| double-barrelled surname | 2 |
| family name group | 2 |
| familyNameGroup | 2 |
| human surname | 2 |
| surname of Norman origin | 2 |
| фамилия | 2 |
| Batak surname | 1 |
| Belgian surname | 1 |
| Burmese surname | 1 |
| Cantonese romanization of surname Chen | 1 |
| Cantonese romanization of surname Tan | 1 |
| Central Asian surname | 1 |
| Khatri surname | 1 |
| anglicized surname | 1 |
| ethnonymic surname | 1 |
| family name combination | 1 |
| fictional family surname | 1 |
| hereditary surname | 1 |
| legendary surname | 1 |
| marital surname form | 1 |
| married surname | 1 |
| marriedName | 1 |
| masculine surname | 1 |
| surname family | 1 |
| surname of occupational origin | 1 |
| نام خانوادگی | 1 |
| পারিবারিক নাম | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: surname
Generated description
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.
Instances (11,246)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Haneda | Japanese surname |
| Dick Hackett | family name |
| Telegdi | — |
| Behmenburg | — |
| Fliehr | — |
| Thomsen | — |
| Soares | — |
| Wraight | — |
| De Molina | — |
| Blackton | — |
| de Beaument | — |
| de Beaumount | — |
| Ribot | — |
| Sarrien | — |
| Viviani | — |
| Floquet | — |
| Reardon | — |
| Keuning | — |
| Halmos | — |
| Erhart | — |
| Erhardt | — |
|
Drouin (family name)
surface form:
Drouin
|
family name |
| Rothen | — |
| Rot (surname) | — |
| Kantelinen | — |
| Honeychurch | — |
| Moretz | — |
| Delbonnel | — |
| McDonough | — |
| Le Clerc | — |
| Mössbauer | — |
| Ridenhour | — |
| Örvarsson | — |
| Polonsky | — |
| Canegata | — |
| Karros | — |
|
Aurelius (Roman family name)
surface form:
Aurelius
|
Roman family name |
| Mazer | — |
| MacRoss | family name |
| MacTaggart | — |
| Gillanders | — |
| Goulbourne | — |
| Akins | — |
| Baranov | — |
| Kilian | — |
| Sands | — |
| Jawanda | — |
| Cann | family name |
| Munro Ross | — |
| Lewis | — |