Tachibana

Usage: Japanese

Means "wild orange" in Japanese.

Tafani

Usage: Italian

From a nickname tŕfano meaning "gadfly", indicating an annoying person.

Taggart

Usage: Irish, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Anglicization of the Irish language surname Mac an tSagairt, meaning "son of the priest". The name is quite old, and comes from a time and place in (primarily the north of) Ireland where the rules of priestly celibacy were not strictly enforced.

Tähtinen

Usage: Finnish

Means "son of Tähti".

Tailler

Usage: French

Means "tailor" from the Old French taillere.

Tailor

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Taylor.

Takács

Usage: Hungarian Extra: Statistics

Means "weaver, webster" in Hungarian.

Takahashi

Usage: Japanese Extra: Statistics

Means "high bridge".

Takala

Usage: Finnish Extra: Statistics

Means "(dweller in the) back", probably denoting someone who lived in a remote area, from the Finnish taka.

Takenaka

Usage: Japanese Extra: Statistics

Means "(dweller in the) middle of bamboo".

Tamŕro

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

From German Latinized given names like Dietmar, Dittmar and so on. Typical of the area of Trieste in northern Italy.

Tamás

Usage: Hungarian Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Tamás.

Tamboia

Usage: Italian

Possibly means "drummer" from the Italian tamburo.

Tanaka

Usage: Japanese Extra: Statistics

Means "(dweller in the) middle of rice fields", from ta "rice field", and naka "in".

Tang

Usage: Chinese Extra: Statistics

From the Chinese Tang Dynasty.

Tangeman

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Means "from Tange, Oldenburg" or "(dweller on) a sandy ridge between moors" from the Middle High German tange.

Tanner

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Originally derived from the occupation of the same name - a person who tanned animal hides.

Tanzi

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

From a short form of the given name Costanzo (see also the surname Costanzo).

Tapia

Usage: Spanish Extra: Statistics

In Spanish Tapia means "protective wall" like the kind built to protect castles in medieval times.

Tar

Usage: Hungarian

Derived from the word tar that means "bald" in Hungarian.

Tarantino

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

Tarantino is a locational name that designates those who came from Taranto, a city in southeast Italy. A famous bearer of this name is Quentin Tarantino, the director of the movie Pulp Fiction.

Tarr

Usage: Hungarian Extra: Statistics

Variant of Tar.

Tash

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From Middle English at asche "at the ash tree".

Tasker

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Middle English taske meaning "task or assignment". A tasker was a person who had a fixed job to do, particularly a person who treshed corn with a flail.

Tasse

Usage: French Extra: Statistics

Means "maker or seller of purses and bags" or a nickname for a miser or rich man from the Old French tasse.

Tate

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the Old English given name Tata, of unknown meaning.

Taverna

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

From a place name Taverna, common in different parts of Italy.

Tawfeek

Usage: Arabic

Means "good fortune".

Taylor

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from Old French tailleur, meaning "tailor".

Teague (1)

Usage: Irish Extra: Statistics

Anglicized form of Ó Taidhg.

Teague (2)

Usage: Cornish Extra: Statistics

Means "fair, beautiful" from the Cornish word tek.

Tedesco

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

From the Italian word tedesco meaning "German".

Teel

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "teal, duck" from the Middle English tele.

Teke (1)

Usage: Turkish

Means "from Teke, Turkey".

Teke (2)

Usage: Turkish

Means "goat (herder)" from the Turkish teke.

Tennfjord

Usage: Norwegian

Means "from Tennfjord, Norway".

Tennison

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Denis".

Tennyson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Tennison.

Ter Avest

Usage: Dutch

Means "at the forest edge" or "at the shelter".

Terranova

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

Means "new land".

Terrazas

Usage: Spanish Extra: Statistics

Means "from Terrazas, Burgos", the place name Terrazas means "terraces".

Terzi (1)

Usage: Italian

From the given name Terzo, or a name for a third child.

Terzi (2)

Usage: Turkish

From a Turkish word meaning "taylor".

Tesar

Usage: Czech, Slovak Extra: Statistics

Means "carpenter" in Czech and Slovak.

Tesarik

Usage: Czech, Slovak

A diminutive of Tesar.

Tessaro

Usage: Italian

Occupational surname meaning "weaver", ultimately from Latin texarius.

Testa

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

It comes from an Italian nickname meaning "head".

Teufel

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

From a nickname meaning "devil", given to a mischevious person or one who is devil-like.

Teunissen

Usage: Dutch

Means "son of Teunis". The male given name Teunis is a variant of the given name Teun, which is a nickname of the name Antonius.

Thacker

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "roofer, thatcher" in northern Middle English. A variant of Thatcher.

Thatcher

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Refers to a person who tatches roofs by attaching straw to them.

Thayer

Usage: French Extra: Statistics

Americanized form of Tailler.

Theunissen

Usage: Dutch Extra: Statistics

Variant of Teunissen, derived from the given name Theunis which, like Teunis, derives from Antonius.

Thibault

Usage: French

Derived from the given name Thibault.

