Medicare cards may be used to show a relationship when parents have different surnames to their children.

In a family of four, with a boy and a girl, there will be four different surnames.

School officials were asked to provide the town with addresses of students who lived in the same house but had different surnames.

Furthermore, many people within the same family had different surnames.

Ben starts to feel out of place in his family as he is was the only one with a different surname.

There are people with different surnames who call themselves as Kulyadikar.

The district also runs a computer search for children with different surnames at the same address.

A Clan become partly a name for the family members with different surnames.

Thus people may have up to four names, with a different surname for each generation.

But I recently read an article that mentioned her mother, who has a totally different surname.