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Example sentences for: surname

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With the advent of this `last name,' which came to be known as a surname (from the French surnom ), given names came to be called `first names,' or, because we can have more than one, `forenames.
Genealogical information is occasionally added to the surname entries, but only when the families concerned are “important” according to a very traditional definition of that word.
Hanks and Hodges list no fewer than 90 Italian surname forms of Giacobo (Jacob) , for instance, and a further 76 variations of Giacomo (James) , itself a New Testament derivative of Giacobo .
The surname Dodd is rooted in an obsolete first name, Dodda (though Dodson seems to be a variant of Dodgson ).
' Without this explanation, the information that surname is from French surnom seems to me to be of very little interest.