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Surnames of Length 8

This is a list of names in which the length is 8.
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ABADJIEV     Bulgarian
Patronymic name derived from the Turkish word aba "coat"... [more]
ABBASCIA     Italian
Aphetic form of ABATESCIANNI.
ABDULLAH     Arabic
Derived from the given name ABD-ALLAH.
ABRAHAMS     Jewish, English, Dutch
Derived from the given name ABRAHAM.
ABRAMSEN     Norwegian
Norwegian form of ABRAMSON
ABRAMSON     English
Means "son of ABRAHAM".
ABUJAMAL     Arabic
Means "father of Jamal", from Arabic abu "father of" combined with the given name JAMAL... [more]
ACCONCIO     Italian
Variant of ACCONCI
ACCURSIO     Italian
Variant of ACCORSI
ACHILLES     English, Portuguese, German, Dutch
Derived from the given name ACHILLES.
ACHTEROP     Dutch
Variant of OGTEROP
ACKERMAN (1)     English
Means "ploughman" from the Middle English word acker "field"... [more]
ACKERMAN (2)     English
Variant of ACKER
ADALARDI     Italian
Variant of ADELARDI
ADAMCZAK     Polish
Derived from the given name ADAM.
ADAMCZYK     Polish
Derived from the given name ADAM.
ADAMSSON     Swedish
Swedish form of ADAMSON
ADELARDI     Italian
Means "son of Adalardo"... [more]
ADENAUER     German
Denoted a person from the city of Adenau in Germany.
ADMIRAAL     Dutch
Means "admiral" from the Dutch admiraal.
ADRIAANS     Dutch
Means "son of ADRIAAN".
ADRICHEM     Dutch
Denoted a person from Adrichem, the Netherlands, which means "Adrik's home".
AERSSENS     Dutch
Means "son of AREND".
AFOLAYAN     Western African, Yoruba
Means "walks with grace, confidence" or "walks like a rich man" in Yoruba.
AFRICANI     Italian
Means "son of Africano"... [more]
AFRICANO     Italian
Variant of AFRICANI
AGNUSDEI     Italian
Nickname for someone very devoted or someone wearing a Benedictian amulet called an agnusdei (which means "lamb of God" in Latin).
AGOSTINI     Italian
Derived from the given name AGOSTINO.
AGRAMUNT     Catalan
Denoted a person from Agramunt, Spain.
AGTHOVEN     Dutch
Denoted a person from Agthoven, the Netherlands, which means "eight gardens" from the Dutch agt "eight" and hoven "garden".
AHLSTRÖM     Swedish
Means "alder stream", from Swedish al "alder" and ström "stream".
AKKERMAN     Dutch
Dutch form of ACKER
AKSELSEN     Danish
Means "son of AKSEL".
ALAMANNI     Italian
Means "from Germany".
ALAMILLA     Spanish
Perhaps means "little ALMA".
ALBANESI     Italian
Meaning "Albanian, from Albania".
ALBERGHI     Italian
Variant of ALBERICI
ALBERICI     Italian
Means "son of ALBERICO".
ALBERINK     Dutch
Means "dweller at or near ALBERT's farm".
ALBINSON     English, Swedish
Means "son of ALBIN".
ALBRECHT     German
From the German given name ALBRECHT.
ALBRICCI     Italian
Variant of ALBERICI
ALBRONDA     Dutch
Means "son of Albrand"... [more]
ALDERISI     Italian
Means "son of Alderisio" from the Latin name Alderisius.
ALEKSEEV     Bulgarian
Means "son of ALEKSEY".
ALEMAGNA     Italian
Denoted someone from Germany (in Italian Alemagna).
ALESHIRE     German
Anglicized form of ALESHITE.
ALESHITE     German
Denoted a person from Ehlscheid, Germany.
ALFERINK     Dutch
Variant of ALFERDINCK
ALIBERTI     Italian
Means "son of ALBERTO".
ALINEJAD     Iranian
Means "descendent of ALI" in Persian.
ALMSTEDT     Swedish
Means "elm house" in Swedish.
