All Surnames

Benton English
Denoted someone who came from Benton, England, which is derived from Old English beonet "bent grass" and tun "enclosure".

Bentsen Danish
Means "son of Bent 1".

Benvenuti Italian
Means "son of Benvenuto".

Beran m Czech
Derived from Czech beran meaning "ram, male sheep".

Beránek m Czech
Means "little ram, male lamb" in Czech.

Béranger French
From the given name Bérenger.

Beránková f Czech
Feminine form of Beránek.

Beranová f Czech
Feminine form of Beran.

Berardi Italian
From the given name Berardo.

Berg German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
From Old High German, Old Dutch and Old Norse berg meaning "mountain".

Bergamaschi Italian
Originally indicated an inhabitant of the city of Bergamo in Lombardy.

Berge Norwegian, German, Swedish
Variant of Berg.

Berger 1 French
Occupational name meaning "shepherd", from Old French bergier.

Berger 2 German, Dutch
Variant of Berg.

Bergfalk Swedish
Derived from Swedish berg meaning "mountain" and falk (Old Norse falki) meaning "falcon".

Berggren Swedish
From Swedish berg meaning "mountain" and gren (Old Norse grein) meaning "branch".

Berglund Swedish
Ornamental name from Swedish berg meaning "mountain" and lund (Old Norse lundr) meaning "grove".

Bergman Swedish
From Swedish berg meaning "mountain" and man (Old Norse maðr) meaning "person, man", originally a name for a person living on a mountain.

Bergmann German
From Old High German berg meaning "mountain" and man meaning "man", originally denoting someone who lived on a mountain.

Bergqvist Swedish
From Swedish berg meaning "mountain" and qvist (Old Norse kvistr) meaning "twig, branch".

Bergström Swedish
Derived from Swedish berg meaning "mountain" and ström (Old Norse straumr) meaning "stream".

Beridze Georgian
Means "son of the monk", from Georgian ბერი (beri) meaning "monk".

Béringer French
From the given name Bérenger.

Beringer German, English
From the given name Berengar.

Berkovich Jewish
Means "son of Berko" in Yiddish, Berko being a derivative of Ber.

Berkowicz Jewish
Variant of Berkovich.

Berkowitz Jewish
Variant of Berkovich.

Berlusconi Italian
Probably from the Milanese word berlusch meaning "cross-eyed, crooked".

Bermúdez Spanish
Means "son of Bermudo".

Bernard um French, English, Dutch, German, Czech, Slovene
From the given name Bernard.

Bernardi Italian
From the given name Bernardo.

Bernardino Portuguese, Spanish
From the given name Bernardino.

Bernardo Portuguese
From the given name Bernardo.

Bernardová f Czech
Czech feminine form of Bernard.

Bernat Catalan
Derived from the given name Bernat.

Berne Irish
Variant of O'Byrne.

Bernhard German
From the given name Bernhard.

Bernhardsson Swedish
Means "son of Bernhard".

Berntsen Norwegian, Danish
Means "son of Bernt".

Berntsson Swedish
Means "son of Bernt".

Berry English
Derived from a place name, which was derived from Old English burh "fortification".

Berti Italian
Derived from the given name Berto.

Bertolini Italian
Derived from a diminutive of the given name Bertoldo.

Bertrand French
Derived from the given name Bertrand.

Bērziņa f Latvian
Feminine form of Bērziņš.

Bērziņš m Latvian
Derived from Latvian bērzs meaning "birch tree".

Best 1 English
Derived from Middle English beste meaning "beast", an occupational name for a keeper of animals or a nickname for someone who acted like a beast. A famous bearer of this surname was soccer legend George Best (1946-2005).

Best 2 German
Derived from the name of the river Beste, meaning unknown.

Beulen Dutch
Means "son of Boele".

Beulens Dutch
Means "son of Boele".

Beumer Dutch
Possibly a Dutch form of Baumer or Böhmer.

Beumers Dutch
Possibly a Dutch form of Baumer or Böhmer.

