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Surname meaning
The portion of a person's name that is generally hereditary or treated as an indicator of a person's family, which may be shared with other members of the family, or otherwise derived from their names in some fashion; distinguished from that person's given name(s). | Synonym of epithet, an additional name, particularly those derived from a birthplace, quality, or achievement. | Synonym of nickname, an additional name given to a person, place, or thing, a byname.
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Example sentences (20)
Because of this implementation of Spanish naming customs (given name -paternal surname -maternal surname) in the Philippines, a Spanish surname does not necessarily denote Spanish ancestry.
Judges of the District Court and the other statutory courts are referred to as "His/Her Honour Judge Surname" in speech, and "Surname DCJ" or "Judge Surname" in writing.
The parents may choose either surname or the double surname for their children, but all siblings must share the same surname.
There are a bunch of reasons why Naruto's official surname should be Namikaze, which is his father's surname.
Singer, songwriter, record producer, performer and actor, the multifaceted personality Armaan Malik has always believed in keeping his surname aside and working on his own craft in creating a name for himself keeping aside his surname.
So now we have a significant portion of the population with the surname "Pure/Core Turk" (Öztürk) and its variations (my surname Özcan included).
A Turkish on Thursday said he is desperate to drop the surname ‘dollar’ surname because he was being teased.
But as per the employee, her surname and her son's surname was different.
As with Westerosi customs to give bastards a surname showing their origins,sfn illegitimate children born in the Westerlands are given the surname Hill.sfn Casterly Rock Casterly Rock was inspired by the Rock of Gibraltar (pictured).
Children take the mother's surname as their middle name, followed by their father's as their surname; for example, a son of Juan de la Cruz and his wife Maria Agbayani may be David Agbayani de la Cruz.
For those whose surname may indicate Chinese ancestry, analysis of the surname may help to pinpoint when those ancestors arrived in the Philippines.
He went to Fredericksburg to arrange the affairs of his brother, who had died there without leaving any relatives; and about this time he assumed the surname of Jones, in addition to his original surname.
His father had been born with the surname McCoy, but took the surname of his adoptive parents, neighbors who adopted him after his own parents had died within a year of each other.
However, persons may change their surname to any surname that has ever been used by their ancestors if they can prove such claim.
In 1855, in the United States, he used the surname "Muygridge".sfn After he returned from Britain to the United States in 1867, he used the surname "Muybridge".
In legal contexts, they are referred to as "His/Her Honour" and "the Honourable Justice Surname" (for judges of superior courts) or "his/her Honour Judge Surname" (for inferior courts).
Instead of creating their own family name, some cheonmins appropriated their masters’ surname, while others simply took the most common surname and its bongwan in the local area.
Michael Campbell is also living in the UK, but no longer in the entertainment industry and whilst his real surname is Jackman, he went by his stepfather's surname of Campbell while on YTT.
Nowadays, a woman's legal surname does not change upon marriage, though she can use the husband's surname socially.
Some of Uda's grandchildren were granted the surname Minamoto (Minamoto is the most used surname for former Japanese royalty.).