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). |
| Yamaguchi |
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Usage: Japanese
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From a very common place name meaning "mountain entrance", from yama "mountain", and guchi "mouth". Olympic figure-skating champion Kristi Yamaguchi bears this last name. |
| 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". |
| Yamauchi |
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Usage: Japanese
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| A place name meaning "within the mountains". |
| 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). |
| Yilmaz |
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Usage: Turkish
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| Means "dauntless" in Turkish. |
| 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. |
| Yount |
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Usage: French
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| French altered form of Janz or Jund. |
| 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". |
| Yu (1) |
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Usage: Chinese
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| 俞 derives from Yu "to heal", after a famous doctor from the 26th century BC. |
| Yu (2) |
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Usage: Chinese
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| 虞 derives from a Chinese place name called Yu, one located in Henan province and the other in Shanxi province. |
| Yu (3) |
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Usage: Chinese, Korean
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The largest Yu clan, the Munhwa Yu, was founded by Ch’a Tal. One of Ch’a's ancestors had attempted to overthrow the Shilla king. To avoid prosecution, the ancestor fled to Munhwa and changed his surname to Yu. 余 derives from the name of a high counselor called You Yu. 于 derives from Wu Wang, the first king (1122-1116 BC) of the Zhou dynasty. |
| Yukimura |
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Usage: Japanese
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| Means "snowy village," from yuki "snow" and mura "village". |
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