surname

Example Sentences

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Shortly before he took office in January 2025, the Chinese government and official media began using a different Chinese character for "lu" to represent the first syllable in his surname.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

Knowing his history of branding and licensing his surname, this shouldn’t come as a surprise.

From Salon • May 7, 2026

Before that, the 50-year-old artist, who years ago dropped his surname Javacheff, erected a billowing, white “running fence” that curved through California farm lands like a ghostly ribbon dropped by an unseen hand.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

He would later take his mother's surname for his professional career, one that lasted decades and saw him appear both on the stage and on the screen.

From BBC • May 3, 2026

Alba’s name was entered in the Civil Registry and in the books of the parish with her father’s French surname, but she never used it because her mother’s was much easier to spell.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende