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BÖHME     German
Variant of BÖHM
BÖHMER     German, Jewish
Variant of BÖHM
BOHN     German
Occupational name for a grower of beans derived from Middle High German, Middle Low German bone "bean".
BOIVIN     English
Nickname for a wine drinker, from Old French boi, a form of the verb boivre "to drink", and vin "wine".
BOKOR     Hungarian
Topographic name derived from bokor meaning "bush"... [more]
BOKORI     Hungarian
Variant of BOKOR
BOLÍVAR     Spanish
From a Basque place name: boli "mill" and ibar "meadow".
BOLOGNA     Italian
From the name of the city of Bologna, one of the most important Italian cities... [more]
BOLTON     English
From any of the places in England called Bolton, meaning "house settlement".
BONAVENTURA     Catalan
Means "good fortune"... [more]
BOND     English
Occupational name for a peasant farmer, from Middle English bonde.
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.
BONE (1)     English
Means "good" from the Old French bon.
BONE (2)     English
Means "thin, bony" from the Old English ban.
BONFILS     French
Means "good son" in French.
BONHAM     English
Derived from Old French bon homme "good man".
BONHER     English
Variant of BONHEUR
BONHEUR     French
From the French word bonheur, which means "good luck".
BONHOMME     French
Means "good man" in French.
BONNAIRE     French
Variant of BONNER
BONNAY     French
Variant of BONNER
BONNER     English, French
Of Norman French origin with the original Bonners arriving in Britain during the Norman Conquest in the 11th century... [more]
BONNET     French
From the Latin given name Bonitus meaning "good".
BONNEY     English
Variant of BONNER
BONOMO     Italian
From a medieval given name Bonomo... [more]
BOON (1)     English
Variant of BONE (1) or BONE (2).
BOON (2)     English
Originally indicated a person from Bohon, La Manche.
BOON (3)     Dutch
Means "bean seller or grower".
BOONE     English
Variant of BOON (1) or BOON (2)
BOONER     English
Variant of BONNER
BOOTHMAN     English
Name for a man who was associated with a both, Middle English meaning "hut".
BOOTSMA     Dutch, Frisian
Occupational surname meaning "boatman", derived from the Dutch word boot meaning "boat".
BORBÉLY     Hungarian
Hungarian cognate of BARBER.
BORCHARD     German
Derived from the given name BURKHARD.
BORDE     French
Means "farm" in French.
BORDELON     French
Diminutive form of BORDE.
BORG     Swedish
From Swedish borg "castle".
BORGHI     Italian
Locative origin, from the place name Borgo, which is quite common in Italy.
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]
BORISLAVOV     Bulgarian
Means "son of BORISLAV".
BORISOV     Bulgarian
Means "son of BORIS".
BOROS     Hungarian
Derived from bor, the Hungarian word for "wine"... [more]
BORST     Dutch
Means "bristly hair" in Dutch.
BÖSCH     German
Derived from a nickname of the given name SEBASTIAN.
BOSCH     German, Dutch
Derived from Dutch bussch "wood".
BOSCO     Italian
Means "forest" in Italian.
BOSKO     Polish, Czech, Slovak
Derived from the Slavic bosy "barefoot".
BOSQUE     Spanish
Spanish form of BOSCO
BÖTTCHER     German
Occupational name meaning "cooper (barrel maker)" in German.
BOTTERILL     Cornish
Probably originated from the place name Tibida Boterel in southeast Brittany, thence to Castello Boterel in Cornwall 1284, now Boscastle... [more]
BOTWRIGHT     English
Derived from the English boatwright meaning "maker of boats"... [more]
BOUCHARD     French
From a nickname for someone with a big mouth... [more]
BOUCHER     French
Means "butcher" in French.
BOULOS     Arabic
From the given name BULUS.
BOURKE     English
Variant of BURKE
BOUSAID     Arabic
Means "father of SA'ID" in Arabic.
BOUWMEESTER     Dutch
From Dutch meaning "architect, builder".
BOVE     Italian
Derived from an Italian nickname meaning "bull, ox".
BOVÉR     Italian
Venetian variant of BOVE
BOVERI     Italian
Variant of BOVE
BOWEN     Welsh
From Welsh Ap Owain meaning "son of OWAIN".
BOYADJIEV     Bulgarian
Patronymic from boyadjiya meaning "painter".
BOYANOV     Bulgarian
Means "son of Boyan", Boyan being the Bulgarian form of BOJAN.
BOYCE     English
From Old French bois meaning "wood", originally given to someone who lived by or in a wood.
BOYD     Scottish
From the name of the Scottish island of Bute.
BOYLE     Irish
Variant of O'BOYLE
BOZHIDAROV     Bulgarian
Means "son of BOZHIDAR".
BRABAND     Dutch
Derived from the name of the region of Brabant in the Netherlands.