Beutel German
From Middle High German biutel meaning "bag", originally belonging to a person who made or sold bags.

Bevan Welsh
Derived from Welsh ap Evan meaning "son of Evan".

Beverley English
From the name of an English city, derived from Old English beofor "beaver" and (possibly) licc "stream".

Beverly English
Variant of Beverley.

Beyer German
Variant of Bayer.

Beyersdorf German
Means "farmers village", from German Bauer meaning "farmer" and Dorf meaning "village".

Bezuidenhout Dutch
From Dutch zuid "south" and hout "forest". It refers to the south of the forest in The Hague.

Bhattacharya Bengali
From a Bengali title composed of the Sanskrit words भट्ट (bhaṭṭa) meaning "scholar, lord" and आचार्य (ācārya) meaning "teacher".

Biagi Italian
Means "son of Biagio".

Biancardi Italian
Italian form of Blanchard.

Bianchi Italian
From Italian bianco meaning "white", originally given to a person who was white-haired or extremely pale.

Bianco Italian
Variant of Bianchi.

Bicchieri Italian
Means "drinking glasses" in Italian, referring originally to a person who made or sold them.

Bieber German, Jewish
From Middle High German biber meaning "beaver", possibly a nickname for a hard worker.

Biermann German
Derived from German bier "beer" and mann "man". The name may have referred to a brewer or a tavern owner.

Binici Turkish
From the Turkish word binici meaning "rider, horseman".

Biondi Italian
Means "fair-haired, blond" in Italian. This name was borne by the American swimmer Matt Biondi (1965-).

Biondo Italian
Variant of Biondi.

Bird English
Occupational name for a person who raised or hunted birds.

Bíró Hungarian
Derived from bíró meaning "judge" in Hungarian.

Bischoffs German
German cognate of Bishop.

Bishop English
Means simply "bishop", ultimately from Greek ἐπίσκοπος (episkopos) meaning "overseer". It probably originally referred to a person who served a bishop.

Biškup Croatian
Croatian cognate of Bishop.

Biskup Polish
Polish cognate of Bishop.

Bisset English
From Old French bis meaning "drab, dingy", a nickname for someone who looked drab.

Bissette English
Variant of Bisset.

Bjarnesen Danish
Means "son of Bjarne".

Björk Swedish
From Swedish björk meaning "birch tree", Old Norse bjǫrk.

Björklund Swedish
From Swedish björk (Old Norse bjǫrk) meaning "birch tree" and lund (Old Norse lundr) meaning "grove".

Björkman Swedish
From Swedish björk (Old Norse bjǫrk) meaning "birch tree" and man (Old Norse maðr) meaning "person, man".

Björnsson Swedish, Icelandic
Means "son of Björn".

Black English
Means either "black" (from Old English blæc) or "pale" (from Old English blac). It could refer to a person with a pale or a dark complexion, or a person who worked with black dye.

Blackbourne English
Variant of Blackburn.

Blackburn English
From the name of a city in Lancashire, meaning "black stream" in Old English.

Blackman English
From a nickname, a variant of Black.

Blackwood English, Scottish
From an English place name meaning "black wood".

Bláha m Czech
Derived from a diminutive of the given name Blažej.

Bláhová f Czech
Feminine form of Bláha.

Blain Scottish
From the given name Bláán.

Blaine Scottish
From the given name Bláán.

Blair Scottish
From any one of several places of this name in Scotland, which derive from Gaelic blàr meaning "plain, field, battlefield".

Blaise French
Derived from the given name Blaise.

Blake English
Variant of Black. A famous bearer was the poet and artist William Blake (1757-1827).

Blakeley English
From name of various English places, derived from Old English blæc "black" and leah "woodland, clearing".

Blakely English
Variant of Blakeley.

Blakeslee English
Variant of Blakesley.

Blakesley English
From the name of a town in Northamptonshire, itself meaning "Blæcwulf's meadow" in Old English. Blæcwulf is a byname meaning "black wolf".

Blanc French
Means "white" in French. The name referred to a person who was pale, or whose hair was blond.

