Submitted Surnames from Locations

Tsuruhami Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 鶴喰 (see Tsurubami).

Tsuruki Japanese
Tsuru means "crane" and ki means "tree, wood".

Tsurumori Japanese

Tsuruoka Japanese
From the Japanese 鶴 (tsuru) "crane" and 岡 (oka) "hill."

Tsuruoka Japanese
From Japanese 鶴 (tsuru) meaning "crane (bird)" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Tsuruta Japanese
Tsuru means "crane, stork" and ta means "rice paddy, field".

Tsuruta Japanese
From Japanese 鶴 (tsuru) meaning "crane (bird)" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Tsutsui Japanese
A notable bearer is Julie Tsutsui, a producer.

Tsutsumi Japanese
From the Japanese 堤 (tsutsumi) "{river}bank."

Tsuuki Japanese

Tsuyama Japanese

Tsuyuki Japanese
From Japanese 露 (tsuyu) meaning "dewdrop" and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".

Tsuzuki Japanese
From the Japanese 都 (tsu) "metropolis," "capital" and 築 (zuki) "since construction."

Tu Chinese
From the ancient city of Zoutu.

Tu Chinese
From Chinese 屠 (tú) referring either to Zou Tu, an ancient country that may have existed in what is now Shandong province, or the ancient fief of Tu, which existed during the Shang dynasty in what is now Shaanxi province.

Tu Chinese
From Chinese 涂 (tú), the old name for the Chu River that runs through the present-day provinces of Anhui and Jiangsu.

Tuberville French
Tuberville May be related to the surname Turbeville which is a derivation of the original de’ Turberville which derives from old French Thouberville, ville meaning town, place or residence (from Latin villa).

Tudge English

Tugwell English

Tuíneán Irish
Meaning, "watercourse."

Tuinstra Frisian
Topographic name for a person who lived by a garden or enclosure, derived from Frisian tuin meaning "garden, yard", or a habitational name denoting someone from a place called Tuin.

Tulloch Scottish
Scottish habitational name from a place near Dingwall on the Firth of Cromarty, named with Gaelic tulach ‘hillock’, ‘mound’, or from any of various other minor places named with this element.

Tully Scottish
Habitational name from any of various places called Tullo in eastern Scotland.

Tumgoev Ingush (Russified)
Russified form of an Ingush surname, which is from the name of an Ingush teip (clan). The clan's name itself is derived from Tumag (ТIумагI), the name of a village in Ingushetia, possibly meaning "to see with the heart" in Ingush.

Tumgoeva f Ingush (Russified)
Feminine form of Tumgoev.

Tuna Turkish
From the Turkish name for the Danube River, which flows through parts of Central and Southeastern Europe.

Tungate English
habitational name from Tungate a minor place near North Walsham named from Old English tun "farmstead estate" and Old Norse gata or Old English gæt "way path road street gate".

Tunstall English
Habitational name for someone from any of the various locations in England named Tunstall, derived from Old English tun meaning "enclosure, garden, farm" and steall meaning "position, place, site".

Tuor Romansh
Derived from Romansh tuor "tower".

Turan Turkish
Refers to Turan, an historical region in Central Asia inhabited by the nomadic Iranian Turanian people. The name itself means "land of the Tur" and is derived from the name of a Persian mythological figure, Tur (تور).

Turbefield English

Turco Italian
Ethnic name for a Turk, or a nickname from the same word in the sense of a non-Christian or, following the medieval ethnic stereotype, a cruel, ferocious, or short-tempered person.

Turcotte French, Welsh
Means "tower" in French and Welsh.

Turgaev Russian, Kazakh

Türkmenoğlu Turkish
Means "son of a Turkmen".

Turku Finnish
Derived from "Turku" a city in Finland.

Turlington English

Turnbow English, German (Americanized)
Americanized spelling of German Dürnbach, from a habitational name from any of several places so named or from places in Austria and Bavaria named Dürrenbach (meaning "dry stream").

Turney English, Norman
Habitational name from places in France called Tournai, Tournay, or Tourny. All named with the pre-Roman personal name Turnus and the locative suffix -acum.

Turnley English

Turrillo Aragonese
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality in the Comarca of Calatayú.

