Definitions for last name
last name

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1. surname, family name, cognomen, last namenoun

   the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)

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1. last namenoun

   A surname.

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1. Last Name

   In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community.Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname can indicate genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th century by the barons in England. English surnames began as a way of identifying a certain aspect of that individual, such as by trade, father's name, location of birth, or physical features, and were not necessarily inherited. By 1400 most English families, and those from Lowland Scotland, had adopted the use of hereditary surnames.

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1. last name

   A last name, also known as a surname or family name, is the part of a person's personal name that signifies the family to which they belong. It is typically passed down from generation to generation in many cultures and societies. It can provide insights into ethnic, geographical, and historical background of an individual's family.

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1. Last Name

   "Last Name" is a song composed by country singer Carrie Underwood, Hillary Lindsey and Luke Laird. It is the third single from Underwood's second studio album, Carnival Ride. It was released in the United States on April 7, 2008, by which point the song had already charted. At the 51st Grammy Awards, the song won Underwood her third consecutive Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. It has sold 1,078,000 copies to date.

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1. talesman

How to pronounce last name?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of last name in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of last name in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of last name in a Sentence

1. Dan Abrams:

   His fellow officers called him Speedy because a lot of them had trouble pronouncing his last name, and also because we was fast responding to calls, our thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends and colleagues.

2. Peter Kiss:

   I’ve heard a few of their songs obviously, but I love the shirt, it’s obviously my last name, and it fits me well. I want to rock and roll all night.

3. Cindy De La Hoz:

   She was a fatherless child, her birth father would not marry her mother … He allowed [ Sophia ] to use his last name, but everyone in town knew she was illegitimate. She was made fun of for that. And growing up, she saw war all around her house. She had very, very little food. When air raids would strike the town, she and her family would run for over and had to go in hiding … There was disease, rodents … Because they had such scarcity of food, she was very, very thin. That’s how she gained her nickname in school, Toothpick.

4. Meghan McCain:

   When I interned at ‘Saturday Night Live,’ do you think I got that internship just because I was like, the best intern? No, my dad is friends with Lorne Michaels. There are a lot of doors that have been opened for me. There's a lot of people that will want to talk to me because my last name is McCain.

5. John Sifton:

   What was going on was the typical chaos of a bureaucracy under the strain of immense crisis, people at checkpoints hadn't slept well in days, couldn't read the names properly or read the first name as the last name.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=last name
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Last_Name
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Name
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=last name