Browse Surnames

Miyashita Japanese
From Japanese 宮 (miya) meaning "temple, shrine, palace" and 下 (shita) meaning "under, below".

Van Rompuy Flemish
Variant of Van Rompaey. A famous bearer is the Flemish politician Herman Van Rompuy (1947-), a Prime Minister of Belgium.

Cruz Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese cognate of Cross.

Mendoza Spanish, Basque
From a Basque place name derived from mendi "mountain" and hotz "cold".

Aitken Scottish, English
Derived from the medieval given name Atkin, a diminutive of Adam.

Rémy French
From the given name Rémy.

Haumann German
Derived from Middle High German houwen "to chop" and man "man", referring to a butcher or woodchopper.

Palmeiro Portuguese
Portuguese form of Palmer.

Eustis English
Derived from the given name Eustace.

Barton English
From a place name meaning "barley town" in Old English.

Zimmerman German
Variant of Zimmermann.

Becskei Hungarian
Indicated a person from Becske, a town in Hungary, which might be derived from the given name Benedek.

Courtemanche French
Means "short sleeve" in French.

Patenaude French (Quebec)
French form of Paternoster.

Stasiuk Ukrainian, Polish
From a diminutive of the given name Stanislav.

Angus Irish, Scottish
From the given name Aonghus.

Serafim Portuguese
Derived from the given name Serafim.

Rutherfurd Scottish
Variant of Rutherford.

Khan Urdu, Pashto, Bengali
From a title meaning "king, ruler", probably of Mongolian origin but used in many languages.

Aiolfi Italian
Means "son of Aiolfo", which is derived from the Germanic name Agilulf.

Lundgren Swedish
Derived from Swedish lund (Old Norse lundr) meaning "grove" and gren (Old Norse grein) meaning "branch".

Zelenko Ukrainian
Ukrainian cognate of Zieliński.

Ahmed Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Indian (Muslim)
Derived from the given name Ahmad.

Garrard English
From the given name Gerard.

Van Daal Dutch
Variant of Van Dalen.

Yong English
Variant of Young.

MacClery Irish
Anglicized form of Mac Cléirich.

Pawlak Polish
Means "son of Paweł".

Petersen Danish, Norwegian
Means "son of Peter".

Lam Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Lin.

Kazemi Persian
From the given name Kazem.

Dickman English
From Old English dic "ditch" combined with man "person, man". It was originally a name for a ditch digger or someone who lived near a ditch.

Kozłow Polish
Variant of Kozłowski.

Gatti Italian
Means "cat" in Italian, originally a nickname for an agile person.

Jung 1 German
Means "young" in German, from Middle High German junc.

Crocetti Italian
Italian diminutive form of Croce.

Gallagher Irish
Anglicized form of the Irish Ó Gallchobhair meaning "descendant of Gallchobhar".

Agócs Hungarian
Derived from a diminutive of the given name Ágoston.

Metz 2 German
Derived from Mätz, a diminutive of the given name Matthias.

Ingesson Swedish
Means "son of Inge".

Gáspár Hungarian
Derived from the given name Gáspár.

Churchill English
From an English place name meaning "church hill". A famous bearer was Winston Churchill (1874-1965), the British prime minister during World War II.

Piccirillo Italian
From Neapolitan piccerillo meaning "small, young".

Fini Italian
Derived from given names ending in fino, such as Serafino.

Nikula Finnish
From the given name Niku, a Finnish form of Nicholas.

Gray English
From a nickname for a person who had grey hair or grey clothes.

Bélanger French
From the given name Bérenger.

Pérez Spanish
Means "son of Pedro".

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

Német Hungarian
Variant of Németh.

Mikołajczak Polish
Derived from a diminutive of the given name Mikołaj.

Ferrara Italian
Italian form of Ferreira.

Heimans Dutch
Variant of Heijman.

Sitko Polish
Means "fine sieve" in Polish, a diminutive of the Polish word sito "sieve".

Schäfer German
From Old High German scaphare meaning "shepherd".

Wilkins English
Means "son of Wilkin".

Fejes Hungarian
Derived from Hungarian fej meaning "head", originally a nickname applied to a stubborn person.

Windsor English
From the name of a few English towns, one notably the site of Windsor Castle. Their names mean "riverbank with a windlass" in Old English, a windlass being a lifting apparatus. In 1917 the British royal family adopted this name (after Windsor Castle), replacing their previous name Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Ash English
From Old English æsc meaning "ash tree", indicating a person who lived near ash trees.

Eldred English
From the given name Ealdræd.

