Surname

Definition: Surname

Surname

Noun

1. The name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name).

Date "surname" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definition
Computing	Attribute type which specifies the linguistic construct which normally is inherited by an individual from the individual's parent or assumed by marriage and by which the individual is commonly known. Source: European Union. (references)
General	Name by which all immediate family members are known. Women usually(but not always)adopt their husband's family name upon marriage. Source: European Union. (references)
Literature	Surname (2 syl.). The over-name; either the name written over the Christian name, or given over and above it; an additional name. For a long time persons had no family name, but only one, and that a personal name. Surnames are not traced farther back than the latter part of the tenth century. Surnames of places. In ford, in ham, and ley, and ton. The most of English surnames run. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Surname

Synonyms: cognomen (n), family name (n), last name (n). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: by-name (general), to-name.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Nomenclature	Style, proper name; praenomen, agnomen, cognomen; patronymic, surname; cognomination; eponym; compellation, description, antonym; empty title, empty name; handle to one's name; namesake.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Surname

English words defined with "surname": Agnomination ♦ Christian name, Cognominal, Cognomination ♦ first name, forename ♦ given name ♦ Incident proposition ♦ maiden name, middle name, Mirza ♦ Of that ilk ♦ Sirname, Sufi, Surnamed, Surnaming, Surnominal, Surstyle ♦ To-name. (references)

Specialty definitions using "surname": Cephas, Chadless keypunch, Curtmantle ♦ Lebbaeus ♦ Married Women, Monmouth, Moon-maker ♦ Noble Soul ♦ Parviz', periodic group ♦ Redgauntlet ♦ Stylites. (references)

Etymologies containing "surname": Phoronis. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A Surname Guide to Massachusetts Town Histories (reference) English Ancestral Names: The Evolution of the Surname from Medieval Occupations (reference) Lancaster County, Pa Cemetery Surname Index (reference) Michigan Oakland County Genealogical Society Surname Directory (reference) Names, Numbers and Northern Policy: Inuit, Project Surname and the Politics of Identity (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	This surname has become my name.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	He spoke clearly the initials and surname of the discoverer.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Equatorial Guinea	Thus people may have up to four names, with a different surname for each generation. (references)
	Iceland	For example, Magnus and Anna, children of a man named Petur, would hold the surname Petursson and Petursdottir, respectively. (references)
	Iceland	Magnus' children, in turn, would inherit the surname Magnusson, while Anna's children would claim their father's first given name as their surname. (references)
Minorities	Japan	Koreans were given the option of adopting a Japanese surname. (references)
Travel	Korea	These names usually follow the Chinese pattern of a surname followed by two given names. (references)
Women	Cyprus	The wife may retain her surname but must add the husband's surname. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Surname" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Surname" is used about 283 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	283	17,340

Expression using "surname": person bearing the same surname. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "surname"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		van (about, by, concerning, from, of, on, since, upon), agternaam. (various references)

Albanian		nofkë (nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet), mbiemër (adjective, attribute, cognomen, last name, name), llagap (alias, by name, nickname), emër i ngjitur. (various references)

Arabic		‏كنية (agnomen, cognomen, epithet, nickname), ‏كنى (nickname), ‏لقب (agnomen, appellation, call, cognomen, denomination, designate, designation, dub, entitle, epithet, nickname, pet name, sobriquet, soubriquet, style, title), ‏إسم العائلة. (various references)

Bulgarian		фамилно име (cognomen, family name), наричам по прякор, наричам по презиме, прякор (alias, by name, cognomen, epithet, handle, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet), прозвище (appellation, by name, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet), презиме, измислям прякор на, измислям прозвище на. (various references)

Catalan		cognom. (various references)

Chinese		性 (nature, sex, suffix corresponding to -ness or -ity), �"氏, �" (family name, name). (various references)

Czech		příjmení (cognomen). (various references)

Danish		efternavn (family name, last name, name). (various references)

Dutch		familienaam (family name, last name, name), achternaam (last name), van (about, by, concerning, from, of, on, out of, since, such a, toward, upon, van, van den Heuvel, what a). (various references)

Esperanto		familia nomo. (various references)

Farsi		نام خانوادگی (Patronymic), کنیه (Epithet, Nickname, Sobriquet, Title), لقب دادن (Entitle, Title), لقب (Epithet, Label, Sobriquet, Title), عنوان (Address, Caption, Epithet, Head, Headline, Rubric, Title, Topic). (various references)

