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Acker German, English
Denoted a person who lived near a field, derived from Middle English aker or Middle High German acker meaning "field".

Adenauer German
Denoted a person from the town of Adenau in Germany. The name of the town is of uncertain etymology.

Akker Dutch
Dutch form of Acker.

Attwater English
Variant of Atwater.

Atwater English
From Middle English meaning "dweller at the water".

Auer German
From German Aue, Old High German ouwa, meaning "meadow by a river, wetland".

Baier German
Variant of Bayer.

Baumer German
Variant of Baum.

Baumgärtner German
Variant of Baumgartner.

Baumgartner German
Occupational name for a person who worked or lived at an orchard, from German Baumgarten "orchard" (derived from Baum "tree" and Garten "garden").

Bayer German
Originally denoted a person from Bavaria, from its German name Bayern.

Beckenbauer German
Means "farmer living by a stream" in German.

Benscoter Dutch (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Bunschoten.

Berger 2 German, Dutch
Variant of Berg.

Beumer Dutch
Possibly a Dutch form of Baumer or Böhmer.

Beyer German
Variant of Bayer.

Boehler German
Variant of Böhler.

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

Böhmer German, Jewish
Variant of Böhm.

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

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".

Bumgarner German
Variant of Baumgartner.

Burgstaller German
From German Burg "fortress, castle" and Stelle "place, position". This was a name given to a person dwelling at or near such a site.

Chester English
From the name of a city in England, derived from Latin castrum "camp, fortress".

Cuyler Dutch
Variant of Kuijlaars or Koole.

Downer English
Name for someone who lived on or near a down, which is an English word meaning "hill".

Dresdner German
Originally indicated a person who came from the city of Dresden in German.

Ebner 1 German
Originally indicated a dweller on a flat piece of land, derived from Middle High German ebene "plateau".

Favager French
Possibly indicated a person from the town of Faverges in eastern France, derived from Old French faverge meaning "forge".

Flater German
Means "reed bed" in German.

Foerstner German
Variant of Förstner.

Förstner German
Denoted a keeper or one in charge of a forest (see Forst).

Fraser Scottish
Meaning unknown, originally Norman French de Fresel, possibly from a lost place name in France.

Frazier Scottish
Variant of Fraser.

Garner 1 English
From Old French gernier meaning "granary", a derivative of Latin granum meaning "grain". This name could refer to a person who worked at a granary or lived near one.

Garnier 2 English
Variant of Garner 1.

Glöckner German
Derived from Middle High German glocke "bell". It may have referred to a person who worked at or lived close to a bell tower.

Graner German
Originally denoted a person from Gran, the German name for Esztergom, a city in northern Hungary.

Grover English
From Old English graf meaning "grove of trees". A famous bearer was the American president Grover Cleveland (1837-1908).

Gruber Upper German
From German Grube meaning "pit", indicating a person who lived or worked in a pit or depression. This is the most common surname in Austria.

Häusler German
Name for someone who lived in a house with no land, derived rom Old High German word hus meaning "house".

Hayter English
Name for a person who lived on a hill, from Middle English heyt meaning "height".

Heppenheimer German
From the name of the city of Heppenheim in Hesse, Germany.

Hiedler German
From southern German Hiedl meaning "underground stream".

Hightower English
Possibly a variant of Hayter.

Hitler German
Variant of Hiedler. This was spelling used by Alois Hitler, the father of German dictator Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), when he adopted his stepfather Johann Georg Hiedler's surname.

Hölzer German
German cognate of Holt.

Holzer German
German cognate of Holt.

Hooker English
Originally applied to one who lived near a river bend or corner of some natural feature, from Old English hoc "angle, hook".

Kiefer 1 German
Means "pine tree" in German.

Kjær Danish
Topographic name for someone living near a wetland, from Danish kær "marsh", from Old Norse kjarr "thicket".

Kyler Dutch (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Cuyler.

Leitner German
Referred to one who lived on a hillside, from Middle High German lite "slope".

Lindner German
Variant of Linden.

Meisner German
Variant of Meissner.

