Gaál

Usage: Hungarian Extra: Statistics

Variant of Gál.

Gabler

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

An occupational name for someone who made or sold forks, from German gabel "fork".

Gabor

Usage: Romanian Extra: Statistics

Meaning unknown. Possibly from the Romanian gabor, which is a working class of gypsies.

Gabrielli

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

From the personal name Gabriello, a variant of Gabriele.

Gabriels

Usage: English

Derived from the given name Gabriel.

Gabrielson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Gabriel".

Gadhavi

Usage: Indian

Derived from the words Gadh Visa which means "twenty forts". Gadhavis were responsible for the security of forts.

Gaertner

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

German variant of Gardner.

Gagliardi

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

It comes from an adjective gagliardo meaning "very strong".

Gagne

Usage: French Extra: Statistics

Derived from French gagnier "to farm".

Gagnier

Usage: French Extra: Statistics

Derived from French gagnier "to farm".

Gagnon

Usage: French Extra: Statistics

Derived from old French gagnon "guard dog". The name most likely started as a nickname for an agressive or cruel person.

Gajos

Usage: Polish

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

Gál

Usage: Hungarian Extra: Statistics

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

Gallagher

Usage: Irish Extra: Statistics

From the Gaelic Ó Gallchobhair. The meaning of the given name Galchobhar is unsure, but has been translated as "foreign help".

Gallego

Usage: Spanish

Means "a person from Galicia" in Spanish. Galicia is a region in northwestern Spain.

Gallo

Usage: Italian, Spanish Extra: Statistics

Means "cock, rooster" from Latin gallus. This was a nickname for a proud person.

Ganza

Usage: Italian

Has its origins in the feminine medieval first name Allegranza or Alleganza. It comes from northern Lombardy.

Garb

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Variant of Garber.

Garber

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Variant of Gerber.

Garcia

Usage: Spanish, Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Of unknown meaning, possibly related to the Basque word hartz meaning "bear".

Garcon

Usage: French Extra: Statistics

French for "boy", referring to a servant.

Gardenar

Usage: English

Variant of Gardener (1).

Gardener (1)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Occupational surname for one who was a gardener.

Gardener (2)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Possibly derived from the Saxon words gar meaning "a weapon", and dyn meaning "sound, alarm", combined with the termination er.

Gardiner

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Gardener (1).

Gardinier

Usage: French Extra: Statistics

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

Gardner

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Gardener (1).

Gárdonyi

Usage: Hungarian

Means "from Gárdony". Gárdony is a town 45 kms from Budapest in Hungary.

Gardyner

Usage: English

Variant of Gardener (1).

Garfagnini

Usage: Italian

From the name of the region in Tuscany near the historical city of Lucca: Garfagnana. A Garfagnino is an inhabitant of this area.

Garner

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

This surname can be a shortened form of the Gardner surname, but it can also be a Middle English surname meaning "to gather grain" or "granary keeper".

Garofalo

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

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"). The word garofalu in Sicilian dialects or the Calabrian dialect could also mean an "eddy" of sea water in the Messina Strait.

Garrard

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the given name Gerard.

Garrastazu

Usage: Basque

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

Garrod

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Gerald. Appears to be most commonly found in the southeast of England.

Gärtner

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

German variant of Gardner.

Garver

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Variant of Gerber.

Garza

Usage: Spanish Extra: Statistics

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

Gáspár

Usage: Hungarian Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Gáspár.

Gašpar

Usage: Slovene Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Gašpar.

Gaspar

Usage: Spanish, Portuguese Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Gaspar.

Gaspari

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

From the given name Gaspare.

Gass

Usage: German, Jewish Extra: Statistics

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

Gatti

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

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

Gavrilovic

Usage: Serbian

Means "son of Gavril".

Gavrilyuk

Usage: Ukrainian

From a diminutive of the given name Gavril.

Gebara

Usage: Basque

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

Geelen

Usage: Dutch

Derived from the given name Geel, which comes from Gillis and/or Gilbert.

Geelens

Usage: Dutch

Variant of Geelen.

Geels

Usage: Dutch

Variant of Geelen.

Gehrig

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

A variant of Gehring.

Gehring

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

A variant of Gerhard.

