This is a list of surnames in which the categories include bass guitarists.
AlbuquerquePortuguese From the name of the Spanish town of Alburquerque, near the Portuguese border in the province of Badajoz. It is probably derived from Latin alba quercus meaning "white oak".
BlackEnglish 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.
BrockEnglish Derived from Old English brocc meaning "badger", ultimately of Celtic origin.
BurtonEnglish From a common English place name, derived from Old English meaning "fortified town".
ButlerEnglish, Irish Occupational name derived from Norman French butiller"wine steward", ultimately from Late Latin butticula "bottle". A famous bearer of this surname is the fictional character Rhett Butler, created by Margaret Mitchell for her novel Gone with the Wind (1936).
ChancellorEnglish Occupational name for an administrator, a chancellor, from Norman French chancelier.
ChandlerEnglish Occupational name meaning "candle seller" or "candle maker" in Middle English, ultimately derived from Latin candela via Old French.
ClaytonEnglish From the name of various places meaning "clay settlement" in Old English.
CookEnglish 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.
CraigScottish Derived from Gaelic creag meaning "crag, rocks, outcrop", originally belonging to a person who lived near a crag.
DouglasScottish From the name of a town in Lanarkshire, itself named after a tributary of the River Clyde called the Douglas Water, derived from Gaelic dubh "dark" and glais "water, river" (an archaic word related to glas "grey, green"). This was a Scottish Lowland clan, the leaders of which were powerful earls in the medieval period.
ElizondoSpanish Originally referred to a person who lived close to a church, from Basque eleiza "church" and ondo "near".
FaircloughEnglish From a place name meaning "fair ravine, fair cliff" in Old English.
FinchEnglish, Literature From the name of the bird, from Old English finc. It was used by Harper Lee for the surname of lawyer Atticus Finch and his children in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960).
FlanaganIrish From Irish Ó Flannagáin meaning "descendant of Flannagán". Flannagán is a given name meaning "blood red". From County Roscommon in Ireland, it has many other spellings.
GordonScottish From the name of a place in Berwickshire, Scotland, derived from Brythonic words meaning "spacious fort".
GreenwoodEnglish Topographic name for someone who lived in or near a lush forest, from Old English grene "green" and wudu "wood".
HartEnglish Means "male deer". It was originally acquired by a person who lived in a place frequented by harts, or bore some resemblance to a hart.
HillEnglish Originally given to a person who lived on or near a hill, derived from Old English hyll.
HopperEnglish Occupational name for an acrobat or a nickname for someone who was nervous or restless. A famous bearer was the American actor Dennis Hopper (1936-2010).
HornEnglish, German, Norwegian, Danish From the Old English, Old High German and Old Norse word horn meaning "horn". This was an occupational name for one who carved objects out of horn or who played a horn, or a person who lived near a horn-shaped geographical feature, such as a mountain or a bend in a river.
LynchIrish From Irish Ó Loingsigh meaning "descendant of Loingseach", a given name meaning "mariner".
MasonEnglish Occupational name for a stoneworker or layer of bricks, from Old French masson, of Frankish origin (akin to Old English macian "to make").
Murray 1Scottish Derived from the region in Scotland called Moray (Gaelic Moireabh), possibly of Pictish origin, meaning "seashore, coast". A notable bearer of this surname was General James Murray (1721-1794), who was the first British Governor-General of Canada.
Nelson 1English Means "son of Neil". This name was borne by the British admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805).
RossEnglish, Scottish From various place names (such as the region of Ross in northern Scotland), which are derived from Scottish Gaelic ros meaning "promontory, headland".
RutherfordScottish From the name of places in southern Scotland and northern England, derived from Old English hriðer meaning "cattle, ox" and ford meaning "ford, river crossing".
SavageEnglish English nickname meaning "wild, uncouth", derived from Old French salvage or sauvage meaning "untamed", ultimately from Latin silvaticus meaning "wild, from the woods".
YorkEnglish From the name of the English city of York, which was originally called Eburacon (Latinized as Eboracum), meaning "yew" in Brythonic. In the Anglo-Saxon period it was corrupted to Eoforwic, based on Old English eofor "boar" and wic "village". This was rendered as Jórvík by the Vikings and eventually reduced to York.
ZabalaBasque Originally denoted someone who lived in a place of this name in Biscay. It is derived from Basque zabal meaning "large, wide".