Aseretisacoolname's Personal Name List
Adler
Usage: German, Jewish
Pronounced: AD-lu(German) AD-lər(English)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Means "eagle" in German.
Agnelli
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: an-NYEHL-lee
From Italian agnello meaning "lamb" (ultimately from Latin agnus), denoting a pious or timid person.
Alden
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AWL-dən
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
From a surname that was derived from the Old English given name
Ealdwine.
Alexandropoulos
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Αλεξανδρόπουλος(Greek)
Pronounced: a-lehk-san-DHRO-poo-los
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
Angioni
From Sardinian angioni "lamb", denoting a shepherd, or perhaps a nickname.
Arrington
Usage: English
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From the name of a town in Cambridgeshire, originally meaning "Earna's settlement" in Old English (Earna being a person's nickname meaning "eagle").
Ashbourne
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Audley
Usage: English
Pronounced: AWD-lee
From a place name meaning "
Ealdgyð's clearing" in Old English.
Auer
Usage: German
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From German
Aue, Old High German
ouwa, meaning
"meadow by a river, wetland".
Bähr
From Middle High German bër "bear" or ber "boar". This was originally a nickname for a strong or brave person.
Balfour
Usage: Scottish
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From various place names that were derived from Gaelic baile "village" and pòr "pasture, crop, cropland".
Baran
Usage: Polish, Slovak, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Баран(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: BA-ran(Polish) bu-RAN(Ukrainian)
Means "ram, male sheep" in Polish, Slovak and Ukrainian.
Bauer
Usage: German
Pronounced: BOW-u
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From Old High German bur meaning "peasant, farmer".
Bellamy
From Old French bel ami meaning "beautiful friend".
Bennington
Usage: English
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
From the English town name Benington, which can mean either "settlement belonging to Beonna's people" or "settlement by the River Beane".
Beran
Derived from Czech beran meaning "ram, male sheep".
Beránek
Means "little ram, male lamb" in Czech.
Birnbaum
Topographic name for someone who lived by a pear tree, from Middle High German bir "pear" and boum "tree".
Blakesley
From the name of a town in Northamptonshire, itself meaning "Blæcwulf's meadow" in Old English. Blæcwulf is a byname meaning "black wolf".
Blevins
Derived from the Welsh given name
Bleddyn.
Bloodworth
Originally indicated someone from the town of Blidworth in Nottinghamshire, which was derived from the Old English byname Blīþa (meaning "happy, blithe") combined with worð "enclosure".
Blue
Usage: English
Pronounced: BLOO
From a nickname for a person with blue eyes or blue clothing.
Blueberry
Usage: English
Pronounced: BLOO-behr-ee
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
English surname of unexplained origin, probably from the name of a lost or unidentified place.
Bonar
Usage: Scottish, Northern Irish
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From a medieval nickname for a courteous or good-looking person (from Middle English boner "gentle, courteous, handsome"). A notable bearer of the surname was Canadian-born British Conservative politician Andrew Bonar Law (1858-1923), prime minister 1922-23.
Bones
Usage: English
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Derives from bon, "good" in Old French.
Bonuš
Usage: Czech
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From a pet form of the personal name Bonifác, Czech form of Bonifacio.
Botterill
Probably indicated someone from the town of Les Bottereaux in Normandy, itself derived from Old French bot "toad".
Bove
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: BAW-veh
Derived from an Italian nickname meaning "bull, ox".
Bowe
Usage: Medieval English, English, Irish (Anglicized)
There are three possible sources of this surname, the first being that it is a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of bows, a vital trade in medieval times before the invention of gunpowder, and a derivative of the Old English
boga "bow", from
bugan "to bend".
The surname may also be topographic for someone living near a bridge, the word boga having acquired the sense "arch", as in the supposed resemblance of the arch to a drawn bow. For example, Richard atte Bowe (1306 Calendar of Letter Books in the City of London).
Lastly, Bowe, being chiefly the Irish variant, is the anglicized form of the Gaelic O'Buadhaigh, a descendant of Buadhach a personal name meaning victorious.
Braun
Usage: German
Pronounced: BROWN
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Means "brown" in German.
Braunersrither
Usage: German (Americanized)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Briedis
Means "deer" in Latvian.
