How To Use Surname In A Sentence

Next year, Ulrika I've already dropped the surname will be launched into our collective media-hungry mouths. Philippa Young: Pop Goes Sweden
You probably haven't noticed, but my surname bears a passing resemblance to a certain vulgarity.
We shall not speak as they do, nor shall we adopt their surnames. Christianity Today
His only claim to fame was his double-barrelled surname.
The surname could also have changed form when migration is combined with illiteracy.

Since surnames are also usually passed from father to son, the Y-DNA test is ideally suited for single surname studies.
My surname is one of the most common in this country and hers is double-barrelled.
Nor do the figures include the women who still honour the curious custom of adopting their husband 's surname on marriage. Times, Sunday Times
The word "Knickerbocker", a Dutch surname, is used as a colloquial term for New Yorkers descended from the origin al Dutch settlers.
She asks me not to name the well-known corporation or her surname. Times, Sunday Times
People usually use both their father's and their mother's surnames, in that order.
The hospital admitted liability after it was found that the ward's patient list lacked surnames. Times, Sunday Times
The first card to arrive stopped my surname short after five letters. Times, Sunday Times
Surnames were frequently created out of the Latin genitive of some ancestor's given name.
Wei, Ts'ai, Ts'ao, and T'êng, all of the imperial family name, or, as we say in English, "surname," and all lying between the Hwai and the Sz systems (T'êng was a "belonging state" of Lu). Ancient China Simplified
It is well known that this gave rise to the modern surname Meredith but outside of Wales few are aware of the hypocoristic form Bedo.
Variants occur in B-Bc 27087 (‘Clemente nono Papa’) and LVu mus.4 (‘Clemens haud papa’) which support the theory that the suffix was created in jest rather than for practical reasons: Pope Clemens VII had died in 1534 (before the composer appeared in print), and the possibility of confusion with the poet Jacobus Papa in Ypres is just as unlikely, for in this case the surnames were quite distinct. Archive 2009-06-01
He never uses his real surname and does not intend to do so.
All the surnames in the list have been specially flagged so that the computer can print them out easily.
Hanna married Skeffington and the couple adopted the double surname of Sheehy-Skeffington.
Having a surname like mine meant that I was second of the year on the alphabetical list. Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning
MY ex-wife has changed our son 's surname to hers. The Sun
Anglo-Saxon personal names, it is not always possible to say whether a surname is essentially occupative or not, e.g. whether Durward is rather "door-ward" or for Anglo-Sax. The Romance of Names
Reuter, a trooper, which has given the sixteenth-century Eng. rutter, but not as a surname. The Romance of Names
The rest are real surnames of famous people. Times, Sunday Times
While she is likely to get a new surname, she could keep her first name if she finds it hard to answer to another. The Sun
The surname 'Smith' is very common in Britain.
The 20-year-old Christophe Lemaitre (whose surname translates as 'The Master') recently became the first white sprinter to break the 10-second barrier with 9.98 sec in Valence. BBC News - Home
This world pays consideration to, he-man marquis, go not to change the appoint, sit don't change a surname.
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He was replaced by an anonymous figure with a number and a surname. The Prisons We Deserve
Singh" is a more common surname among Sikhs than "Smith" is for anglos. Archive 2009-11-01
The ancient Roman women had a forename , or a Christian name besides their surname.
The surname Botkin comes from the Old English word bodkin, which is also spelled bodekin, and refers to a short, pointed weapon or dagger. Whence Botkinburg?
A new dictionary of surnames has traced the origins of hundreds of common family names. Times, Sunday Times
One of our best subs, taken to task this morning for what I described as the unforgivable crime of putting an acute accent on the artist Edgar Degas 'surname in last week's paper, held his hand up to the offence but pointed out that he had been working on seven different pages under severe time pressure," Marsh writes. Regret the Error
Having a surname like mine meant that I was second of the year on the alphabetical list. Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning
With a Deed Poll, you can change your forenames, surname, add names, remove names or rearrange your existing names.
Flint, which is the title of the book as well as the surname of Eddy's frighteningly driven heroine, is a cross-genre novel.
