Category
page 1Surname
family name
thumb|300px|First/given/forename, middle, and last/family/surname with John F. Kennedy|John Fitzgerald Kennedy as example. This shows a structure typical for Anglophonic cultures (and some others). Other cultures use other structures for full names.
patronymic
A patronymic, or patronym, is a personal name, or component of a personal name, based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (more specifically an avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor. It is the male equivalent of a matronymic.
Chinese family name
surnames used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups
Surname Law
Turkish law and reform
Galton–Watson process
probability model, originally to model the extinction of family names
maiden and married names
classes of surname
double family name
family name that is a combination of two other family names
toponymic surname
surname that relates to a location
same-surname marriage
marriage of people with the same surname, esp. in Asia
patronymic family name
family name derived originally from a male ancestor's given name