A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with...

Look up family name in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Family Name or Family name may refer to: Surname, the portion of a personal name that indicates...

Jurgen Wasim Frembgen (2006). The Friends of God: Sufi Saints in Islam (family name Awn). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-547006-2. Retrieved 19 August...

Family name affixes are a clue for surname etymology and can sometimes determine the ethnic origin of a person. This is a partial list of affixes. Abu...

including an option for men to keep their birthname hyphenated to the common family name in the same way. It is also possible for the spouses to do without a...

Traditional Vietnamese personal names generally consist of three parts, used in Eastern name order. A family name (normally patrilineal, although matrilineality...

Heritable family names were generally adopted rather late within Scandinavia. Nobility were the first to take names that would be passed on from one generation...

given name Chinese name Courtesy name Exogamy Generation name Hundred Family Surnames Japanese name Korean name List of common Chinese surnames Naming laws...

middle name. The surname is a family name, derived from place-names, trades or occupations, religious or caste names, or nicknames. Given names and their...

surnames are found in historical texts and are no longer in use today. Korean name Korean culture Korean language List of common Chinese surnames For these...

individuals to have a personal name (also called a given name or first name) and a surname (also called a last name or family name because it is shared by members...

Dutch family names were not required until 1811 when emperor Napoleon annexed the Netherlands; prior to 1811, the use of patronymics was much more common...

link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link....

official decree on 12 November 1787. Sephardic Jews often had hereditary family names (e.g., Cordovero, Abrabanel, Shaltiel, de Leon, Alcalai, Toledano, Lopez)...

most common in Australia and the United States. Most occurrences of the name are derived from a nickname concerning the complexion of an individual, the...

Fatimah al-Zahra's names? www.farsnews.com This page or section lists people that share the same given name or the same family name. If an internal link...

(historically known as Persia in the West). In the Gujarat and Rajasthan region, the name 'Shah', 'Sha' or 'Sah' may be derived from Gujarati sah meaning "merchant"[citation...

Japanese names (日本人の氏名、日本人の姓名、日本人の名前, Nihonjin no Shimei, Nihonjin no Seimei, Nihonjin no Namae) in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed...

of most common surnames in South America List of family name affixes List of most popular given names List (surname) This article includes a language-related...

800 names have been derived from the original ones. In the dynasties following the Song, the 13th-century Three Character Classic, the Hundred Family Surnames...

Family Name (Russian: Двойная фамилия, romanized: Dvoynaya familiya) is a 2006 Russian-Kazakh drama film directed by Stanislav Mitin [ru]. The film tells...

'happiness'. Sarma and Sarmah are alternative English spellings of the name, commonly used by Assamese Brahmins. The Sanskrit word "Sharma" is derived...

randomly either male or female, and names become extinct if the family name line dies out (holders of the family name die without male descendants). This...

Hispanophone names be indexed by the family name. When there are two family names, the indexing is done under the father's family name; this would be...

known as a family name, last name, or gentile name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names and religious...

given/middle/family names but rather a chain of names. This system remains in use throughout the Arabic and Muslim worlds. The ism (اسم) is the given name, first...

List of people with surname Wilson List of people with given name Wilson Wilson Family History, Ancestry.com, archived from the original on 30 December...

adopt the use of fixed, hereditary surnames. Turkish families in the major urban centres had names by which they were known locally (often ending with...

Haal comes from the name of the farm estate "Hahlegården". In the Knighthood Letter, signed by Queen Christina, the family name was written in two different...

Chinese men also used a "courtesy name" or "style name" (zì; 字) by which they were known among those outside their family and closest friends. Respected...