Blanchard French, English
Derived from the given name Blanchard.

Blanchet French
From a diminutive of the name Blanc.

Blanchett French (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Blanchet or Blanchette.

Blanchette French (Quebec)
Variant of Blanchet.

Blanco Spanish
Means "white" in Spanish. The name most likely referred to a person who was pale or had blond hair.

Blanxart Catalan
Catalan form of Blanchard.

Blau German
Means "blue" in German, most likely used to refer to a person who wore blue clothes.

Blažek m Czech, Slovak
Derived from a given name that was a diminutive of Blažej.

Blažeková f Slovak
Slovak feminine form of Blažek.

Blažević Croatian
Means "son of Blaž".

Blažková f Czech
Czech feminine form of Blažek.

Blecher German
Occupational name for someone who worked with tin or sheet metal, from German blech "tin".

Bleier German
Occupational name for a worker of lead, derived from German blei "lead".

Blevins Welsh
Derived from the Welsh given name Bleddyn.

Blom Swedish
Means "bloom, flower" in Swedish.

Blomgren Swedish
From Swedish blomma (Old Norse blóm) meaning "flower" and gren (Old Norse grein) meaning "branch".

Blomqvist Swedish
From Swedish blomma (Old Norse blóm) meaning "flower" and qvist (Old Norse kvistr) meaning "twig, branch".

Bloodworth English
Originally indicated someone from the town of Blidworth in Nottinghamshire, which was derived from the Old English byname Blīþa (meaning "happy, blithe") combined with worð "enclosure".

Bloxam English
Variant of Bloxham.

Bloxham English
From a place name meaning "Blocca's homestead". The Old English byname Blocca is of uncertain origin.

Blue English
From a nickname for a person with blue eyes or blue clothing.

Blum German, Jewish
Means "flower" in German and Yiddish.

Blumenthal German, Jewish
Derived from German Blumen "flowers" and Thal "valley".

Blumstein Jewish
Ornamental name meaning "flower stone" in German.

Blythe English
From Old English meaning "happy, joyous, blithe".

Boatwright English
Occupational name meaning "maker of boats".

Bobal m Czech
Derived from Czech bob meaning "bean".

Bobalová f Czech
Feminine form of Bobal.

Böcker German
Variant of Böttcher.

Bodilsen Danish
Means "son of Bodil".

Bodnár Hungarian
Means "cooper, barrel maker" in Hungarian.

Bodrogi Hungarian
Originally denoted someone living near the Bodrog, a river in northeastern of Hungary.

Boehler German
Variant of Böhler.

Boelens Dutch
Means "son of Boele".

Boels Dutch
Means "son of Boele".

Boer Dutch
Dutch cognate of Bauer.

Boerefijn Dutch
Possibly an adaptation of French beurre fin meaning "good butter".

Boerio Italian
From Italian boaro meaning "cowherd".

Boesch German, Low German
Variant of Bösch 1 or Bösch 2.

Bogdán Hungarian
From the given name Bogdan.

Bogdanić Croatian
Means "son of Bogdan".

Bogdanov m Russian, Bulgarian
Means "son of Bogdan".

Bogdanova f Russian, Bulgarian
Feminine form of Bogdanov.

Bogdanović Serbian, Croatian
Means "son of Bogdan".

Bognár Hungarian
Hungarian form of Wagner.

Bogomolov m Russian
Derived from Russian богомол (bogomol) meaning "pious one, devotionalist".

Bogomolova f Russian
Feminine form of Bogomolov.

Böhler German
Derived from the name of several German towns called Boll or Böhl, meaning "hill".

Böhm German
Originally indicated a person from the region of Bohemia (Böhmen in German).

Böhme German
Variant of Böhm.

Böhmer German, Jewish
Variant of Böhm.

Bohn German
Occupational name for a bean grower, derived from Middle High German bone "bean".

Boivin French
Nickname for a wine drinker, from Old French boi "to drink" and vin "wine".

Bokor Hungarian
Topographic name derived from Hungarian bokor "bush". This is also the name of a village in Hungary.

