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There are 222 names matching your criteria.

GAÁL     Hungarian
Variant of GÁL.

GABLER     German
Occupational name for someone who made or sold forks, from German gabel "fork".

GABOR     Romanian
Meaning unknown... [more]

GABRIELLI     Italian
From the given name Gabriello, a variant of GABRIELE (1).

GABRIELS     English
Derived from the given name GABRIEL.

GABRIELSON     English
Means "son of GABRIEL".

GADHAVI     Indian
Derived from the words Gadh Visa which means "twenty forts"... [more]

GAERTNER     German
German variant of GARDNER

GAGLIARDI     Italian
From the adjective gagliardo meaning "very strong".

GAGNE     French
Derived from French gagnier "to farm".

GAGNIER     French
Derived from French gagnier "to farm".

GAGNON     French
Derived from old French gagnon "guard dog"... [more]

GAJOS     Polish
Derived from an old Slavic term gaj or gajdol which meant "to drone" or "to drone out".

GÁL     Hungarian
Derived from Gál, the shortened form of the given name Gálos, which is an old Hungarian form of GALLUS.

GALLAGHER     Irish
From the Gaelic Ó Gallchobhair meaning "descendent of GALLCHOBHAR".

GALLEGO     Spanish
Means "a person from Galicia" in Spanish... [more]

GALLO     Italian, Spanish
Means "cock, rooster" from Latin gallus... [more]

GANZA     Italian
From the feminine medieval given name Allegranza or Alleganza... [more]

GARB     German
Variant of GARBER

GARBER     German
Variant of GERBER

GARCÍA     Spanish
From a medieval given name of unknown meaning, possibly related to the Basque word hartz meaning "bear".

GARCIA     Portuguese
Portuguese form of GARCÍA

GARCON     French
French for "boy", referring to a servant.

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).

GARDINIER     French
Occupational surname which comes from the old Norman-French word gardinier, meaning "gardener".

GARDNER     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).

GAREY     English
Variant of GEARY

GARFAGNINI     Italian
From the name of the region in Tuscany near the historical city of Lucca: Garfagnana... [more]

GARFIELD     English
Means "triangle field" in Old English... [more]

GARLAND     English
Means "triangle land" from Old English gara and land... [more]

GARNER     English
Shortened form of GARDNER... [more]

GARNET     English
Variant of GARNETT (1) or GARNETT (2)

GARNETT (1)     English
Occupational surname which referred to a person who made hinges (Old French carne).

GARNETT (2)     English
Occupational surname which referred to a person who sold pomegranates (Old French pome grenate).

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]

GARRARD     English
From the given name GERARD.

GARRASTAZU     Basque
From the Basque word arratz "bush" combined with the suffix sta denoting a place.

GARRET     English
Variant of GARRETT

GARRETT     English
Derived from the given name GERALD or GERARD.

GARROD     English
Derived from the given name GERALD.

GARRY     English
Variant of GEARY

GÄRTNER     German
German variant of GARDNER

GARVER     German
Variant of GERBER

GARY     English
Variant of GEARY

GARZA     Spanish
Derived from Spanish garza "heron" (a type of crane).

GÁSPÁR     Hungarian
Derived from the given name GÁSPÁR.

GAŠPAR     Slovene
Derived from the given name GAŠPER.

GASPAR     Spanish, Portuguese
Derived from the given name GASPAR.

GASPARI     Italian
From the given name GASPARE.

GASS     German, Jewish
Name for someone who lived on a street in a city, from German gasse.

GATTI     Italian
Means "cat" in Italian and indicates an agile person.

GAVRILOVIC     Serbian
Means "son of GAVRIL".

GAVRILYUK     Ukrainian
From a diminutive of the given name GAVRIL.

GEARY     English
Derived from a Norman given name which was a short form of Germanic names starting with the element ger "spear".

GEBARA     Basque
Habitational name for someone who lived in Gebara, a place in the Basque province of Araba (Álava).

GEELEN     Dutch
Derived from the given name Geel, which comes from GILLIS or GILBERT.

