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Example sentences for: surname

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In a bare six and a half pages Rybakin takes us on a crash course in the history of English first names, from Anglo-Saxon Æthelbeald to the titlederived names of modern times such as Duke and Earl . He rightly devotes part of his survey to a consideration of surnames as first names, although in his main entries names of this type such as Bradley, Chester, Clifford, and Seymour are simply explained as deriving `from the surname.
While no author will be unhappy with a review that begins, “ The Surname Dictionary , in particular, becomes the best available work on the subject,” several points in Leslie Dunkling's remarks on A Dictionary of Surnames [XVII, 4:11] require comment.
Although insulting nicknames form a small fraction of the Italian surname pool, chances are that anyone who knows any Italians has participated in this ancient slanging-match.
Dzhugashvili selected the Russian word for steel, stal', as the root of his revolutionary name, the - in and -ov (-off, -ev) suffixes of Russian surnames being only surname indicators.
She is young, she is an outsider in a company that has traditionally found its leaders in-house, she brings a marketing and sales background to the engineering culture of H-P, and her first name seems utterly unrelated to her surname.