Tholberg

Usage: Dutch

Possibly means "Thol's hill" from the given name Thol, a diminutive of Theodoric.

Thomas

Usage: English, French Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Thomas.

Thompsett

Usage: English

A diminutive form of Thomas.

Thompson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Thomas".

Thomson

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Variant of Thompson.

Thorirsson

Usage: Icelandic

Means "son of Ţórir".

Thorn

Usage: English, Danish Extra: Statistics

Originally applied to a person who lived in or near a thorn bush.

Thorne

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Thorn.

Thorpe

Usage: English

From old Norse ţorp "village".

Thorsen

Usage: Danish Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Thor".

Thrussell

Usage: English

From Old English ţrostle meaning "having the characteristics of a song thrush". The earliest form of this name was Throsle, in 1282 in Cheshire.

Thwaite

Usage: English

Means "dweller in a forest clearing, fenced off enclosure or low meadows" from the Old Norse Ţveit.

Tiedeman

Usage: Low German Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Diederick.

Tierney

Usage: Irish Extra: Statistics

From the Irish Gaelic Ó Tíghearnaigh, meaning "descendant of Tighearnach".

Tifft (1)

Usage: English, German Extra: Statistics

Variant of Toft.

Tighe

Usage: Irish Extra: Statistics

Anglicized form of Ó Taidhg.

Tilki

Usage: Turkish

From a nickname meaning "fox".

Tillens

Usage: Dutch, Flemmish, German

From the Germanic name Thietilo, a medieval pet form of Dietrich.

Tímár

Usage: Hungarian Extra: Statistics

Occupational name that means "tanner" in Hungarian.

Timberlake

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From an English place name meaning (obviously) "timber lake".

Timothyson

Usage: English

Means "son of Timothy".

Tinker

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Occupational name for a "mender of kettles, pots, pans, etc". The name could derive from the tinking sound made by light hammering on metal. It is possible that the word comes from the word tin, the material with which the tinker worked.

Tipton

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Given to one who came from town of Tipton (which means "town of Tibba").

Tiraboschi

Usage: Italian

It was originally a nickname for a wood-cutter. This surname is typical of the area of Bergamo in Lombardy.

Tiryaki

Usage: Turkish

From a nickname meaning "addict" or "stubborn".

Tisza

Usage: Hungarian

From river Tisza, Hungary's second largest river.

Tittensor

Usage: English, Welsh

Means "from Tittensor, England", Tittensor, as a place name, means "Titten's ridge".

Tivoli

Usage: Italian

Derived from the town of Tivoli, near Rome.

Tjader

Usage: Swedish

Swedish meaning "magpie".

Tobias

Usage: English, French, German, Jewish Extra: Statistics

From the personal name Tobias.

Todaro

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

From a regional form of a given name Todaro, a variant of Teodoro. Quite common in Sicily.

Todorov

Usage: Bulgarian

Means "son of Todor".

Toft

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Denotes a person hailing from one of the many places in Britain of that name.

Toivonen

Usage: Finnish

Derived from the Old Finnish personal name Toivo meaning "hope".

Tolbert

Usage: English, French Extra: Statistics

Derived from a continental Germanic personal name of unknown meaning, the second element of the name is derived from berht meaning "bright, famous".

Toledano

Usage: Jewish

A jewish name derived from the name of the city of toledo, during the banishing of the jews of spain into morroco and africa, they kept thier last names which signify the city of origin in spain.

Tolkien

Usage: German

Derived from the Saxon Tollkühn, meaning "foolhardy". A famous bearer was author J. R. R. Tolkien.

Tollemache

Usage: English

Means "knapsack" in Old French.

Toller

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

An occupational name meaning "tax gatherer" from the Middle English tolll.

Toloni

Usage: Italian

Derived from the given name Bartholomew.

Tolvaj

Usage: Hungarian

Means "thief" in Hungarian.

Tomŕs

Usage: Catalan Extra: Statistics

From the Catalan given name Tomŕs.

Tomasson

Usage: Swedish Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Tomas".

Tomcic

Usage: Slovene, Croatian

Derived from a pet form of the given name Toma.

Tomov

Usage: Bulgarian

Means "son of Toma".

Toov

Usage: Norwegian

Derived from the Old Norse given name Tófi which was a pet form of any name that began with the element Ţórr meaning "thunder".

Tordai

Usage: Hungarian

Derives from the name of a town called Torda. Originally the name was given to someone from that town.

Tornincasa

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

From a medieval name, generally given to a boy born after the death of a previous one. Literally it means "come back home" from ritorna in casa.

Török

Usage: Hungarian Extra: Statistics

Means "Turkish" in Hungarian.

Torosian

Usage: Armenian

Means "son of Toros (Theodore)" in Armenian.

Torres

Usage: Portuguese, Spanish Extra: Statistics

Given to a person who lived in or near a tower, from Latin turris.

Tos

Usage: Spanish

Means "clean-shaven", usually denoting a younger man, from the Latin tonsus.

Tosell

Usage: Catalan

Variant of Tos.

Toselli

Usage: Italian

Variant of Tos.

Toset

Usage: Catalan

Variant of Tos.

