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)
- Durant
- Conant
- Owen
- Orr
- Ballantine
- Benioff
- Haldeman
- Peng via concept surface "Chinese surname"
- Frick
- Miller
- Black
- Ricardo
- Meriwether
- Garner
- Trump
- Sharp
- Louw
- Koch via concept surface "family name"
- Woodward
- Handler
- Nye
- Curry
- Norwood via concept surface "family name"
- Rabi
- Sumner
- Amaker
- Clinton
- Gorman
- Welf via concept surface "dynastic surname"
- Perrin
- Zeiger
- Sherwin
- Parish
- Compton
- Quinn
- Hart
- Carnes
- Cullen
- Wall
- Esposito
- Ruth
- Blanc
- Bündchen
- Rivers
- Gil
- Haldeman
- Woodfin
- Warnock
- Holmes
- Bastian