Note: Surnames originally designated occupation, estate,
place of residence, or some particular thing or event
that related to the person; thus, Edmund Ironsides;
Robert Smith, or the smith; William Turner. Surnames
are often also patronymics; as, John Johnson.
2. An appellation added to the original name; an agnomen.
``My surname, Coriolanus.'' --Shak.
Note: This word has been sometimes written sirname, as if it
signified sire-name, or the name derived from one's
father.
Another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord,
and surname himself by the name of Israel. --Isa. xliv.
5.
And Simon he surnamed Peter. --Mark iii.
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