Turton English
From Turton, an historical area in Lancashire, England (now part of Greater Manchester); it was originally a township in the former civil parish of Bolton le Moors. It is derived from the Old Norse given name Þórr (see Thor) and Old English tun meaning "enclosure, yard, town".

Tuscano Spanish (Philippines)
Habitational name for a person from the province of Tuscany in Italy.

Tuzla Turkish
From a city in Bosnia named "Tuzla" or "salt mine". Formally occupied by the Ottoman Empire.

Twardowski Polish
This indicates familial origin within any of 3 Greater Polish villages: 2 named Twardowo or 1 named Twardów.

Tweddle Scottish
Habitational name derived from Tweeddale.

Tweedie Scottish

Twersky Russian
Russian surname derived from Tver Oblast (known as Kalinin from 1931-1990, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Twining English
From the name of the village of Twyning in Gloucestershire, derived from Old English betweonan meaning "between" and eam meaning "river".

Twiss English

Twyford English
English habitational name from any of the numerous places named Twyford, for example in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Derbyshire, Hampshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, and Norfolk, from Old English twi- ‘double’ + ford ‘ford’.

Tyndale English
Variant of Tindall.

Tyrone Irish
Probably a habitational name from the county of Tyrone (Gaelic Tir Eoghain "land of Owen 2") in Ulster.

Tysoe English
Denoted the bearer was from the parish of Tysoe, Warwickshire, England. The name of the parish is derived from Old English Tīges hōh, meaning "spur of land belonging to the god Tiw." (Tiw was the Old English name for the Roman deity Mars, and also inspired the name of Tuesday.)

Uba Japanese
From Japanese 姥 (Uba) meaning "Uba", a division in the division of Akougi in the area of Kasasa in the city of Minamisatsuma in the prefecture of Kagoshima in Japan.

Ubushiro Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 天宮城 (see Ugushiro).

Uceda Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Manchego municipality.

Uchibara Japanese
Variant of Uchihara.

Uchida Japanese
From Japanese 内 (uchi) meaning "inside" and 田 (ta) meaning "field".

Uchihara Japanese
From Japanese 内 (uchi) meaning "inside" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Uchihashi Japanese
Uchi means "inside" and hashi means "bridge".

Uchii Japanese
Uchi means "inside" and i means "well, pit, mineshaft".

Uchimaru Japanese

Uchino Japanese
From (uchi) meaning "inside" and 野 (no) meaning "field, plain".

Uchisawa Japanese
Uchi means "inside" and sawa means "swamp, marsh".

Uchita Japanese

Uchiumi Japanese
Uchi means "inside" and umi means "sea, ocean".

Uchiwara Japanese
Variant of Uchihara.

Uchizawa Japanese
Variant of Uchisawa.

Uclés Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Manchego municipality.

Uda Japanese
From Japanese 宇 (u) meaning "eaves, roof, house" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Udagawa Japanese
From Japanese 宇 (u) meaning "eaves, roof, house", 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Udakawa Japanese

Udall English
Variant of Yewdale

Udell English

Udo Japanese

Uebara Japanese
Variant of Uehara.... [more]

Uegawa Japanese
Variant of Uekawa.

Uehira Japanese

Uekawa Japanese
From Japanese 上 (ue) meaning "above, top, upper" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Uemon Japanese (Rare)

Uemoto Japanese
From Japanese 上 (ue) meaning "above, top, upper" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Uemura Japanese
From Japanese 上 (ue) meaning "above, top, upper" or 植 (ue) meaning "plant" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Uenohara Japanese

Uenosono Japanese
From 上 (ue) meaning "top, upper, above", ノ or の (no) being a possessive particle, and 園 (sono) meaning "garden, plantation, orchard".

Uenoyama Japanese

Ueo Japanese

Ueoka Japanese
From Japanese 上 (ue) meaning "above, top, upper" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Uesaka Japanese
Ue means "upper, top, above" and saka means "hill, slope".... [more]

Uesato Japanese

Ueshiba Japanese

Ueshita Japanese
Ue means "upper, top, above" and shita means "below, under".

Ueta Japanese
Variant transcription of Ueda.

Uetsuka Japanese
Ue means "above, upper" and tsuka means "mound".

Uewara Japanese
Variant of Uehara.... [more]

Ueyama Japanese
From Japanese 上 (ue) meaning "above, top, upper" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Uezaka Japanese
Variant of Uesaka.

Uezato Japanese
Variant of Uesato.

Uezuka Japanese
Variant of Uetsuka.

Ufugusuku Okinawan
The Okinawan language reading of its kanji, meaning "big castle".

Ugalde Basque
This indicates familial origin within either of 2 eponymous neighborhoods: the one in the municipality of Larrabetzu or the one in the municipality of Okondo.

Ugarte Basque

Ugumori Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 鵜久森 (Ugumori) meaning "Ugumori", a division in the area of Miyakubo in the city of Imabari in the prefecture of Ehime in Japan.... [more]

Ugushiro Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 天宮城 (Ugushiro) meaning "Ugu Castle", a castle that was possibly somewhere in the present-day city of Fukuyama in the prefecture of Hiroshima in Japan.

Uharte Basque
Variant of Ugarte.

Uhler German
Uhler is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kastellaun, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Uigawa Japanese
Variant of Uikawa.

Uikawa Japanese

Uisawa Japanese

Uizawa Japanese
Variant of Uisawa.

Ujigai Japanese

Ujigaya Japanese

Ujihara Japanese

Ujitani Japanese

Ujiya Japanese

Uki Japanese

Üksküla Estonian
Üksküla is an Estonian surname meaning "one village".

Ukumori Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 鵜久森 (see Ugumori).

Ulatowski Polish
Habitational name for someone from Ulatowo in Ostrołęka voivodeship, a place named with Old Polish ulot, ulatać meaning "to fly away".

Ülesoo Estonian
Ülesoo is an Estonian surname meaning "above (beyond) the swamp".

Ulibarri Basque
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the Navarrese municipality of Lana.

Ulicevic Montenegrin

Ulloa Galician
This indicates familial origin within the comarca of A Ulloa.

Ulmer German
German surname meaning "from the city of Ulm".

Ulrick Scottish

Ulshafer German
Altered form of Ulshöfer.

Ulshöfer German
Habitational name for someone from a place called Ilshofen (old form Ulleshoven), near Schwäbisch Hall.

Ulukaya Turkish
From Turkish ulu meaning "great, large, exalted" and kaya meaning "rock".

Ulvestad Norwegian (Rare)
Habitational name from any of five farmsteads, most in western Norway, named from Old Norse ulfr meaning ‘wolf’ + staðir, plural of staðr meaning ‘farmstead’, ‘dwelling’.

Umanodan Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 馬 (uma) meaning "horse", ノ (no), a possessive particle, and 段 (dan) meaning "step", referring to a place with horses and a stepped landscape.... [more]

Umeda Japanese
From Japanese 梅 (ume) meaning "plum" and 田 (ta) meaning "field".

Umegaki Japanese
From Japanese 梅 (ume) meaning "prunus mume" and 垣 (gaki), the joining form of 垣 (kaki) meaning "fence", referring to a fence with a family crest of prunus mume patterns.... [more]

Umehana Japanese
From 梅 (ume) meaning "plum" combined with 花 (hana, ka) meaning "flower, blossom".

Umehara Japanese
From Japanese 梅 (ume) meaning "plum" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Umekawa Japanese
Ume means "plum" and kawa means "stream, river".

Umeki Japanese
"Plum tree".

Umekita Japanese
From 梅 (ume) meaning "plum" and 北 (kita) meaning "north".

Umemoto Japanese
From Japanese 梅 (ume) meaning "apricot, plum" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Umemura Japanese
Ume means "plum" and mura means "village".

Umemura Japanese
From Japanese 梅 (ume) meaning "apricot, plum" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Umeno Japanese
Ume means "plum" and no means "field, wilderness, plain".

Umesawa Japanese
Ume means "plum" and sawa means "marsh, swamp".

Umesawa Japanese
From Japanese 梅 (ume) meaning "apricot, plum" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Umeta Japanese

Umetsu Japanese

Umezaki Japanese
Variant of Umesaki.

Umezawa Japanese
From Japanese 梅 (ume) meaning "plum" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Umezu Japanese

Umezu Japanese
From Japanese 梅 (ume) meaning "apricot, plum" and 津 (zu) meaning "port, harbour".

