Browse Surnames

This is a list of surnames in which the language is West Germanic; and the gender is unisex.
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Coke English
Variant of Cook.
Cokes English
Variant of Cook.
Colbert English, French
Derived from the given name Colobert.
Colby English
From various English place names, which were derived from the Old Norse byname Koli (meaning "coal, dark") and býr "farm, settlement".
Cole English
From a medieval short form of Nicholas or from the byname Cola.
Coleman Irish, English
From the given name Colmán.
Colijn Dutch
From a diminutive of the given name Nicolaas.
Collingwood English
From a place name, itself derived from Old French chalenge meaning "disputed" and Middle English wode meaning "woods".
Collins 2 English
Means "son of Colin 2".
Colson English
Means "son of Col".
Colt English
Occupational name for a keeper of horses, derived from Middle English colt.
Colter English
Variant of Colt using an agent suffix.
Colton English
From a place name meaning "Cola's town".
Combs English
Variant of Coombs.
Comstock English
Possibly from the name of the River Culm in Devon, England. This name is seen in the Domesday book as Culmstoke or Colmstoke.
Conner English
From Middle English connere meaning "inspector", an occupational name for an inspector of weights and measures.
Constable English
From Old French conestable, ultimately from Latin comes stabuli meaning "officer of the stable".
Conway Welsh, English
From the name of the River Conwy in Wales, or the town situated at the mouth of the river. It is possibly derived from Welsh cyn "foremost" and the common river name suffix wy.
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.
Cooke English
Variant of Cook.
Cookson English
Patronymic form of Cook.
Coolen Dutch
From the given name Nicolaas.
Coombs English
From Old English cumb meaning "valley", the name of several places in England.
Cooper English
Means "barrel maker", from Middle English couper.
Corey English
Derived from the Old Norse given name Kóri, of unknown meaning.
Cornell English
Derived from the given name Cornelius.
Cornett English
Derived from Old French cornet meaning "horn", referring to one who worked as a horn blower.
Corwin English
Derived from Old French cordoan "leather", ultimately from the name of the Spanish city of Cordova.
Cory English
Variant of Corey.
Cotterill English
Derived from Middle English cotter meaning "cottager", referring to a small tenant farmer.
Coumans Dutch
Variant of Koopman.
Coupe English
From Middle English coupe meaning "barrel", a name for a barrel maker or cooper.
Courtenay 1 English
From the name of towns in France that were originally derivatives of the Gallo-Roman personal name Curtenus, itself derived from Latin curtus "short".
Courtenay 2 English
From the Old French nickname court nes meaning "short nose".
Courtney English
Variant of Courtenay 1 or Courtenay 2.
Cowden English
From various English place names, which meaning either "coal valley", "coal hill" or "cow pasture" in Old English.
Cox English
Patronymic form of Cock.
Coy English
Means "quiet, shy, coy" from Middle English coi.
Crawford English
From a place name derived from Old English crawe "crow" and ford "river crossing". A notable bearer was the American actress Joan Crawford (1904-1977), born Lucille Fay LeSueur.
Crawley English
From various place names derived from Old English crawe "crow" and leah "woodland, clearing".
Crewe English
Originally denoted someone from Crewe in Cheshire, which is from Welsh criu "weir, dam, fish trap".
Crisp English
English cognate of Crespo.
Croft English
From Old English croft meaning "enclosed field".
Cropper English
Occupational name derived from Middle English croppe "crop", referring to a fruit picker or a crop reaper.
Crosby English
From the name of various towns in England, derived from Old Norse kross "cross" (a borrowing from Latin crux) and býr "farm, settlement".
Cross English
Locative name meaning "cross", ultimately from Latin crux. It denoted one who lived near a cross symbol or near a crossroads.
Crouch English
Variant of Cross.
Crowley 2 English
Variant of Crawley.
Crusan Dutch (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Cruyssen.
Cruyssen Dutch
From the name of a place in the Netherlands, derived from kruis "cross".
Cuijper Dutch
Variant of Kuiper.
Cuijpers Dutch
Variant of Kuiper.
Cullen 1 English
From the name of the German city of Cologne, which was derived from Latin colonia "colony".
Cummings English
Variant of Cummins.
Cummins English, Scottish, Irish
From the Old Breton given name Cunmin, a cognate of Cuimín, introduced to Britain at the time of the Norman Conquest.
