Questions tagged [surnames]
A surname is most commonly defined as a synonym for last name or family name in English.
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Need help with a company's name that involves a surname [closed]
If it's a trading company's name which one is correct?
LEE TRADING or LEE'S TRADING
Where Lee is a Chinese surname.
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What is the origin and meaning of the female given name "Zorado"?
As far as I can tell this name crops up mid 1800s, and (informal analysis) looks like it peaks circa 1890-1915. In the present day I'd say it is extremely rare, but I can find living Zorado women and ...
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Is there a term for last name comma first name?
I'm designing a table in which names are stored. How to best call the columns that store full names in different order? The term "Full Name" seems ambiguous to me.
First Name
Last Name
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What's the correct way to write our names? [closed]
Most people who live in my locality write their names with initials at the
end. Usually these initials are abbreviations of long family names, like
Joseph Alex TP, where TP stands for ...
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Using a capital letter at the start of a French surname in written English
To mention, in English, the French mathematician Guillaume de l'Hôpital only by his surname, should I write De l'Hôpital or de l'Hôpital? Should I use some other combination?
I would use the reference ...
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Is it proper to write a full first name followed by an initial of the last name? [closed]
For example, if my name was John Smith, can I write it as “John S.”?
Also, if I want to start with the initial of the last name, how would I write it? Is it “S. John”?
I’m asking because I’m having my ...
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Correct transliteration of foreign Names with umlauts and other diacritics [duplicate]
I would like to know how names from other languages with umlauts and other diacritics are correctly written in English through transliteration and not translated.
The last name Bühler is often written ...
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What is this naming convention called? [duplicate]
Many historical figures (of antiquity) have names of the form "X the Y". Some real, historical examples are:
Wayland the Smith
William the Conquerer
Attila the Hun
This concept has also ...
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The Miss(es) Joneses
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The Misses Jones is the old-fashioned plural, occasionally used when
formality is required, e.g. in printed lists of guests present, etc.;
otherwise the type the Miss Joneses is now ...
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Finding Meanings of English Names [duplicate]
In Sinhala the name Suminda means calm disposition from the words Samya (calm) + Indu (faculties).
In the case of English, how does one understand the meaning of names? E.g. names like Ann, Tom, Dick, ...
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Is it OK to put last name before first name if the name comes from a culture with such a feature? [closed]
I have recently noticed that my first name goes after my last name in my Stack Exchange account. In my native language (Russian) it is OK to put them in any order. How shall I put my name in English (...
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Should we include the prefix Mrs. when we tell others our real name? [closed]
My question is so simple. We call a man with the prefix Mr. and a married woman with the prefix Mrs., followed by her husband's surname, right? Now, is it grammatically okay to include these prefixes ...
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Why were Scottish & Irish names once rendered with apostrophes instead of "Mac" or "Mc"?
I have noticed in some Victorian and Edwardian texts that Scottish and Irish names beginning with "Mac" or "Mc" are usually written as "M" plus an apostrophe. An example ...
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Why is there a ‘y’ rather than an ‘i’ in the common surname “Taylor?”
The surname “Taylor” is common in the English-speaking world. Wikipedia mentions the following about its history:
Taylor is a surname used in the British Isles of French and Latin origin which ...
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Addressing a person by their last name only [closed]
I've seen a couple of instances where someone is addressed exclusively by their last name (not like "Mr. X" but only "X").
The most prominent example is perhaps MacGyver, whose first name (Angus) is ...
