Fabbri

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

It means "blacksmith", from latin faber.

Fabbro

Usage: Italian

Means "blacksmith" in Italian.

Fabel

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Derived from a pet form of the first name Fabian.

Fábián

Usage: Hungarian

Derived from the given name Fábián.

Fabian

Usage: English, French, Polish Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Fabian.

Fabre

Usage: French Extra: Statistics

Derived from Latin faber "blacksmith".

Fabron

Usage: French

Meas "blacksmith" from Latin faber.

Faerber

Usage: German

A variant spelling of Färber.

Fairbairn

Usage: Scottish, English Extra: Statistics

Means "beautiful child" in Middle English.

Fairburn

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a place name which meant "fern stream", from Old English fearn "fern" and burna "stream".

Fairchild

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "beautiful child" in Middle English.

Fairclough

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From Old English, meaning "fair cliff".

Falco

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

Derived from Italian falco "falcon". The name was used to denote either a falconer, a person who resembled a falcon in some way, or a person living on or near Monte Falco in the Appenines.

Falk

Usage: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German Extra: Statistics

Old Norse falker and Middle High German valke = "falcon".

Falkenrath

Usage: German

Meaning "keeper of the falon" with falk from the Germanic valke for "falcon" and rath meaning "keeper".

Fannon

Usage: Irish Extra: Statistics

From the Irish Ó Fionnáin which meant "son of Fionn".

Faragó

Usage: Hungarian Extra: Statistics

Means "wood-cutter, hewer" in Hungarian.

Faraldo

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

It comes from an old German name Farwald, meaning unknown. It is borne in the area of Genoa.

Färber

Usage: German

Means "a dyer" from German farbe "colour".

Farina

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

From a nickname indicating somebody who produces "meal" or "flour", that is a miller.

Farkas

Usage: Hungarian Extra: Statistics

Means "wolf" in Hungarian.

Farnham

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "from Farnham, England".

Farro

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

A surname derived from a location. To be specific from Sicily, Italy where a wheat called Farro is found.

Fashingbauer

Usage: German

Fasching is a German carnival (Fastnacht = "eve of the beginning of the fast," or the time before Lent) celebrated in Austria and Catholic Bavaria. Bauer is German for "farmer".

Fattore

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

This surname comes from the Italian word fattore that is a "land agent" on a farm.

Faucher

Usage: French Extra: Statistics

Means "mower" in French.

Faucheux

Usage: French

Derived from French faucher "to mow".

Faulkner

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Old English for "falconeer".

Faure

Usage: French Extra: Statistics

Means "blacksmith" in French. It is a regional variant of Lefévre in southern France.

Faust

Usage: German

Derived from the given name Faust, a form of Faustus.

Fausti

Usage: Italian

From the given name Fausto.

Fava

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

It comes from the word fava meaning "broad bean".

Favager

Usage: French

From old French/Swiss word faverges or favarges meaning a "forge", hence blacksmith. Alternatively it could indicate one from the area of Faverges or La Favarge near Neuchatel (derived from the same word).

Favero

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

A variant of Fabbro.

Favre

Usage: French Extra: Statistics

Derived from Latin faber "blacksmith".

Favreau

Usage: French Extra: Statistics

A diminutive of Favre used in Southern France.

Fay

Usage: French, English Extra: Statistics

Refers to one who came from Fay or Faye (meaning "beech tree") in France.

Fazekas

Usage: Hungarian Extra: Statistics

An occupational name that means "potter" in Hungarian.

Fear

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From an Old English nickname feare meaning "friend".

Fehér

Usage: Hungarian Extra: Statistics

It means "white" in Hungarian, originally referring to a person with white hair or complexion.

Feigenbaum

Usage: German, Jewish

Means "a fig tree" in German.

Fejes

Usage: Hungarian Extra: Statistics

Derived from fej that means "head" in Hungarian. Originally it was applied to a stubborn person.