BRADDOCK     English
Old English meaning "broad oak"... [more]
BRADEN     Irish
Anglicized form of Ó Bradáin meaning "descendent of BRADÁN".
BRADFORD     English
Derived from a place name which meant "broad ford" in Old English.
BRADLEY     English
From a common English place name meaning "broad clearing".
BRADY     Irish
Anglicized form of Ó Brádaigh meaning "descendent of BRÁDACH".
BRAHMS     German
Variant of BRAMS... [more]
BRAMBANI     Italian
Locative origins: from the name of an alpine valley Val Brembama... [more]
BRAMBILLA     Italian
Locative surname from the Italian town Brembilla (near Milano).
BRAMS     Dutch, English
Derived from the given name BRAM.
BRAMSON     English
Means "son of BRAM".
BRAND     German, English
Derived from the Germanic given name BRANDO or its Old Norse cognate BRANDR.
BRANDON     English
From a place name meaning "hill covered with broom" in Old English.
BRANDT     German
Variant of BRAND
BRANKOVIĆ     Serbian, Croatian
Means "son of BRANKO".
BRANKOVIČ     Macedonian
Slovene form of BRANKOVIĆ
BRANKOVICH     Macedonian
Macedonian form of BRANKOVIĆ
BRANNON     Irish
From Irish Mac Branain meaning "son of BRAN (1)".
BRANT     German, English
Variant of BRAND
BRASHER     English
Means "brass worker", derived from Old English brœs "brass".
BRASSINGTON     English
From a place name, meaning "enclosure by a steep path".
BRAUER     German
Derived from Middle Low German bruwer meaning "brewer".
BRAUN     German
Variant of BRUN
BRAUNE     German
Variant of BRUN
BRAY     English
From a place name derived from Cornish bre "hill".
BRECKENRIDGE     Scottish, Irish, English
Habitational name for someone from Brackenrig in Lanarkshire, named with the northern Middle English braken, meaning "bracken", (from the Old Norse brækni) and rigg, meaning "ridge" (from the Old Norse hryggr), or from a similarly named place located in northern England.
BREDA     Italian
From the name of a place Breda near Venice... [more]
BREEN     Irish
From the Irish Gaelic Ó Braoin meaning "descendent of Broin"... [more]
BREINER     German
Derived from Middle High German brie "porridge".
BREISACHER     German
Originally denoted one who came from the town of Breisach, located in Germany.
BREITBARTH     German
Means "broad beard" from German breit "broad" and bart "beard", originally a nickname for someone with a full beard.
BRENNAN     Irish
From the Irish surname Ó Braonáin which means "descendent of Braonán"... [more]
BRENT     English
Originally derived from an English place name derived from a Celtic word meaning "hill".
BRETZ     German
Indicated a person from Breetz, a town in lower Saxony.
BREWER     English
Occupational name for a maker of ale or beer.
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.
BRIGHAM     English
Originally referred to one who came from Brigham (meaning "homestead by the bridge"); the name of places in Cumberland and Yorkshire.
BRINKERHOFF     Dutch, German
Means "home on or near a hill" (that is, "on the brink").
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".
BRISTOL     English
From the name of a city in England meaning "the site of the bridge".
BRISTOW     English
Meaning is believed to be "bright place", from brihs "pleasant, bright" and stow "stead, place"... [more]
BRITTON     English
Originally given to a person who was a Briton (a Celt of England) or a Breton (an inhabitant of Brittany).
BRIVIO     Italian
From the name of a town Brivio, near Como in Lombardy... [more]
BROADBENT     English
From an English place name meaning "broad bent grass".
BROCK     English
Derived from Old English brocc meaning "badger", ultimately of Celtic origin.
BRODBECK     German
Means "a bread baker" from Middle High German brot "bread", becke "baker".
BRODEUR     French
Means "embroiderer" in French.
BRODIE     Scottish
Variant of BRODY
BRODY     Irish
Originally derived from a place name meaning "ditch" in Gaelic.
BROGAN     Irish
Derived from the Irish word bróg meaning "shoe"... [more]
BROOK     English
Denoted a person who lived near a brook, a word derived from Old English broc.
BROOKE     English
Variant of BROOK
BROOKS     English
Variant of BROOK
BROSE     German
Derived from the given name AMBROSE.
BROTZ     German
Variant of PROTZ
BROWN     English
Originally a nickname for a person who had brown hair or skin.
BROWNLOW     English
Of Anglo-Saxon origin and is of two parts, brown (descriptive) and lowe (topographical)... [more]
BROZ     Croatian, Slovene
Derived from Broz, a diminutive of Ambrozije, Ambrozije being the Croatian form of AMBROSE... [more]
BROŽ     Czech
Derived from Brož, a diminutive of Ambrož, Ambrož being the Czech form of AMBROSE.
