ecónimo

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An estate name, also house name or farm name, is a specific type of toponym that designates an estate, house, or farm. Estate names differ from most toponyms in that they designate proper names, which may give little or no geographic information to people who are not already familiar with the settlement so named. When used in a person's name, for example, the name of a family farm may be taken, rather than the word for farm or a nearby river (as would be classically toponymic). Sometimes, the term ecodomonym (from Ancient Greek: δόμος, domos) is used to refer specifically to a building as an inhabited place. Comparatively, the term mansionym is used to designate a historical residence (e.g., the Daniel Boone Homestead). Lay terms referring to the proper name of a house or other building include house name, farm name, which refers to an agricultural property, or property name, which refers to a non-agricultural property. Individuals may traditionally be referred to by estate names rather than other surnames in Basque, Finnish, Norwegian, Slovene, and other languages. In these cultures, the name of the property is more or less fixed and may refer to the people living there at any particular time, regardless of their actual surname or whether they recently purchased or moved to the property. German farm names (German: Hofname) were often adopted as surnames. Surnames with such origins are most common in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.