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cognomen

English

  1. 🔊 the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)
  2. 🔊 a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)
    “Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph”

Similar words

surname family name last name nickname moniker sobriquet soubriquet byname affectionate name agnomen appellation appellative binomen binomial name byname byword cryptonym denomination designation diminutive empty title epithet eponym euonym