Fekete

Usage: Hungarian Extra: Statistics

Hungarian cognate of Black.

Feld

Usage: German, Jewish Extra: Statistics

Means "field" in German. The name was originally given to someone who lived on land cleared of forest.

Feldt

Usage: German, Jewish Extra: Statistics

A variant of Feld.

Félix

Usage: French, Spanish Extra: Statistics

From the given name Felix.

Fenn

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a name for someone who dwelled near a marsh, from the Middle English fenn, meaning "marsh" or "bog".

Fenstermacher

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Means "window maker" in German.

Ferguson

Usage: Irish, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Fergus".

Fermi

Usage: Italian, Jewish

A locative surname coming from the town of Fermo in Marche region, not far from Rome. It is often a Jewish surname. A Jewish community was in Fermo in the past centuries.

Fernandes

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Fernando".

Fernandez

Usage: Spanish Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Fernando".

Ferrara

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

Occupational name for a metal worker or smith, derived from Latin ferrum meaning "iron", and thus an Italian version of Smith. The name may also refer to an inhabitant of the city of Ferrara.

Ferrari

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

Occupational name for a metal worker or smith, derived from Latin ferrum meaning "iron", and thus an Italian version of Smith.

Ferraro

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

A variant of Ferrari.

Ferreira (1)

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

A Portuguese cognate of Ferrari.

Ferreira (2)

Usage: Portuguese

Denoted one from a town named because it was near an iron mine, from ferrum the Latin word for "iron".

Ferrer

Usage: Catalan Extra: Statistics

Catalan cognate of Ferrari.

Ferrero

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

It is a regional variant of Ferrari, it comes from the profession of the blacksmith. Typical of the area of Turin. It is the 83d mot common Italian surname.

Ferro

Usage: Italian, Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Meaning "iron" from Latin, comes probably from a nickname for one who worked with iron.

Fertig

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Means "ready, prepared" in German.

Fiala

Usage: Czech Extra: Statistics

Means "the flower violet" in Czech. It may have originally referred to a person who lived near a sign bearing violets, or it may have been given to a person who lived in a place where violets grew.

Fiedler

Usage: German

Means "a fiddler" in German.

Fierro

Usage: Spanish, Italian Extra: Statistics

Cognate of Ferro.

Filep

Usage: Hungarian

Dialectical variant of Fülöp.

Filipek

Usage: Polish, Czech

Derived from a diminutive of the given name Filip.

Filipov

Usage: Bulgarian, Russian

Means "son of Filip".

Filipovic

Usage: Serbian, Croatian Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Filip".

Filipowski

Usage: Polish

The name is either a patronymic from the given name Filip, or a habitational name for a person from Filipow, Poland.

Filippi

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Filippo.

Fini

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

Comes from first names like Adolfino, Pandolfino, Serafino, etc.

Finley

Usage: Scottish Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Fionnlagh.

Finn

Usage: Irish Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Fionn.

Finnin

Usage: Irish Extra: Statistics

Fair birth; handsome. Variant of Finghin - (FIN-jin), Fionn, Fionnbarr. Fineen, Finnin, Fionan, Finian, Finbar.

Fiore

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

Derived from an old given name Fiore, meaning "flower".

Firmin

Usage: English, French Extra: Statistics

From the given name Firmin.

Fiscella (1)

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Fisco, Fisco being an archaic pet form of Francesco.

Fiscella (2)

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

Derived from Sicilian fiscella -- the word for a basket used to conserve cheese. The name was probably used to denote a person who made cheese.

Fischer

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Occupational surname meaning "fisherman" in German.

Fisher

Usage: English, Jewish Extra: Statistics

Cognate of Fischer.

Fishman

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Occupational name for a fisherman.

Fisker

Usage: Danish

Means "fisherman" in Danish.

Fitzgerald

Usage: Irish Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Gerald" in Anglo-Norman French. Brought over to Ireland with William the Conqueror.

