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Amatsubo Japanese (Rare)Means "rainy atrium, rainy courtyards". From Japanese 雨 meaning "rain", and "坪" meaning "(inner)garden, atrium, courtyard". A famous bearer is
Mitsumasa Amatsubo.
Amaya BasqueSpanish: habitational name, from the name of a mountain and an ancient city in the province of Burgos, probably derived from Basque amai ‘end’ + the article suffix -a.
Amayo NahuatlPossibly from Nahuatl
amaitl "inlet, estuary; an arm or branch of a body of water", or from
atl "water" and
-mayo "branches of a tree, foliage".
Ambedkar Indian, Hindi, MarathiDerived from the name of the village of
Ambadawe (also called
Ambavade) in Maharashtra, India. A notable bearer was B. R. Ambedkar (1891-1956), one of the authors of the Indian constitution.
Amber EnglishThis surname may be derived from the River Amber, located in Derbyshire in England.... [
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Amberg German, JewishGerman and possibly Jewish (Ashkenazic) habitational name from any of several settlements called Amberg (literally ‘by the mountain’), including a city in Bavaria. It could also be a topographic name of identical etymology... [
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Ambrìz Spanish" Probably a variant of Asturian-Leonese Ambres, a habitational name from a village in Asturies. Also a habitational name of Ámbriz a city in Angola, Africa, mainly of Portuguese descendants. "
Ambrose EnglishFrom the Late Latin name Ambrosius, which was derived from the Greek name
Αμβροσιος (Ambrosios) meaning "immortal".
Ambrosov m RussianIt comes from the Greek name Ambrose, meaning "god-like" or "immortal". The feminine form is Ambrosova.
Ambrosova f RussianIt comes from the Greek name
Ambrose, meaning "god-like" or "immortal". The masculine form is
Ambrosov Ambur EstonianAmbur is an Estonian surname meaning "arbalist (crossbowman)"
Ameche Italian (Anglicized)Americanised form of
Amici. A famous bearer was American actor, comedian and vaudevillian Don Ameche (1908-1993). After portraying the title character in the movie
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939), his surname led Americans to use the word
ameche as a juvenile slang for a telephone.
Ameglio ItalianThere are two hypotheses: the first is it derived from the Latin name Amelius which came from Amius, name of Etruscan origin; the other is it derived from Amali, name of a mighty Ostrogothic family, which means "virgin of the forest".
Amelina Russian, UkrainianFeminine form of
Amelin. This was borne by Ukrainian novelist Victoria Amelina (1986-2023), who died at age 37 from injuries sustained during the Russian attack on Kramatorsk.
Amendola ItalianSouthern Italian: habitational name from any of several places in southern Italy named Amendola or Mendola, named with the dialect word amendola 'almond', 'almond tree' (from Greek amygdalea), or a topographic name for someone who lived by an almond tree or trees.
Amenomiya Japanese (Rare)From Japanese 雨宮 (
Amenomiya) meaning "Amenomiya", a former area in the district of Hanishina in the former Japanese province of Shinano in parts of present-day Nagano in Japan or an area in the same location in the city of Chikuma in the prefecture of Nagano in Japan.... [
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Ames EnglishDerived from the Old French and Middle English personal name
Amys,
Amice, which is either directly from Latin
amicus ‘friend’, used as a personal name, or via a Late Latin derivative of this,
Amicius.
Ametxazurra BasqueThis indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Gordexola.
Ametzaga BasqueThis indicates familial origin within any of 3 eponymous neighborhoods: the one in the municipality of Asparrena, the one in the municipality of Meñaka, or the one in the municipality of Zuia.
Amézquita Spanish (Mexican)The surname Amézquita is of Basque origin and it is derived from the Basque words "amezti" which means "meadow" and "keta" which means "house". Therefore, the name roughly translates to "house in the meadow".
Amherst EnglishIt comes from when the family lived in the locality of
Amherst, in the parish of Pembury in Kent.
Amigasaya Japanese (Rare)From Japanese 編笠屋 (
Amigasaya) meaning "Amigasa Store", from 編笠 (
amigasa) meaning "braided hats", referring to a store that sells braided hats.
Amino JapaneseA could mean "second, asia, nook", mi could mean "view" and no means "field".
Aminov Uzbek (Russified)Derived from the mid-Eastern name "Amin" (son of Amin). It is typically used by Bukharan people (also called "Bukharians"), an ethno-religious Jewish sub-group of Central Asia that historically spoke Bukharian, a Judeo-Tajik dialect of the Tajik language, in turn a variety of the Persian language; Bukharan Jews emerged from the Central Asian Emirate of Bukhara (now primarily Uzbekistan), which at the time, was a part of the Soviet Union and its mostly-Russian leaders.
Ammann Upper German, German (Swiss)Alemannic form of
Amtmann "official". Ultimately derived from Middle High German
ambet man "retinue man; retainer", this word came to denote various kinds of administrator including a tax farmer.
Ammas EstonianAmmas is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "hammas" meaning "tooth", "cog" and "spike".
Ammazzalorso ItalianFrom the profession of bear hunter, meaning literally "slaughter the bear".
Ammer German, English (Rare)This surname may be derived from Middle High German
amer which means "bunting (as in the bird)." As such, it is used as a nickname for someone with a fine voice or someone who is a flamboyant dresser.... [
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Amole NahuatlFrom the name of a kind of plant used in the production of soap, ultimately from Nahuatl
ahmolli "soap, soap root".
