Descendants then would often maintain this addition to the Christian name, giving origin to the present surnames. The Formation of Modern Surnames In this way, about the year 1000 starting from the city of Venice, a second name (surname) was added. The custom gradually spread from the ...
In order to do so, we wrote a few regular expressions to identify the surnames of the actors and a few simple rules like "the name of a person always precedes his/her surname" or "the role of an actor always follows his/her name". These and a few more rules, combined with the ...