So now I'd like to inject a bit of reality into my surname in the hope that today's collegians gain something in the process. Peter Buffett: My Indispensable Guide to College
[Footnote: If a student of philology were allowed to touch on such high matters as legislation, I would moralize on the word kiddle, meaning an illegal kind of weir used for fish-poaching, whence perhaps the surname The Romance of Names
What make this automatic 50% of surnames excision particularly galling is that for almost all of us, the only parentage we can claim with certainty is maternal. Great Scots
The surname comes first, followed by a personal name usually composed of two characters. Times, Sunday Times
He made six separate applications for a total of 39 000 shares, using permutations of his surname and Christian names.
Tired of having her name butchered by colleagues, she interrupted a House Revenue and Taxation Committee meeting Monday to offer a little phonetic direction on the northern Swiss surname she took when she married her husband, Jim. Archive 2007-01-01
The name was taken out of the Psalms for the Fourteenth Day of the Month, and was bestowed on her in obedience to her father's conviction that, where parents were constrained to give their child so indistinctive a surname as Smith, they ought to counterbalance it with a Christian name more original and vivacious. Sydney Smith
[FN#196] Abou Abdallah ibn el Casim el Hashimi, surnamed Abou el Ainaa, a blind traditionist and man of letters of Bassora, in the ninth century, and one of the most celebrated wits of his day. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV
Look for the names of known relatives or of people with family surnames. Times, Sunday Times
However that Guo's surname is four elder brothers' persons, three sisters-in-law still a forbid are some is good.
Winter is a common enough German surname.
In later tales of Arthur he is often given the surname Pendragon, which means ‘Dragon Chief’.
The teacher, surnamed Wang, had lost a lot of money to a man surnamed Wu when playing mah-jong in May this year.
At least, he did not have to adopt her surname. Times, Sunday Times
The pronunciation of Chinese surnames can induce mild identity crisis.
The teacher addresses the students by their surnames.
We have three surnames in our family. The Sun
'Molly' for short, was Robin (the name was concocted out of the scientific terms for the bird 'robin' and the fish 'marlin' - which was her surname). Chapter 11 - The Second Date
The signature was extended in full, with the surname blackly underlined. The Cavalier
The author sorting depends on how the file has been made; sometimes it sorts by forename and sometimes by surname. My Kindle, a review
There is something ironic about the surname. Times, Sunday Times
In the 1960s, a Beijing toilet cleaner surnamed Chen made a name for himself by carrying out his job with great assiduity.
Even its first, or general denomination, was the result of no common research or selection, although, according to the example of my predecessors, I had only to seize upon the most sounding and euphonic surname that English history or topography affords, and elect it at once as the title of my work and the name of my hero. Waverley
In 1928 he proclaimed himself King of Albania, taking the name Zog, a diminutive of his family's surname.
The name Jacuzzi may be most often associated with spas and hot tubs, but in the Carneros region of Sonoma, California, locals know that the family surname also means great wine. TreeHugger
He said the couple, who live in Pocklington, had considered a double-barrelled surname but decided to keep things simple.
He was ennobled by the Emperor of Austria, allowing him to use the honorific ‘Ritter von’ before his surname.
That's about when hyphenation was seized upon as a solution to surname patriarchy.
At the beginning of 1820 the newspapers announced the death of M. Myriel, Bishop of D----, surnamed "Monseigneur Bienvenu," who had died in the odor of sanctity at the age of eighty-two.
Please check that your surname and forenames have been correctly entered.
And they were surnamed Cyclopes (Orb-eyed) because one orbed eye was set in their foreheads. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
He was replaced by an anonymous figure with a number and a surname. The Prisons We Deserve
When our daughter married, her husband changed his surname to ours. Times, Sunday Times
For instance, quite different Irish surnames seem to have dominated Philadelphia.
There are some careers where a significant surname is all you need - being an aristocrat, for example.
At various times, Chinese-language searches for "carrot" on Google by users inside China have been blocked, apparently because one of the three characters in the word matches the surname of Mr. Hu, the current Chinese president. China Blocks Searches on Past Leader's Health
His surname changes to Peyten and then Peyton, which is the vagary of the census-taker, not John. John
‘When Port Vale lost to Cardiff 3-1 last week, two players with double-barrelled surnames scored,’ says Steve.
In small towns, where everyone knew everyone else, surnames were not particularly important anyway.
His surname christened the name for one dish, the hachis parmentier, which is a casserole of mince meat covered with a top layer of mashed potatoes. Cafebabel.com
I knew he was proud to say it because it was his mother's surname.
One injured man surnamed Guo lost his newly acquired shoes after he was swamped by two waves of water over 10 metres high.
