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English
Noun
sur-name (plural sur-names)
- Obsolete form of surname.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of Names”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book I, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC, page 150:We neede not goe farre for other examples, but looke into our Royall houſe, where ſo many partages, ſo many ſur-names, and ſo many ſeverall titles have ſo encombred-vs, that the originall of the ſtocke is vtterly loſt.
c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 28, column 1:To his ſur-name Coriolanus longs more pride / Then pitty to our Prayers.
1720, , “The divers Beginnings of Nobility Dative”, in An Historical and Critical Essay on the True Rise of Nobility, Political and Civil; from the First Ages of the World, thro’ the Jewish, Grecian, Roman Commonwealths, &c. Down to This Present Time. , 2nd edition, volume I, London: he Author, page 275:It is likewiſe clear, that thoſe who have Sur-names from Lands in Scotland, are deſcended from ſuch Families as were poſſeſs’d of theſe Lands, when Sur-names were aſſum’d, except ſuch as have of late chang’d the Names of their Lands to their Sur-names, which are generally known in the Neighbourhood.