Curtis English
Nickname for a courteous person, derived from Old French curteis meaning "refined, courtly".
Cuyler Dutch
Variant of Kuijlaars or Koole.
Cuyper Dutch
Variant of Kuiper.
Cuypers Dutch
Variant of Kuiper.
Daalman Dutch
Variant of Daalmans.
Daalmans Dutch
Originally indicated a person who lived in a valley, from Dutch dal meaning "dale, valley" and man meaning "man".
Dabney English
Variant of Daubney.
Daelman Dutch
Variant of Daalmans.
Daelmans Dutch
Variant of Daalmans.
Dahlmans Dutch
Variant of Daalmans.
Dale English
From Old English dæl meaning "valley", originally indicating a person who lived there.
Dallas 1 English
From Old English dæl meaning "valley" and hus meaning "house".
Dalton English
Derived from a place name meaning "valley town" in Old English. A notable bearer of the surname was the English chemist and physicist John Dalton (1766-1844).
Dam Dutch, Danish
Means "dike, dam" in Dutch and Danish. In modern Danish it also means "pond".
Dane 1 English
Variant of Dean 1 or Dean 2.
Dane 2 English
Originally denoted a Dane, that is a person from Denmark.
Danell English
Derived from the given name Daniel.
Daniel um English, French, German, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Romanian
Derived from the given name Daniel.
Daniell English
Derived from the given name Daniel.
Daniels English
Variant of Daniel.
Danielson English
Means "son of Daniel".
Dannel English
Variant of Daniel.
Danniel English
Variant of Daniel.
Danniell English
Variant of Daniel.
Darby English
From the name of the English town Derby, derived from Old Norse djúr "animal" and býr "farm, settlement".
Darcy English
From Norman French d'Arcy, originally denoting someone who came from the town of Arcy in La Manche, France. A notable fictional bearer is Fitzwilliam Darcy from Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice (1813).
Darling English
From a nickname or byname derived from Middle English dereling, Old English deorling, meaning "darling, beloved one".
Darnell 1 English
Derived from Old French darnel, a type of grass.
Darnell 2 English
From the name of a town near Sheffield, derived from Old English derne "hidden" and halh "nook".
Darrell English
Originally denoted one who came from the town of Airel in Normandy, derived from Late Latin arealis meaning "open space".
Darwin English
From the given name Deorwine. A famous bearer was the British naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882).
Daube German
Variant of Taube.
Daubney English
From any of the various towns in France called Aubigny, derived from the Gallo-Roman personal name Albinus.
David um English, French, German, Welsh, Czech, Portuguese, Romanian, Jewish
From the given name David.
Davids English
Means "son of David".
Davidson English
Means "son of David".
Davies English, Scottish
Variant of Davis.
Davis English, Scottish
Means "son of David". This was the surname of the revolutionary jazz trumpet player Miles Davis (1926-1991).
Davison English
Means "son of David".
Dawson English
Means "son of Daw".
Day English
From a diminutive form of David.
Dayton English
Variant of Deighton.
Deacon English
Means "deacon", ultimately from Greek διάκονος (diakonos) meaning "servant".
Deadman English
Variant of Debenham.
Dean 1 English
Derived from Middle English dene meaning "valley".
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").
Debenham English
Originally denoted a person from the town of Debenham in Suffolk, derived from the name of the River Deben (meaning "deep" in Old English) combined with ham meaning "home, settlement".
De Boer Dutch
Dutch cognate of Bauer.
De Bruijn Dutch
Dutch cognate of Brown.
De Bruin Dutch
Dutch cognate of Brown.
De Clerc Dutch
Variant of De Klerk.
De Clercq Dutch
Variant of De Klerk.
De Cloet Dutch
Variant of Kloet.
De Cock Flemish
Flemish cognate of Cook.
Dedrick English
Derived from the given name Dederick, an older form of Derek.
Deering English
From the Old English given name Deora meaning "dear, beloved".
De Graaf Dutch
Dutch cognate of Graf.
De Groot Dutch
From Dutch groot meaning "big, great".
De Haan Dutch
Means "rooster" in Dutch.
De Haas Dutch
Dutch cognate of Hase.
Deighton English
From English towns by this name, from Old English dic "ditch" and tun "enclosure, yard, town".
De Jong Dutch
Means "young" in Dutch, from Middle Dutch jonc. This is the most common surname in the Netherlands.
