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)
- Jobes
- Chambers
- Van der Koop
- Behring
- Wigand
- Pulitzer
- Branson
- Strasburg
- Rubin
- Anderson
- Dunham
- Church (surname)
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Kirkpatrick (surname)
surface form: Kirkpatrick
- Pugh
- Hartnett
- Göransson
- Mulally
- Forrestal
- Blake
- Peres
- Knowles-Carter via concept surface "hyphenated surname"
- Nolan
- Bose
- Peck
- Armstrong
- Cornell
- Lawford
- Nimitz
- Logue
- Stone
- Hopkins
- Ball
- Ficker
- Raymond
- de Forest
- Saul
- Gama
- Heezen
- Langway
- Nickell
- McHale
- Hammond
- Soto
- Kapoor
- Arenas
- Affleck-Boldt
- Rockwell
- Ruiz
- De Witt
- Eiffel