family name

Also known as last name, fam name, family surname, surname, clan 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.

AI overview

A family name, also called a surname or last name, is the portion of a person's full name that they share with other members of their family. In many cultures, including English-speaking ones, it comes last in a person's name (as in John Fitzgerald Kennedy, where Kennedy is the family name), though the position and structure of names varies across different cultures around the world.

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Vinony's link graph records 171,966 inbound references to family name, and connects out to affinity, family and full name.

It is catalogued under the topic Surname.

Vinony links it to 103 Wikipedia language editions.

Wikidata facts

Subclass of: anthroponym
Part of: full name
Named after: name
Image: Most common last name.jpg
Said to be same as: xing

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equivalent class: dbpedia.org/ontology/Surname
Commons category: Surnames
topic's main category: Category:Surname
described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
topic has template: Template:Infobox family name
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Anthroponymy
P8168: Segudet
entry in abbreviations table: Familienn.
P13411: Bengaluru

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Encyclopedic overview

29 sections

Contents

History
Origin
Medieval era and beyond
Modern era
Origins of particular surnames
Patronymic and matronymic surnames
Examples
Cognominal surnames
Ornamental/artificial surnames
Acquired/assigned surnames
Occupational surnames
Toponymic surnames
Patronage
Other
Order of names
Gender-specific versions of surname
Surname law
Surname of women
Compound surnames
English
Chinese
Multiple surnames
Spanish-speaking countries
Compound surnames
Prevalence of particular surnames
See also
References
Further reading
External links

In many societies, a surname, last family name, or first family name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name. In modern times most surnames are hereditary, although in most countries a person has a right to change their name.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “family name” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.