Geier

Usage: German

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

Geiger

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

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

Geisler

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Variant of Geiszler.

Geissler

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Variant of Geiszler.

Geiszler

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

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

Gelen

Usage: Dutch Extra: Statistics

Variant of Geelen.

Gelens

Usage: Dutch

Variant of Geelen.

Genadiev

Usage: Bulgarian

Means "son of Genadiy", Genadiy being the Bulgarian form of Gennadiy.

Genkov

Usage: Bulgarian

Means "son of Genko", Genko being a pet form of Georgi or Evgeni.

Genov

Usage: Bulgarian

Means "son of Geno", Geno being a pet form of Georgi or Evgeni.

Genovese

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

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

Gensch

Usage: German

From the given name Gensch, a Sorbian form of John.

Gentile

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

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

Georgeson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of George".

Georgiev

Usage: Bulgarian

Means "son of Georgi".

Gerber

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Gerber is German for "tanner" or "leather dresser", which makes it an occupational German surname. This surname is common in Germany and Switzerland, as are its variants Garber and Garver. Many families with this surname in Europe were members of the Anabaptist peace sects who emigrated to America to escape the widespread persecutions which followed the Reformation. Upon arrival to America as early as the beginning of the 18th century, the original form of the Gerber surname changed spelling in some families to Kerwer, Kerper, Kerwar, Gerver and Carver.

Gerbic

Usage: Slovene

Means "hunchback" from Slovene grba "hunch".

Gereben

Usage: Hungarian

Means "hackle, hatchel" in Hungarian.

Gerhard

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Gerhard.

Gerhardsson

Usage: Swedish

Means "son of Gerhard".

Gerhardt

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

A variant of Gerhard.

Gerig

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

A variant of Gehrig.

Germain

Usage: French

From the French personal name Germain.

Germano

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

From the given name Germano.

Géroux

Usage: French

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

Gerst

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Derived from Middle High German gerst "barley".

Gerstle

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

A variant of Gerst.

Gerver

Usage: German

Variant of Gerber.

Gevorgian

Usage: Armenian

Means "son of George" in Armenian.

Giannino

Usage: Italian

Derived from the first name Gianni.

Gibb

Usage: Scottish, English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Gib.

Gibbs

Usage: Scottish, English Extra: Statistics

Means "Gib's son", where Gib is a diminutive of Gilbert.

Gibson

Usage: Scottish, English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Gib".

Giehl

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

German form of Giles.

Giese

Usage: German, Danish Extra: Statistics

Derived from a short form of the personal name Giselbert, or any other Germanic name with the first element gisil.

Gilbert

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the the given name Gilbert.

Giles

Usage: English, French Extra: Statistics

From the given name Giles.

Gilliam

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of William. Famous holders of the name include cartoonist and filmmaker Terry Gilliam.

Gimondi

Usage: Italian

Derived from a given name of Germanic origin, Ginmund. It existed in Lombardy in the 10th century. It is well known because of Felice Gimondi (born near Bergamo in 1942) who ranks among the top 10 cyclists of all-time.

Giordano

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Giordano.

Girard

Usage: French Extra: Statistics

From the given name Gérard.

Giroux

Usage: French

A variant of Géroux.

Gismondi

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

It comes from the first name Gismondo, of Germanic origin.

Giůgovaz

Usage: Italian

It is an Italianization of a Slavic surname Jugovac that comes from the given name Joachim. Typical of the area of Trieste.

Giunta

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

Comes from the old Italian first name Bonagiunta or Bonaggiunta (aggiungere in Italian means "to add").

Glaisyer

Usage: French

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

Glöckner

Usage: German

Derived from Middle High German glocke "bell". The name might have referred to a person who worked at or lived close to a belltower.

Glover

Usage: English

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

Gniewek

Usage: Polish Extra: Statistics

Derived from Gniewek, a pet form of Zbigniew, Jarogniew, or other names containing gniew "anger".

Godfrey

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the Norman personal name Godefrei, Godefroi(s) (see Godfrey).

Goebel

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

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

Goffe

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

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

Goldhirsch

Usage: Jewish

It means "golden stag" in Yiddish.

Goldschmidt

Usage: German

Means "goldsmith" in German.