His connection with the worship of the reproductive principle seems to be further indicated by his surname, _Ce acatl_. American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent
The author herself lives up to her surname, wearing a schoolgirlish grey flannel minidress over jeans, with pink ballet pumps. Times, Sunday Times
Mitku was ablet to read the name plate of one of the men who raped her and his surname is sahu. Khaki Rakshashas go on Rape Rampage in Bastar
Following emancipation, we are able to feel with Elisabeth what it must have been like to suddenly have a surname.
He had refused to stick with his father's surname when his parents got divorced.
A 66-year-old South Korean student surnamed Ryu at Ningbo University is working as a volunteer cleaning in communities around the world.
Iceland also upholds another Norse tradition - using patronymics rather than surnames.
John may be the reason that their surname is a brand name among political junkies, but "when he and I travel to the Middle East together, I'm cognizant of the fact that I'm traveling with royalty," John says. James Zogby, a Catholic of Lebanese descent, works to dispel myths about Arabs
The name is half real, half invention - an old family surname, subsumed to a middle name, it ultimately became a forename.
I think gay culture in Shanghai has gradually come out of the closet, thanks to the expat community in the city, " said a gay man surnamed Chen, who lives with his partner in Shanghai.
(15-16 January 2010, Part 2) * In both instances, the surname is an anglicized derivation of the Irish surname Ó Tighearnaigh. "As if I had a choice...oh well."
They've had a rough go of it over the record-smashing Stuyvesant Town-Cooper Village acquisition, but "Speyer" arguably remains the marquee surname in New York commercial real estate, with 15 million top-shelf square feet in midtown alone, including Rockefeller Center and the land lease on the Chrysler Building. Home | The New York Observer
Call me Tom, don't surname me.
So I used that surname to get all the favours from my family. Times, Sunday Times
‘They're all egoists, they only care about themselves,’ said Guy, a security guard who wouldn't give his surname.
Apollo, the god of vaticination, was surnamed (Greek). Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
His small stature was a bitter irony for someone whose surname translates as "Tall. Joseph Cao, the unlikely congressman from New Orleans
* In both instances, the surname is an anglicized derivation of the Irish surname Ó Tighearnaigh. "As if I had a choice...oh well."
Even Bev Perdue, whose friggin 'surname is French for "lost," probably won't. Damnum absque injuria
‘The name ‘Caesar’ is a cognomen, a nickname given to one member of a Roman clan and borne by his descendants as a kind of surname.
Her first name is Sarah but I don't know her surname.
To this day Quisling's surname is shorthand for a politician willing to sell out his own country to the worst predators, if it looks like that might save his own interests. A Quisling Turkey
Tapa said musicians like Viomak - a pseudonym forged from her first name Violah and part of her surname - should be "saluted" for their courage in challenging the Mugabe regime. ANC Daily News Briefing
The patient, a 31-year-old researcher surnamed Yang, had worked at the lab.
Just a few hundred yards away, however, Bob and Roseanne, a middle-aged couple who declined to give their surnames, were about to start a door-to-door canvass for the president.
She also wanted to retain her own surname, separate bank accounts and tax returns.
Can you name two tennis players whose surnames are palindromes? Times, Sunday Times
When Artaxerxes II, surnamed Ochus, invaded the Delta, Nectanebo II, King of Egypt, could find no safer refuge that Ethiopia, and in the days of the Ptolemies, one of its kings, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
The surname should be written or typed in block letters followed by the title of the guest, and then the initials.
The young Tom was also a fairly headstrong youth and by the age of 15 had left home, adopting his mother's surname and living off his wits, to send himself back to high school.
He said my surname was an unusual name and did I know my ancestors had invented the Biro pen.
The first card to arrive stopped my surname short after five letters. Times, Sunday Times
A world where private feelings are private and even very old friends and colleagues call each other by title and surname.
People called him Titch, a contraction of his surname, but, truth be told, he was also titchy, the shortest boy in the whole school.
There are very few different surnames in China, and the fact that the Chinese language depends so much on tones (not indicated in Pinyin) increases the number of apparent homophones and near homophones.
The Central Election Commission also registered as a presidential candidate a resident of Ivano-Frankivsk region, Vasyl Protyvsikh (whose surname translates as "Against Everybody"), who changed his surname from Humeniuk in early October 2009. Www.kyivpost.com
His main impediment is his surname and the sense that he is an establishment figure. Times, Sunday Times
Not long after their arrival there, Mateo was referred to by another title - his surname changed from Ortega to DiBaena, in reference to their home town.
