Thesaurus results for LAST NAMES

last names

noun

plural of last name

as in surnames

a name shared by members of a family please write your first name, middle initial, and last name at the top of the form

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Recent Examples of last names But none ever found any trace of her children, whose last names were changed during their closed adoption, according to Shabel Castro, one of her lawyers at the Innocence Project. —

Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026 Low-income and minority voters are more likely to lack the documents required in the SAVE America Act, and people who have changed their last names — primarily married women —would also face additional barriers to registering. —

Justin Papp, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2026 The group runs a dedicated near- Earth asteroid search program called MAPS, an acronym based on their last names — Alain Maury, Georges Attard, Daniel Parrott, and Florian Signoret. —

Joe Rao, Space.com, 10 Mar. 2026 Despite their similar last names, the victim and suspect are not related, the source added. —

Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026 Boys & Girls Clubs of Northwest Indiana rules prohibit using members’ last names for privacy reasons, but granted permission for the use of Andrea’s last name as the winner. —

Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026 Reyna, who like other immigrants interviewed asked that their last names not be published, fearing retribution, cleaned stalls on a dairy farm and now works at a manufacturing plant. —

Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 26 Feb. 2026 Maddox's sisters Shiloh and Vivienne also recently dropped Pitt from their last names. —

Emma Banks, InStyle, 26 Feb. 2026 Meanwhile, over years of random, closeted and compulsive encounters, Shane and Ilya barely exchange pleasantries during their hot, impersonal hookups, even calling each other by their last names — half bros, half hos. —

David Colman, HollywoodReporter, 23 Feb. 2026

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Noun

In sports, some siblings are so accomplished that they can be recognized by only their surnames.

— Andrew Greif, NBC news, 8 Feb. 2026
The endless vowels of their surnames—Ruuttu, Saarinen, Ruotsalainen—sail through his mind like a song.

— Boris Fishman, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2026