Umiastowski Polish
This indicates familial origin within the Masovian village of Umiastów.

Umpleby English
Originally given to people from the village of Anlaby in East Yorkshire, UK. Written as Umlouebi in the Domesday Book, the place name is from Old Norse given name Óláfr + býr, "farmstead" or "village".

Unabara Japanese
From Japanese 海 (una) meaning "sea" and 原 (bara) meaning "meadow".

Unagi Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 鰻 (Unagi) meaning "Unagi", a division in the area of Yamagawanarikawa in the city of Ibusuki in the prefecture of Kagoshima in Japan.

Uñalivia Spanish (Rare)
Has no specific meaning but it was a rare spanish name

Unami Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 海南 (unami), a contraction of 海南 (unanami), from 海 (una-) meaning "of the sea; of the ocean" and 南 (nami) meaning "south".

Unamunsaga Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Unamuntzaga.

Unamuntzaga Basque
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Etxebarria.

Uncastiello Aragonese
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.

Uncastillo Aragonese (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Uncastiello.

Underberg Norwegian
Habitational name from a place named with Old Norse undir meaning "under" and berg meaning "mountain, hill".

Underbrook English
Meaning "under the brook".

Undurraga Basque
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Zeanuri.

Ungar German, Jewish
ethnic name for a Hungarian or a nickname for someone who had trade relations with Hungary. Cognate of Ungaro and variant of Unger.

Unno Japanese
From Japanese 海 (un) meaning "sea, ocean" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Uno Japanese
From Japanese 宇 (u) meaning "eaves" and 野 (no) meaning "field".

Unterberger German (Austrian)
Denoted someone from Unterberg, the name of many places in Austria.

Unterreiner German
Topographic name for someone who lived below a mountain ridge, from Middle High German under meaning ‘under’ + rein meaning ‘ridge’.

Unthank English
From a place name meaning "squatter's holding" from Old English unthanc (literally "without consent").

Untzaga Basque
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Urkabustaiz.

Untzueta Basque

Únzaga Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Untzaga.

Unzueta Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Untzueta.

Upchurch English
habitational name from a place called as "the high church" or possibly the higher of two churches from Middle English up "up high higher" and chirche "church" (Old English upp and cirice)... [more]

Updike English

Upham English
"enclosure surrounded by water"

Uppadathil Malayalam
From Old Malayalam uppadam (sea), lit. "from over the Arabian sea," referring to the descendants of a group of Arab traders who settled in Kerala. Predominantly Muslim, although sizeable sections have branched away and practice Hinduism... [more]

Upshaw English
Probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place named with Old English upp meaning "up(per)" and sc(e)aga meaning "copse", or a topographic name with the same meaning.

Upsher English
This Anglo-Saxon surname means “of Upshire” and refers to someone from the hamlet Upshire in County Essex.

Upshur English
Most probably an altered spelling of English Upshire, a habitational name from Upshire in Essex, named with Old English upp "up" and scir "district". Alternatively, it may be a variant of Upshaw.

Ura Japanese
Ura means "bay, seacoast".

Urabane Japanese

Urabata Japanese

Urabe Japanese

Urada Japanese

Urahane Japanese (Rare)
Ura means "bay, seacoast" and hane means "feather, plume".

Urahata Japanese
Ura means "bay, creek, inlet, beach, gulf, seacoast" and hata means "field".

Urai Japanese
Ura means "seacoast, bay" and i means "well, pit, mineshaft".

Urain Basque
It indicates familial origin in the vicinity of the eponymous tower house in the municipality of Oñati.

Uraki Japanese

Uraoka Japanese (Rare)
Ura means "bay, seacoast" and oka means "hill, ridge".

Urasaki Japanese
From Japanese 浦 (ura) meaning "bay, inlet" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Urasawa Japanese
Ura means "seacoast, bay" and sawa means "swamp, marsh".

Urasawa Japanese
From Japanese 浦 (ura) meaning "bay, inlet" and 沢 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Urashima Japanese

Urata Japanese
From Japanese 浦 (ura) meaning "bay, inlet" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Uratsuji Japanese (Rare)
Uratsuji means "Inlet/rivermouth crossroad"

Urazawa Japanese
Variant of Urasawa.