De Jonge Dutch
Variant of De Jong.
De Jonker Dutch
Variant of Jonker.
Dekker Dutch
Means "roofer, thatcher" in Dutch.
De Klerk Dutch
From Dutch klerk meaning "clerk", making this a cognate of Clark.
De Kloet Dutch
Variant of Kloet.
De Kock Dutch
Dutch cognate of Cook.
De Koning Dutch
Dutch cognate of King.
Delaney 1 English
Derived from Norman French de l'aunaie meaning "from the alder grove".
De Lang Dutch
Dutch cognate of Long.
De Lange Dutch
Dutch cognate of Long.
Denman English
From Middle English dene "valley" combined with man.
Dennell English
Variant of Daniel.
Dennis English
From the given name Dennis.
Denzel German
Variant of Tanzer.
Denzil English
From the place name Denzell, a manor in Cornwall, which is of unknown meaning.
Derby English
Variant of Darby.
Derichs German
Means "son of Dirk".
Derrick English
Derived from the given name Derrick (see Derek). A famous bearer of this surname is the character Stephan Derrick from the German television series Derrick (1974-1998).
Derricks English
Derived from the given name Derrick.
Derrickson English
Means "son of Derrick".
De Smet Flemish
Flemish variant of Smit.
De Snaijer Dutch
Dutch cognate of Snyder.
De Veen Dutch
Variant of Van der Veen.
De Ven Dutch
Variant of Van der Veen.
Devereux English
Indicated a person from Evreux in France, itself named after the Gaulish tribe of the Eburovices, which was probably derived from a Celtic word meaning "yew".
Devin 2 French, English
Nickname for a person who acted divinely or prophetically, from Old French devin meaning "divine" or "seer, fortune teller", ultimately from Latin divinus.
Devine 2 English
Variant of Devin 2.
De Vos Dutch
Variant of Vos.
Devos Flemish
Flemish variant of Vos.
De Vries Dutch
Means "the Frisian" in Dutch, referring to a person from Friesland.
De Vroom Dutch, Flemish
Variant of Vroom.
De Vroome Dutch
Variant of Vroom.
De Wit Dutch
Variant of De Witte.
De With Dutch
Variant of De Witte.
De Witt Dutch
Variant of De Witte.
De Witte Dutch
Means "the white" in Dutch, a nickname for a person with white hair.
Dexter English
Occupational name meaning "dyer" in Old English (originally this was a feminine word, but it was later applied to men as well).
Dick English
From the given name Dick 1.
Dickens English
From the medieval given name Dicun, a medieval diminutive of Dick 1. A famous bearer of this surname was the British author Charles Dickens (1812-1870).
Dickenson English
Variant of Dickinson.
Dickerson English
Means "son of Dick 1".
Dickinson English
Means "son of Dicun", Dicun being a medieval diminutive of Dick 1. American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was a famous bearer.
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.
Dickson English
Means "son of Dick 1".
Diefenbach German
From a German place name meaning "deep creek".
Dierickx Flemish
Means "son of Dirk".
Dieter German
Derived from the given name Dieter.
Dietrich German
Derived from the given name Dietrich.
Dijkstra Frisian
Variant of Dykstra.
Dirchs Dutch (Rare)
Means "son of Dirk".
Dircks Dutch
Means "son of Dirk".
Dircksens Dutch
Means "son of Dirk".
Dirckx Flemish, Dutch
Means "son of Dirk".
Dirix Flemish, Dutch
Means "son of Dirk".
Dirks Dutch, German
Means "son of Dirk".
Dirkse Dutch
Means "son of Dirk".
Dirksen Dutch, German
Means "son of Dirk".
Dirkx Dutch, Flemish
Means "son of Dirk".
Disney English
Means "from Isigny", referring to the town of Isigny in Normandy. This surname was borne by the American animator and filmmaker Walt Disney (1901-1966).
Dittmar German
Derived from the given name Dietmar.
Dixon English
Means "son of Dick 1".
Dobbs English
Derived from the medieval given name Dobbe, a diminutive of Robert.
Dobson English
Means "son of Dobbe", a medieval diminutive of Robert.
Doctor English
Originally denoted someone who was a doctor, ultimately from Latin doctor meaning "teacher".
Dodge English
From Dogge, a medieval diminutive of Roger.
