Surnames Categorized "white"

This is a list of surnames in which the categories include white.
usage
Aksoy Turkish
From Turkish ak "white" and soy "lineage, ancestry".
Alba Spanish
From a Spanish nickname meaning "white".
Albescu Romanian
Derived from Romanian alb meaning "white".
Albini Italian
Means "son of Albino".
Albu Romanian
From Romanian alb meaning "white".
Albuquerque Portuguese
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".
Alvarado Spanish
From a Spanish place name, possibly derived from Spanish alba "white".
Bai Chinese
From Chinese (bái) meaning "white".
Balčiūnas m Lithuanian
From a given name that was derived from Lithuanian baltas meaning "white".
Bianchi Italian
From Italian bianco meaning "white", originally given to a person who was white-haired or extremely pale.
Blanc French
Means "white" in French. The name referred to a person who was pale, or whose hair was blond.
Blanco Spanish
Means "white" in Spanish. The name most likely referred to a person who was pale or had blond hair.
Cano Spanish
Means "white-haired, old" in Spanish, from Latin canus.
Colombo Italian
Either from Italian colomba "dove" indicating a dove keeper, or from the given name Colombo, which is derived from the same word. This was the Italian surname of the 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus.
De Wit Dutch
Variant of De Witte.
De Witte Dutch
Means "the white" in Dutch, a nickname for a person with white hair.
Fannon Irish
From the Irish Ó Fionnáin meaning "descendant of Fionn".
Fehér Hungarian
Means "white" in Hungarian, originally referring to a person with white hair or complexion.
Finn Irish
Derived from the given name Fionn.
Frost English, German
From Old English and Old High German meaning "frost", a nickname for a person who had a cold personality or a white beard.
Lamb English
From the name of the animal, perhaps a nickname for a shy person.
Leblanc French
Means "the white" in French, from blanc "white". The name referred to a person who was pale or whose hair was blond.
Mac Cnáimhín Irish
Means "son of Cnámh". The Irish given name Cnámh means "bone".
Moroz Ukrainian
Means "frost" in Ukrainian.
Morozov m Russian
Derived from Russian мороз (moroz) meaning "frost".
Nicchi Italian
From the Italian word nicchio meaning "shell", possibly a nickname for people related to the sea.
Oblak Slovene
Means "cloud" in Slovene.
Ó Cnáimhín Irish
Means "descendant of Cnámh", Cnámh being a nickname meaning "bone".
Shiraishi Japanese
From Japanese (shira) meaning "white" and (ishi) meaning "stone".
Shiratori Japanese
From Japanese (shira) meaning "white" and (tori) meaning "bird".
Van Alphen Dutch
Means "from Alphen", a town in the Netherlands. It is derived from the name of the Roman fort Albaniana, itself from Latin albus "white".
Villalba Spanish
Denoted a person from one of the various Spanish places by this name. It is derived from Spanish villa "town" and alba "white".
Weiss German, Yiddish
From Middle High German wiz or Yiddish װייַס (vais) meaning "white". This was originally a nickname for a person with white hair or skin.
Weiß German
Variant of Weiss.
Whitaker English
From a place name composed of Old English hwit "white" and æcer "field".
White English
Originally a nickname for a person who had white hair or a pale complexion, from Old English hwit "white".
Whitehead English
Nickname for someone with white or light-coloured hair, from Old English hwit "white" and heafod "head".
Whitney English
Originally from the name of an English town, meaning "white island" in Old English.
Whittemore English
From various English place names derived from Old English hwit "white" and mor "moor, heath, bog".
Whittle English
From various English place names derived from Old English hwit "white" and hyll "hill".