CastroSpanish, Portuguese Means "castle" in Spanish and Portuguese, referring to one who lived near a castle. A famous bearer was Fidel Castro (1926-2016), revolutionary and president of Cuba.
DengChinese From Chinese 邓 (dèng) referring to the ancient state of Deng, which existed during the Shang and Zhou dynasties in what is now either Henan or Hubei province.
HitlerGerman 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.
HuertaSpanish Means "garden, orchard" in Spanish, ultimately from Latin hortus.
HusseinArabic From the given name Husayn. A famous bearer was the Iraqi president Saddam Hussein (1937-2006).
KimKorean Korean form of Jin, from Sino-Korean 金 (gim) meaning "gold". This is the most common surname in South Korea.
LeninHistory Surname adopted by the Russian revolutionary and founder of the former Soviet state Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), whose birth surname was Ulyanov. He probably adapted it from the name of the River Lena in Siberia.
MarcosSpanish, Portuguese From the given name Marcos. A famous bearer was Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos (1917-1989).
MussoliniItalian From Italian mussolina meaning "muslin", a type of cloth, itself derived from the city of Mosul in Iraq. This name was borne by the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945).
PutinmRussian From Russian путь (put) meaning "road, path". This surname is borne by the Russian president Vladimir Putin (1952-).
SalazarBasque, Spanish From Spanish sala meaning "hall" and Basque zahar meaning "old". It can also refer to the town of Salazar in Burgos, Spain, which is of the same origin.
StalinHistory Surname adopted by the Russian leader Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) during his revolutionary years. He was an ethnic Georgian, born as Ioseb Jughashvili. He derived it from Russian сталь (stal) meaning "steel".
TrujilloSpanish Originally denoted a person from Trujillo, Spain, originally called Turgalium in Latin.
VargasSpanish, Portuguese Means "slope, flooded field, pastureland" or "hut", from the Spanish and Portuguese dialectal word varga.