Maana ya kamusi ya neno "jina la ukoo" ni jina la urithi linalojulikana kwa wanafamilia wote, ambalo kwa kawaida hupitishwa kutoka kwa babu wa kiume hadi kwa vizazi vyake. Pia inajulikana kama jina la familia, jina la mwisho, au jina la ukoo. Katika tamaduni nyingi, jina la ukoo hutanguliwa na jina fulani au jina la kwanza ili kutofautisha kati ya watu wenye jina sawa la ukoo.

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1. Richard had used his surname only in the note, and Harry quite reasonably believed he was being summoned by Robert for his sin of ambition.

2. Recollecting, however, that the valiant Amadis was not content to call himself curtly Amadis and nothing more, but added the name of his kingdom and country to make it famous, and called himself Amadis of Gaul, he, like a good knight, resolved to add on the name of his, and to style himself Don Quixote of La Mancha, whereby, he considered, he described accurately his origin and country, and did honour to it in taking his surname from it.

3. He informed them that his own name was Don Quixote of La Mancha, and that he was called, by way of surname, the Knight of the Lions.

4. The nature of your element is passed from father to child, just like a surname.

5. No students with a surname beginning with E, thank God.