BROŻ     Polish
Derived from Broz, a diminutive of Ambrozy, Ambrozy being the Polish form of AMBROSE.
BRUCE     Scottish
From Brix, a city in Normandy, from which the Bruces came.
BRÜHN     Hungarian
Hungarian variant of BRUN
BRUHN     German
Variant of BRUN
BRUN     German
From Middle High German brun meaning "brown"... [more]
BRUNE     German
Variant of BRUN
BRUNETTI     Italian
Diminutive of BRUNO.
BRUNO     Italian
Means "brown" in Italian, a nickname for a person with brown hair or brown clothes.
BRYAN     English
From the given name BRIAN.
BRYANT     English
From the given name BRIAN.
BRYSON     English
Means "son of BRICE".
BRZEZICKI     Polish
Means "by the birch trees" in Polish.
BUCHANAN     Scottish
From a Scottish place name meaning "house of the canon".
BUCHHOLZ     German
Means "beech wood" from German Buch "beech" and Holz "wood".
BUCHVAROV     Bulgarian
Patronymic from buchvar "cooper".
BUCKHOLTZ     German
Variant of BUCHHOLZ
BUCKLEY (1)     English, French
Originated from the Norman surname Beauclerc meaning "beautiful or fair clergyman".
BUCKLEY (2)     English
From an English place name derived from bucca "goat" and leah "woodland, clearing".
BUCKLEY (3)     Irish
From Gaelic Ó Buachalla meaning "descendent of Buachaill", a nickname meaning "cowherd".
BUDAI     Hungarian
Derived from Buda, one of the towns that were joined to make Budapest... [more]
BUDAY     Hungarian
Variant of BUDAI
BUDNY     Polish, Ukrainian
Several possible meanings... [more]
BUFFONE     Italian
Italian for "jester".
BUHR     Low German
Low German form of BAUER
BÜKI     Hungarian
Derived from the name of Mount Bükk.
BUKOSKI     Polish
Variant of BUKOWSKI
BUKOWSKI     Polish
Name for someone who lived in a place called Bukowo, Bukowec or others that began with buk "beech".
BUL     Dutch
Means "bull" in Dutch.
BULGARELLI     Italian
Diminutive of BULGARI
BULGARI     Italian
Originally an Italian nickname meaning "Bulgarian".
BULLARD     English
Occupational name for a scribe, derived from Middle English bulle "letter".
BULLE     Dutch, English
Variant of BUL
BULLENS     Dutch
Variant of BUL
BULLOCK     English
From a nickname meaning "young bull".
BUMGARNER     German
Variant of BAUMGARTNER
BUNKER     English
Derived from Norman French de Bon Coer meaning "of a good heart".
BUONARROTI     Italian
From the medieval given name Buonarroto meaning "good increase"... [more]
BURAKGAZI     Turkish
Means "warrior for the faith" in Turkish... [more]
BURANEK     Czech
Czech name meaning "little ram".
BUREAU     French
Most likely derived from Old French boure, a type of woolen cloth... [more]
BUREŠ     Czech, Slovak
Derived from Bureš, a diminutive of the archaic name Burian.
BURGSTALLER     German
From German Burg for a "fortress, castle", and from German Stelle, the site of such a castle... [more]
BURKE     English, Irish
Derived from Middle English burk, meaning "fort or fortified town"... [more]
BURNHAM     English
Derived from Burnham, a town in Norfolk and Essex, England... [more]
BURNS (1)     English, Scottish
Derived from Old English burne "stream"... [more]
BURNS (2)     Irish
Variant of O'BYRNE
BURRELL     English
This was the name of a type of cloth... [more]
BURTON     English
English place name derived from the Old English meaning "fortified town".
BUSCH     German
Means "bush" in German... [more]
BUSH     English
Given to a person who lived in or near bushes.
BUSTILLO     Spanish
Derived from a diminutive of the Galician word busto "meadow" (also see BUSTO).
BUSTO     Spanish, Italian
Of locative origin, from the name of towns in Spain and Italy (there are two near Milan in northern Italy: Busto Arsizio and Busto Garolfo, colloquially called Busto Grande "large Busto" and Bustino "little Busto")... [more]
BUSTOS     Spanish
Variant of BUSTO
BUTCHER     English
Occupational name for a butcher, derived from Old French bouchier.
BUTLER     English, Irish
From the Middle English word botte, which means "a vat or large trough used to contain wine"... [more]
BUTTS     English
From a nickname meaning "short, stumpy".
BYQUIST     Swedish
Means "village twig" in Swedish.
BYRD     English
Variant of BIRD
BYRNE     Irish
Variant of O'BYRNE
BYRNES     Irish
Variant of O'BYRNE
BYSTRÖM     Swedish
From the Swedish words for "village", by, and "stream", ström.


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