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last name

noun as in family name

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Someone with evil intentions does not need to know your family's last name and your address, or even your last initial.

Other studies have used things like algorithms that analyze last names to divide past data into subgroups, and Ungab and Araneta think such analyses are possible to do in San Diego.

It wasn’t like I came from the Andretti’s, or the Earnhardt, or Unser — famous last names with a deep lineage.

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Seventy percent of donations from individual contributors came from people with the last name Patel — a common last name among a subgroup of the relatively wealthy Gujarati community.

I have been married for 30 years and retained my own last name.

But really, the A-list case comes down to the fact of his last name.

“This place in a ripoff,” adds another prisoner who gave his last name as Parkhurst.

He declined to give his last name because he was concerned about pressure by authorities for speaking his mind.

She declined to give her last name, but said she graduated from law school the same year Clinton did.

Bush has the liabilities everyone knows—his last name, mostly, and that fire-in-the-belly business.

He dropped his last name, thinking the Smith Troupe would not sound as well as Homer.

I suppose he has a last name, but I didn't know it and it didn't seem to matter when one met George.

How he had acquired his last name of Gorman was only to be guessed at.

HOW I come not to have a last name is a question that has always had more or less aggervation mixed up with it.

But they finally made it up between em I didn't have no last name, and they'd jest call me Danny.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to last name, such as: surname, byname, and cognomen.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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