Dohman German
Derived from a diminutive of the given name Thomas.
Donalds English
Derived from the given name Donald.
Donaldson English
Means "son of Donald". A notable bearer is the online personality Jimmy Donaldson (1998-), who goes by the alias MrBeast.
Dorsey English
Means "from Orsay", referring to the town of Orsay near Paris, its name deriving from the Latin personal name Orcius.
Downer English
Name for someone who lived on or near a down, which is an English word meaning "hill".
Drake English
Derived from the Old Norse byname Draki or the Old English byname Draca both meaning "dragon", both via Latin from Greek δράκων (drakon) meaning "dragon, serpent".
Draper English
Occupational name for a maker or seller of woollen cloth, from Anglo-Norman French draper (Old French drapier, an agent derivative of drap "cloth").
Drechsler German
Variant of Dressler.
Drees Dutch
Variant of Dries.
Dreesen Dutch
Variant of Driessen.
Dreesens Dutch
Variant of Driessen.
Dreessen Dutch
Variant of Driessen.
Dreher German
Means "turner" from Middle High German drehen "to turn". A turner was a person who used a lathe to create small objects from wood or bone.
Dreier German
Variant of Dreher.
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.
Dresdner German
Originally indicated a person who came from the city of Dresden in German.
Dressler German
Means "turner" from Middle High German dreseler, an agent derivative of drehen "to turn". A turner was a person who used a lathe to create small objects from wood or bone.
Dreyer German
Variant of Dreher.
Dries Dutch
From the given name Dries.
Driessen Dutch
Means "son of Dries".
Dudley English
From a place name meaning "Dudda's clearing" in Old English. The surname was borne by a British noble family.
Duerr German
Variant of Dürr.
Duke English
From the noble title, which was originally from Latin dux "leader". It was a nickname for a person who behaved like a duke, or who worked in a duke's household.
Dukes English
Patronymic form of Duke.
Dunkel German
Means "dark" in German.
Dunn English, Scottish, Irish
Derived from Old English dunn "dark" or Gaelic donn "brown", referring to hair colour or complexion.
Dunst German
Derived from Middle High German dunst "haze".
Durand French, English
From Old French durant meaning "enduring", ultimately from Latin durans. This was a nickname for a stubborn person.
Durant English, French
Variation of Durand.
Dürr German
Means "thin" in German.
Dustin English
From the Old Norse given name Þórsteinn.
Dwerryhouse English
Indicated a person who worked or lived at a dyehouse, which is a place where dyeing was done.
Dwight English
From the medieval feminine name Diot, a diminutive of Dionysia, the feminine form of Dionysius.
Dyer English
Occupational name meaning "cloth dyer", from Old English deah "dye".
Dykstra Frisian
From Frisian dyk meaning "dike, ditch". The name was given to a person living near a dyke or embankment.
Dyson English
Means "son of Dye".
Eads English
Means "son of Eda 2" or "son of Adam".
Eady English
From a diminutive of the given name Eda 2 or Adam.
Earl English
From the aristocratic title, which derives from Old English eorl meaning "nobleman, warrior". It was either a nickname for one who acted like an earl, or an occupational name for a person employed by an earl.
Earls English
Patronymic form of Earl.
Easom English
Variant of Eads.
Eason English
Variant of Eads.
Easton English
From the name of various places meaning "east town" in Old English.
Eaton English
From any of the various English towns with this name, derived from Old English ea "river" and tun "enclosure, yard, town".
Eberhardt German
Derived from the given name Eberhard.
Ebner 1 German
Originally indicated a dweller on a flat piece of land, derived from Middle High German ebene "plateau".
Ebner 2 German
Means "judge, arbiter" from Middle High German ebenære.
Eccleston English
Denoted a person from any of the various places named Eccleston in England, derived from Latin ecclesia "church" (via Briton) and Old English tun "enclosure, yard, town".
Ecclestone English
Variant of Eccleston.
Eckstein German
From Old High German ekka meaning "edge, corner" and stein meaning "stone".
Edgar English
Derived from the given name Edgar.
Edison English
Means "son of Eda 2" or "son of Adam". The surname was borne by American inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931).
Edwards English
Means "son of Edward".
Edwardson English
Means "son of Edward".
Eerkens Dutch
Variant of Erkens.
Egger German
South German occupational name meaning "plowman" or "farmer", derived from German eggen "to harrow, to plow".
