Meaning of last name in English
(Definition of last name from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
last name | American Dictionary
His first name is Julio, but I can’t remember his last name.
Examples of last name
last name
Non-family owned : office space owned or rented in the company's name, and directors do not have the same last name.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
The remainder of the book consists of articles organized alphabetically by the author's last name.
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Instead, the articles are arranged alphabetically, on the basis of the author's last name.
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Family-owned : office space owned or rented in the company's name, and directors have the same last name.
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Many women, both single and married, traded under an initial and their last name.
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Dates are mapped to a year-monthday format and person names to their last word (their head in our terminology, frequently the last name).
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Many subscribers, some of them probably women, put a last name only.
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Although we have not followed the standard practice of alphabetizing by last name, we were equal partners in producing this article.
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Recent information on last name and address were linked to the telephone company's files to obtain telephone numbers.
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For example, a priority may state that a certain rule mentioning a last name in the query is preferred over another rule mentioning the concept person only.
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The results show that 17 per cent of these men had the same last name and lived at the same address as at least one other volunteer.
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That is apparently his last name.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
The last name does not necessarily denote a national origin of its owner.
Searches of last names can be done using the last name used at school and the current lastname.
Bearers of the office have adapted this as their family last name.
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आडनाव…
名字, 名字（みょうじ）, ＝ 名字…
soyadi, soyad…
nom [masculine] (de famille), patronyme [masculine], nom de famille…
cognom…
achternaam…
உங்கள் குடும்ப பெயர், நீங்கள் முறையான சூழ்நிலைகளில் அல்லது உங்களுக்கு நன்கு தெரியாத நபர்களுடன் பயன்படுத்துகிறீர்கள்…
कुलनाम…
અટક, શાખ…
efternavn…
efternamn…
nama keluarga…
der Nachname…
etternavn [neuter], etternavn…
نام کا آخری حصہ…
прізвище…
фамилия…
చివరి పేరు/ ఆఖరి పేరు…
كُنْية…
পদবি…
příjmení…
nama keluarga…
นามสกุล…
họ…
nazwisko…
성…
cognome…