Gomes

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

From the medieval personal name Gomes, probably Visigothic in origin, from guma "man". This name is also common on the west coast of India, where it was taken by Portuguese colonists.

Gomez

Usage: Spanish Extra: Statistics

Spanish form of Gomes.

Gomolka

Usage: Polish

Derived from Polish gomolka, a type of round cheese. The word gomolka is derived from gomola "round".

Gomulka

Usage: Polish

A variant of Gomolka.

Gonzales

Usage: Spanish Extra: Statistics

Variant of Gonzalez.

Gonzalez

Usage: Spanish Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Gonzalo" in Spanish.

Goode

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

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

Goossens

Usage: Flemmish Extra: Statistics

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

Goranov

Usage: Bulgarian

Means "son of Goran".

Göransson

Usage: Swedish Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Göran".

Gorbold

Usage: English

It means "son of Gerbold", a personal name of Saxon origin.

Gordon

Usage: Scottish Extra: Statistics

From a place name meaning "spacious fort" in the ancient British language.

Gore

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

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

Gorecki

Usage: Polish Extra: Statistics

Means "a person from Górka, Poland". Górka is a town in Poland whose name was ultimately derived from the Slavic gora "mountain".

Gori

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

A variant of Gregori, from the given name Gregorio.

Górka

Usage: Polish Extra: Statistics

Means "a person from Górka, Poland". Górka is a place name, ultimately derived from the Slavic gora "mountain".

Gorman (1)

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

From the Germanic elements ger "spear" combined with mann "man".

Gorman (2)

Usage: Irish Extra: Statistics

From the Irish Ó Gormáin meaning "descendent of Gormán". This given name Gormán means "little blue one".

Görög

Usage: Hungarian

Means "Greek" in Hungarian.

Gorski

Usage: Polish Extra: Statistics

From the Slavic word gora "mountain".

Gosselin

Usage: French

Derived from a pet form of the French first name Gosse.

Gott

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

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

Gotti

Usage: Swiss, German

Variant of Gott.

Gottlieb

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Derived from the German first name Gottlieb.

Gottschalk

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Means "servant of god" from Germanic god "god" and scalc "servant".

Gouveia

Usage: Portuguese Extra: Statistics

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

Graham

Usage: Scottish Extra: Statistics

Derived from an English place name which meant either "gravelly homestead" or "grey home" in Old English. The surname was first taken to Scotland in the 12th century. The first Graham recorded was a William de Graham who came over to Britain with the Normans in 1066 and was given lands in Dumfries and Dalkieth, Montrose in Scotland by William the Conquerer.

Grahn

Usage: Swedish Extra: Statistics

From the Swedish word for "spruce", gran.

Graner

Usage: German, Hungarian Extra: Statistics

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

Granger

Usage: English, French Extra: Statistics

Means "a farm bailiff" from Old French grangier, ultimitely from Latin granum meaning "grain". It can be recalled from the Harry Potter novels from Harry's good friend Hermione Granger.

Grant

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Derived from Norman French meaning "grand, tall, big, great".

Gray

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a nickname for a person who had gray hair or gray clothes.

Grec

Usage: Catalan

Catalan cognate of Greco.

Greco

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

Means "from Greece" in Italian.

Green

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

A descriptive name for someone who often wore the colour green or someone who lived near the village green.

Greenberg

Usage: German, Jewish Extra: Statistics

Anglicized form of the German surname Grünberg, which is formed from the words grün "green" and Berg "mountain." This name indicated a person who lived on or near a forest-covered mountain.

Greene

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Green.

Greenspan

Usage: Jewish Extra: Statistics

Anglicized form of German Grünspan which meant "verdigris". Verdigris is the green-blue substance that forms on copper.

Gregory

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the same given name that was popular throughout the Christian countries during the Middle Ages, Gregory.

Grey

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Gray.

Grieve

Usage: Scottish Extra: Statistics

Occupational name meaning "farm manager" in Middle English.

Griffin (1)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Griffith.

Griffin (2)

Usage: English

From the mythological beast with body of a lion with head and wings of an eagle. From the Greek gryps, ultimately of Assyrian origin.

Grigorescu

Usage: Romanian

Means "son of Grigore" in Romanian.

Grigorov

Usage: Bulgarian Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Grigor".

