Definition of Surnames. Meaning of Surnames. Synonyms of Surnames

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Definition of Surnames

Surname
Surname Sur*name", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Surnamed; p. pr. & vb. n. Surnaming.] [Cf. F. surnommer.] To name or call by an appellation added to the original name; to give a surname to. Another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel. --Isa. xliv. 5. And Simon he surnamed Peter. --Mark iii. 16.

Meaning of Surnames from wikipedia

- countries, two surnames are used for legal purposes. Depending on culture, not all members of a family unit are required to have identical surnames. In some...
- most common surnames by continent: List of most common surnames in Asia List of most common surnames in Europe List of most common surnames in North America...
- Chinese names begin with surnames, unlike the Western tradition in which surnames are written last. Around 2,000 Han Chinese surnames are currently in use...
- ****anese surnames (姓, sei), as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written...
- many common Cambodian, Vietnamese, Korean, and ****anese surnames and to an extent, Filipino surnames in both translation and transliteration into those languages...
- Security in January 2019, there are 6,150 different surnames in China with the top 100 surnames used by 85% of the po****tion in 2018. Most Indonesians...
- 2015[update], at least 191 distinct surnames in hangul and 514 distinct surnames in hanja were in use. These are surnames that appear in the 2000 South Korean...
- Basque surnames are surnames with Basque-language origins or a long, identifiable tradition in the Basque Country. They can be divided into two main types...
- (white) are the most commonly used as surnames. Source: Armenia's Voter List The forty-one most common surnames in Austria as published in 2006 are shown...
- fixed surnames, although the use of patronymic names continued up until the early 19th century in some rural areas. In the reign of Henry VIII surnames became...