Ó Fionnagáin Irish
Irish Gaelic form of Finnegan.

Freeman English
Referred to a person who was born free, or in other words was not a serf.

Napoliello Italian
Originally indicated a person from Naples in Italy.

Lazarević Serbian
Means "son of Lazar".

Alò Italian
Variant of Aloi.

Mercer English
Occupational name for a trader in textiles, from Old French mercier, derived from Latin merx meaning "merchandise".

Paszek Polish
Derived from a diminutive of Paweł.

Kárpáthy Hungarian
Variant of Kárpáti.

Randrup Danish
From the name of homesteads in Denmark (in Viborg or Rebild municipalities).

Niftrik Dutch
Variant of Van Niftrik.

Cisternino Italian
From the name of the town of Cisternino, near the city of Bari in southern Italy.

Tavares Portuguese
From any of the numerous places in Portugal called Tavares, likely of pre-Roman origin.

Deighton English
From English towns by this name, from Old English dic "ditch" and tun "enclosure, yard, town".

Everest English
Originally denoted a person from Évreux in Normandy, itself named after the Gaulish tribe of the Eburovices. Mount Everest in the Himalayas was named for the British surveyor George Everest (1790-1866).

Cook English
Derived from Old English coc meaning "cook", ultimately from Latin coquus. It was an occupational name for a cook, a man who sold cooked meats, or a keeper of an eating house.

Walsh English, Irish
From Old English wælisc meaning "foreigner, stranger, Celt".

McCrory Irish, Scottish
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Ruaidhrí meaning "son of Ruaidhrí".

Landolfi Italian
From the given name Landolfo, Italian form of the Lombardic name Landulf.

Sands English
From Old English, indicated the original nearer lived on sandy ground.

Andres German
Derived from the given name Andreas.

Radu Romanian
From the given name Radu.

Faucher French
Occupational name meaning "mower" in French, ultimately from Latin falx meaning "sickle, scythe".

Marin Romanian, French
From the given name Marin.

Readdie English
Variant of Ready 1.

Fujimoto Japanese
From Japanese 藤 (fuji) meaning "wisteria" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Wedekind German
From the given name Widukind.

Friseal Scottish Gaelic
Gaelic form of Fraser.

Alinejad Persian
Means "descendant of Ali 1" in Persian.

Steensen Danish
Means "son of Steen".

Santini Italian
Diminutive form of Santo.

Bullock English
From a nickname meaning "young bull".

Prunty Irish
From Irish Ó Proinntigh meaning "descendant of Proinnteach", a given name probably derived from Irish bronntach meaning "generous".

Ó Súileabháin Irish
Irish Gaelic form of Sullivan.

De Lorenzo Italian
Means "son of Lorenzo".

Davidović Serbian
Means "son of David".

Gori Italian
Derived from the given name Gregorio.

Aoki Japanese
From Japanese 青 (ao) meaning "green, blue" and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".

Affini Italian
From Latin affinis meaning "neighbouring, kindred".

Brinley English
Possibly from English places named Brindley, derived from Old English berned "burned" and leah "woodland, clearing".

Costantini Italian
From the given name Costantino.

Van Niftrik Dutch
Means "from Niftrik", a town in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands.

Testa Italian
From an Italian nickname meaning "head".

Maroz Belarusian
Belarusian form of Moroz.

Magyar Hungarian
Means "Hungarian" in Hungarian.

Hirsch 1 German
Means "deer, hart" in German. This was a nickname for a person who resembled a deer in some way, or who raised or hunted deer.

Alvarez Spanish
Unaccented variant of Álvarez.

Simpkin English
From a diminutive of the given name Simon 1.

Hermansen Danish, Norwegian
Means "son of Herman".

Jørgensen Danish
Means "son of Jørgen".

Varano Italian
Derived from one of the many towns of this name in Italy.

Zilberschlag Jewish
Occupational name for a silversmith from Yiddish zilber "silver" and schlag "strike".

Sarka Hungarian (Anglicized)
Americanized form of Szarka.

Marcos Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Marcos. A famous bearer was Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos (1917-1989).

Kiefer 2 German
Occupational name for a barrel maker, derived from Old High German kuofa meaning "barrel".

Vestergaard Danish
From a place name, derived from Danish vest "west" and gård "farm, yard".

Yaffe Hebrew
Means "beautiful, pleasant" in Hebrew.

Catalano Italian
Italian form of Catalán.

Kravets Ukrainian
Means "tailor" in Ukrainian.

Simoneit German
From the given name Simon 1.

Sapienti Italian
Means "wise, learned" in Italian.

