Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.

The name " Capet " has also been used as a surname for French royals, particularly but not exclusively those of the House of Capet.

This double-barrelled surname has remained in the family to this day, though some of the most famous members have preferred to style themselves as merely " Churchill ".

A family name ( in Western contexts often referred to as a surname or last name ) is typically a part of a person's name which has been passed, according to law or custom, from one or both parents to their children.

Since his surname was Franco, it has been supposed that he belonged to a family of the name which is frequently mentioned in the documents of the tenth century, and which may have been of French origin.

* Scales ( surname ), has at least two origins

** Fabius Maximus Cunctator, Roman general and statesman whose cautious delaying tactics ( which have led to his surname Cunctator, meaning " delayer ") during the early stages of the Second Punic War has given Rome time to recover its strength and take the offensive against the invading Carthaginian army of Hannibal ( b. c. 275 BC )

** Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major, Roman statesman and general, famous for his victory over the Carthaginian leader Hannibal in the Battle of Zama in 202 BC, which has ended the Second Punic War and given him the surname Africanus ( b. 236 BC )

He has found families with the surname Lafitte in Louisiana documents dating as early as 1765.

She has changed her premarital surname and kept it for life because she thinks daughters should take their mother's surnames and keep them after their marriage.

An earl has the title Earl of when the title originates from a placename, or Earl when the title comes from a surname.

Coleman refers to the surname of the former BBC broadcaster David Coleman and the suffix-balls, as in " to balls up ", and has since spawned derivative terms in unrelated fields such as " Warballs " ( spurious references to the September 11, 2001 attacks ) and " Dianaballs " ( sentimental references to Diana, Princess of Wales ).

* Wu Zixu, political advisor from Chu who has been employed at the court of the State of Wu during the reign of King Helü of Wu ; all Chinese people with the surname Wu consider him their first ancestor ( b. 526 BC )

* Fabius Maximus Cunctator, Roman general and statesman whose cautious delaying tactics ( which have led to his surname Cunctator, meaning " delayer ") during the early stages of the Second Punic War has given Rome time to recover its strength and take the offensive against the invading Carthaginian army of Hannibal ( b. c. 275 BC )

He gives the boy the surname Adverse in acknowledgement of the difficult life he has led.

* Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major, Roman statesman and general, famous for his victory over the Carthaginian leader Hannibal in the Battle of Zama in 202 BC, which has ended the Second Punic War and given him the surname Africanus ( b. 236 BC )

Many people who know of the marriage will simply assume that the married person has the same surname as his or her spouse and will use that name to introduce and address him or her.

Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, descendants of Philip and Elizabeth not bearing royal styles and titles can use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor, which has also been used by some members who do hold titles, such as Charles and Anne.

His surname has often incorrectly been listed as Matuschanskayasky ( see below for a detailed discussion ).

The rank has lived on as a surname in Russia and Finland, where it is spelt Pajari.

In some cases, following migration to English-speaking countries, it has been anglicised to the English surname ' Webber ' or even ' Weaver '.

For example in Greece, if a man called Papadopoulos has a daughter, she will likely be named Papadopoulou ( if the couple have decided their offspring will take the father's surname ), since that name has a female version.

In the United States, 1, 712 surnames cover 50 percent of the population, and about 1 percent of the population has the surname Smith, which is also the most common English name and an occupational name (" metal worker "), a contraction, for instance, of blacksmith or ironsmith, among others.

But Steinschneider will not admit the possibility of this conjecture, while Renan scarcely strengthens it by regarding " Andreas " as a possible northern corruption of " En Duran ," which, he says, may have been the Provençal surname of Anatoli, since Anatoli, in reality, was but the name of his great-grandfather.

His father had been born McCoy but took the surname of his neighbors, who adopted him after his own parents had died within a year of each other.

She was survived by her husband, and her one daughter from her first marriage to Ioannis Paxinos, whose surname she had been using after their divorce.

The latter's family had originally been Jewish, but Jaume's father, Guy Gassonet, had converted to Catholicism around 1455, taking the Christian name " Pierre " and the surname " Nostredame " ( the latter apparently from the saint's day on which his conversion was solemnized ).

