NOUN
- the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)
How To Use family name In A Sentence
- New love has a famous family name. The Sun
- Within the main belt are several distinct orbital families of large asteroids, each family named for its most prominent member.
- Wei, Ts'ai, Ts'ao, and T'êng, all of the imperial family name, or, as we say in English, "surname," and all lying between the Hwai and the Sz systems (T'êng was a "belonging state" of Lu). Ancient China Simplified
- What's the spelling of your family name, sir?
- Also, I'm reminded of my Girl Guide den mother, who was rather butch and called all her charges by their family names. "Ann Althouse Defends Scott Turow's Honor."
- The Annual Registers record the gradual transformation of the Krankoor family name.
- A new dictionary of surnames has traced the origins of hundreds of common family names. Times, Sunday Times
- Because the rules of zoological nomenclature indicate that the name of the superfamily has to be derived from the oldest family name, the superfamily name Cirroidea must be replaced by the Porcellioidea.
- Within the main belt are several distinct orbital families of large asteroids, each family named for its most prominent member.
- New love has a well-known family name. The Sun