Basso Italian
Originally a nickname for a short person, from Latin bassus "thick, low".

Arends Dutch
Means "son of Arend".

Legrand French
Means "the tall, the large" in French.

Hallman Swedish
From Swedish hall (Old Norse hallr) meaning "rock, boulder, slab" and man (Old Norse maðr) meaning "person, man".

Strömberg Swedish
From Swedish ström (Old Norse straumr) meaning "stream" and berg meaning "mountain".

Ermacora Italian
From the given name Ermacora.

Bell 1 English
From Middle English belle meaning "bell". It originated as a nickname for a person who lived near the town bell, or who had a job as a bell-ringer.

Böcker German
Variant of Böttcher.

Elvis English
Variant of Elwes.

Rademacher Low German
Low German cognate of Rademaker.

Szwedko Polish
Variant of Szweda.

Mac Naoimhín Irish
Means "son of Naomhán" in Irish.

Bašić Croatian, Serbian
Means "son of the chief", derived from Serbo-Croatian baša meaning "chief, boss" (of Turkish origin).

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

Chase English
Occupational name for a hunter, from Middle English chase "hunt".

Buffone Italian
Means "jester, joker" in Italian.

Sanz Spanish
From the given name Sancho.

Green English
Descriptive name for someone who often wore the colour green or someone who lived near the village green.

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

Lourenço Portuguese
From the given name Lourenço.

Houtman Dutch
Dutch cognate of Holzmann.

Kaneko Japanese
From Japanese 金 (kane) meaning "gold, metal, money" and 子 (ko) meaning "child".

Lungu Romanian
Romanian cognate of Long.

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

Mulder Dutch
Dutch equivalent of Miller.

Hepburn English, Scottish
From northern English place names meaning "high burial mound" in Old English. It was borne by Mary Queen of Scot's infamous third husband, James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwall. Other famous bearers include the actresses Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) and Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993).

Baghdassarian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Բաղդասարյան (see Baghdasaryan).

Dukes English
Patronymic form of Duke.

Burnham English
From the name of various towns in England, typically derived from Old English burna "stream, spring" and ham "home, settlement".

Belluomo Italian
Variant of Bellomo.

Golob Slovene
Means "pigeon" in Slovene.

Wechsler German, Jewish
Means "money changer, banker", from German wechseln "to exchange".

Im Korean
From Sino-Korean 林 (im) meaning "forest", making it the Korean form of Lin, or 任 (im) of uncertain meaning, making it the Korean form of Ren.

Roijackers Dutch
Variant of Rooijakkers.

Schwarzenberg German
Means "black mountain" in German.

Neuman German, Jewish
Variant of Neumann.

Carson Scottish
Meaning uncertain, possibly from the town of Courson in Normandy.

Wójcik Polish
From the Polish word wójt meaning "chief, mayor" (related to German Vogt).

Terzić Bosnian
From Bosnian terzija meaning "tailor", ultimately of Persian origin.

Wernher German
From the given name Werner.

Traylor English
Meaning unknown.

Stablum Italian
Northern Italian name derived from Latin stabulum meaning "stable".

Salihović Bosnian
Means "son of Salih".

Ahearn Irish
Anglicized form of Ó hEachthighearna.

Albronda Dutch
From the name of various streets in the Netherlands.

Ó Meadhra Irish
Means "descendant of Meadhra". The given name Meadhra is derived from the Gaelic meadhar meaning "merry, happy".

Ó Dubhghaill Irish
Irish Gaelic form of Doyle.

Faust German
Derived from the given name Faust, a form of Faustus.

Kaczmarek Polish
Occupational name for a person who worked as an innkeeper, derived from Polish karczma meaning "inn".

Knight English
From Old English cniht meaning "knight", a tenant serving as a mounted soldier.

Drees Dutch
Variant of Dries.

Kavanah Irish
Variant of Kavanagh.

Paredes Portuguese, Spanish
Denoted a person who lived near a wall, from Portuguese parede and Spanish pared meaning "wall", both derived from Latin paries.

Penzak Yiddish
Variant of Penzig.

Royston English
Originally taken from an Old English place name meaning "Royse's town". The given name Royse was a medieval variant of Rose.

Anthonsen Danish, Norwegian
Variant of Antonsen.

Stück German, Jewish
From Old High German stucki meaning "piece, part".

Ananias Dutch
From the Latin given name Ananias.

Hanssen Norwegian
Means "son of Hans".

Hadaway English
Variant of Hathaway.

Holloway English
From the name of various English places, derived from Old English hol "hollow, sunken, deep" and weg "path, way".