Eichel German
Means "acorn" in German, indicating a person who lived near an oak tree.
Eikenboom Dutch
Means "oak tree", from Dutch eik "oak" and boom "tree".
Eilerts German
Derived from the given name Eilert.
Elder English
Derived from Old English ealdra meaning "older", used to distinguish two people who had the same name.
Eldred English
From the given name Ealdræd.
Eldridge English
Derived from the given name Aldric.
Eliot English
Variant of Elliott.
Eliott English
Variant of Elliott.
Ellery English
From the medieval masculine name Hilary.
Ellington English
From the name of multiple towns in England. The town's name is derived from the masculine given name Ella (a short form of Old English names beginning with the elements ælf meaning "elf" or eald meaning "old") combined with tun meaning "enclosure, town".
Elliot English
Variant of Elliott.
Elliott English
Derived from a diminutive of the given name Elias.
Ellis English, Welsh
Derived from the given name Elijah, or sometimes Elisedd.
Ellison English
Patronymic form of the English name Ellis, from the medieval given name Elis, a vernacular form of Elijah.
Ellisson English
Variant of Ellison.
Elliston English
Variant of Ellison.
Ellsworth English
Habitational name for a person from the town of Elsworth in Cambridgeshire. The town's name is derived from the masculine given name Ella (a short form of Old English names beginning with the elements ælf meaning "elf" or eald meaning "old") combined with worþ meaning "enclosure".
Elmer English
Derived from the Old English name Æðelmær.
Elton English
From an English place name meaning "Ella's town".
Elvis English
Variant of Elwes.
Elwes English
Derived from the given name Eloise.
Elwin English
Variant of Elwyn.
Elwyn English
Derived from the given names Ælfwine, Æðelwine or Ealdwine.
Ely English
From the name of a town in eastern England meaning "eel district".
Elzinga Dutch
Probably from a place name that was a derivative of Dutch els meaning "alder tree".
Emerson English
Means "son of Emery". The surname was borne by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), an American writer and philosopher who wrote about transcendentalism.
Emmet English
Variant of Emmett. This name was borne by the Irish nationalist Robert Emmet (1778-1803).
Emmett English
Derived from a diminutive of the feminine given name Emma.
Emmitt English
Variant of Emmett.
Endicott English
Topographic name derived from Old English meaning "from the end cottage".
Engel German
Derived from German given names beginning with Engel, such as Engelbert.
English English
Denoted a person who was of English heritage. It was used to distinguish people who lived in border areas (for example, near Wales or Scotland). It was also used to distinguish an Anglo-Saxon from a Norman.
Enns German
Derived from a short form of the German given name Anselm.
Erckens Dutch
Variant of Erkens.
Erickson English
Means "son of Eric".
Ericson English, Swedish
Means "son of Eric".
Erkens Dutch
Derived from the given name Erk, a variant of Erik.
Ernst German, Dutch, Danish
From the given name Ernst.
Esser German
Means "cartwright", related to Old High German ahsa "axle".
Essert German
Variant of Esser.
Eustis English
Derived from the given name Eustace.
Evans Welsh, English
Means "son of Evan".
Evanson English
Means "son of Evan".
Evelyn English
Derived from the given name Aveline.
Evered English
From the given name Everard.
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).
Everett English
From the given name Everard.
Everhart German
Variant of Eberhardt.
Everill English
Derived from the feminine given name Eoforhild.
Everly English
From place names meaning derived from Old English eofor "boar" and leah "woodland, clearing".
Evers Dutch
Means "son of Evert".
Ewart 1 English
From a Norman form of Edward.
Ewart 2 English
From the name of an English town, derived from Old English ea "river" and worþ "enclosure".
Fabel German
Derived from a diminutive of the given name Fabian.
Fabian German, English, Polish
Derived from the given name Fabian.
Faerber German
Variant of Färber.
Fairbairn Scottish, English
Means "beautiful child" in Middle English and Scots.
Fairburn English
From a place name meaning "fern stream", from Old English fearn "fern" and burna "stream".
Fairchild English
Means "beautiful child" in Middle English.
Fairclough English
From a place name meaning "fair ravine, fair cliff" in Old English.
Falconer English, Scottish
Variant of Faulkner.
Falk Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German
From Old Norse falki or Old High German falco meaning "falcon".
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