surname phrase

a name or phrase inherited by a person at birth and/or marriage; the s. n. p. is introduced in PS-RULE 2 and described in more detail by PS-RULE 4; the s. n. p. may be 1) a single surname piece, 2) two surname pieces connected with either a hyphen, e.g., “Joyner-Kersee,” a participle, e.g., “Broussard dit Beausoleil,” or a separator, e.g., “Broussard/Beausoleil,” or 3) a series of multiple surname pieces, usually of different kinds; sometimes the s. n. p. is referred to as the “family name” or “last name”; in Latin it is the “cognomen”, in French the “surnom”