Meissner German
Originally denoted a person from the German town of Meissen, which is probably of Slavic origin.

Mortimer English
From the name of a town in Normandy meaning "dead water, still water" in Old French.

Moser German
Name for someone who lived near a peat bog, from Middle High German mos.

Noyer French
French form of Nogueira.

Olander Swedish
Denoted someone from the islands of Öland (eastern Sweden) or Åland (western Finland).

Oppenheimer German
Originally indicated a person from Oppenheim, Germany, perhaps meaning "marshy home". A notable bearer was the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967).

Øster Danish
From Danish øst meaning "east", originally denoting a dweller on the eastern side of a place.

Oursler German
Originally a name designating a person from Ursel (now Oberursel) in Hesse, Germany.

Pichler Upper German
From Bavarian Bühel meaning "hill".

Pletcher German (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Pletscher.

Pletscher German
Possibly from the name of a field where cattle fodder was grown, from German Bletsch.

Poirier French
Means "pear tree" in French, originally a nickname for someone who lived close to such a tree.

Power 1 English, Irish
From Old French Poier, indicating a person who came from the town of Poix in Picardy, France.

Reiter German
Variant of Reuter 1.

Reuter 1 German
Fom Middle High German riute meaning "cleared land".

Riber Danish
Originally indicated a person from the county or town of Ribe in southwestern Denmark.

Rosenberger German, Jewish
Variant of Rosenberg.

Saller 1 German
Originally denoted a person from the town of Sallern in Bavaria, possibly from a Celtic element meaning "stream".

Saller 2 German
Denoted a person who lived by a prominent sallow tree, from Middle High German salhe "sallow tree".

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

Schwarzenegger German
From a place name, derived from Old High German swarz meaning "black" and ekka meaning "edge, corner". A famous bearer of this name is actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-).

Schweitzer German
Indicated a person from Switzerland (see Schweiz).

Skywalker Popular Culture
From the English words sky and walker, created by George Lucas as the surname for several characters in his Star Wars movie series, notably the hero Luke Skywalker from the original trilogy (beginning 1977). Early drafts of the script had the name as Starkiller.

Soler Occitan, Catalan
Denoted a person from any of the numerous places in the area whose names derive from Occitan or Catalan soler meaning "ground, floor".

Spijker 1 Dutch
Denoted a dweller by or worker at a granary, from Dutch spijker "granary".

Spiker Dutch (Anglicized)
Americanized form of Spijker 1 or Spijker 2.

Steiner German
Variant of Stein.

Switzer German (Anglicized)
Americanized form of Schweitzer.

Traver French
French variant of Travers.

Van Aller Dutch
Means "from the Aller", a river in Germany, of uncertain meaning.

Van den Akker Dutch
Means "from the field" in Dutch.

Van der Meer Dutch
Means "from the lake" in Dutch.

Van Tonder Dutch
Means "from Tønder", a town in Denmark near the German border.

Venner Dutch
Variant of Van der Veen.

Waller 2 English
Derived from Old English weall meaning "wall", denoting a builder of walls or someone who lived near a prominent wall.

Waller 3 English
From Old English wille meaning "well, spring, water hole".

Waxweiler German
Denoted a person from Waxweiler, a village in the Eifel region of Germany.

Weaver 2 English
From the name of the River Weaver, derived from Old English wefer meaning "winding stream".

Whitaker English
From a place name composed of Old English hwit "white" and æcer "field".

Whittaker English
Variant of Whitaker.

Wilder English, German
Variant of Wild.

Winchester English
From an English place name, derived from Venta, of Celtic origin, and Latin castrum meaning "camp, fortress".

Winkler German
Derived from Old High German winkil meaning "corner".

Xylander German
From Greek ξύλον (xylon) meaning "wood, timber" and ἀνδρός (andros) meaning "man". This surname was a Greek translation of German surnames of the same meaning.

Zellweger German (Swiss)
Originally denoted a person from the Appenzell region of Switzerland. The place name is derived from Latin abbatis cella meaning "estate of the abbot". A famous bearer is actress Renée Zellweger (1969-).

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