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)
- Avegno
- Gautreau
- Faulks
- Camm
- Kahle
- Stuyvesant
- Pitts
- Scholz
- McMath
- Carlson
- Durkan
- Best
- Sauer
- Thunberg
- Franklin
- Lester
- Mailer
- Heath
- De Croo via concept surface "family name"
- Sinclair
- Hellmann
- Bardeen
- Neeleman
- Cantona
- Montini via concept surface "family name"
- Helvering
- Perry
- Hamlin
- Patton
- Kempner
- Azevêdo
- Snyder
- Chruściel
- Trudaine
- Madison
- Read
- Jepsen
- Sancroft
- Kraft
- Russell
- Gibbs
- Beecher
- Taylor
- Dolan
- Kennelly
- Beal
- Baader
- Vian
- Jewett
- Bronstein