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)
- Salam
- Schrieffer
- Mould
- Sadler
- MacDougall
- Ritchie
- Nosek
- Arena
- Klain
- Kritzinger
- Ehle
- Tilden
- Marsh
- Gibb
- Rathbone
- Wong
- Leach
- Harbison
- Cervera
- Albini
- Gambon
- Calmy-Rey via concept surface "family name"
- Buffett
- Minsky
- Staubach
- Jing
- Kehrl
- Banerjee
- Milch
- de Chomedey via concept surface "family name"
- Eich
- Keitel
- Puening
- Rabin
- Terence (surname)
- Bittrich
- Zimmermann
- Aikman
- Merkle
- Woods
- Adelman
- Bouvier
- Card
- Moskovitz
- Unger
- Erskine
- Bowles
- Unseld
- Zhu via concept surface "Chinese surname"
- Carson via concept surface "family name"