Urbino Sicilian, Italian
Possibly from the name of an Italian town. Could also be from Sicilian urbu or orbu, meaning "blind", in which case it may refer to literal blindness, or a more metaphorical "blind to one's sins", especially in the case of foundlings.

Urdanegi Basque
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Gordexola.

Urdanegui Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Urdanegi.

Urdaneta Basque
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Aia.

Urduña Basque
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous city.

Urenda Basque
Most probably a topographic name formed with Basque ur- ‘water’.

Urgu Italian
From an ancient toponym.

Uriarte Basque
It means "between cities".

Uribarri Basque

Uriondo Basque
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Zeberio.

Urizar Basque

Urkiaga Basque
This indicates familial origin within the vicinity of the eponymous hill that is in fact the northernmost one in Navarre.

Urkiola Basque
It indicates familial origin near the eponymous natural park.

Urquiaga Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Urkiaga.

Urquiola Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Urkiola.

Urrea Aragonese (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Urreya.

Urreya Aragonese
This indicates familial origin within either of 2 municipalities: Urreya de Gayén or Urreya de Xalón.

Urritzola Basque
This indicates familial origin within either of 2 eponymous Navarrese localities.

Urrizola Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Urritzola.

Urrunaga Basque
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Legutio.

Urrutigoiti Basque
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the commune of Montori, located in the French canton of Euskal Mendialdea.

Urrutigoïty Basque (Gallicized)
Parisianized form of Urrutigoiti.

Urrutikoetxea Basque
From Basque urruti meaning "far, distant" and etxe meaning "house".

Ursúa Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Urtsua.

Ursuya Basque (Gallicized)
Parisianized form of Urtsua.

Urtiaga Basque
It indicates familial origin near the eponymous cave in the municipality of Deba.

Urtsua Basque
This indicates familial origin near the eponymous mountain in the French department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

Urushibara Japanese
A variant of Urushihara.

Urushihara Japanese (Rare)
漆 (Urushi) means "lacquer/lacker, varnish" and 原 (hara) means "plain, field".

Urushimakka Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 漆 (urushi) meaning "toxicodendron vernicifluum", 真下 (makka) meaning "(literally) down; below; beneath", referring to low lands.

Urushimatsuka Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 漆眞下 (see Urushimakka).

Urushino Japanese
Urushi means "lacker/lacquer" and no means "field, plain".

Urushiwara Japanese
A variant of Urushihara.

Urzędowski Polish
This indicates familial origin within the Lesser Polish town of Urzędów.

Usada Japanese

Usai Italian
Possibly from the name of the former village Usani, or alternately, from Sardinian uscare "to burn, to scorch".

Usami Japanese

Usami Japanese
From Japanese 宇 (u) meaning "house, eaves, roof", 佐 (sa) meaning "help, aid" and 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful".

Usata Japanese

Usategi Basque
It literally means "dovecote".

Uselton English
Perhaps a variant of Osselton, a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, probably in northeastern England, where this name is most common.

Ushida Japanese
From Japanese 牛 (ushi) meaning "cow" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Ushijima Japanese
From Japanese 牛 (ushi) meaning "cow, bull, ox" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".

Ushisawa Japanese
From 牛 (ushi) meaning "cow, bull, ox, 2nd sign of the Chinese zodiac" and 澤 or 沢 (sawa) meaning "marsh, swamp".

Ushishima Japanese
Ushi means "cow, bull, ox, second sign of the Chinese zodiac" and shima means "island".

Ushito Japanese

Ushiyama Japanese
From Japanese 牛 (ushi) meaning "cow" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain", referring to a mountain with many cows.

Ushiyama Japanese
From Japanese 牛山 (Ushiyama) meaning "Ushiyama", an area in the city of Kasugai in the prefecture of Aichi in Japan.

Usuda Japanese

Usui Japanese

Usui Japanese
From Japanese 臼 (usu) meaning "millstone, mortar" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".

Usui Japanese
From Japanese 碓 (usu) meaning "pestle" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".

Utada Japanese

Utagawa Japanese
Uta means "song" and Gawa comes from Kawa, meaning "river".

Utakawa Japanese
Uta means "song" and kawa means "river, stream".