Amores SpanishFrom a nickname for a philanderer meaning "loves" in Spanish, the plural of
amor meaning "love".
Amorín GalicianHabitational name from any of various places in Galicia called Amorín, itself possibly derived from a given name.
Amparo Spanish (Philippines)Means "protection, shelter, refuge" in Spanish. It is taken from the title of the Virgin Mary,
Nuestra Señora del Amparo, meaning "Our Lady of Refuge".
Ampo JapaneseFrom Japanese 安 (an) meaning "calm, peaceful" and 保 (ho) meaning "protect, maintain".
Ampuan Filipino, MaranaoFrom a royal title meaning "one who asks for apology" or "revered, great" in Maranao.
Amsdon English (Modern)Unknown. Possibly a spelling variant of Amsden. Ancestry.com suggests probably a habitational name, from a reduced form of the Oxfordshire place name Ambrosden, which is composed of an Old English personal name Ambre + Old English dun ‘hill’... [
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Amsler German (Swiss)Derived from German
Amsel "(European) blackbird", this was an occupational name for a fowler (bird catcher).
Amstad Germantopographic name from Middle Low German
am "at the" and
stade "bank shore".
Amunategi BasqueIt literally means a "place of apple trees", denoting someone who lived and/or worked there.
Amuro JapaneseWritten with the kanji meaning "relax, cheap, inexpensive, low, rested, peaceful" and "room".
Amusan Japanese (Rare)The Amusan Clan (秋道一族, Amusan Ichizoku) is a prominent clan in Kanazawa. Since its disbandment, most of its known members reside in Neuilly-sur-Seine ,Britain and Washington D.C.
Amuskibar BasqueThis indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Bergara.
Amys EnglishFrom the given name
Amis. Compare with
Ames. An early example using this spelling is Robert Amys of Cambridgeshire, England in 1273.
Anacker GermanNickname for a day laborer, as opposed to someone who owned fields, from Middle High German āne meaning "without" + acker meaning "field".
Anai JapaneseFrom Japanese 穴
(ana) meaning "hole, pit" and 井
(i) meaning "well".
Anan VariousAnan (Hebrew: עָנַן ‘ānan) is used as both a Hebrew or Arabic name meaning "cloud, vapour" or descriptive "visible water vapour floating above the earth". The Arabic form is from Classical Arabic, possibly adopted from the Hebrew, but with the spelling (Arabic: عَنَان ‘anān) since the proper term of "cloud" in Arabic is saḥāb (سَحَاب).
Anandteerth KannadaMadhvacharya (1199-1278 or 1238–1317), sometimes anglicised as Madhva Acharya, and also known as Purna Prajna and Ānanda Tīrtha, was a Hindu philosopher and the chief proponent of the Dvaita (dualism) school of Vedanta.
Anarbaev KyrgyzDerived from Persian انار
(anâr) meaning "pomegranate" combined with Turkic
bay meaning "rich, wealthy".
Anardu ItalianFrom a dialectical variant of Italian
anatra "duck (bird)".
Anastassakis GreekCrete born John Anthony Aniston, (birth name Yiannis Anitios Anastassakis) is an American actor and the father of actress Jennifer Aniston.
Anaya BasqueOriginated in Spain. It derives from medieval basque name Anaia meaning "friar or brother". As a surname it means "Son of Anaia".
Anay-ool TuvanDerived from Tuvan анай
(anay) meaning "goat, kid" combined with оол
(ool) meaning "son, boy".
Anazawa JapaneseFrom Japanese 穴
(ana) meaning "hole, opening, pit" and 沢 or 澤
(sawa) meaning "marsh".
Anbar ArabicMeans "amber" in Arabic (see English name
Amber). Notable actress Nihal Anbar was born in 1960.
Andaluz SpanishMeans "from Andalusia" or "from Spain", derived from the region of Spain called
Andalucía, once called
Al-Ándalus (a classical Arab name for the Iberian Peninsula)... [
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Anderson Scottish, IrishAnglicized form of the Gaelic
Mac Ghille Andrais meaning 'Son of the devotee of St. Andrew'. ... [
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Andia BasqueDerived from Basque
(h)andi "great" and the definite article
-a.
Andikoetxea BasqueThis indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Kortezubi.
Andino GreekThis surname was originally derived from the Greek Andreas, a name meaning manly. It was the name of the first of Jesus Christ's disciples, which is known in various local forms throughout Christendom... [
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Andishmand Old PersianANDISHMAND (pronounced: AEN-DEESH-MAND, in the West D is silent), Origin Middle-Persian, means one who thinks (i.e. an intellectual). Given to people of Persian and non-Persian descent of diverse Persian or Central Asian ethnic and religious backgrounds (including Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians) based on a person's profession that requires thinking (technocrat, writer, poet, intellectual).
Ando JapaneseFrom the Japanese 安 (
an or
yasu) "relax," "inexpensive," "low," and 藤 (
to or
fuji) "wisteria." The second character may indicate historical or familial links to the formerly powerful
Fujiwara (藤原) clan.
Andorn PiedmonteseThis indicates familial origin within the eponymous commune in the Province of Biela.
Andrade Portuguese, Galician, Jewish (?)Denoted a person hailing from one of the many areas that bear this name in Portugal and Galicia, Spain, derived from Latin
andreas meaning "manly, masculine".
Andrássy Hungarianman, warrior... a surname that derives from the personal name "Andreas", meaning manly, and was held by the first of Christ's disciples.