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)
- Voet
- Thirlby
- Riley
- Malan
- Thomson
- Eden
- Luxemburg
- Koizumi via concept surface "Japanese surname"
- Konerko
- McDermott
- Klopfer
- Behrens
- Spaeny via concept surface "family name"
- Daboll
- White
- Ross
- Ryle
- Ellison
- Horan
- Shorter
- Wyatt
- Utley
- 陳 via concept surface "Chinese surname"
- 詹 via concept surface "Chinese surname"
- Tan
- Douglass
- Douglas (surname)
- Marks
- Balfe
- Thorpe
- Gifford
- Davis
- Haydon
- Tucker
- Soane
- Farley
- Guilfoyle
- Longuet-Higgins via concept surface "family name"
- Fermi
- Halsey
- Norton
- Schelling
- Schöngarth
- Holdsclaw via concept surface "family name"
- Tedder
- Zeng via concept surface "Chinese-language surname"
- Spyri
- Torre
- Bonham Carter via concept surface "family name"
- Yunaska