Tosetti

Usage: Italian

Variant of Tos.

Tosi

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

Variant of Tos.

Tosto

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

From a nickname indicating a "stubborn person".

Tót

Usage: Hungarian

Derived from tót that is a nickname for Slovakians in Hungary.

Tóth

Usage: Hungarian Extra: Statistics

Spelling variant of Tót.

Towner

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant form of Toller.

Townsend

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "dweller at the town's end".

Tracey (1)

Usage: French, English Extra: Statistics

From the village of Tracy-sur-mer on the Normandy coast in France. Brought to England with William the Conqueror. After a family split, those who stayed in England tend to spell it Tracey and those in Ireland spell it Tracy.

Tracey (2)

Usage: Irish Extra: Statistics

Derived from the native Irish Ó Treasaigh meaning "descendent of Treasach". The given name Treasach means "war-like" or "fighter".

Tracy

Usage: Irish, English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Tracey (1) or Tracey (2).

Traiylor

Usage: English

Variant of Taylor.

Tran

Usage: Vietnamese Extra: Statistics

From the Chinese surname Chen. It is the second most popular surname in Vietnam, comming only after Nguyen.

Trapani

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

From the name of the Sicilian city of Trapani.

Trask

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Means "from Thirsk, England".

Traver

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Travers.

Travere

Usage: French

French variant of Travers.

Travers

Usage: English, French Extra: Statistics

From the English and French place name that described the man who lived near a bridge or ford, or occasionally as an occupational name for the collector of tolls at such a location. The place name is derived from Old French traverser (which comes from Late Latin transversare), which means "to cross".

Traversa

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

Italian variant of Travers.

Traverse

Usage: French Extra: Statistics

French variant of Travers.

Traversi

Usage: Italian

Italian variant of Travers.

Traversini

Usage: Italian

Italian variant of Travers.

Traverso

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

Italian variant of Travers.

Travert

Usage: French

French variant of Travers.

Traves

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Travers.

Travieso

Usage: Spanish Extra: Statistics

Spanish variant of Travers.

Travis

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Travers.

Traviss

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Travers.

Traylor

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Taylor.

Treacy

Usage: Irish Extra: Statistics

Variant of Tracey (2).

Treloar

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "from Treloar (Cornwall), England".

Tremblay

Usage: French

From a collective form of the word tremble "aspen".

Tremble

Usage: French Extra: Statistics

Derived from an old French place name which meant "aspen".

Trengove

Usage: English

Means "from Trengove (Farm), Cornwall".

Trent

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Denoted the inhabitants near the Trent river in England.

Tresler

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Means "treasurer".

Trevis

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Travers.

Trifonov

Usage: Bulgarian

Means "son of Trifon", Trifon being the Bulgarian variant of Tryphon.

Triggs

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a nickname meaning "loyal" (Old Norse triggr).

Tritten

Usage: German, Swiss Extra: Statistics

Topographic name for someone who lived by a step or flight of steps, from Middle High German trit "step".

Troelsen

Usage: Danish

Means "son of Troels".

Trucco

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

From the place name Trucco (near Genoa) or Trucco di Miola (near Turin). This surname is typical of northern Italy.

Trudu

Usage: Italian, Sardinian

It derives from the Sardinian tordo and it means "thrush", a bird.

Trujillo

Usage: Spanish Extra: Statistics

Means "from Trujillo (Cáceres), Trujillo (Seville), Spain".

Trumbauer

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Tschida

Usage: German Extra: Statistics

Derived from a Slavic given name of unknown origin.

Tsukino

Usage: Japanese

Means "moon field". From tsuki meaning "moon" and no meaning "field".

Tsukuda

Usage: Japanese

Means "cultivated rice field".

Tsvetanov

Usage: Bulgarian

Means "son of Tsvetan".

Tucker

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from Old English tucian meaning "one who fulls cloth".

Tuff

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Tuft.

Tuft

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "(dweller by) a clump of trees or bushes" from the Middle English tufte, tuffe.

Tumicelli

Usage: Italian

Diminutive form of the given name Tommaso.

Tunison

Usage: Dutch Extra: Statistics

Americanized form of Tunneson.

Tunneson

Usage: Dutch

Means "son of Teunis", Teunis is a shortened form of Anthony.

Tupper

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "rammer (one who beat and rammed with rammers)" from the word tups. It may also be a late form of tup-herd meaning "ram herder".

Turati

Usage: Italian

A locative origin from the name of the town of Turate near Como. This surname is typical of Lombardy.

Turchi

Usage: Italian Extra: Statistics

Means "Turkish" in Italian.

Turnbull

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

A strong man of the name Ruel, having turned a wild bull by the head which was charging King Robert Bruce in Stirling Park, received from the king the lands of Bedrule and the name of Turnbull.

Turner

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From an English occupational name, meaning "one who works with a lathe".

Tyler

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

The meaning is "tiler of roofs", which makes it an occupational surname. A famous bearer of this name is John Tyler the 10th President of the United States.

Tyson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Dye". Dye was a medieval pet form of the name Denis.