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)
- Barra
- Vaz Pinto
- Banting
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Overton (family place name)
surface form: Overton
- Adams
- Hölldobler via concept surface "family name"
- Shirley
- Bessemer
- Hyakutake via concept surface "Japanese surname"
- Sen
- Guglielmi
- Baker
- Jacobs
- Booth
- Siegel
- Chávarri del Castillo via concept surface "family name"
- Morgenstern via concept surface "family name"
- Gumm
- Arnold
- Firth
- Curtis
- Carnegie
- Cockburn
- Chalhoub
- Fairbanks
- Powell
- Edelman
- Bird
- Foster
- Thompson
- Elliott
- Nielsen
- Nasar
- Nourse
- Alliluyeva
- Cabell
- Packard
- Gage
- Stevens
- Dasgupta
- Darwin
- Barlow
- Wray
- Kilpatrick
- Everett
- Crowe
- Eddy
- Vaux
- Montgomery
- Ovie