surname

Example Sentences

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Singh is a common surname in the Sikh community from India’s state of Punjab.

From Los Angeles Times

His mother later married a British officer and the family relocated to England, where young Stoppard took his stepfather’s surname and “put on Englishness like a coat,” he later said.

From Los Angeles Times

Then she married British Army Major Kenneth Stoppard, who gave the family a new surname and moved them to England in 1946.

From The Wall Street Journal

Few know her real name, María Harfuch Hidalgo, whose paternal surname reflects her Lebanese ancestry.

From Los Angeles Times

"We demand freedom and security, an end to the killings and to kidnappings," she said, also declining to provide her surname.

From Barron's