How to Use surname in a Sentence

surname

noun

• As with Daria, the Journal agreed to withhold her surname.
  — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
• Still, that’s gotta be a good sign on our nerd-quest that the lone Tiger with a 3.14 ERA with the franchise that shares his surname, right?
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2023
• In Spain, 20% percent of people in the country have one of the 10 most common surnames.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 4 Sep. 2023
• The Wall Street Journal agreed to withhold his surname.
  — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 10 May 2022
• The next step in the search was tracking down South Carolina enslavers with the surname Stark.
  — Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
• Morgan and her two siblings and all three took the surname Harvey.
  — Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2023
• Sure, Jem’s surname may be slightly on the nose, but in the end, there can be no doubt this young Starling needs to ditch her flock and fly the nest.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 12 May 2023
• Cruz and Driver are perfect surnames for a movie about cars.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• On the football team of 36 players, nine have the surname of Barlow and three of Jessop — the most common name in this town.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Sep. 2022
• Fitzpatrick's company crunched the data and came up with the surname Miller.
  — Morgan Canty, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2023
• Bolan copped his stage surname from glam-rock legend Marc Bolan.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 3 May 2022
• Reuters was asked by the mine’s management not to name it or give the surnames of those interviewed.
  — Reuters, Fortune Europe, 22 Nov. 2023
• His great-great-grandfather, Ned Mills, was the first to adopt the family surname.
  — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
• Indeed, the King surname has been synonymous with Lyons wrestling since 1972.
  — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
• Still, the likelihood of error could be increased by the fact that Kim is the one of the most common Korean surnames.
  — Stella Kim, NBC News, 18 Feb. 2023
• The 28-year-old, who didn’t want to give her surname, had just gotten out of a sober living facility.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2022
• Paul Krugman’s column on Tuesday misspelled the surname of a talk-show host.
  — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
• So, Jennifer Lopez Affleck has a shiny new manicure, a shiny new ring, and shiny new surname.
  — Elle Turner, Glamour, 19 July 2022
• Chinyere, who didn’t give her surname to the BBC, said her stepfather wrote to the franchise, head office and the police about the harassment—at which point the man was fired.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 18 July 2023
• But the cattle that put the family's surname in the American Brangus Breeders hall of fame are long gone.
  — Jonmaesha Beltran, The Arizona Republic, 15 Aug. 2022
• Almost everyone shares the surname Yang, except for a few families with the last name Li or Wang.
  — Selina Wang, CNN, 27 Jan. 2023
• This story has been corrected to show the attorney's surname is Fort, not Ford.
  — Felicia Fonseca and Mark Sherman, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2022
• Copy-editing by Sue Doyle, whose surname is the 8th most common included in pub names in Ireland.
  — Carson Terbush, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• One inductee surname already occupies two places in the hall.
  — Lola Sherman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2023
• The Herald is not reporting Sean’s surname at the request of his family.
  — Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2024
• The couple legally adopted him and Mr. Crawford took the surname of his adoptive parents.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 17 Sep. 2023
• Soon after the birth of their son Mark, Jerry legally adopted Shania and her sisters and changed their surname to Twain.
  — Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2023
• An article on Page 28 about the push to diversify the book business misspells the surname of a writer.
  — New York Times, 26 June 2022
• Lake formed Awake Media in March using her husband’s surname.
  — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 30 Jan. 2024
• Within the group, Haines was infamously referred to by her surname Neiers.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024