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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Names and titles
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age
aka
alias
appellation
first name
forename
form of address
given name
good name
pet name
place name
pseudonym
pseudonymity
pseudonymous
unchristened
under the name ofidiom
unidentified
unnamed
untitled

last name | American Dictionary

last name
noun[ C ]
us/ˈˈlæst ˈneɪm/
your family name, which in English comes after other names you are given:
His first name is Julio, but I can’t remember his last name.

Examples of last name

last name
Non-family owned : office space owned or rented in the company's name, and directors do not have the same lastname.
The remainder of the book consists of articles organized alphabetically by the author's lastname.
Instead, the articles are arranged alphabetically, on the basis of the author's lastname.
Family-owned : office space owned or rented in the company's name, and directors have the same lastname.
Many women, both single and married, traded under an initial and their lastname.
Dates are mapped to a year-monthday format and person names to their last word (their head in our terminology, frequently the lastname).
Many subscribers, some of them probably women, put a lastname only.
Although we have not followed the standard practice of alphabetizing by lastname, we were equal partners in producing this article.
Recent information on lastname and address were linked to the telephone company's files to obtain telephone numbers.
For example, a priority may state that a certain rule mentioning a lastname in the query is preferred over another rule mentioning the concept person only.
The results show that 17 per cent of these men had the same lastname and lived at the same address as at least one other volunteer.
That is apparently his lastname.
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