Grillo

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

From an Italian nickname meaning "cricket", perhaps given originally to a cheerful person (the cricket is associated with cheerfulness). Documented in Bari in 1151.

Grimaldi

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

From the old Germanic given name Grimaldo. It is the name of the Prince of Monaco, Ranieri II. This noble family came from Genoa.

Gronchi

Usage: Italian

Comes from the Tuscan word gronchio that indicates a "numb" person or even a "bent" person. This is an Italian regional surname typical of Tuscany, namely of the two provinces of Pisa and Firenze. This surname is known in Italy because of Giovanni Gronchi (1887-1978). Gronchi was president of the Italian Republic from 1955 up to 1962, in a period of great economical growth for Italy.

Groos

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Variant of Groß.

Gros

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Variant of Groß.

Gross

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Variant of Groß.

Groß

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

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

Große

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Variant of Groß.

Grosse

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Variant of Groß.

Größel

Usage: German

Variant of Groß, used in southern Germany.

Großel

Usage: German

Variant of Groß, used in southern Germany.

Großer

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Variant of Groß.

Grosser

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Variant of Groß.

Grosz

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Variant of Groß.

Groves

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From Old English graf "grove". This originally indicated a person who lived near a grove (a group of trees).

Grünewald

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

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

Grzeskiewicz

Usage: Polish

Derived from the given name Grzegorz.

Guadarrama

Usage: Spanish

Derived from the name of the town Guadarrama near Madrid.

Guarneri

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

From a given name coming from the Old German name Warinhari (see Werner).

Guérin

Usage: French Extra: Statistics

From the German given name Warin.

Guerra

Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Extra: Statistics

From a nickname for a belligerent person, one eager to fight, or one engaged in warfare. It means "war".

Guerrero

Usage: Spanish Extra: Statistics

Means "warrior" in Spanish - an occupational name for a soldier. It is ultiamtely derived from the Germanic word for "war" werra.

Guerriero

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

Italian form of Guerrero.

Guidi

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

From the first name Guido. Ranked 113th in Italy.

Guillory

Usage: French

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

Guinness

Usage: Irish

Anclization of Mag Aonghuis. This name goes back to a 5th-century chief of Dal Araidhe (Dalriada) in Scotland. The name gained fame from the Guinness brand of ale, established in 1759 by Arthur Guinness.

Gujic

Usage: Bosnian, Montenegrin

Means "son of a blackladder" from the Bosnian word "guja" meaning "blackladder".

Gulbrandsen

Usage: Norwegian Extra: Statistics

Variant of Guldbrandsen.

Guldbrandsen

Usage: Danish

Means "son of Guldbrand". Guldbrand is possibly composed of gauja- "district" and -brand "flaming sword", or the first component guld- means "gold".

Gully

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

A 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

Usage: Hungarian Extra: Statistics

It means "herdsman, stockman" in Hungarian.

Gunnarsen

Usage: Danish, Scandinavian

Means "son of Gunnar".

Gunnarsson

Usage: Swedish Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Gunnar".

Günther

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Gunther.

Gunther

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Gunther.

Gunvaldsson

Usage: Swedish

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

Guo

Usage: Chinese Extra: Statistics

Means "town wall" in Chinese.

Gustafsson

Usage: Swedish

Means "son of Gustaf". Greta Garbo was originally named Greta Gustafsson.

Gutermuth

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Derived from the Middle High German words guot meaning "good" and muot meaning "mind or spirit". It also means "good spirit, good cheer". It was a name for an optimistic person.

Gutiérrez

Usage: Spanish Extra: Statistics

Variant of Gutierrez.

Gutierrez

Usage: Spanish Extra: Statistics

Evolved from the Spanish surname Gualtierrez, meaning, "son of Gualtierre". Gualtierre is a Spanish version of the Germanic name Walter.

Guttuso

Usage: Italian

From a Sicilian nickname guttusu that means "sad person". It was name of the famous Italian painter Renato Guttuso (born 1912).

Gwerder

Usage: German, Swiss

Originating in a narrow, seculded valley in central Switzerland (Muotathal). Origin is from the Swiss German word gwerig, an adjective meaning "agile" or "alert".

Gwozdek

Usage: Polish

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