Finnish		sukunimi (family name). (various references)

French		nom de famille. (various references)

Frisian		fan (by, from, of, on, since), famyljenamme. (various references)

German		Nachname (family name, last name), Familienname (family name), zuname (last name). (various references)

Greek		επώνυμο (cognomen, last name). (various references)

Hebrew		שם משפח�" (family name), כ� וי (appellation, denomination, epithet, name, sobriquet, style, term, title). (various references)

Hungarian		vezetéknév (last name), családnév. (various references)

Icelandic		eftirnafn. (various references)

Indonesian		nama keluarga. (various references)

Irish		sloinne. (various references)

Italian		cognome (appellation, cognomen, name). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		苗字 (family name), 名字 (family name), �" (family name). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		せい (cause, companion, control, energy, establishment, family name, fault, gender, government, height, holding back, imperial command, laws, -made, make, military strength, organization, reason, regular, regulation, restraint, sex, spirit, stature, suppression, system, threaten, true), みょうじ (family name). (various references)

Korean		성 (gender, sex, Sex-, sexual). (various references)

Manx		sliennoo (cognomen). (various references)

Norwegian		etternavn. (various references)

Papiamen		fam. (various references)

Pig Latin		urnamesay

Polish		nazwisko (appellation, name). (various references)

Portuguese		sobrenome (appellation, cognomen, family name, last name), apelido (byname, cognomen, denomination, epithet, first name, nickname). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian		sobrenome. (various references)

Romanian		poreclã (agnomen, alias, by name, byword, cognomen, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet), numi (appoint, call, constitute, designate, make, name, nominate, place, put), nume de familie (cognomen), nume (appellation, denomination, fame, name, noun, patronymic, style), epitet (epithet), boteza (baptize, call, christen, christianize, dip, doctor, godfather, immerse, name, sprinkle, water, wet). (various references)

Russian		фамилия (cognomen, family name, name). (various references)

Scottish		sloinneadh (patronymic), sloinn (trace a pedigree). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prezime (cognomen, forename). (various references)

Spanish		apellido (last name). (various references)

Swedish		efternamn (family name, last name, second name), tillnamn. (various references)

Tagalog		pang-angkán, apelyído. (various references)

Turkish		soyadi, soyadı vermek, soyadı (family name, last name, patronymic), takma ad (agnomen, alias, byname, cognomen, incognito, nickname, nom de guerre, nom de plume, pen name, pseudonym, pseudonymity, sobriquet, soubriquet), lakap takmak (call, give a name, nickname), lakap (agnomen, cognomen, epithet, moniker, nickname, patronymic, sobriquet). (various references)

Turkmen		familiяa (r). (various references)

Ukrainian		прізвисько (appellative, byname, by-word, cognomen, nickname), прізвище (cognomen), давати прізвисько (nickname), давати прізвище. (various references)

Vietnamese		tên họ (cognomen), họ (family name, them). (various references)

Welsh		cyfenwi, cyfenw (namesake). (various references)