Bokori Hungarian
Variant of Bokor.

Bolívar Spanish
From Bolibar, the name of a small Basque village, derived from Basque bolu "mill" and ibar "meadow". This name was borne by the revolutionary Simón Bolívar (1783-1830).

Bolkvadze Georgian
From Georgian ბოლქვი (bolkvi) meaning "tuber, bulb".

Bologna Italian
From the name of the city of Bologna in northern Italy. It may derive from a Celtic word meaning "settlement".

Bolton English
From any of the many places in England called Bolton, derived from Old English bold "house" and tun "enclosure".

Bonaccorsi Italian
From the medieval given name Bonaccorso.

Bonaccorso Italian
From the medieval given name Bonaccorso.

Bonaventura Italian
From the given name Bonaventura.

Bond English
Occupational name for a peasant farmer, from Middle English bonde. A famous bearer is the fictional spy James Bond, created by Ian Flemming in 1953.

Bondar Ukrainian
Means "cooper, barrel maker" in Ukrainian.

Bondarenko Ukrainian
Derived from Ukrainian бондар (bondar) meaning "cooper, barrel maker".

Bondesan Italian
Venetian name derived from the name of the town of Bondeno in northern Italy.

Bone 1 English
Derived from Old French bon meaning "good".

Bone 2 English
Variant of Baines 2.

Bonfils French
Derived from Old French bon fils meaning "good son".

Bonham English
English form of Bonhomme.

Bonheur French
From Old French bonne heure meaning "good time" or "lucky".

Bonhomme French
Derived from Old French bon homme meaning "good man".

Bonnaire French
French form of Bonner.

Bonnay French
Variant of Bonnet.

Bonner English
From Middle English boneire "kind, courteous", derived from Norman French bon aire "good bloodline".

Bonnet French
From the given name Bonitus.

Bonney English
From northern Middle English boni meaning "pretty, attractive".

Bonomo Italian
Italian cognate of Bonhomme.

Booker English
Occupational name meaning "book maker", derived from Old English boc "book".

Boon 1 English
Variant of Bone 1.

Boon 2 English
Originally indicated a person from the town of Bohon, in Manche in France. The town's name is of unknown origin.

Boon 3 Dutch
Dutch cognate of Bohn.

Boone English
Variant of Boon 1 or Boon 2.

Booth English
Topographic name derived from Middle English both meaning "hut, stall".

Boothman English
Variant of Booth.

Bootsma Frisian
Occupational name meaning "boatman", derived from Dutch boot "boat".

Borbély Hungarian
Hungarian cognate of Barber.

Borchard German
Derived from the given name Burkhard.

Borchardt German
Derived from the given name Burkhard.

Borde French
From Old French bord meaning "board, plank", derived from Frankish *bord. This name belonged to a person who lived in a house made of planks.

Borg Swedish
From Swedish borg meaning "fortification, castle".

Borghi Italian
Derived from Italian borgo meaning "village".

Borgia Italian
Italian form of Borja. This was the name of an Italian noble family who were influential during the Renaissance period.

Borgnino Italian
From a nickname derived from the Piedmontese dialect word borgno meaning "one-eyed". This was the real surname of American actor Ernest Borgnine (1917-2012).

Borgogni Italian
From the name of the French region of Burgundy (called Bourgogne in French), which is named after the Germanic tribe the Burgundians, meaning "people from the high land".

Borislavov m Bulgarian
Means "son of Borislav".

Borislavova f Bulgarian
Feminine form of Borislavov.

Borisov m Russian, Bulgarian
Means "son of Boris".

Borisova f Russian, Bulgarian
Feminine form of Borisov.

Borja Spanish
Originally indicated a person from the Spanish town of Borja in Aragon, derived from Arabic برْج (burj) meaning "tower".

Boros Hungarian
Derived from Hungarian bor "wine". Originally it could have indicated someone who made or sold wine.

Borst Dutch
From a nickname derived from Dutch borst "chest".

Borysov m Ukrainian
Means "son of Borys".