ALTAMURA     Italian
From the place name Altamura in Italy.
ALTIMARI     Italian
Derived from the given name Altimaro, a cognate of ELMER.
ALTOVITI     Italian
Means "son of Altovito" from the Lombardian name Altowido.
ALVARADO     Spanish
Means "dweller by the white hill, or dry land", this is found in many a place name in Spain such as Albarado, Castile.
AMERIGHI     Italian
Means "son of AMERIGO".
AMIRMOEZ     Iranian, Arabic
Means "protected prince, commander", derived from the elements amir "prince, commander" and moez, muaz "protected".
AMORETTO     Italian
Means "son of Amoretto"... [more]
AMUNDSEN     Norwegian, Danish
Means "son of AMUND".
ANDERSEN     Danish, Norwegian
Means "son of ANDERS".
ANDERSON     English
Means "son of ANDREW".
ANDRINGA     Dutch
Means "from ANDRIES's farm".
ANGENENT     Dutch
Means "at the end (of the road, village)" from the Dutch phrase an gen ent.
ANNEIJES     Dutch
Possibly "son of Ananias" or "son of ANNE (1)".
ANTONINI     Italian
Means "son of ANTONINO".
ANTONINO     Italian
Derived from a diminutive of ANTONINO.
ANTONIOU     Greek
Means "son of Antonios", Antonios being a Greek variant of ANTHONY.
ANTONISE     Dutch
Variant of ANTONIS
ANTONSEN     Danish
Means "son of ANTON".
APPELHOF     Dutch
Means "dweller by or at the apple garden", from appel and hof.
APPLETON     English
Means "apple town".
ARBEIDER     Dutch
Variant of ARBEID
ARDELEAN     Romanian
From the region in Romania called Ardeal.
ARDOVINI     Italian
Means "son of Ardovino", which was from the Germanic name HARDWIN.
ARELEOUS     Greek
Possibly a cognate of AURELIUS.
ARENDONK     Dutch
Denoted a person from Arendonk, a town between Antwerp and Turnhout in Belgium... [more]
ARENDSEN     Dutch
Variant of ARENDS
ASHWORTH     English
From a place name in Lancashire meaning "ash enclosure" in Old English.
ASSELMAN     Dutch
Denoted a person from Assel(t) or Hassel(t).
ASTURIAS     Spanish
From the name of an old kingdom in Spain.
ATANASOV     Bulgarian
Means "son of ATANAS".
ATCHISON     Scottish
Variant of ATKINSON
ATKINSON     English
Means "son of Atkin", Atkin being a medieval diminutive of ADAM.
ATTWATER     English
Means "dweller at the water" from the Middle English at, atte "at" and wæter "water".
AUGUSTIN     French, German
From the given name AUGUSTIN.
AVERESCH     Dutch
From the place name Averesch, possibly composed of haver and esch, meaning "oat farm land"... [more]
AVESKAMP     Dutch
Composed of avest and kamp which possibly mean "forest edge farm".
AVNINDER     Indian
Derived from the given name Avninder.
AXELSSON     Swedish
Means "son of AXEL".
BAANDERS     Dutch
Dutch cognate of BANNER
BABCOCKE     English
Variant of BABCOCK
BACHCHAN     Indian
Means "child".
BADCOCKE     English
Variant of BABCOCK
BANCROFT     English
Habitational name derived from any of various places called Bancroft, derived from Old English bean, meaning "beans" and croft, meaning "paddock, smallholding".
BANDERAS     Spanish
Spanish cognate of BANNER
BANISTER     English
Meant "basket maker" in Norman French.
BARACNIK     Czech
Denoted a farmer in Bohemia with less land than a Sedlak, Zahradnik or Chalupnik, but more land than a tenant farmer.
BARBIERI     Italian
Italian cognate of BARBER
BARDAKÇI     Turkish
Means "glassmaker" from bardak, the Turkish word for "glass".