GEELENS     Dutch
Variant of GEELEN

GEELS     Dutch
Variant of GEELEN

GEHRIG     German
Variant of GEHRING

GEHRING     German
Variant of GERHARD

GEIER     German
Means "vulture" in German, a nickname for someone who is greedy.

GEIGER     German
Means "fiddle player" in German. This was an occupational name for a fiddler.

GEISLER     German
Variant of GEISZLER

GEISSLER     German
Variant of GEISZLER

GEISZLER     German
From the German geiss meaning "goat" and the suffix ler signifying an occupation, thus "goat-herder".

GELEN     Dutch
Variant of GEELEN

GELENS     Dutch
Variant of GEELEN

GENADIEV     Bulgarian
Means "son of Genadiy", Genadiy being the Bulgarian form of GENNADIY.

GENKOV     Bulgarian
Means "son of Genko", Genko being a diminutive of GEORGI or EVGENI.

GENOV     Bulgarian
Means "son of Geno", Geno being a diminutive of GEORGI or EVGENI.

GENOVESE     Italian
From the name of one of the most important Italian cities Genova (Genoa).

GENSCH     German
From the given name Gensch, a Sorbian form of JOHN.

GENTILE     Italian
From a nickname meaning "gentle, kind, noble".

GEORGESON     English
Means "son of GEORGE".

GEORGIEV     Bulgarian
Means "son of GEORGI".

GERBER     German
German for "tanner" or "leather dresser", which makes it an occupational German surname... [more]

GERBIC     Slovene
Means "hunchback" from Slovene grba "hunch".

GEREBEN     Hungarian
Means "hackle, hatchel" in Hungarian (a hackle is a tool used to comb out fibers).

GERHARD     German
Derived from the given name GERHARD.

GERHARDSSON     Swedish
Means "son of GERHARD".

GERHARDT     German
Variant of GERHARD

GERIG     German
Variant of GEHRING

GERMAIN     French
From the French given name GERMAIN.

GERMANO     Italian
From the given name GERMANO.

GÉROUX     French
Derived from the French form of the old Germanic name Gerwulf.

GERST     German
Derived from Middle High German gerst "barley".

GERSTLE     German
Variant of GERST

GERVER     German
Variant of GERBER

GEVORGIAN     Armenian
Means "son of GEORGE" in Armenian.

GIANNINO     Italian
Derived from the given name GIANNI.

GIBB     Scottish, English
Derived from the given name GIB.

GIBBS     Scottish, English
Means "Gib's son", where Gib is a diminutive of GILBERT.

GIBSON     Scottish, English
Means "son of GIB".

GIEHL     German
German form of GILES.

GIESE     German, Danish
Derived from a short form of the given name Giselbert, or any other Germanic name with the first element gisil.

GIFFARD     English
Derived from the Germanic given name GEBHARD.

GILBERT     English
Derived from the the given name GILBERT.

GILES     English, French
From the given name GILES.

GILLIAM     English
Variant of WILLIAM... [more]

GIMONDI     Italian
Derived from a given name of Germanic origin, Ginmund... [more]

GIORDANO     Italian
Derived from the given name GIORDANO.

GIRARD     French
From the given name GÉRARD.

GIROUX     French
Variant of GÉROUX.

GISMONDI     Italian
From the given name Gismondo, of Germanic origin.

GIÙGOVAZ     Italian
Italianization of the Slavic surname Jugovac which comes from the given name JOACHIM... [more]

GIUNTA     Italian
From the old Italian given name Bonagiunta or Bonaggiunta (aggiungere in Italian means "to add").

GLADWIN     English
Derived from the Old English given name GLÆDWINE.

GLADWYN     English
Variant of GLADWIN

GLAISYER     French
Means "glass polisher" (as in the English glazer).

GLEN     Scottish
Variant of GLENN

GLENN     Scottish
Derived from Gaelic gleann "valley"... [more]

GLÖCKNER     German
Derived from Middle High German glocke "bell"... [more]

GLOVER     English
Means "a person who made or sold gloves" from Middle English glovere.

GNIEWEK     Polish
Derived from Gniewek, a diminutive of ZBIGNIEW, JAROGNIEW, or other names containing gniew "anger".