Fitzpatrick

Usage: Irish Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Patrick" in Anglo-Norman French.

Fitzroy

Usage: English

Means "son of the king" in Anglo-Norman French, from the French roi meaning "king".

Fitzsimmons

Usage: Irish

Means "son of Simmons" or "son of Simon" in Anglo-Norman French.

Flanagan

Usage: Irish Extra: Statistics

From Ó Flannagáin meaning "descendent of Flannagán". Flannagán is a given name meaning "red". From County Roscommon in Ireland, it has many other ways to spell it, and it is the 69th most popular name in Ireland.

Flanagon

Usage: Irish

Variant of Flanagan.

Flater

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Means "field" in German.

Fleischer

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Means "butcher" in German.

Fleming

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Given to a person who was a Fleming, that is a person who was from Flanders in the Netherlands.

Fletcher

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "fletcher," someone who attaches feather flights to the shaft of an arrow. It also refers to a seller of arrows.

Flipse

Usage: Dutch

Variant of Flipsen.

Flipsen

Usage: Dutch

Means "son of Flip".

Flores

Usage: Spanish Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Floro, Spanish form of the Roman Florus which meant "flower".

Floros

Usage: Greek Extra: Statistics

From the personal name Φλωρος (Phlōros) "green" (from classical Greek Χλωρος (khlōros)), or a nickname from the same word in the sense "greenfinch". In some cases it may also be a shortened form of a derivative of this name, such as Phloropoulos.

Floyd

Usage: Welsh Extra: Statistics

Variant of Lloyd.

Flynn

Usage: Irish Extra: Statistics

From Irish O'Floinn, which means "descendent of Floinn". Floinn is a personal name meaning "ruddy" in Irish.

Fodor

Usage: Hungarian Extra: Statistics

From the Old Hungarian word fodor that means "curly haired".

Foerstner

Usage: German

A variant spelling of Förstner.

Foley

Usage: Irish Extra: Statistics

Irish meaning "pirate" or "marauder".

Fonda

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

Originated near Venice in a place called Fonda. Spread afterwards to the area near Trieste, especially in Pirano (Piran now). The family of Henry Fonda came from Holland, but they were of Genoese origin, but most probably their origin was from Venice or Trieste.

Fonseca

Usage: Spanish, Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Originally belonged to a person who lived near a dry spring, from Latin fons "well, spring" and sicca "dry".

Fontaine

Usage: French Extra: Statistics

Derived from old French fontane "well". It was probably a nickname for a person living by a well. This is the 18th most common last name in France.

Fontana

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

Means "fountain" in Italian.

Ford

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

A name given to someone who lived by a ford, possibly the official who maintained it.

Forester

Usage: English, French Extra: Statistics

Denoted a keeper or one in charge of a forest, or one who has charge of growing timber in a forest. Originally in the Latin Forestarius, then the French Forester, then Forster and Foster in England.

Forestier

Usage: French

Derived from forest "forest". The name was probably used to denote a forester.

Forney

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Name for someone who lived around ferns, from Middle English fern "fern" and heye "enclosure".

Forst

Usage: German

Derived from Middle High German forst "forest".

Förstner

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

German form of Forester.

Fortier

Usage: French

Derived from Old French fort "stronghold".

Fortuin

Usage: Dutch

Variant of Fortuyn.

Fortunato

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

From the first name Fortunato. The number of Fortunato immigrants has been remarkable: more than 1400 in 30 years from 1890 to 1920.

Fortuyn

Usage: Dutch

From Old Dutch fortuyn, which means "fortune".

Foss

Usage: English, French Extra: Statistics

Derived from Old French fosse "ditch".

Foster

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Forester.

Foth

Usage: Low German Extra: Statistics

From a nickname meaning "foot".

Fournier

Usage: French Extra: Statistics

Means "baker" from French fourneau "oven".

Fox

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the name of the animal. Originally a nickname for a person with red hair or a crafty person.

