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83African/ Egyptian
29Americas
8East Asian
51Germanic / Old Norse
67Latin / Romance
46Middle Eastern
163Pretty Names
31Slavic / Caucasus
42U.K/ Celtic/ Cornish
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Almánzar  Derived from Arabic المنظر (al manẓar) meaning "the view" or "the lookout". 
Anaya  From the names of a few Spanish towns, possibly of Arabic origin meaning "stagnant water" or "path". 
Arora  From the name of the ancient city of Aror in what is now the Sindh province, Pakistan. 
Atwood  From Middle English meaning "dweller at the wood". 
Babington  Habitational name for someone from Babington in Somerset. 
Bačić  Croatian. 
Backus  Means "bakery", an occupational name for a baker, from Old English bæchus literally "bake house". 
Bellini  From Italian bello meaning "beautiful". 
Björnsson  From an Old Norse byname derived from bjǫrn, meaning son of Bjorn- "bear". 
Blackwood  From an English place name meaning "black wood". 
Bray  From a place name derived from Cornish bre "hill". 
Carrasco  Topographic name derived from Spanish carrasca meaning "holm oak". 
Ceretti  This surname may denote the original bearer having lived around Turkey Oaks in Tuscany, Italy. 
Chastain  From Old French castan "chestnut tree" (Latin castanea), a name for someone who lived near a particular chestnut tree, or possibly a nickname for someone with chestnut-coloured hair. 
Croft  From Old English croft meaning "enclosed field". 
Daddario  Variant of D'Addario. From the given name Addario. 
Duxbury  Habitational name from a place in Lancashire, recorded in the early 13th century as D(e)ukesbiri. 
Einarsson  Swedish surname, means "son of Einar". 
Eklund  From Swedish. Composed of the elements ek "oak" and lund "grove". 
Farahani  Indicated a person from the county of Farahan in Markazi province, Iran. 
Fay 1  Derived from various places named Fay or Faye in northern France, derived from Old French fau "beech tree", from Latin fagus 
Fern
Fox  From the name of the animal. It was originally a nickname for a person with red hair or a crafty person. 
Gott  Derived from the Old German given name Goda, derived from the element guot meaning "good" or got meaning "god". 
Gwynne  Means "white" or "blessed" 
Harrington  From Old English word meaning "hare town" 
Hatt  The oldest English surname on record was from East Anglia. An Anglo-Saxon family with the surname Hatt are mentioned in a Norman transcript, and is identified as a pretty regular name in the county. 
Hawk  Originally a nickname for a person who had a hawk-like appearance or who acted in a fierce manner, derived from Old English heafoc "hawk". 
Holt  From Old English, Old Dutch and Old Norse holt meaning "forest". 
Hsu 1  Alternate transcription of Chinese Xu, referring to the minor state of Xu, which existed to the 4th century BC in what is now Henan province. 
Hunnacott  From Old English hunig "honey" or the given name Huna combined with cot "cottage". This is the name of a small town in Devon, England. 
Hunter  Occupational name that referred to someone who hunted for a living, from Old English hunta. 
Ikeda  From Japanese 池 (ike) meaning "pool, pond" and 田 (ta) meaning "field". 
Isham  The name of a village in Northamptonshire, England from the Celtic name of a local river Ise and the Anglo-Saxon term for a small settlement or homestead -ham. 
Isherwood  It's a habitational name thought to come from the name of an unidentified place originating in Lancashire. 
Kaur  Means "princess", ultimately from Sanskrit (kumari) meaning "girl". 
Kelly 2  From a Scottish place name derived from coille "grove". 
Khoo
Kirwan  From Gaelic Ó Ciardhubháin meaning "descendant of Ciardhubhán", a given name composed of the elements ciar "dark" and dubh "black" combined with a diminutive suffix. 
Kos  Means "blackbird". 
Lamb  A nickname for a gentle or malleable person or an occupational name for someone who raised or cared for young sheep. Can take the form Lum. 
Lang  German, Danish and Norwegian cognate of LONG. 
Lawrence  Derived from the given name LAURENCE. 
Linwood  Originally derived from a place name meaning "stream forest" in Old English. 
Lockwood  From an English place name meaning "enclosure forest". 
Lorén  A variant of the Spanish personal name Llorente. 
Maeda
Magnusson  Means "son of MAGNUS". 
Mahdavi  From the given name Mahdi. 
Malloch  Reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic MacIain Mhalaich "son of Ian of the bushy eyebrows", which was the family name of the MacGregors of Balhaldie. 
Mead  Lived by a meadow, from Middle English 
Medvedev  From Russian медведь (medved') meaning "bear". 
Mejía  Possibly from a nickname derived from Spanish Mesías meaning "Messiah". 
Mekonnen  Ethiopian surname (from given name), meaning 'aristocrat'. 
Minett  From the medieval Minna. Means "love" in Old German, specifically medieval courtly love. 
Miyamoto  From Japanese 宮 (miya) meaning "temple, shrine, palace" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin". 
Moreno  From a nickname meaning "dark" in Spanish and Portuguese. 
Morgenstern  Morning star in German. 
Motta  From various names of places around Italy. It is derived from a Gaulish word meaning "hill". 
Okorie  From the given name Okoriee. Means "born on Orie" in Igbo, Orie being one of the days of the Igbo week. 
Oliveira  Means "olive tree" in Portuguese, ultimately from Latin oliva. It indicated a person who lived near or worked with olive trees. 
Orozco  Comes from the Bilbao province in the Basque region of Spain. 
Ouyang  From Chinese 歐 (ōu) referring to Mount Sheng in present-day Huzhou, China, combined with 陽 (yáng) meaning "southern face (of a mountain)". 
Picot  Norman French 
Poirier  French, pear tree 
Quek  Hokkien and Teochew romanization of Guo. From Chinese meaning "outer city 
Ribeiro  Means "little river, stream" in Portuguese, ultimately from Latin riparius meaning "riverbank". 
Romagna  Latin Romania meaning "land of the Romans". 
Salamanca  Originally indicated a person from Salamanca, a city in western Spain. 
Sallow  Medieval for willow tree 
Sanada  From Japanese locational name meaning "field, rice paddy". 
Sebeok  From Sebők, a diminutive of Sebestyén. 
Seth  Means "merchant, banker" in Hindi, ultimately from Sanskrit श्रेष्ठ (shreshtha) meaning "best, chief, most excellent". 
Sheng  From Chinese meaning "flourishing, prosperous", also referring to the ancient state of Sheng which existed during the Zhou dynasty in present-day Shandong province. 
Siddall  Siddal. From the name of various English towns, derived from Old English sid "wide" and halh "nook, recess". 
Sovin  Derived from Russian сова (sova) meaning "owl". This may have been a nickname for a night person. This is a Russian noble surname. 
Stoneking  The name originates in Cornwall, 
Sutton f & m  English. From the traditionally English surname meaning "south town". 
Vance  Old English, dweller by a fen 
Van Kann  Means "from Kanne", a town in the province of Limburg in Belgium. The meaning of the town's name is unknown. 
Wildblood  From a medieval nickname for a rakish or hot-headed person. 
Wray  From Old Norse vrá meaning "corner, nook" 
Ziegenhorn  Upper German (Archaic). Goat horn, either 1. the horn of a goat, 2. Goat mountain, or 3. From goat mountain.