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)
- Edwards
- Foege via concept surface "family name"
- Martinez
- Emanuel
- Willson
- Wilsons via concept surface "family name group"
- Wofford
- Neilson
- van Dam
- Church
- Sutter
- Bacon
- Pierce
- Smith
- Ferguson
- Wilsen
- Blyton
- Addams
- Cassin
- Wilkinson
- Willis
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surface form: Lê
- Xuan via concept surface "family name"
- Savio
- Aptheker
- Brennan
- Lie
- Siebel
- Kurtz
- Reedus
- Lear
- Bethune
- Flagg
- Premji
- Motsepe
- Herman
- Urquhart
- Strahan
- Pilger
- Klein
- Maung
- Ma via concept surface "Chinese surname"
- Moore
- Nicol
- Williamson
- Sloan
- Tyson via concept surface "family name"
- Kono via concept surface "Japanese surname"
- Wallace
- Johnson