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Example sentences for: surname

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That seems to me to be a sensible approach, since the only way properly to investigate a surname is to go back through the male line as far as possible, noting the various spellings of the name, where the family was living in past centuries, and so on.
The surname Dodd is rooted in an obsolete first name, Dodda (though Dodson seems to be a variant of Dodgson ).
But the behavior of an agringado might involve the changing of one’s given name, so that Carlos becomes Charlie, Guillermo becomes Will, or Consuelo becomes Connie; or changing a surname, so that Rivera becomes Rivers or Puentes becomes Bridges.
Surname was indeed an adaptation of French surnom , but the Normans called it that because in Latin it was a super nomen , an `extra name.
The authors' respective treatment of Howard as a surname and Howard as a first name is perhaps symbolic of the different qualities of these two dictionaries.