SUR'NAME, n. [L. super and nomen.] 1. An additional name; a name or appellation added to the baptismal or christian name,and which becomes a family name. Surnames, with us, originally designated occupation, estate, place of residence, or some particular thing or event that related to the person. Thus William Rufus or red; Edmund Ironsides; Robert Smith,or the smith; William Turner.2. An appellation added to the original name. My surname Coriolanus.
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