"aftername" meaning in English

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "forename"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "after",
        "3": "name"
      },
      "expansion": "after- + name",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From after- + name.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "afternames",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "aftername (plural afternames)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with after-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1815, Walter Scott, Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer",
          "text": "'Oh, Lord kens that; we dinna mind folk's afternames muckle here, they run sae muckle into clans.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Hubert Butler, Ten Thousand Saints, page 30",
          "text": "Not only did the saints have all these afternames but the heroes and ancestors had twice as many of an identical pattern. And soon I observed that the first names were composed of the same elements as the afternames.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Raymond Pearl, Human Biology, page 73",
          "text": "In England, in the Middle Ages, an individual sometimes used alternative afternames, that of his place of residence, his trade, or that of his master instead of that of his father.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Nigel Cox, Cowboy Dog, page 94",
          "text": "'Now is Dog the first name you have or the aftername?'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Robert Ferguson, The Vikings",
          "text": "At this point in his narrative Snorri ties up his tale of Harald's aftername.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A designation which comes after a name, similar to, yet not necessarily equivalent to one's last name"
      ],
      "id": "en-aftername-en-noun-Z-TMbiog",
      "links": [
        [
          "designation",
          "designation"
        ],
        [
          "name",
          "name"
        ],
        [
          "last name",
          "last name"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "aftername"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "forename"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "after",
        "3": "name"
      },
      "expansion": "after- + name",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From after- + name.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "afternames",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "aftername (plural afternames)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with after-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1815, Walter Scott, Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer",
          "text": "'Oh, Lord kens that; we dinna mind folk's afternames muckle here, they run sae muckle into clans.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Hubert Butler, Ten Thousand Saints, page 30",
          "text": "Not only did the saints have all these afternames but the heroes and ancestors had twice as many of an identical pattern. And soon I observed that the first names were composed of the same elements as the afternames.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Raymond Pearl, Human Biology, page 73",
          "text": "In England, in the Middle Ages, an individual sometimes used alternative afternames, that of his place of residence, his trade, or that of his master instead of that of his father.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Nigel Cox, Cowboy Dog, page 94",
          "text": "'Now is Dog the first name you have or the aftername?'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Robert Ferguson, The Vikings",
          "text": "At this point in his narrative Snorri ties up his tale of Harald's aftername.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A designation which comes after a name, similar to, yet not necessarily equivalent to one's last name"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "designation",
          "designation"
        ],
        [
          "name",
          "name"
        ],
        [
          "last name",
          "last name"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "aftername"
}