Surname

thumb|300px|First/given/forename, middle, and last/family/surname with John F. Kennedy|John Fitzgerald Kennedy as example. This shows a structure typical for Anglophonic cultures (and some others). Other cultures use other structures for full names.

A patronymic, or patronym, is a personal name, or component of a personal name, based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (more specifically an avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor. It is the male equivalent of a matronymic.

surnames used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups

Turkish law and reform

probability model, originally to model the extinction of family names

classes of surname

family name that is a combination of two other family names

surname that relates to a location

marriage of people with the same surname, esp. in Asia

family name derived originally from a male ancestor's given name