BARDSLEY     English
From the name a village lying between Ashton-under-Lyne and Oldham, in the County of Lancashire, England... [more]
BARSETTI     Italian
Means "son of Barsetto" from the Latin name Barsectus.
BARWEGEN     Frisian
Derived from the name of a village in Friesland.
BARZETTI     Italian
Variant of BARSETTI
BAUMBACH     German
Derived from the place name Baumbach.
BAUTISTA     Spanish
Derived from the Latin name Baptista, which referred to John the Baptist.
BEAULIEU     French
From a French place name which meant "beautiful place".
BEAUMONT     French
From a French place name which meant "beautiful hill".
BEHRENDS     German
Variant of BEHREND
BÉLANGER     French
Variant of BÉRINGER.
BELLANDI     Italian
Means "son of Bellando" from the given name Bellandus.
BELLUOMI     Italian
Variant of BELLOMI
BELMONTE     Spanish, Italian
Means "beautiful mountain". This is a place in Calabria, southern Italy.
BENDTSEN     Danish
Means "son of BENDT".
BENENATI     Italian
Means "son of Benenato", given name derived from bene and natus meaning "born good".
BENETTON     Italian
Italian regional variant of BENEDETTI
BERGFALK     Swedish, German
Derived from berg meaning "mountain" and falk meaning "falcon"... [more]
BÉRINGER     French
Variant of BERINGER
BERINGER     Dutch, German
From the old Germanic given name Beringer.
BERMÚDEZ     Spanish
Means "son of Bermudo"... [more]
BERTRAND     French
Derived from the given name BERTRAND.
BEULLENS     Dutch
Variant of BUL
BEVERLEY     English
Variant of BEVERLY
BIERMANN     German
Derived from German bier "beer" and mann "man"... [more]
BISSETTE     French
From the French word bisse meaning "fine linen"... [more]
BJÖRKMAN     Swedish
Means "birch (tree) man".
BLACKMAN     English
From a nickname (see BLACK).
BLANCHET     French
From a diminutive of the name BLANC.
BLANXART     Catalan
Catalan form of BLANCO.
BLOMGREN     Swedish
From blomma meaning "flower" and gren meaning "branch", thus "flowering branch".
BODILSEN     Danish
Means "son of BODIL".
BOGDANIĆ     Croatian
Means "son of BOGDAN".
BOGDANOV     Bulgarian
Means "son of BOGDAN".
BONDESAN     Italian
Venetian regional surname derived from the name of the town of Bondeno, near the well known city of Ferrara, belonging to the district of Rovigo.
BONHOMME     French
Means "good man" in French.
BONNAIRE     French
Variant of BONNER
BOOTHMAN     English
Name for a man who was associated with a both, Middle English meaning "hut".
BORCHARD     German
Derived from the given name BURKHARD.
BORDELON     French
Diminutive form of BORDE.
BORGNINO     Italian
From nickname derived from the Piedmontese dialect word borgno meaning "blind in one eye" or "squinting"... [more]
BORGOGNI     Italian
From the name of the French region Bourgogne near Paris... [more]
BÖTTCHER     German
Occupational name meaning "cooper (barrel maker)" in German.
BOUCHARD     French
From a nickname for someone with a big mouth... [more]
BRADDOCK     English
Old English meaning "broad oak"... [more]
BRADFORD     English
Derived from a place name which meant "broad ford" in Old English.
BRAMBANI     Italian
Locative origins: from the name of an alpine valley Val Brembama... [more]
BREWSTER     English
Variant of BREWER, originally a feminine form of the occupational term.
BRIEFMAN     Jewish
Most likely means "brief man". Its origin can be traced back to Israel.
BRIOSCHI     Italian
Locative surname derived from the town of Briosco, near Milan... [more]
BRISBOIS     French
Refers to a person who cleared land, from old French briser "to cut" and bois "forest".
BRODBECK     German
Means "a bread baker" from Middle High German brot "bread", becke "baker".
BROWNLOW     English
Of Anglo-Saxon origin and is of two parts, brown (descriptive) and lowe (topographical)... [more]
BRUNETTI     Italian
Diminutive of BRUNO.
