Surname, also called family name, or last name, name added to a "given" name, in many cases inherited and held in common by members of a family.
"I decided to fight this with the facts on hand, one being that Terrance Brennan is my God-given name," Mr. Brennan said yesterday.
One of their teammates, Tom Waddell, founded the Gay Olympics; before he died, he would lose his house during the Olympics' successful suit against his use of their Congress-given name.
Though he was known worldwide as the author of the Holmes stories and even sometimes addressed as Mr Sherlock Holmes, Doyle (Conan, like Arthur, was his given name) regarded himself as primarily a writer of uplifting historical fiction, usually with a medieval background.
Danny O'Brien, the Internet advocacy coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists, cited the case of Michael Anti, an independent journalist and blogger from China whose Facebook account was deactivated in January because he had not used his state-given name to create it.
Personal names are ordered as surname followed by "given" name followed by title.
The Quietly Confident Quartet was the self-given name of the Australian men's 4 × 100 m medley relay swimming team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
Ivan's White Bay Campground and Stress-Free Bar (yes, that's its given name) has no-frills tents and cabins, plus a tire swing under a tamarind tree for swaying in the island breeze.
After disembarking into the violent world of the 1929 Depression under the cousin's "given name," my father carried this man's identity into a brave new world of breadlines and desperate jobless men.
Daphne is officially married to Fred in the eyes of the Church, Velma is a brainy nun who discovers secular clues with her expression "Jinkies, the Lord is Great," Shaggy enters the priesthood under his God-given name Norville Rogers and has taken a vow of fasting, and Scooby-Doo is left behind at the homestead to guard it against druggies and teenagers looking for sell-able copper.
Within each journal set dataset we performed a name disambiguation estimation by analyzing only the research profiles of the sufficiently 'rare' surname + given-name combinations that we aggregated from the author lists.
