Surnames Categorized "earth"

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AARDEN Dutch
From Dutch aarden meaning "clay, stone, earth". It probably denoted a person who worked with those materials.

ARENA Italian
Italian cognate of ARENAS.

ARENAS Spanish
From various Spanish place names, which are derived from Spanish arena meaning "sand".

BARROS Portuguese, Spanish
From the Portuguese and Spanish word barro meaning "clay, mud". This could either be an occupational name for a person who worked with clay or mud such as a builder or artisan, or a topographic name for someone living near clay or mud.

BELMONTE Spanish, Italian
From various place names in Italy and Spain meaning "beautiful mountain".

CLAY English
Means simply "clay", originally referring to a person who lived near or worked with of clay.

CRAIG Scottish
Derived from Gaelic creag meaning "crag, rocks", originally belonging to a person who lived near a crag.

DUNBAR Scottish
From the name of a town in East Lothian, Scotland, derived from Gaelic dùn meaning "fort" and barr meaning "summit", so called from its situation on a rock that projects into the sea.

FREITAS Portuguese
Means "broken" in Portuguese, a name for one who lived on broken, stony ground.

HAREL Jewish
Ornamental name adopted from a biblical place name meaning "altar, mountain of God" in Hebrew.

HORTON English
From the names of various places in England, which are derived from Old English horh "dirt, mud" and tun "enclosure, yard, town".

KAMIŃSKI Polish
From Polish kamień meaning "stone", a name for a stonecutter or for one who lived at a place with this name.

LOYOLA Spanish, Basque
From the name of a place name near the town of Azpeitia in the Basque Country of Spain, derived from Basque loi meaning "mud". This was the birthplace of Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), the founder of Jesuits.

LYNDON English
Originally from a place name meaning "linden tree hill" in Old English.

MACCARRICK Irish
Means "son of Cúcharraige" in Irish. The given name Cúcharraige is composed of cú "hound" and carraig "rock".

MARMO Italian
Means "marble" in Italian, possibly indicating a person who lived near a quarry or one who worked with marble.

ORENSTEIN Jewish
Means "horn stone" in German.

PEAK English
Originally indicated a dweller by a pointed hill, from Old English peac "peak". It could also denote a person from the Peak District in Derbyshire, England.

POLLOCK Scottish
From the name of a place in Renfrewshire, Scotland, derived from a diminutive of Gaelic poll meaning "pool, pond, bog". A famous bearer was the American artist Jackson Pollock (1912-1956).

ROACH English
From Middle English and Old French roche meaning "rock", from Late Latin rocca, a word that may be of Celtic origin. It indicated a person who lived near a prominent rock, or who came from a town by this name (such as Les Roches in Normandy).

SANDER German, Danish
Derived from the given name ALEXANDER.

SANDOVAL Spanish
Derived from the name of a town in Spain, ultimately from Latin saltus "forest, glade" and novalis "unploughed land".

SANDS English
From Old English, indicated the original nearer lived on sandy ground.

SÁRKÖZI Hungarian
Originally indicated someone from Sárköz, a region in Hungary, derived from sár "mud" and köz "margin, lane".

SHAFIR Jewish
Ornamental name meaning "sapphire" in Yiddish.

SILVERSTEIN Jewish
Variant of ZILBERSTEIN.

SOUSA Portuguese
Originally indicated someone who lived near the River Sousa in Portugal, possibly derived from Latin salsus "salty" or saxa "rocks".

STONE English
Name for a person who lived near a prominent stone or worked with stone, derived from Old English stan.

TAPIA Spanish
Means "mud wall" in Spanish.

WINTERBOTTOM English
From Old English winter meaning "winter" and botm meaning "ground, soil, bottom". This name probably referred to a winter pasture at the bottom of a lowland valley.