Borysova f Ukrainian
Feminine form of Borysov.

Bos Dutch
Variant of Bosch 1.

Bösch 1 German
Derived from a diminutive of the given name Sebastian.

Bösch 2 Low German
Variant of Bosch 1.

Bosch 1 Dutch, Low German
Derived from Middle Dutch bosch meaning "wood, forest".

Bosch 2 Catalan
Catalan cognate of Bosco.

Bosco Italian
Means "forest" in Italian.

Boško m Slovak
Derived from Slovak bosý meaning "barefoot".

Bosko Polish
Derived from Polish bosy meaning "barefoot".

Bošková f Slovak
Feminine form of Boško.

Bosque Spanish
Spanish form of Bosco.

Botello Galician
Occupational name for a maker of bottles, from Galician bottela meaning "bottle".

Both Dutch
From the Low German given name Bode.

Botha Afrikaans
South African variant of Both.

Bothe Dutch
Variant of Both.

Böttcher German
Occupational name meaning "cooper, barrel maker" in German.

Botterill English
Probably indicated someone from the town of Les Bottereaux in Normandy, itself derived from Old French bot "toad".

Botwright English
Variant of Boatwright.

Bouchard French
From the Old German given name Burkhard.

Boucher French
Means "butcher" in French.

Boulos Arabic
From the given name Bulus.

Bourdillon French
Diminutive form of Borde.

Bourgeois French
French cognate of Burgess.

Bourke English
Variant of Burke.

Bourne English
Derived from Old English burna "stream, spring".

Bourreau 1 French
Variant of Bureau.

Bourreau 2 French
Occupational name for an executioner or torturer, derived from bourrer "to hit, to stuff with cloth" (derived from French boure "stuffing").

Bousaid Arabic
Means "father of Said" in Arabic.

Bouvier French
Means "cowherd" in French, from Latin boviarus, a derivative of bos "cow".

Bouwmeester Dutch
Means "architect, builder" in Dutch.

Bove Italian
Derived from an Italian nickname meaning "bull, ox".

Bover Catalan
Catalan cognate of Bove.

Boveri Italian
Variant of Bove.

Bowen Welsh
From Welsh ap Owain meaning "son of Owain".

Bower English
From Old English bur meaning "dwelling, room".

Bowers English
Variant of Bower.

Bowie Scottish
Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Buidheach, derived from buidhe meaning "yellow". A famous bearer was the American pioneer James Bowie (1796-1836), for whom the bowie knife is named. The British musician David Bowie (1947-2016), born David Robert Jones, took his stage name from the American pioneer (and the knife).

Bowman English
Occupational name for an archer, derived from Middle English bowe, Old English boga meaning "bow".

Boyadjiev m Bulgarian
Alternate transcription of Bulgarian Бояджиев (see Boyadzhiev).

Boyadjieva f Bulgarian
Alternate transcription of Bulgarian Бояджиева (see Boyadzhieva).

Boyadzhiev m Bulgarian
Derived from Bulgarian бояджия (boyadzhiya) meaning "dyer".

Boyadzhieva f Bulgarian
Feminine form of Boyadzhiev.

Boyanov m Bulgarian
Means "son of Boyan".

Boyanova f Bulgarian
Feminine form of Boyanov.

Boyce English
From Old French bois meaning "wood", originally given to someone who lived by or in a wood.

Boyd Scottish
From the name of the Scottish island of Bute (Bód in Gaelic), which is of unknown meaning.

Boyer Occitan
Occitan cognate of Bouvier.

Boyko Ukrainian
Originally indicated a member of the Boykos, an ethnic group of western Ukraine.

Boyle Irish
From Irish Ó Baoighill meaning "descendant of Baoigheall". The meaning of the given name Baoigheall is uncertain, but it is thought to be connected to Irish geall meaning "pledge".

Bozhidarov m Bulgarian
Means "son of Bozhidar".

Bozhidarova f Bulgarian
Feminine form of Bozhidarov.

Božić Croatian
Means "Christmas" in Croatian, a diminutive of bog meaning "god".

