Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Surname

(2 syl.). The over-name; either the name written over the Christian name, or given over and above it; an additional name. For a long time persons had no family name, but only one, and that a personal name. Surnames are not traced farther back than the latter part of the tenth century.

Surnames of places.
In ford, in ham, and ley, and ton. The most of English surnames run.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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