1. surname - Noun
2. surname - Verb
A name or appellation which is added to, or over and above, the baptismal or Christian name, and becomes a family name.
An appellation added to the original name; an agnomen.
To name or call by an appellation added to the original name; to give a surname to.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThey called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname. Elie Wiesel
I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname. Rachel Weisz
You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate. Antonio Villaraigosa
It's very hard to step into a job when people are just dismissing you as a pretty face, and saying you got your job only because your surname is McMahon. Julian McMahon
Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Her surname resembled a line from an optometrist's examination chart. Tom Robbins