BUCHANAN     Scottish
From a Scottish place name meaning "house of the canon".
BUCHHOLZ     German
Means "beech wood" from German Buch "beech" and Holz "wood".
BUKOWSKI     Polish
Name for someone who lived in a place called Bukowo, Bukowec or others that began with buk "beech".
BUSTILLO     Spanish
Derived from a diminutive of the Galician word busto "meadow" (also see BUSTO).
CALLAHAN     Irish
Variant of CALLAGHAN
CAMPBELL     Scottish
From a Gaelic nickname cam béul meaning "wry or crooked mouth"... [more]
CANTRELL     English
Habitational name for someone from Cantrell in Devon, from an unknown first element and the Old English hyll, meaning "hill".
CAPITANI     Italian
Occupational surname meaning "captain" in Italian.
CARLISLE     English
From the name of a city in northern England... [more]
CARRACCI     Italian
Originally denoted a person from the city of Carrarra.
CASTILLO     Spanish
Originally indicated a person from Castile (Castilla in Spanish), a region (and ancient kingdom) in Spain... [more]
CATALANO     Italian
From the name of the Spanish region Catalonia.
CATTANEO     Italian
Regional (Lombardy) variant of CAPITANI
CAVANAGH     Irish
Variant of KAVANAGH
CERVENKA     Czech
Means "red" in Czech.
CHADWICK     English
Derived from a place name meaning "dairy farm belonging to CHAD" in Old English.
CHANDLER     English
Occupational surname meaning "candle seller" or "candle maker" in Middle English, ultimately derived from Old French.
CHARMCHI     Iranian
Means "leather worker" in Persian, from charm "leather" combined with chi, denoting an occupation.
CHASTAIN     French
From Old French castan "chestnut tree" (Latin castanea), hence a topographic name for someone living near a particular chestnut tree or group of them, or possibly a nickname for someone with chestnut-coloured hair... [more]
CHAUDHRI     Indian
Variant of CHOWDHURY
CHESHIRE     English
Originally indicated a person from Cheshire, England.
CHILIKOV     Bulgarian
Patronymic name used in Bulgaria, but derived from the Turkish word chilik "steel".
CIPRIANI     Italian
From the given name CIPRIANO.
CLAESSON     Swedish
Means "son of CLAES".
CLARKSON     English
Patronymic form of CLARK
CLIFFORD     English
Derived from a place name which meant "ford by a cliff" in Old English.
CLOUTIER     French
Derived from French clou "nail"... [more]
COCKBURN     Scottish, English
Name for someone who came from Cockburn, a place in Berwickshire... [more]
COJOCARU     Romanian
Means "winter coat" in Romanian.
COMSTOCK     English
From the River Culm in Devon, England... [more]
CONNELLY     Irish
Variant of CONNOLLY
CONNOLLY     Irish
From the Irish Ó Conghaile, which means "descendent of the valourous".
CORCORAN     Irish
From Ó Corcrain meaning "descendent of Corcran", a given name derived from the Gaelic word corcair "purple".
COSTANZO     Italian
From the given name COSTANZO.
COUGHLAN     Irish
Variant of COGHLAN
COUGHLIN     Irish
Variant of COGHLAN
CRAWFORD     English
From a place name derived from Old English crawa "crow" and ford "river crossing".
CRNCEVIC     Serbian
Derived from the Serbian crn "black"... [more]
CROCETTI     Italian
Locative surname coming from names of places like Crocette, in which the main word is croce "cross"... [more]
CTVRTNIK     Czech
Variant of CTVRTLANIK
CUIJPERS     Dutch
Variant of CUYPERS
DAALMANS     Dutch
Originally indicated a person from Daal or Dalen, which is a small town in the province of Drente in the Netherlands... [more]
DAELMANS     Dutch
Variant of DAALMANS
DAHLMANS     Dutch
Variant of DAALMANS
DALGAARD     Scandinavian
From the Old Norse words dal meaning "valley" and gaard meaning "yard or farmstead".
DAMYANOV     Bulgarian
Means "son of DAMYAN".
