last name

noun

: surname sense 2

Synonyms of last name

• surname
• family name

Examples of last name in a Sentence

His first name is John and his last name is Smith.

please write your first name, middle initial, and last name at the top of the form

Recent Examples on the Web

Brad Pitt’s children, particularly the four who have taken legal steps to drop his last name from their own, would apparently like it to be known that they were not gaslit by their mother Angelina Jolie into turning against him. — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 23 July 2026

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’s daughter Suri Noelle—who dropped her estranged dad’s last name in favor of her mom’s middle name—might look like a carbon copy of her famous parents. — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 23 July 2026

Next is Panthea Parker, a woman whose last name follows her first name like aroma follows a cup of coffee. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 22 July 2026

Vivienne Jolie-Pitt has become the latest of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s children to file a formal request to drop her father’s last name from her own. — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 22 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1897, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for last name

• acclaim
• aflame
• airframe
• ballgame
• became
• declaim
• defame
• disclaim
• doorframe
• exclaim
• inflame
• mainframe