Nevin 2 Irish
Anglicized form of Mac Cnáimhín or Ó Cnáimhín.

Greenberg German (Anglicized), Jewish
Anglicized form of Grünberg.

Gao Chinese
From Chinese 高 (gāo) meaning "tall, high".

Sándor Hungarian
Derived from the given name Sándor.

Blom Swedish
Means "bloom, flower" in Swedish.

Ó Mathghamhna Irish
Irish Gaelic form of Mahoney.

Petrović Croatian, Serbian
Means "son of Petar".

Hagihara Japanese
From Japanese 萩 (hagi) meaning "bush clover" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Achilles German
Derived from the given name Achilles.

Thayer French (Anglicized)
Americanized form of Tailler.

Wootton English
Derived from Old English wudu "wood" and tun "enclosure, town".

Al-Ghazzawi Arabic
Originally indicated a person who came from Gaza in Palestine.

Warrick English
Variant of Warwick.

MacTàmhais Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic form of McTavish.

Gass German
Name for someone who lived on a street in a city, from German gasse.

Zappa Italian
From Italian zappa meaning "hoe, mattock", probably denoting a farmer. Two musicians of Italian origin have bore this name: Francesco Zappa (1717-1803) and Frank Zappa (1940-1993).

Arthurson English
Means "son of Arthur".

Ó Dubháin Irish
Irish Gaelic form of Duane.

Hashiguchi Japanese
From Japanese 橋 (hashi) meaning "bridge" and 口 (kuchi) meaning "mouth, entrance".

Matevosyan Armenian
Means "son of Matevos".

Stieber German
Derived from Middle High German stiuben meaning "to run away". It may have been given as a nickname to a cowardly person or a thief.

Habich German
German cognate of Hawk.

Johnsen Norwegian, Danish
Means "son of John".

Blackman English
From a nickname, a variant of Black.

Ahonen Finnish
From Finnish aho meaning "meadow, glade".

Parsons English
Originally denoted a son of a parson, a derivative of Latin persona "person".

Tatton English
Originally indicated a person from a town by this name, derived from the Old English given name Tata combined with tun meaning "enclosure, yard, town".

Kilpatrick Irish
From the Irish Mac Giolla Phádraig meaning "son of the servant of Saint Patrick".

Mounce German (Anglicized)
Possibly an Americanized form of German Manz.

Königsmann German
Means "king's man", or someone who played a king in a play.

Pellé French
From French pelé meaning "bald".

Beaufort French
From various French place names derived from beau "beautiful" and fort "strong place, fortress".

Agnusdei Italian
From Latin Agnus Dei meaning "lamb of God". This was a nickname for someone who was particularly religious or someone who wore this symbol.

Isaacson English
Means "son of Isaac".

Roux French
Derived from Old French ros meaning "red", from Latin russus, a nickname for a red-haired person.

Strohkirch German
Means "straw church" in German.

Maldonado Spanish
From a nickname meaning "badly given, ill-favoured" in Spanish.

Gaillard French
Means "lively, strong" in French.

Van Achteren Dutch
Variant of Van Agteren.

Wirth German, Jewish
Occupational name for an innkeeper, derived from German wirt meaning "host".

Casales Spanish
Variant of Casal.

Baron English, French
From the title of nobility, derived from Latin baro (genitive baronis) meaning "man, freeman", possibly from Frankish barō meaning "servant, man, warrior". It was used as a nickname for someone who worked for a baron or acted like a baron.

Einarsson Swedish
Means "son of Einar".

Paulis Dutch
From the given name Paul.

Alvarado Spanish
From a Spanish place name, possibly derived from Spanish alba "white".

Bălan Romanian
Means "blond" in Romanian.

Ren Chinese
From Chinese 任 (rén), of uncertain meaning.

Braam Dutch
Derived from the given name Bram.

Van Kann Dutch
Variant of Van Kan.

Scotti Italian
From the medieval given name Francescotto, a diminutive of Francesco.

Schwangau German
From the name of a town in southern Germany, possibly related to German Schwan meaning "swan".

Sorrentino Italian
Derived from the town of Sorrento near Naples, called Surrentum in Latin, of unknown meaning.

Gelashvili Georgian
Means "son of Gela".

Marlowe English
Variant of Marlow.

Connery Irish
Variant of Conroy.

Innes 2 Scottish
From the given name Aonghus.

Sokoloff Russian (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Sokolov.

Trengove English
Originally indicated a person from Trengove in Cornwall, England.

Adriaansen Dutch
Means "son of Adriaan".