Utamura Japanese
Uta means "song, poem" and mura means "village, hamlet".

Utley English
Derived from the Old English elements ote, or "oats" and leah, meaning "a clearing."

Utsunomiya Japanese
From Japanese 宇 (u) meaning "house, eaves, universe", 都 (tsu) meaning "city", and 宮 (miya) meaning "temple, shrine, palace".

Utterback German

Utting English, Jewish

Uudmäe Estonian
Uudmäe is an Estonian surname meaning "virgin/unspoiled hill/mountain".

Uusmaa Estonian
Uusmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "new land".

Uussaar Estonian
Uussaar is an Estonian surname meaning "new island".

Uustalu Estonian
Uustalu is an Estonian surname meaning "new farmstead".

Uwano Japanese

Uxbridge English
Place in England. Like Enfield.

Uyama Japanese

Uyeda Japanese
Variant of Ueda.

Uyehara Japanese
Variant transcription of Uehara.

Uyeno Japanese
Variant of Ueno.

Uyesugi Japanese
Alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji 上杉 (see Uesugi).

Uyeta Japanese
Variant transcription of Ueta.

Uytdehaage Dutch
Means "from The Hague", a city in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. It could also mean "from the hedge". Both etymologies are derived from Dutch uit meaning "out, of, from" and Middle Dutch hage meaning "hedge, bush"... [more]

Vaage Norwegian
Variant of Waage.

Vaamonde Spanish
Variant of the habitational surname Bahamonde, from one of the Galician places called Baamonde (earlier written Bahamonde) in the province of Lugo most probably Santiago de Baamonde (Begonte).

Værnes Norwegian
Værnes is a village in the municipality of Stjørdal in Nord-Trøndelag county in Mid-Norway. The original spelling of the village's name was Vannes and it is a combination of var "calm, quiet" and nes "headland"... [more]

Våge Norwegian
Habitational name from any of several farms named Våge, derived from Old Norse vágr "bay, inlet, fjord".

Vagula Estonian, Brazilian
Vagula is the name of a village and a lake in Võru Parish, Võru County in southern Estonia.

Vahe Estonian
Vahe is an Estonian surname meaning "middle".

Vaikjärv Estonian
Vaikjärv is an Estonian surname meaning "quiet/still lake".

Vail English

Vaillancourt French (Quebec)
Possibly a variant of Valencourt. This is the surname of a noble family who probably lived near Willencourt.

Vainumäe Estonian
Vainumäe is an Estonian surname derived from "vainurästas", meaning "redwing blackbird" (Turdus iliacus) and "mäe", meaning ""hill".

Väisänen Finnish
Topographic name from väisä meaning either meaning "road" or "sign placed on the ice" + the common surname suffix -nen.

Val Spanish, French
It means valley. It comes from Britain and then moved to Aragón (Spain).

Valade French
Variant of Vallée.

Valance English
Variant of Vallance.

Valančiūnas Lithuanian (Rare)
Derived from the place name Valančiūnai.... [more]

Valbuena Spanish
Habitational name from any of the places called Valbuena for example in Valladolid Cáceres and Salamanca.

Valcazar Spanish

Valderrábano Spanish
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.

Valderrama Spanish
Habitational name from any of the places named Valderrama, as for example in Burgos province.

Valderrama Spanish
This surname is made up of the prefix "bal-" from latin "vallis," the equivalent of prefix "-valle" meaning a vale or a valley plus the Spanish "derramare" - to scatter or to spread. Hence, implies valley which is spread out.

Valdés Asturian
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.

Valdivia Spanish

Valdivieso Spanish
This place-name is derived from the Asturian word val-di-vieso, which means old man's-valley.

Valdoviño Galician
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.

Vale English
Topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, Middle English vale (Old French val, from Latin vallis). The surname is now also common in Ireland, where it has been Gaelicized as de Bhál.

Valee German
From French origin, denoting someone who lives or comes from a valley.

València Catalan
Catalan form of Valencia.

Valenciano Spanish
A Spanish surname. It is a regional name denoting someone from Valencia.

Valens American (Hispanic), Popular Culture
English variant of Valenzuela.

Valensuela Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish (Latin American)
Variant and Portuguese form of Valenzuela