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No, it does not say.
The Jews and Greeks did not have surnames. They were sometimes known as "X son of Y" but not always. People could be known as "X from Placename" or X the Adjective". For example, Jesus was variously known as "Jesus son of Joseph," "Jesus son of Mary," "Jesus the Carpenter" and "Jesus the Nazarene".
The Romans did have surnames, but not everyone used his father's. For example, Pliny the Younger had his mother's father's name.
So there was no secular law about which name a person had to have, and there is nothing in The Bible to say that Jesus or his disciples wanted to change the custom.
However, the modern concept of surnames developed out of this. The great majority of surnames today come from the concepts "son of", or "from" or "makes a living as".
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THE ANWSER NO WAY
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