Browse Surnames

This is a list of surnames in which the meaning contains the keyword foreigner.
usage
meaning
Ajam Arabic
From Arabic عَجَم ('ajam) meaning "foreigner, non-Arab".
McGill Irish, Scottish
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Ghoill meaning "son of the foreigner", derived from gall "foreigner".
Němeček m Czech
Diminutive form of Němec.
Niemczyk Polish
From Polish Niemiec meaning "German" and the patronymic suffix -czyk.
Wallace Scottish, English, Irish
Means "foreigner, stranger, Celt" from Norman French waleis (of Germanic origin). It was often used to denote native Welsh and Bretons. A famous bearer was the 13th-century Scottish hero William Wallace.
Wallach Yiddish
From Middle High German walch meaning "foreigner (from a Romance country)".
Walsh English, Irish
From Old English wælisc meaning "foreigner, stranger, Celt".
Walton English
From the name of any of several villages in England, derived from Old English wealh "foreigner, Celt", weald "forest", weall "wall", or wille "well, spring, water hole" combined with tun "enclosure, yard, town".
Welch English
Variant of Walsh.