last name

noun

1. surname ( def 1 ).

last name

noun

1. See surname
   another term for surname

Word History and Origins

Origin of last name¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

Someone with evil intentions does not need to know your family's last name and your address, or even your last initial.

From Washington Post

Other studies have used things like algorithms that analyze last names to divide past data into subgroups, and Ungab and Araneta think such analyses are possible to do in San Diego.

From Voice of San Diego

It wasn’t like I came from the Andretti’s, or the Earnhardt, or Unser — famous last names with a deep lineage.

From Ozy

Seventy percent of donations from individual contributors came from people with the last name Patel — a common last name among a subgroup of the relatively wealthy Gujarati community.

From FiveThirtyEight

I have been married for 30 years and retained my own last name.

From Washington Post

But really, the A-list case comes down to the fact of his last name.

From The Daily Beast

“This place in a ripoff,” adds another prisoner who gave his last name as Parkhurst.

From The Daily Beast

He declined to give his last name because he was concerned about pressure by authorities for speaking his mind.

From The Daily Beast

She declined to give her last name, but said she graduated from law school the same year Clinton did.

From The Daily Beast

Bush has the liabilities everyone knows—his last name, mostly, and that fire-in-the-belly business.

From The Daily Beast

He dropped his last name, thinking the Smith Troupe would not sound as well as Homer.

From Project Gutenberg

I suppose he has a last name, but I didn't know it and it didn't seem to matter when one met George.

From Project Gutenberg

How he had acquired his last name of Gorman was only to be guessed at.

From Project Gutenberg

HOW I come not to have a last name is a question that has always had more or less aggervation mixed up with it.

From Project Gutenberg

But they finally made it up between em I didn't have no last name, and they'd jest call me Danny.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• surname