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)
- Cora via concept surface "family name"
- Havlicek
- Rondo
- Killian
- Wallace
- Howe
- Lohan
- Goettsch
- Marais
- Kamen
- David
- Myer
- Shōda via concept surface "Japanese surname"
- Kapor
- Horn
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Mueller (German surname)
via concept surface "German-language surname"
surface form: Mueller
- Pryce
- Hancock
- Shannon
- McClintock
- Wydler
- Millar
- Mueller
- Müller
- Blatch
- Carvajal
- Phillippi
- Caprile
- Blagg
- Bäckström
- Buckner
- Rodgers
- Chávez
- Flavius via concept surface "Roman family name"
- Holme
- Griffin via concept surface "fictional surname"
- Broca
- Lindbergh
- Klecko
- Ernman
- Conway
- Martini
- Nurse
- Krafft
- Mills
- Gardner
- Wisdom
- Finkelstein
- Lucas
- Martínez