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Last names (surnames) became more common after the Domesday Book (1087) which William instituted. However, monarchs were and are seldom known by a last name. Had William been given a patronymic name, he might have been known as William Robertson or William Robinson, for his father Robert I. Or the dynastic name William Norman could have been used.
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