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

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
Njitap
Arnesson
Pisapia
Alghisi
Gandolfi
Riggle
Toler
Baratieri
de Vimeur
Crotti
Hassett
Ship
Miedema
Ertz family name
Robert Hamilton
surface form: Hamilton
Micali
Arapova
Bader
Todd
Sperrle
Allen
Dombrowski
Rodrigues
Walsh
Wüthrich
Pinsker
Hertz
Barr
von Hindenburg
Priebus
Wagner
Easty
Frye
de Jasso family name
Azpilicueta
Appia
Durand
Van Dien family name
Wolfe
Hartmann
Menzies
Cosgrave
Kelly
Osborne
Pepys
Mille
Aitkin
Goodhue
Oberholtzer
Darrow