The writer, a real estate expert surnamed Lou, said people should take more care before making such purchases.
Compared with Wang, another student surnamed Peng is even luckier.
Iceland also upholds another Norse tradition - using patronymics rather than surnames.
Please check that your surname and forenames have been correctly entered.
It was written by her husband, yet its style was rigidly formal, consistently using her surname alone.
Many people use two surnames to tell themselves apart. Times, Sunday Times
'Vandyke' was the early Victorian spelling of the surname of Sir Anthony Van Dyck, the seventeenth-century Flemish painter famous for his fine portraits of members of the English aristocracy and royal court. 'The Making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy: Books, Bodies, Fortune, Fame'
Beneath that mushy image, however, Ranbir Kapoor cuts apragmatic picture of ayoung man who is aware of the burden of expectations that comes with his surname and who understands the importance of money and fame. 'I'm not ashamed to admit that I cry often'
A little over 10 years ago, this island was rented by two brothers surnamed Yang from Xiangshan County.
The surnames sound similar and, for the uninitiated, quite confusing too.
Though comedians such as Keaton, Chaplin and Lloyd are still well known enough today to be identified with just a surname alone, the history of comedy is littered with dozens of other gagmen whose monikers have since disappeared into the shrouded mists of time.
In Ghana, as in Britain, there are surnames and forenames.
There is a strong British influence here and many of the surnames are British. Times, Sunday Times
One of the descendants is an investment counselor and another a Ph.D. Mrs. [Megan] Smolenyak Smolenyak described them as “poster children” for immigrant America, with Irish, Jewish, Italian and Scandinavian surnames. Start Spreading the News
Hernan Perez del Pulgar, surnamed "He of the exploits," was present, and resolved not to be outbraved by this daring infidel. Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
Mum told me his surname, and I looked him up in the book, and called him, but his mum told me he was out so I left a message.
One citizen, surnamed Xie, said he was driving along Hutai Lu at midnight on December 10 last year and stopped at a red light.
So I used that surname to get all the favours from my family. Times, Sunday Times
At least half of them share the same surname.
And you should also have a surname or family name. Times, Sunday Times
That is 10m to buy him and a further 500,000 to buy the letters to print his surname on the back of his shirt. The Sun
To arrive at the original meaning of a surname, one has to consider the earliest recorded forms and invoke the expertise of a philologist.
For too long, he was caricatured as the playboy with the pun-friendly surname, an image to which he pandered happily until he realised its downside.
When our daughter married, her husband changed his surname to ours. Times, Sunday Times
However, Suetonius relates that Octavius, surnamed Augustus, was so weak as to believe that a fish, which leaped from the sea upon the shore at Actium, foreboded that he should gain the battle. A Philosophical Dictionary
Nor do the figures include the women who still honour the curious custom of adopting their husband 's surname on marriage. Times, Sunday Times
We know nothing about her save that her surname is Jones.
They've lost the record for everyone whose surname begins with an M.
Consider This: Baka is a Hindi name that may sound unusual with some surnames. 5-Star Baby Name Advisor
Smith is a common English surname.
And finally - the question that every interviewer asks - how did he get lumbered with such an appallingly unattractive surname?
As-Seffah, (_the bloodshedder_, the surname of the first Abbaside khalif,) in every province of the empire. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844
In Atlanta, Nicki Styx is grateful to her new boyfriend, ER Dr. Joe Bascombe whom she met when he saved her life though lacking exact change for ferryman to escort her across her surname river also proved a factor (see DEAD GIRLS ARE EASY). A Match Made in Hell-Terri Garey « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
Her new first name refers to an incident on the trail and she has kept her husband 's surname. Times, Sunday Times
The APA said the computerised system needed, at a minimum, the mother or child's surname and a date of birth.
He had used his partner's surname, different addresses, a false date of birth and fake National Insurance numbers when he worked.
Alright, say my more astute inquisitors, why not go the whole hog and adopt my mother's surname or even my granny's, etc etc?
Even the new surname the former Incredibles have adopted is Parr("par", geddit?)
Three young nuns, all sisters-in-law of his sons, superintended the staff of twenty-five teachers on the payroll, and they took his surname as theirs under vows.
In the nomination paper the candidate must set out his surname and other names in full and, his home address.