Following Nation tradition, he replaced his surname, “ Little ,” with an “ X ,” a custom among Nation of Islam followers who considered their surnames to have been imposed by white slaveholders after their African names were taken from them.

On the other hand, what appears to be the first known example of " Robin Hood " as stock name for an outlaw dates to 1262 in Berkshire, where the surname " Robehod " was applied to a man apparently because he had been outlawed.

In a Q & A, he dismissed as a journalist's invention the rumour that it might have been taken from the Roman playwright Terence and his wife's surname ( his wife was Lori Zwicklbauer ; she later took her husband's surname ).

The American suffragist and abolitionist Lucy Stone ( 1818 – 1893 ), made a national issue of the right to keep one's own surname as part of her efforts for women's rights in the U. S. Women who choose not to use their husbands ' surnames have been called " Lucy Stoners " ever since.

A number of pieces are signed simply with the surname, some are attributed to Denis in one collection and to Ennemond in another, and still others are now known to have been be misattributed.

Her surname probably reflects her father's lordship of Beaufort in Champagne, France, where she might also have been born.

Sometimes, for single mothers or when the father would or could not recognize the child, the mother's surname has been used twice: for example, " Ana Reyes Reyes ".

However, that trend was reversed starting in the 1970s ; since that time, increasingly more women have been taking their husband's surname upon marriage, especially among well-educated women in high-earning occupations.

The surname " Coot " had been used on several ducks by various artists, usually for characters who were relatives of Donald Duck but were not part of the Duck family or The Clan McDuck.

Similarly, Aeneades ( Ancient Greek: ) was a patronymic from Aeneas, and applied as a surname to those who were believed to have been descended from him, such as Ascanius, Augustus, and the Romans in general.

However, this place name appears to have been due to a mistaken transcription of the village name Kalifornsky, which took its name from the surname of the village's founder, a Dena ' ina Indian named Qadanalchen ( meaning " acts quickly " in the Outer Inlet dialect of the Dena ' ina language ).

* Nestor ( surname ), anglicised form of Mac an Adhastair, and Irish family

The Gaelic-Irish surname Ó Nuadhain (( anglicised as Noon or Noone ) is believed to derive from the forename Nuadha.

Dimitri Miliotis was from the Greek island of Kythira and he anglicised his surname to Miller when he emigrated to Australia ; the Balson family were Greek refugees from Anatolia.

Síol is a Gaelic word meaning " progeny " or " seed " that is used in the context of a family or clan with members who bear the same surname and inhabited the same territory, as a manner of distinguishing one group from another ; a family called Mac an Bháird ( anglicised as " Ward ") might be divided into septs such as Síol Seán Mac Briain, Síol Conchobhair Óg, Síol Sean Cuinn, or Síol Cú Chonnacht.

The name " Goodner " is at one point revealed to be an anglicised form of " Geutner "-which is also the surname of the main female character in the original version of Adams's next novel The Girl in a Swing.

the anglicised surname MacConnochie ( and variants ).

His father's surname was originally Tisch, but was anglicised in use by the time of the 1940 Census.

Shortly after their arrival, the family anglicised their names ; the surname Roxon was Lillian's suggestion.

The name Battenberg, in its anglicised form, is now a part of the personal surname, Mountbatten-Windsor, of some members of the British Royal Family.

Not wanting to be typecast as Italian, DiGuglielmo anglicised his first name and took his mother's maiden name as a surname when performing.

* Ó Rothlain, Irish surname sometimes anglicised as Rowland

Chadwick is an English surname of Anglo-Saxon / Norse origin, the surname is a combination of the modernised Old English given name Ceadda, and the anglicised Old Norse word vík which was introduced into England by Scandinavian settlers.

The ruling dynasty later took the surname Ó Madadháin, anglicised as Maddan or Madden.

The name is also used as a surname, properly Ó Creachmhaoil, though often anglicised as Craughwell and Crockwell.

Mór (" big ") and Óg (" young ") are used to distinguish father and son, like English junior and senior, but are placed between the given name and the surname: Seán Óg Ó Súilleabháin corresponds to " John O ' Sullivan Jr ." ( although anglicised versions of the name often drop the " O '" from the name ).

Ó Catháin is a Gaelic-Irish surname, generally anglicised as Keane or Kane represented by unrelated families in Ulster, Connacht, and Munster.