Reilly Irish
Anglicized form of Ó Raghailligh.

Bandini Italian
From the Latin name Bandinus, a derivative of Bandus, which is of unknown meaning.

Alexander English
Derived from the given name Alexander.

Janson German, Dutch, Swedish, English
Means "son of Jan 1".

O'Hanigan Irish
Variant of O'Hannigain.

Marie French
From the given name Marie.

Wilkie English
Double diminutive of the given name William.

Columbo Italian
Variant of Colombo.

Abbatantuono Italian
Variant of Abatantuono.

MacRae Scottish
Variant of McRae.

Hammond English
From the Norman given name Hamo or the Old Norse given name Hámundr.

Power 2 English
From Middle English povre meaning "poor", via Old French from Latin pauper. It could have been a nickname for someone who had no money or a miser.

Pugliese Italian
From an adjectival derivative of Puglia, from Latin Apulia, a region of southeast Italy containing the boot heel and some of the coastline of the Adriatic Sea. It is a regional name for someone from that region.

Holtz German
German cognate of Holt.

Stephenson English
Means "son of Stephen".

Gonçalves Portuguese
Means "son of Gonçalo" in Portuguese.

Eichel German
Means "acorn" in German, indicating a person who lived near an oak tree.

Orsini Italian
From a nickname meaning "little bear" in Italian, from Latin ursus "bear".

Vargha Hungarian
Variant of Varga.

Brisbois French
Referred to a person who cleared land, from Old French briser "to cut" and bois "forest".

Koster Dutch
Means "churchwarden, sexton" in Dutch, an occupational name for a caretaker of a church.

Cotterill English
Derived from Middle English cotter meaning "cottager", referring to a small tenant farmer.

Rueda Spanish
Spanish cognate of Royer.

Siskind Jewish
Variant of Ziskind.

Wruck German
From Middle Low German wrok meaning "cantankerous".

Davids English
Means "son of David".

Nagi Arabic
Alternate transcription of Arabic ناجي (see Naaji).

Ó Suaird Irish
Means "descendant of Suart" in Irish. Suart is derived from the Old Norse name Sigurd.

Wirnhier German
From the given name Werner.

Oliveira Portuguese
Means "olive tree" in Portuguese, ultimately from Latin oliva. It indicated a person who lived near or worked with olive trees.

Ó hAodha Irish
Irish Gaelic form of Hayes 2.

Leonard English
Derived from the given name Leonard.

Maddison English
Variant of Madison.

Sultana Bengali, Urdu, Maltese
Bengali, Urdu and Maltese form of Sultan.

Zyma Ukrainian
Ukrainian form of Zima.

Rothbauer German
From Old High German riuten "to clear land" and bur "peasant, farmer".

Pentti Finnish
Derived from the given name Pentti.

James English
Derived from the given name James.

Pop Romanian
Variant of Popa.

Beck 4 English
From Old English becca meaning "pickaxe", an occupational surname.

Apperlo Dutch
Variant of Appelo.

Beulens Dutch
Means "son of Boele".

Lesauvage French
French form of Savage.

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

Dreschner German
Derived from Middle High German dreschen "to thresh". A thresher was a person who separated the grains from a cereal plant by beating it.

Probert Welsh
Derived from Welsh ap Robert, which means "son of Robert".

Christianson English
Means "son of Christian".

Grimaldi Italian
From the given name Grimaldo. It is the surname of the royal family of Monaco, which came from Genoa.

Dean 2 English
Occupational surname meaning "dean", referring to a person who either was a dean or worked for one. It is from Middle English deen (ultimately from Latin decanus meaning "chief of ten").

Kovač Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Slovene
Means "blacksmith", a derivative of Slavic kovati meaning "to forge".

Duncanson Scottish
Means "son of Duncan".

Reagan Irish
Anglicized form of Irish Ó Riagáin meaning "descendant of Riagán". A famous bearer was the American president Ronald Reagan (1911-2004).

Schöttmer German
Originally indicated a person from Schötmar, Germany (now part of the city of Bad Salzuflen in North Rhine-Westphalia).

Lefebvre French
Variant of Lefèvre.

Luo Chinese
From Chinese 罗 (luó) referring to the minor state of Luo, which existed from the 11th to 7th centuries BC in what is now Hubei province.

Spears English
Patronymic form of Spear.

Pietrzak Polish
Means "son of Piotr".

Dolan Irish
From the Irish Ó Dubhshláin meaning "descendant of Dubhshláine".

MacMillan Scottish
Variant of McMillan.

Confortola Italian
From the old Italian given name Conforto meaning "comfort".