TuckerEnglish Occupational name for a fuller of cloth, derived from Old English tucian meaning "offend, torment". A fuller was a person who cleaned and thickened raw cloth by pounding it.
UnderwoodEnglish Means "dweller at the edge of the woods", from Old English under and wudu.
VaccaroItalian Occupational name meaning "cowherd" in Italian.
WhiteEnglish Originally a nickname for a person who had white hair or a pale complexion, from Old English hwit"white".
WhitneyEnglish Originally from the name of an English town, meaning "white island" in Old English.
WildEnglish, German Means "wild, untamed, uncontrolled", derived from Old English wilde. This was either a nickname for a person who behaved in a wild manner or a topographic name for someone who lived on overgrown land.
WilsonEnglish Means "son of Will". A famous bearer was the American president Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924).
WinklerGerman Derived from Old High German winkil meaning "corner".
WinterEnglish, German, Swedish From Old English winter or Old High German wintar meaning "winter". This was a nickname for a person with a cold personality.
WoodEnglish, Scottish Originally denoted one who lived in or worked in a forest, derived from Old English wudu"wood".
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.
YoungEnglish Derived from Old English geong meaning "young". This was a descriptive name to distinguish father from son.
ZhangChinese From Chinese 张 (zhāng) meaning "stretch, extend". It may have denoted a bowmaker whose job it was to stretch bow wood.
ZhaoChinese From Chinese 赵 (zhào), which refers to an ancient city-state in what is now Shanxi province. According to legend, King Mu rewarded his chariot driver Zaofu with the city, at which time Zaofu adopted this surname. The later historic state of Zhao, which existed from the 5th to 3rd centuries BC, was named after this city.... [more]