DANAILOV     Bulgarian
Means "son of DANAIL".
DANIELOV     Bulgarian
Means "son of DANIEL".
DANNIELL     English
Variant of DANIEL
D'ANTONIO     Italian
Means "son of ANTONIO".
D'ARAMITZ     French
Originally denoted one who came from Aramits, a town in the French Pyrenees Mountains named for the abbey it grew around.
DASKALOV     Bulgarian
Patronymic name from daskal "teacher".
DAVIDSEN     Danish
Means "son of DAVID".
DAVIDSON     English
Means "son of DAVID".
DAVIDYAN     Armenian
Means "son of DAVID".
DE FELICE     Italian
Means "son of FELICE".
DEFOREST     French
Means "from the forest" in French.
DE JONKER     Dutch
Literally means "the young lord"; also see JONKER.
DE LA CRUZ     Spanish
Means "of the cross", see CROSS.
DERRICKS     English
Derived from the given name DERRICK.
DE SANTIS     Italian
From the old Latin given name Sanctus (see the Italian given name SANTO)... [more]
DEVEREUX     English
Indicated a person originally from Evreux in France.
DE VROOME     Dutch
Variant of VROOM
DI CAPRIO     Italian
From the name of the island of Capri near Naples.
DIERICKX     Dutch
Variant of DIRCKS
DIETRICH     German
Derived from the given name DIETRICH.
DIJKSTRA     Frisian
Means from the dyke or near the dyke, from Frisian dijk.
DIMITROV     Bulgarian
Means "son of DIMITAR".
DINAPOLI     Italian
Means "from Naples" in Italian.
DI PASQUA     Italian
Means "of Easter" in Italian.
DI PIETRO     Italian
Means "son of PIETRO" in Italian.
DONAGHUE     Irish, Scottish
Variant of DONOGHUE
DONNELLY     Irish
From the Irish Ó Donnghaile, meaning "the descendent of Donnghaile"... [more]
D'ONOFRIO     Italian
Means "son of Onofrio".
DONOGHUE     Irish
From the Gaelic Ó Donnchadha meaning "the descendent of DONNCHADH".
DOUGLASS     Scottish
Variant of DOUGLAS
DRAGANOV     Bulgarian
Means "son of DRAGAN".
DRAGOVIC     Serbian, Croatian
Means "son of DRAGO".
DREESENS     Dutch
Variant of DRIESSEN
DREESSEN     Dutch
Variant of DRIESSEN
DRESDNER     German
Means "a person from Dresden" in German.
DRESSLER     German
Means "a turner" from Middle High German dreseler... [more]
DRIESSEN     Dutch
Means "son of Dries", Dries being a Dutch form of ANDREAS.
DRISCOLL     Irish
From Gaelic Ó Eidirsceóil meaning "descendent of the messenger".
DRUMMOND     Scottish
From a place name meaning "ridge" in Gaelic.
DUCHAMPS     French
From the fields, or countryside, from the French champs.
DUNAJSKI     Polish
Derived from Dunaj, the Polish name for the river Danube.
DZIEDZIC     Polish
Derived from Polish dziedzic "landowner".
ECKSTEIN     German
From German eck meaning "corner" and stein meaning "stone".
ELDRIDGE     English
Derived from the Middle English given name Eldric.
EL-HASHEM     Arabic
Means "the crusher" from the Arabic hashim.
ELIZONDO     Spanish
Means "a person who lives close to a church" from Basque eleiza "church" and ondo "near".
ELLISSON     English
Variant of ELLISON
ELLISTON     English
Variant of ELLISON
ENDICOTT     English
Means "from the end cottage".
ENGSTRÖM     Swedish
Derived from Swedish äng "meadow", ström "stream".
EPISCOPO     Italian
Means "bishop" in Italian.
ERICKSON     Norwegian
Norwegian form of ERICSON.
ERIKSSON     Swedish
Means "son of ERIK".
