surname
C132
concept
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.
All labels observed (67)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| surname canonical | 10,177 |
| family name | 4,380 |
| English-language surname | 593 |
| German-language surname | 307 |
| Italian-language surname | 195 |
| Japanese surname | 158 |
| Chinese surname | 121 |
| Russian-language surname | 114 |
| Irish surname | 110 |
| patronymic surname | 63 |
| Indian surname | 48 |
| occupational surname | 47 |
| fictional surname | 36 |
| hyphenated surname | 35 |
| Jewish surname | 29 |
| Roman family name | 25 |
| compound surname | 21 |
| cognomen | 20 |
| Scandinavian surname | 11 |
| Vietnamese surname | 10 |
| Chinese-language surname | 9 |
| dynastic surname | 9 |
| familyName | 9 |
| literary surname | 7 |
| surname of Japanese origin | 6 |
| Bengali-language surname | 5 |
| habitational surname | 5 |
| romanized surname | 5 |
| Bengali surname | 4 |
| feminine surname form | 4 |
| surname category | 4 |
| surname variant | 4 |
| Norman surname | 3 |
| Vietnamese-language surname | 3 |
| ancestral name | 3 |
| family surname | 3 |
| feminine surname | 3 |
| American surname | 2 |
| Gujarati surname | 2 |
| Serbian-language surname | 2 |
| double-barrelled surname | 2 |
| family name group | 2 |
| familyNameGroup | 2 |
| human surname | 2 |
| surname of Norman origin | 2 |
| фамилия | 2 |
| Batak surname | 1 |
| Belgian surname | 1 |
| Burmese surname | 1 |
| Cantonese romanization of surname Chen | 1 |
| Cantonese romanization of surname Tan | 1 |
| Central Asian surname | 1 |
| Khatri surname | 1 |
| anglicized surname | 1 |
| ethnonymic surname | 1 |
| family name combination | 1 |
| fictional family surname | 1 |
| hereditary surname | 1 |
| legendary surname | 1 |
| marital surname form | 1 |
| married surname | 1 |
| marriedName | 1 |
| masculine surname | 1 |
| surname family | 1 |
| surname of occupational origin | 1 |
| نام خانوادگی | 1 |
| পারিবারিক নাম | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: surname
Generated description
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.
Instances (11,246)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Reith | — |
| Daniels | — |
| Tutte | — |
| Lin | — |
| López García | — |
| Metz | — |
| Cebesoy | — |
| Hammarberg | — |
| Häger | — |
| Haeger | — |
| Moresby | — |
| Onyszkiewicz | — |
| Bogues | family name |
| Philadelphus | cognomen |
| Laine | — |
| Dillahunt | — |
| Debus | — |
| Stockbridge | — |
| Hape | — |
| Ostwald | — |
| Comte | — |
| See | — |
| Blumkin | — |
| Brossolette | — |
| Bride | — |
| Blumberg | — |
| Dorsett | — |
| Chardon | — |
| Houstoun | — |
| Postlethwaite | — |
| Seligman | — |
| Madsen | — |
| Barthou | — |
| Dupuy | — |
| Pelletan | — |
| Cianfrance | family name |
| Ďurčanský | — |
| Alphand | — |
| Sheehan | — |
| Nicolaou | — |
| Demers | — |
| Sonnenfeld | — |
| MacKahan | family name |
| Chapotel | — |
| Pumphrey | — |
| Logano | — |
| Peer | — |
| Gabler | — |
| Hennings | family name |
| Tope | — |