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Surname
noun
An additional name, particularly those derived from a birthplace, quality, or achievement; an epithet.
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He has since been identified as a 22-year-old called Daniele - investigators have not released his surname - who, until recently, worked in a nearby factory.
33ba7360-33fa-4912-b1e7-90988c5e6409 You know you've reached peak fame when you no longer need a surname for people to know who you are.
The basics are right: Travers was born Helen Lyndon Goff and called Ginty by her family; her father, Travers Goff (Colin Farrell), was a heavy drinker and a fantasist; she never got over his premature death and romanticised his brief, hapless life (and took his first name as her surname).
But how many of us actually know where the tradition of marital surname change comes from, and what it originally signified?
Most of us, it turns out, still take our husband's surname, but the proportion is declining.
In my own case, were I to look at the form you need to fill out to change your name, I would see instead the medieval script, "she has lost all surname but wife of".
In the words of one court in 1340, "when a woman took a husband, she lost every surname except 'wife of'".
Yassine, who declined to provide his surname, is the son of a Parisian jewellery designer and a "not that famous" French artist.
Now start using a search engine, and begin searching on your name (put the first name and surname together in quotes; this works in pretty much all search engines to identify that as a phrase you're after).
Why can't the child have its own name?" So they came up with an arbitrary surname: Wild.
But Scholes is her real surname - she's no relation to Paul.
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