GODDARD     English
Derived from the Germanic given name GODEHARD

GODFREY     English
From the Norman given name Godefrei, Godefroi(s) (see GODFREY).

GOEBEL     German
Derived from the given name Göbel, a diminutive of the Old German name Godebert, which is derived from god "God" and beraht "bright".

GOFFE     English
Derived from Breton goff "smith" and referred to a worker in metals.

GOLDHIRSCH     Jewish
Means "golden stag" in Yiddish.

GOLDSCHMIDT     German
Means "goldsmith" in German.

GOMES     Portuguese
From the medieval given name Gomes, probably Visigothic in origin, from guma "man"... [more]

GOMEZ     Spanish
Spanish form of GOMES.

GOMOLKA     Polish
Derived from Polish gomolka, a type of round cheese... [more]

GOMULKA     Polish
Variant of GOMOLKA

GONZALES     Spanish
Variant of GONZALEZ

GONZALEZ     Spanish
Means "son of GONZALO" in Spanish.

GOODE     English
From a nickname meaning "good", referring to a kindly person.

GOODWIN     English
Derived from the given name GODWINE.

GOOSSENS     Flemish
From the Germanic given name Gozzo, derived from the element god "good" or got "god".

GORANOV     Bulgarian
Means "son of GORAN".

GÖRANSSON     Swedish
Means "son of GÖRAN".

GORBOLD     English
Means "son of Gerbold", a given name of Saxon origin.

GORDON     Scottish
From a place name meaning "spacious fort" in the ancient Brythonic language.

GORE     English
From the Old English word gara meaning "a triangular plot of land".

GORECKI     Polish
Originally indicated a person from Górka, a town in Poland... [more]

GORETTI     Italian
Derived from the given name GREGORIO.

GORI     Italian
Variant of Gregori, from the given name GREGORIO.

GÓRKA     Polish
Variant of GORECKI

GORMAN (1)     German
From a given name derived from the Germanic elements ger "spear" combined with mann "man".

GORMAN (2)     Irish
From the Irish Ó Gormáin meaning "descendent of Gormán"... [more]

GÖRÖG     Hungarian
Means "Greek" in Hungarian.

GORSKI     Polish
From the Slavic word gora "mountain".

GOSSELIN     French
Derived from a diminutive of the French given name GOSSE.

GOTT     German
Derived from the short form of various Germanic compound given names whose first element is either god, meaning "good" or god or got, meaning "god".

GOTTI     German
Variant of GOTT

GOTTLIEB     German
Derived from the German given name GOTTLIEB.

GOTTSCHALK     German
From a given name meaning "servant of god" from Germanic god "god" and scalc "servant".

GOUVEIA     Portuguese
From the name of the city of Gouveia in Portugal, and a couple of small towns named Gouveia.

GRAEME     Scottish
Variant of GRAHAM

GRAHAM     Scottish
Derived from the English place name Grantham which probably meant "gravelly homestead" in Old English... [more]

GRAHAME     Scottish
Variant of GRAHAM

GRAHN     Swedish
From the Swedish word for "spruce", gran.

GRANER     German, Hungarian
Meaning "of Gran", Gran being the German name for Esztergom, a small city in northern Hungary.

GRANGER     English, French
Means "farm bailiff" from Old French grangier, ultimately from Latin granum meaning "grain"... [more]

GRANT     English, Scottish
Derived from Norman French meaning "grand, tall, large, great".

GRANVILLE     English
Derived from a Norman place name GRAINVILLE.

GRAY     English
From a nickname for a person who had grey hair or grey clothes.

GREC     Catalan
Catalan cognate of GRECO.

GRECO     Italian
Means "from Greece" in Italian.

GREEN     English
Descriptive name for someone who often wore the colour green or someone who lived near the village green.

GREENBERG     German, Jewish
Anglicized form of the German surname Grünberg, which is formed from the words grün "green" and Berg "mountain"... [more]

GREENE     English
Variant of GREEN

GREENSPAN     Jewish
Anglicized form of German Grünspan which meant "verdigris"... [more]

GREER     Scottish
Derived from the given name GREGOR.

GREGORY     English
From the given name GREGORY that was popular in the Christian world during the Middle Ages.

