This is a list of surnames in which the categories include body parts.
ArmbrusterGerman Means "crossbow maker" from German armbrust "crossbow". The word armbrust was originally from Latin arcuballista meaning "bow ballista", but was modified under the influence of German arm "arm" and brust "breast".
ArmstrongEnglish Means "strong arm" from Middle English. Tradition holds that the family is descended from Siward, an 11th-century Earl of Northumbria. Famous bearers of this name include the Americans Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), a jazz musician, and Neil Armstrong (1930-2012), an astronaut who was the first person to walk on the moon.
BaartDutch Means "beard" in Dutch, originally describing a person who wore a beard.
Baines 2English From a nickname derived from Old English ban"bones", probably for a thin person.
BallEnglish From Middle English bal, Old English beall meaning "ball". This was either a nickname for a rotund or bald person, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a ball-shaped feature.
BazzoliItalian From Italian bazza meaning "protruding chin".
Beck 3English From a nickname for a person with a big nose, from Middle English bec meaning "beak".
BelcherEnglish From a Middle English version of Old French bel chiere meaning "beautiful face". It later came to refer to a person who had a cheerful and pleasant temperament.
BerlusconiItalian Probably from the Milanese word berlusch meaning "cross-eyed, crooked".
Bone 1English Derived from Old French bon meaning "good".
BorgninoItalian From a nickname derived from the Piedmontese dialect word borgno meaning "one-eyed". This was the real surname of American actor Ernest Borgnine (1917-2012).
BorstDutch From a nickname derived from Dutch borst"chest".
BoškomSlovak Derived from Slovak bosý meaning "barefoot".
BoskoPolish Derived from Polish bosy meaning "barefoot".
BreitbarthGerman From Old High German breit "broad" and bart "beard", originally a nickname for someone with a full beard.
BrkićCroatian, Serbian Derived from Serbo-Croatian brk meaning "moustache, whisker".
BunkerEnglish Derived from Old French bon cuer meaning "good heart".
Burns 1English, Scottish Derived from Old English burna"stream, spring". A famous bearer was the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796).
ButtsEnglish From a nickname meaning "thick, stumpy", from Middle English butt.
CabelloSpanish Means "hair" in Spanish, used as a nickname for a person with a large amount of hair.
CameronScottish Means "crooked nose" from Gaelic cam "crooked" and sròn "nose".
CampbellScottish From a Gaelic nickname cam beul meaning "wry or crooked mouth". The surname was later represented in Latin documents as de bello campo meaning "of the fair field".
CamusFrench Means "flat-nosed" in French. A notable bearer was the French philosopher Albert Camus (1913-1960).
Capello 2Italian Nickname for a thin person, from Italian capello meaning "a hair", ultimately derived from Latin capillus.
CapitaniItalian Occupational name meaning "captain" in Italian, ultimately from Latin caput "head".
CarrilloSpanish Means "cheek, jaw" in Spanish, originally a nickname for a person with a distinctive cheek or jaw.
CarusoItalian Means "close-cropped hair" in Italian, also having the secondary sense "boy, young man".
HeadEnglish From Middle English hed meaning "head", from Old English heafod. It may have referred to a person who had a peculiar head, who lived near the head of a river or valley, or who served as the village headman.
HertzGerman Derived from Middle High German herze meaning "heart", a nickname for a big-hearted person.
HlaváčmCzech From a nickname for a person with an oddly-shaped head, derived from Czech hlava"head".
HuChinese From Chinese 胡 (hú) meaning "beard, whiskers, recklessly, wildly, barbarian".
IzquierdoSpanish Means "left, left-handed" in Spanish, ultimately from Basque ezker.
KennedyIrish From the Irish name Ó Cinnéidigh meaning "descendant of Cennétig". This surname was borne by assassinated American president John F. Kennedy (1917-1963).
KnochenmusGerman From German Knochen "bone" and Mus "sauce". It probably referred to someone who worked in the butcher trade.
LombardiItalian Originally indicated someone who came from the Lombardy region of northern Italy, which was named for the Lombards, a Germanic tribe who invaded in the 6th century. Their name is derived from the Old German roots lang "long" and bart "beard".
Mac CnáimhínIrish Means "son of Cnámh". The Irish given name Cnámh means "bone".
MancoItalian Means "left-handed" in Italian, derived from Latin mancus meaning "maimed".
MerkelGerman From a diminutive of the given name Markus. A notable bearer is the former German chancellor Angela Merkel (1954-).
NasatoItalian Nickname for someone with a prominent nose, from Italian naso"nose".
ObamaLuo From a rare Luo given name meaning "crooked, bent". It was possibly originally given to a baby who had an arm or leg that looked slightly bent immediately after birth or who was born in the breech position.
Ó CnáimhínIrish Means "descendant of Cnámh", Cnámh being a nickname meaning "bone".
OquendoSpanish Originally indicated a person from the town of Okondo in Álava, northern Spain, possibly derived from Basque ukondo "elbow".
PanzaItalian, Literature From a variant of the Italian word pancia meaning "stomach, paunch", originally a nickname for a chubby person. The Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes used it in his novel Don Quixote (1605), where it is the surname of Don Quixote's squire Sancho Panza. Not a common Spanish surname, Cervantes may have based it directly on the Spanish word panza (a cognate of the Italian word).
QuattrocchiItalian From Italian quattro meaning "four" and occhi meaning "eyes", a nickname for a person who wore glasses. It is usually found in Sicily.
QuijadaSpanish Means "jaw" in Spanish, a nickname for someone with a large jaw.
QuirkeIrish Anglicized form of Irish Ó Cuirc meaning "descendant of Corc", a given name meaning "heart".
RaskopfGerman Possibly from German rasch "quick" and Kopf "head".
Rose 1English, French, German, Jewish Means "rose" from Middle English, Old French and Middle High German rose, all from Latin rosa. All denote a person of a rosy complexion or a person who lived in an area abundant with roses. As a Jewish surname it is ornamental, from Yiddish רויז (roiz).
SannaItalian From Italian sanna or zanna meaning "tusk, fang", a nickname for a person with a protruding tooth. It is especially common on Sardinia.
ScarpaItalian Means "shoemaker" from Italian scarpa meaning "shoe".
SkjeggestadNorwegian From a place name, derived from Norwegian skjegg "beard" and stad "town, place".
SolakTurkish From the nickname solak meaning "left-handed".
StaussGerman Means "buttocks" from Middle High German stuz.
StoppelbeinGerman Means "stump leg" from Middle Low German stoppel "stump" and bein "leg".
SullivanIrish Anglicized form of the Irish name Ó Súileabháin meaning "descendant of Súileabhán". The name Súileabhán means "dark eye".
TestaItalian From an Italian nickname meaning "head".
VlasákmCzech Derived from Czech vlas"hair", probably referring to a barber or a person who bought and sold hair.
Wang 2German, Dutch From Middle High German and Middle Dutch wange meaning "cheek", possibly a nickname for someone with round or rosy cheeks.
WhiteheadEnglish Nickname for someone with white or light-coloured hair, from Old English hwit"white" and heafod "head".
YamaguchiJapanese From Japanese 山 (yama) meaning "mountain" and 口 (kuchi) meaning "mouth, entrance". Olympic figure-skating champion Kristi Yamaguchi (1971-) bears this name.
YapEnglish From a nickname for a clever or cunning person, from Middle English yap meaning "devious, deceitful, shrewd".
ZąbekPolish From Polish zab"tooth" and a diminutive suffix.