Zulu		isibongo. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	cognomen. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Acts Chapter 15, Verse 37
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	BarnabaV de ebouleusato sumparalabein ton iwannhn ton kaloumenon markon
Latin	405	Vulgate	Barnabas autem volebat secum adsumere et Iohannem qui cognominatur Marcus
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And Barnabas wolde take with hym Joon, that was named Marcus.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And Barnabas gave counsell to take wt them Iohn called also Marke.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And Barnabas had a desire to take with them John, named Mark.
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Language	Acts Chapter 15, Verse 37
Albanian	Dhe Barnaba donte të merrte me vete Gjonin, të quajtur Mark.
Cebuano	Ug buot ni Bernabe nga paubanon kanila si Juan nga ginganlan si Marcos.
Chinese	巴拿巴有意、要帶稱呼馬可的約翰同去．
Croatian	Barnaba je htio povesti i Ivana zvanog Marko.
Danish	Men Barnabas vilde også tage Johannes, kaldet Markus, med.
Dutch	En Barnabas ried, dat zij Johannes, die genaamd is Markus, zouden medenemen.
Finnish	Niin Barnabas tahtoi ottaa mukaan Johanneksenkin, jota kutsuttiin Markukseksi.
French	Barnabas voulait emmener aussi Jean, surnommé Marc;
German	Barnabas aber gab Rat, daß sie mit sich nähmen Johannes, mit dem Zunamen Markus.
Haitian Creole	Banabas te vle mennen Jan ki te gen ti non Mak la avèk yo.
Hungarian	És Barnabás azt tanácsolá, hogy vegyék maguk mellé Jánost, ki Márknak hívatik.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Barnabas ingin membawa Yohanes Markus,
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Barnabas telah bermaksud hendak membawa Yahya yang bergelar Markus sertanya juga.
Italian	Barnaba voleva prendere insieme anche Giovanni, detto Marco,
Maori	A ka mea a Panapa kia mauria hei hoa a Hoani, e huaina nei ko Maka.
Norwegian	Barnabas vilde også ta med Johannes som kaltes Markus;
Portuguese	Ora, Barnabé queria que levassem também a João, chamado Marcos.
Rumanian	Barnaba voia sq ia cu el wi pe Ioan, numit Marcu;
Shuar	Pirnapíkia Juan Márkusan iijiai winiti tusa wakerimiayi.
Spanish	Bernabé quería llevar consigo a Juan, llamado Marcos;
Swahili	Barnaba alitaka wamchukue pia Yohane aitwaye Marko.
Swedish	Barnabas ville då att de skulle taga med sig Johannes, som ock kallades Markus.
Uma	Barnabas doko' ngkeni Yohanes Markus hi pomakoa' -ra toe,
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "surname": surnamed, surnamer, surnamers, surnames. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Surname" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Saramma, Saranne, Suframa, sunami, Surdam, surename. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "surname" (pronounced ser"nā'm)
3	-n ā' m	nickname.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: manures.
	Words within the letters "a-e-m-n-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: amuser, manure, namers, ramens, remans, rumens, unarms, unseam.
	-2 letters: amens, amuse, arums, aures, earns, manes, manse, manus, mares, marse, maser, means, mensa, menus, muras, mures, muser, namer, names, nares, nears, nemas, neums, nurse, ramen, ramus, reams, reman, rumen, runes, saner, serum, smear, snare, unarm, urase, ureas, ursae, usnea.
	-3 letters: amen, amus, anes, anus.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-m-n-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: aneurism, aneurysm, duramens, enamours, fraenums, manurers, maunders, menstrua, mensural, neuromas, numerals, superman, surnamed, surnamer, surnames, unmakers, unmasker.
	+2 letters: aneurisms, aneurysms, antiserum, argentums, arguments, geraniums, guardsmen, maneuvers, manicures, meandrous, measuring, menstrual, muraenids, muscarine, numerates, nursemaid, penumbras, prehumans, ramequins, rhamnuses, ruminates, sarmentum, semilunar, submarine, surnamers, transmute, underarms, unmaskers, urinemias.
	+3 letters: aneurysmal, antiserums, augmenters, augmentors, demeanours, enumerates, germaniums, gramineous, humanizers, lebensraum, luminaires, luminaries, manoeuvres, maunderers, membranous, menstruate, mensurable, miniatures, muscarines, neutralism, numeracies, numerators, nursemaids, nurseryman, reassuming, submanager, submarined, submariner, submarines, superhuman, superwoman, transmuted, transmutes, unmarrieds, unmeasured, unscramble.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
surname	1,124	polish surname	51
surname meaning	471	greek surname	40
surname origin	441	russian surname	36
irish surname	211	japanese surname	34
italian surname	129	arms coat irish surname	34
german surname	120	welsh surname	31
surname history	116	chinese surname	31
surname search	114	surname coat of arms	30
surname research	108	dutch surname	25
scottish surname	89	surname dictionary	24
french surname	87	british surname	23
england list surname	86	indian surname	22
county surname	82	surname nationality	22
list surname yorkshire	82	mad surname	20
cumbria list surname	76	surname definition	19
jewish surname	72	surname meaning origin	19
english surname	72	free surname search	18
biography british channel directory england english family genealogy genealogy genealogy genealogy heraldry history history history irish island isle magazine man manx military origin root scotland scottish surname wales weslh	64	family surname	18
spanish surname	62	free meaning surname	17
genealogy surname	53	italian surname meaning	16
		native american surname	16
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Surname

Definition: Surname

Surname

Noun

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Use in Literature: Surname

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Non-Fiction Usage: Surname

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Expression: Surname

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Surname

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