Braam Dutch
Derived from the given name Bram.

Braband German
Derived from the name of the region of Brabant in the Netherlands and Belgium. It possibly means "ploughed region" or "marshy region" in Old High German.

Braddock English
From various locations derived from Old English meaning "broad oak".

Braden Irish
Anglicized form of Irish Ó Bradáin meaning "descendant of Bradán".

Bradford English
Derived from the name of the city of Bradford in West Yorkshire, which meant "broad ford" in Old English. This is also the name of other smaller towns in England.

Bradley English
From a common English place name, derived from brad "broad" and leah "woodland, clearing".

Bradshaw English
From any of the places by this name in England, derived from Old English brad "broad" and sceaga "thicket".

Brady Irish
Anglicized form of the Irish name Ó Brádaigh meaning "descendant of Brádach". A famous bearer is the American football quarterback Tom Brady (1977-).

Brahms German
Derived from the given name Abraham. A famous bearer of this surname was the German composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897).

Brambilla Italian
Derived from the Italian town of Brembilla in Lombardy, itself named after the Brembo river.

Brams Danish
Derived from the given name Bram.

Bramson Jewish
Means "son of Bram".

Brand 1 German, Dutch, English
Derived from the Old German given name Brando or its Old Norse cognate Brandr.

Brand 2 German, Dutch
From Old High German brant or Old Dutch brand meaning "fire", originally a name for a person who lived near an area that had been cleared by fire.

Brändle German
Derived from a diminutive of the Old German given name Brando.

Brandon English
From the name of various places in England meaning "hill covered with broom" in Old English.

Brandt German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch
Variant of Brand 1 or Brand 2.

Branković Serbian, Croatian
Means "son of Branko".

Brankovič Slovene
Slovene form of Branković.

Brankovich Serbian
Alternate transcription of Serbian Бранковић (see Branković).

Brannon Irish
Variant of Brennan.

Branson English
Means "son of Brandr".

Brant German, English
Variant of Brand 1 and Brand 2.

Brantley German (Anglicized)
Americanized form of Brändle.

Brasher English
Means "brass worker", derived from Old English bræs "brass".

Brassington English
From a place name, which is derived from Old English meaning "settlement by a steep path".

Brauer Low German
Derived from Middle Low German bruwer meaning "brewer".

Braun German
Means "brown" in German.

Braune German
Variant of Braun.

Bravo Spanish, Portuguese
From a nickname meaning "angry, bold, brave" in Spanish and Portuguese.

Braxton English
From an English place name place name meaning "Bracca's town" in Old English.

Bray English
From a place name derived from Cornish bre "hill".

Breckenridge Scottish, English
Originally indicated someone from Brackenrig in Lanarkshire, derived from northern Middle English braken meaning "bracken" (via Old Norse brækni) and rigg meaning "ridge" (via Old Norse hryggr).

Breckinridge Scottish, English
Variant of Breckenridge.

Breda Italian
From the name of a town near Venice, possibly derived from a Lombardic word meaning "field".

Breen Irish
Anglicized form of Irish Ó Braoin meaning "descendant of Braon", a byname meaning "rain, moisture, drop".

Breiner German, Swedish
Occupational name derived from Middle High German brie "porridge".

Breisacher German
Originally denoted one who came from the town of Breisach, in Germany. The town's name is possibly from a Celtic word meaning "breakwater".

Breitbarth German
From Old High German breit "broad" and bart "beard", originally a nickname for someone with a full beard.

Brennan Irish
From Irish Ó Braonáin meaning "descendant of Braonán", a byname meaning "rain, moisture, drop" (with a diminutive suffix).

Brent English
Originally derived from the name of a hill (or the village nearby) in Somerset, perhaps derived from a Celtic word meaning "hill".

Bret French
French form of Brett.

Brett English
Originally a name given to someone who was a Breton or a person from Brittany.

Bretz German
Indicated a person from the town of Breetz in Brandenburg, Germany. The meaning of the town's name is unknown.

Brewer English
Occupational name for a maker of ale or beer.