ERMACORA     Italian
From the old given name Ermacora... [more]
ESPENSON     English
Means "son of Espen"... [more]
ESPINOSA     Spanish, Jewish
From the Spanish espinoso, meaning "thorny", ultimately from Latin spîna and spînosus, respectively meaning "spine" and "full of spines, spiny"... [more]
ESPINOZA     Spanish
Variant of ESPINOSA used mainly in South America.
ESPOSITO     Italian
Means "exposed" in Italian and denoted a child who was rescued after being abandoned by its parents.
EVERHART     German
Variant of EBERHARDT
FAIRBURN     English
From a place name which meant "fern stream", from Old English fearn "fern" and burna "stream".
FAUCHEUX     French
Derived from French faucher "to mow".
FAULKNER     English, Scottish
Old English for "falconer".
FERGUSON     Irish, Scottish
Means "son of FERGUS".
FERREIRA (1)     Portuguese
Portuguese cognate of FERRARI.
FERREIRA (2)     Portuguese
Denoted one from a town named because it was near an iron mine, from ferrum the Latin word for "iron".
FINNEGAN     Irish
Anglicized form of Ó Fionnagáin meaning "descendent of Fionnagán"... [more]
FISCELLA (1)     Italian
Derived from the given name Fisco, Fisco being an archaic diminutive of FRANCESCO.
FISCELLA (2)     Italian
Derived from Sicilian fiscella, the word for a basket used to conserve cheese... [more]
FLANAGAN     Irish
From Ó Flannagáin meaning "descendent of Flannagán"... [more]
FLANAGON     Irish
Variant of FLANAGAN
FLETCHER     English
Means "fletcher", someone who attaches feather flights to the shaft of an arrow... [more]
FONTAINE     French
Derived from old French fontane "well"... [more]
FORESTER     English
Denoted a keeper or one in charge of a forest, or one who has charge of growing timber in a forest (see FOREST).
FÖRSTNER     German
Denoted a keeper or one in charge of a forest (see FORST).
FOURNIER     French
Means "baker" from French fourneau "oven".
FRANKLIN     English
Derived from Middle English frankelin meaning "freeman"... [more]
FRANKLYN     English
Variant of FRANKLIN
FRANZESE     Italian
From a nickname meaning "Frenchman". It is typical of the area of Naples.
FUHRMANN     German
Derived from Middle High German vuorman "cartwright".
FUJIMOTO     Japanese
Means "base of Mount Fuji" from fuji for the famous mountain called Mount Fuji and moto meaning "base".
FYODOROV     Russian
Means "son of FYODOR".
GABRIELS     English
Derived from the given name GABRIEL.
GAERTNER     German
German variant of GARDNER
GARDENAR     English
Variant of GARDENER (1).
GARDENER (1)     English
Occupational surname for one who was a gardener.
GARDENER (2)     English
Possibly derived from the Saxon words gar meaning "a weapon", and dyn meaning "sound, alarm", combined with the termination er.
GARDINER     English
Variant of GARDENER (1).
GÁRDONYI     Hungarian
Originally denoted a person from Gárdony, a town near Budapest in Hungary.
GARDYNER     English
Variant of GARDENER (1).
GARFIELD     English
Means "triangle field" in Old English... [more]
GAROFALO     Italian
From an old given name or nickname, documented in Genoa in 1157 as Garofalus from a regional variant garofalo (see the Italian word garofano "carnation")... [more]
GEISSLER     German
Variant of GEISZLER
GEISZLER     German
From the German geiss meaning "goat" and the suffix ler signifying an occupation, thus "goat-herder".
GENADIEV     Bulgarian
Means "son of Genadiy", Genadiy being the Bulgarian form of GENNADIY.
GENOVESE     Italian
From the name of one of the most important Italian cities Genova (Genoa).
GEORGIEV     Bulgarian
Means "son of GEORGI".
GERHARDT     German
Variant of GERHARD
GIANNINO     Italian
Derived from the given name GIANNI.
GIORDANO     Italian
Derived from the given name GIORDANO.
GISMONDI     Italian
From the given name Gismondo, of Germanic origin.


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