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family name






family name   
noun

Definition of family name



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//But the proceedings are also focusing public attention on the business career of Biden’s son, Hunter, whose family name helped land him lucrative work with a Ukrainian gas company eager to be in the good graces of the Obama administration.
Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times, "Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders blow past Joe Biden in fundraising race," 4 Oct. 2019

//Both of the missing headstones were engraved with the same family name.
USA TODAY, "Rare elephant calf, two-headed rattlesnake, another quake off Oregon: News from around our 50 states," 6 Sep. 2019

//His family name is either Low or Lau, but since both are phonetically indistinguishable in Chinese, different members of the family took one spelling or the other.
New York Times, "Overlooked No More: Lau Sing Kee, War Hero Jailed for Helping Immigrants," 25 Aug. 2019

//Apparently, a love of the Albright special comes with the family name.
Melissa Locker, Southern Living, "This is the True Story Behind the BBQ Barn of Beasley, Texas," 22 Aug. 2019

//Friends note that her father, the late British media mogul Robert Maxwell, died amid a financial scandal that tarred the family name and likely annihilated their fortune.
Ben Widdicombe, Town & Country, "After Jeffrey Epstein's Death, What Happens to Ghislaine Maxwell?," 13 Aug. 2019

//That only started to change in the last five to ten years, as the brothers' political contributions and lobbying brought more focus to the family name and the company.
Chris Isidore, CNN, "Koch Industries is the most important company you may not know," 23 Aug. 2019

//The family names and histories of clans were familiar to all on all sides of the knife.
John Kass, chicagotribune.com, "Silent soldiers of WWII and the memories they left behind," 7 June 2019

//The family named the tree after the famous college football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg in a 1960 dedication ceremony.
Los Angeles Times, "Conservation group to buy Alder Creek giant sequoia grove and world’s fifth-largest tree," 17 Sep. 2019


First Known Use of family name

1646, in the meaning defined above



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Synonyms of family name

a name shared by members of a family
  • searched for their family name on a popular genealogy website

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family name

noun

English Language Learners Definition of family name

: the name shared by the people in a family