Franco

Usage: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese

Cognate of Frank (1).

Franic

Usage: Croatian

A variant of Franjic.

Franjic

Usage: Croatian

Means "son of Franjo".

Frank (1)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Frank.

Frank (2)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From Old English franc meaning "free".

Frank (3)

Usage: German, Dutch, Scandinavian

A name for a person from Franconia in Germany, so called because it was settled by the Frankish people.

Franke

Usage: German, Dutch, Flemmish Extra: Statistics

Variant of Frank (3).

Franklin

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "a land-owner of free but not noble birth" from Anglo-French fraunclein. Probably related to Old French franc meaning "free".

Franzese

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

From a nickname meaning "frenchman". It is typical of the area of Naples.

Fraser

Usage: Scottish Extra: Statistics

Possibly means either "a Frisian" or else "strawberry" in Norman French.

Frazier

Usage: Scottish Extra: Statistics

Form of Fraser.

Frederiksen

Usage: Danish Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Frederik".

Freeman

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Referred to a person who was born free, or in other words was not a serf.

Frei

Usage: German

Means "free" in German. The name most likely referred to someone outside the feudal system.

Freitas

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Means "broken" in Portuguese, a name for one who lived on broken, stony ground.

Freud

Usage: German

Means "joy" in German.

Freudenberger

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Means "friend of the mountain," from the German "freund/freud," meaning "friend," and "berg," meaning "mountain." The name comes from the Baden/Bavarian area of Germany, as early at the 1400s, and can be found in not only Germany, but Austria and Switzerland, as well, do to migration.

Freund

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Middle High German vriunt, modern German Freund = "friend".

Fried

Usage: German

Derived from the given name Friedrich; also means "peace" in German.

Friedrich

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Friedrich.

Friel

Usage: Irish Extra: Statistics

From the Gaelic Ó Frighil, meaning "the descendent of Fearghal".

Frisk

Usage: Swedish Extra: Statistics

The Swedish word frisk = "healthy" is derived from the Middle Low German word vrisch = "fresh, young, frisky" and was one of the names handed out to avoid confusion in the army.

Fromm

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Derived from the Middle High German vrom "capable".

Frost

Usage: English, German Extra: Statistics

Old English and Old High German. From a nickname for a person who had a cold personality or a white beard.

Fry

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Root is from the Old English word frig meaning "free". In 1970 it was estimated that there were some 37,000 bearers of the name Fry in America.

Frye

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Fry.

Fuchs

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

From Middle High German vuhs meaning "fox". Originally a nickname for a person with red hair.

Fuentes

Usage: Spanish Extra: Statistics

Means "a spring, a well" in Spanish. The name is a cognate of Fontaine.

Fuhrmann

Usage: German

Derived from Middle High German vuorman "cartwright".

Fujimoto

Usage: Japanese Extra: Statistics

Means "base of Mount Fuji" from fuji for the famous mountain called Mount Fuji and moto meaning "base".

Fujioka

Usage: Japanese Extra: Statistics

Denoted one living near or on Mount Fuji.

Fukui

Usage: Japanese Extra: Statistics

Meaning "fortunate" or can mean "one who is from the Fukui prefecture".

Fuller

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Occupational surname for a fuller. In old England fullers would soften a course material by pounding it.

Fülöp

Usage: Hungarian Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Fülöp.

Funar

Usage: Romanian

Romanian surname meaning "rope maker".

Furlan

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

From the name of an Italian region of the northeast Friuli, Italian variant Friulano.

Furnadjiev

Usage: Bulgarian

Means "son of the baker".

Fürst

Usage: German

Means "a prince" in German. The word fürst itself is derived from Old High German furisto "(the) first".

Fux

Usage: German

Variant of Fuchs.

Fylan

Usage: Irish

Variant of Whalen.

Fyodorov

Usage: Russian

Means "son of Fyodor".