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He asserted in court filings that he believed Dylan — whose surname was Mendell at the time — was 18 and a member of the video production crew.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

In the 1740s, Johann Sebastian Bach smuggled his own surname into his Mass in B Minor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

I asked him if he’d seen the post Eatherly had made prior to the shooting about how his child’s mother wants to change her son’s surname because of how Chud had tarnished it.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

The woman -- asking to be identified by her surname, Jeong, for privacy reasons -- said she could not afford to cool the one-room home shared with her husband and disabled daughter.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

His face became strangely angelic . . . like his surname, di Angelo.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

While nearly 80% of women in opposite-sex marriages in the U.S. take on their spouse’s last name, others are turning to custom blended surnames, pitch decks or athletic tournaments to settle the debate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

The Enthusiasm Society, whose members are known by their surnames, recruits Saxberger to join and sets about announcing itself to the world via an evening of performed monologues and poetry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Still, she adds, it is a cultural anomaly as even sons of unmarried women are usually given male surnames.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

My sisters changed their surnames as soon as they turned 16.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026

He seated us alphabetically around the room—our session contained people with surnames from A to F—and then gave us a mock quiz.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

On recruiting websites, a seafarer surnamed Wang posted that he was recently on the Catalina 7 between last May and this March, traveling between Southeast Asia and China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

“Whenever the situation escalates, they reiterate the warning,” said a seafarer surnamed Wang whose vessel—carrying liquefied natural gas—has been stuck at an anchorage northwest of Dubai for four weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

A 19-year-old student surnamed Du told AFP in Beijing she felt the impact of more expensive contraceptives would be limited.

From Barron's ● Jan. 5, 2026

At the hospital, a woman surnamed Wong broke into tears after failing to find her sister-in-law Tina and Tina's twin sister, who went missing around the time the fire started on Wednesday.

From Barron's ● Nov. 28, 2025

Shiel Torquil had with him only one retainer, but he was a host in himself, being surnamed, from his immense size and strength, the Gillie More.

From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Louisa Morgan

Ney enlisted at eighteen in a hussar regiment, and gradually advanced step by step: Kleber soon discovered his merits, surnaming him “The Indefatigable,” and promoted him to be Adjutant-General when only twenty-five. 

From Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance by Samuel Smiles

The Cossack chiefs celebrated his exploits, one of them surnaming him the "hetmann."

From World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by M. (François) Guizot

Ney enlisted at eighteen in a hussar regiment and gradually advanced step by step; Kleber soon discovered his merits, surnaming him "The Indefatigable," and promoted him to be adjutant-general when only twenty-five.

From How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success by Major A.R. Calhoon

I wonder if Sala was the native and surnaming town of that other Sala whose initials are G. A. S., and whose nature is 'ditto'?

From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various