surname

noun

A name shared in common to identify the members of a family, as distinguished from each member’s given name.

noun

A nickname or epithet added to a person’s name.

transitive verb

To give a surname to.

noun

An additional name, frequently descriptive, as in Harold Harefoot; specifically, a name or appellation added to the baptismal or Christian name, and becoming a family name. See to-name.

To name or call by an additional name; give a surname to. See name.

transitive verb

To name or call by an appellation added to the original name; to give a surname to.

noun

A name or appellation which is added to, or over and above, the baptismal or Christian name, and becomes a family name.

noun

An appellation added to the original name; an agnomen.

noun

A name that indicates to which family a person belongs, normally following that person’s given name(s) in Western culture, and preceding it in Eastern.

verb

To give a surname.