Family name
Family name noun - A name shared by members of a family.
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Synonyms for Family name
Patronymic and family name are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Patronymic" instead a noun phrase "Family name".
Patronymic
Patronymic noun - A family name derived from name of your father or a paternal ancestor (especially with an affix (such as -son in English or O'- in Irish) added to the name of your father or a paternal ancestor).
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Synonyms for Patronymic
Family name and patronymic are semantically related. You can use "Family name" instead a noun "Patronymic".
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Related pairs
- handle and family name
- handle and patronymic
- name and family name
- name and patronymic
- denomination and family name
- denomination and patronymic
- appellation and family name
- appellation and patronymic
- nickname and family name
- nickname and patronymic
- cognomen and family name
- cognomen and patronymic
- given name and family name
- given name and patronymic
Both terms in one sentence
- Therefore, in the case of independence hero Aung San, that is his given name, and he has no family name or patronymic to go with it.
Source: Name Order Confusion - The more Western order of given name-patronymic-family name (Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov) is a less official, but more commonly used way of giving someone's full name.
- As a small sidenote, while for most daily uses the structure of names followed this model, official documents, as a rule, required the family name to be written first, followed by name and patronymic (maybe a comma after the family name).
Source: Useful Notes / Patronymic
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Patronymic and Family name. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 31, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/family_name/patronymic
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Patronymic or Family name. 2016. Accessed July 31, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/family_name/patronymic.
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