surname
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Knowing his history of branding and licensing his surname, this shouldn’t come as a surprise.
From Salon • May 7, 2026
An earlier version of this article incorrectly said his surname is McKinny.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
An earlier version of this article incorrectly spelled his surname Inzulza.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
A judgment made in 2023, published in February 2025, said Albon had applied to be named on the birth certificate of another child and wanted its surname changed to match his.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
Though Gogol doesn’t know it, even Nikolai Gogol renamed himself, simplifying his surname at the age of twenty-two from Gogol-Yanovsky to Gogol upon publication in the Literary Gazette.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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