GRENVILLE     English
Variant of GRANVILLE

GREY     English
Variant of GRAY

GRIER     Scottish
Derived from the given name GREGOR.

GRIEVE     Scottish
Occupational name meaning "farm manager" in Middle English.

GRIFFIN (1)     English
Derived from the given name GRIFFITH.

GRIFFIN (2)     English
From the mythological beast with body of a lion with head and wings of an eagle... [more]

GRIGORESCU     Romanian
Means "son of GRIGORE" in Romanian.

GRIGOROV     Bulgarian
Means "son of GRIGOR".

GRILLO     Italian
From an Italian nickname meaning "cricket", perhaps given originally to a cheerful person (the cricket is associated with cheerfulness)... [more]

GRIMALDI     Italian
From the old Germanic given name Grimaldo... [more]

GRONCHI     Italian
From the Tuscan word gronchio that indicates a "numb" person or even a "bent" person... [more]

GROOS     German
Variant of GROß.

GROS     German
Variant of GROß.

GROSS     German
Variant of GROß.

GROß     German
From Middle High German groz meaning "tall, big".

GROßE     German
Variant of GROß.

GROSSE     German
Variant of GROß.

GRÖßEL     German
Variant of GROß, used in southern Germany.

GROßEL     German
Variant of GROß, used in southern Germany.

GROßER     German
Variant of GROß.

GROSSER     German
Variant of GROß.

GROSZ     German
Variant of GROß.

GROVES     English
From Old English graf "grove"... [more]

GRÜNEWALD     German
Means "green forest" from German grüne "green", Wald "forest".

GRZESKIEWICZ     Polish
Derived from the given name GRZEGORZ.

GUADARRAMA     Spanish
Derived from the name of the town Guadarrama near Madrid.

GUARNERI     Italian
From a given name coming from the Old German name Warinhari (see WERNER).

GUÉRIN     French
From the German given name Warin.

GUERRA     Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From a nickname for a belligerent person, one eager to fight, or one engaged in warfare... [more]

GUERRERO     Spanish
Means "warrior" in Spanish, an occupational name for a soldier... [more]

GUERRIERO     Italian
Italian form of GUERRERO.

GUIDI     Italian
From the given name GUIDO.

GUILLORY     French
Derived from a Germanic name, composed of the elements wil, meaning "will", and ric, meaning "powerful".

GUINNESS     Irish
Anglicization of MAG AONGHUIS... [more]

GUJIC     Bosnian
Means "son of an adder snake" from the Bosnian word guja meaning "adder snake".

GULBRANDSEN     Norwegian
Variant of GULDBRANDSEN

GULDBRANDSEN     Danish
Means "son of Guldbrand"... [more]

GULLY     English
Nickname for a big person, from Middle English golias meaning "giant" (ultimately from Goliath, the Philistine warrior who was slain by David in the Old Testament).

GULYÁS     Hungarian
Means "herdsman, stockman" in Hungarian.

GUNNARSEN     Danish
Means "son of GUNNAR".

GUNNARSSON     Swedish
Means "son of GUNNAR".

GÜNTHER     German
Derived from the given name GUNTHER.

GUNTHER     German
Derived from the given name GUNTHER.

GUNVALDSSON     Swedish
Means "son of Gunvald". The Old Norse name Gunvald means "war ruler".

GUO     Chinese
Means "town wall" in Chinese.

GUSTAFSSON     Swedish
Means "son of GUSTAF"... [more]

GUTERMUTH     German
Derived from the Middle High German words guot meaning "good" and muot meaning "mind or spirit"... [more]

GUTIÉRREZ     Spanish
Variant of GUTIERREZ

GUTIERREZ     Spanish
Evolved from the Spanish surname Gualtierrez, meaning, "son of Gualtierre"... [more]

GUTTUSO     Italian
From a Sicilian nickname guttusu that means "sad person"... [more]

GWERDER     German (Swiss)
Originating in a narrow, seculded valley in central Switzerland (Muotathal)... [more]

GWOZDEK     Polish
Derived from either gwozd, an archaic Polish word for "forest", or gwozdz "nail".