The spelling of occupative surnames often differs from that now associated with the trade itself. The Romance of Names
They were only known by their surnames and their husbands' surnames.
A woman surnamed Chen in her 40s said she always suffered from a headache after a prolonged shopping expedition.
The initial letter in his surname is silent.
His mother has been released with a makeover and new surname to protect her. The Sun
Such details as Jean's address and vocation and marital status, even his surname, would only rob Laure's Friday night of its poetic or oneiric mystery.
The antiquary William Camden was the first to divide surnames into the categories broadly represented in all European languages.
It was by virtue of this power that English John, that great landlord, surnamed Lackland, by declaring himself the liegeman of Pope Innocent III., and placing his kingdom under submission, delivered the souls of his parents, who had been excommunicated: “Pro mortuo excommunico, pro quo supplicant consanguinei.” A Philosophical Dictionary
He was replaced by an anonymous figure with a number and a surname. The Prisons We Deserve
The father's surname would come first. Times, Sunday Times
His first name is Tom and his surname is Green.
He has no family, no romantic entanglements and no surname. Times, Sunday Times
And I can joke about things that would alarm my northern friends of both races - like the fact that a black southern pal with ancestors of a similar Virginia surname habitually calls me "Cuz. Lynn Parramore: Trading Places: A North/South Reversal on Civil Rights
We have three surnames in our family. The Sun
Taking the different classes of surnames separately, the six commonest occupative names are Smith, Taylor, Clark, Wright, Walker, Turner. The Romance of Names
This is evident in the trait that most Sikhs who share an ancestral village will also have the same surname. Times, Sunday Times
How do you pronounce your surname?
The fact that the players may be from foreign leagues and offer unpronounceable surnames merely adds to their mystical allure.
The next year there were small Russian victories, and these crept nearer and nearer to the Baltic, until at last the river upon which the great Nevski won his surname was reached -- and the Neva was his! A Short History of Russia
Neither surname nor placename feature. The Times Literary Supplement
How do you spell your surname?
"Yegg" was believed to be the surname of a certain American burglar and safe- breaker; hence a Yeggman or Yegg being "a burglar or safe-breaker".
Throw any surname at him and he will almost certainly be able to give you a potted history and he is likely to throw in a colourful story to liven up the tale as well.
His mother has been released with a makeover and new surname to protect her. The Sun
Persons with different surnames may share a common clan name, revealing a relationship along the lineage.
Of the nine keepers to have had more than 20 national caps, four are known by their surnames and four by their first names.
For the Latins call a vetch Cicer, and a nick or dent at the tip of his nose, which resembled the opening in a vetch, gave him the surname of The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
The first in line, a boy surnamed Ip, said he got there at 7am.
The rest are real surnames of famous people. Times, Sunday Times
And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, and to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils: and Simon he surnamed Peter; and James the son of Zeb'edee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Bo-aner'ges, which is, The sons of thunder: Mark 3.
The idea that it was run by port-swilling people with double-barrelled surnames had an element of truth.
While she is likely to get a new surname, she could keep her first name if she finds it hard to answer to another. The Sun
Two sisters from the USA with the surname Trowbridge were given the VIP treatment at Wiltshire county town's museum on Friday. Undefined
We shall not speak as they do, nor shall we adopt their surnames. Christianity Today
It is significant that the town of Troyes, from which Chrétien took his surname, was a cabalistic centre and the site of the original Templar preceptory—and it was where the Count of Champagne held his court. The Templar Revelation
For which cause his surname Grimaldi deseruedly was taken away, and was called of euery man nothing els but M. Ermino the couetous. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
These last two received from the Roman people the surname of Africanus, in honor of their African victories, and the one who now comes upon the stage was called Scipio Hannibal Makers of History
Then I moved to Canberra and got a job as a salesman selling histories of surnames and coats of arms.
Also, if your surname is slang for a 'frothy' anal sex byproduct, best you steer clear of phrases like "Conservative stool. HUFFPOST HILL - Rep. Chris Lee Steps Down
[Footnote 1: 'Hauberk:' the hauberk was a texture of steel ringlets or rings interwoven, forming a coat of mail that sat close to the body, and adapted itself to every motion.] [Footnote 2: 'Stout Glo'ster:' Gilbert de Clare, surnamed the Red, Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes
Jason has now readopted his father's surname and is amazed by the similarities between them.

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