Definition of "family name" []

• See surname. (noun)

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• "The later career of Montraville, as we obtain glimpses of it in "Lucy Temple," published more than thirty years after "Charlotte Temple," and in which he appears under the new name of Colonel Franklin (Franklin being the family name of the woman whom Montraville is represented as having Married just before Charlotte died), accords somewhat closely with known facts in the life of Montrésor."
• "Interestingly, their family name came from the Scottish martyr Saint Clair, who was beheaded."
• "Even the family name provoked Islamists: “Pahlavi” derives from a language Persians spoke before the advent of Islam in the seventh century."