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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Dick Van Dyke ("Van Dyke" is not a surname, by the way--it means "from Dyke." So you would call him either "Dick" or "Dick Van Dyke," but not "Van Dyke") .
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Oh, c'mon. Leonardo's surname is not da Vinci; Joan's surname isn't d'Arc, or of Arc. But no matter what its origins, Dick Van Dyke's surname, both legally and practically, is Van Dyke.
Carry that to its logical end and no one has a surname.