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a name shared by members of a family
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- cognomen,
- epithet,
- sobriquet
- (also soubriquet)
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“Last name.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/last%20name. Accessed 9 December 2019.
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The first known use of last name was in 1897
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