the etymology and history of surnames
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| Yakovlev |
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Usage: Russian
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| Means "son of Yakov". |
| Yamada |
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Usage: Japanese
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| From yama meaning "mountain" and ta meaning "rice field" (t changes to d after a vowel). |
| Yamamoto |
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Usage: Japanese
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| Means "base of the mountain" from yama, meaning "mountain", and moto, meaning "base, origin". |
| Yanev |
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Usage: Bulgarian
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| Means "son of Yane", Yane being a pet form of Yan. |
| Yankov |
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Usage: Bulgarian
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| Means "son of Yanko". |
| Yap |
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Usage: English
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| From a nickname for a clever or cunning person, from Middle English yap, meaning "devious, deceitful, bent, shrewd". |
| Yates |
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Usage: English, Welsh
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| Means "dweller by the gate", "gate keeper" from the Old English word geat meaning "gate". Or denotes a person hailing from Yate (Gloucestershire), England. |
| Ybarra |
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Usage: Spanish, Basque
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| A variant of Ibarra. |
| Yedlicka |
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Usage: Czech
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| Variant of Jedlicka. |
| Yedlička |
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Usage: Czech
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| Variant of Jedlicka. |
| Yi |
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Usage: Korean
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| Variant of Lee (3). |
| Yong |
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Usage: English
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| Variant of Young. |
| Yonker |
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Usage: Dutch
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| Americanized form of Jonker. |
| Yonkers |
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Usage: Dutch
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| Americanized spelling of Jonkers. |
| Yordanov |
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Usage: Bulgarian
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| Means "son of Yordan". |
| York |
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Usage: English
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| From the name of the English city, which probably was derived from a British word meaning "yew tree". |
| Young |
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Usage: English
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| Derived from the Old English word geong, which means "young". It was a descriptive name to distinguish father from son. |
| Younge |
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Usage: English
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| Variant of Young. |
| Yoxall |
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Usage: English
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Means "from Yoxhall (Staffordshire), England". Yoxhall itself is derived from the Old English word geoc meaning "yolk (of oxen)" and halh meaning "nook, recess". |
| Yukimura |
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Usage: Japanese
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| Means "snowy village," from yuki "snow" and mura "village". |
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