Buckley 1
Usage: English
Pronounced: BUK-lee
From an English place name derived from
bucc "buck, male deer" and
leah "woodland, clearing".
Cabrera
From various place names derived from Late Latin capraria meaning "place of goats", from Latin capra meaning "goat".
Cantrell
Usage: English
Pronounced: kan-TREHL
Originally a name for someone from Cantrell in Devon, from an unknown first element and Old English hyll meaning "hill".
Carlin
Usage: Swedish (Rare)
Pronounced: kahr-LEEN
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
Combination of the given name
Karl, which is also a common place name prefix, and the common surname suffix
-in (originally from Latin
-inus "descendant of").
Carlin
Usage: French
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
Cavallo
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ka-VAL-lo
Means "horse" in Italian, an occupational name for a horseman.
Cavan
Usage: Irish
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Anglicized form of the Irish
Ó Caoimháin meaning
"descendant of Caomhán".
Christoyannopoulos
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Χριστογιαννόπουλος(Greek)
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
Means "descendant of
John and
Christ" in Greek. A notable bearer of this surname is Alexandre Christoyannopoulos.
Collingwood
From a place name, itself derived from Old French chalenge meaning "disputed" and Middle English wode meaning "woods".
Corliss
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Derived from Old English carleas "free from anxiety; unconcerned", cognate to Old Norse kærulauss. This was a nickname given to a carefree person.
Darnell 2
Usage: English
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
From the name of a town near Sheffield, derived from Old English derne "hidden" and halh "nook".
Dixon
Usage: English
Pronounced: DIK-sən
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Dressler
Means "turner" from Middle High German dreseler, an agent derivative of drehen "to turn". A turner was a person who used a lathe to create small objects from wood or bone.
Drury
Usage: English, French, Irish
Originally a Norman French nickname, derived from
druerie "love, friendship" (itself a derivative of
dru "lover, favourite, friend" - originally an adjective, apparently from a Gaulish word meaning "strong, vigourous, lively", but influenced by the sense of the Old High German element
trut,
drut "dear, beloved").
Alternatively (also as a French and English surname) it may be derived from a Germanic personal name composed of the Old High German elements triuwa "truth, trust" and ric "power".
As an Irish surname it is an anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Druaidh meaning "son of the druid" (from draoi "druid", genitive druadh).
Durant
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: DUY-RAHN(French)
Egan
Usage: Irish
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Ellington
Usage: English
Pronounced: EH-ling-tən
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From the name of multiple towns in England. The town's name is derived from the masculine given name
Ella (a short form of Old English names beginning with the elements
ælf meaning "elf" or
eald meaning "old") combined with
tun meaning "enclosure, town".
Elwood
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
It's either from a place name in Gloucestershire, England called Ellwood that is derived from Old English
ellern "elder tree" and
wudu "wood", or a form of the Old English personal name
Ælfweald, composed of the elements
ælf "elf" and
weald "rule".
Fairclough
From a place name meaning "fair ravine, fair cliff" in Old English.
Farrell
Anglicized form of Irish
Ó Fearghail meaning
"descendant of Fearghal".
Featherstonehaugh
Usage: English (British, Rare)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Featherstonhaugh
Usage: English
Pronounced: FAN-shaw
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Indicates a person lived in or near Featherstonhaugh in Northumberland, England. From Old English feðere "feather", stān "stone", and healh "corner."
Federspiel
Derived from Middle High German vederspil "bird of prey (trained for hunting)", this was an occupational name for a falconer.
Fenimore
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From a medieval nickname meaning literally "fine love" (from Old French fin amour).
Fenton
Originated from several place names in England, meaning “marsh town” from Old English fenn “marsh, fen” + tun “enclosure; settlement, town”.
Ffelan
Usage: English
Pronounced: FEE-LAN
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Anglisized version of the Gaelic Ó Faoláin meaning "descendent of Faolán", a given name meaning "wolf".
Fink
Usage: German, Slovene, English, Jewish
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Nickname for a lively or cheerful person, Jewish ornamental name derived from the Germanic word for "finch", and German translation of Slovene
Šinkovec which is from
šcinkovec or
šcinkavec meaning "finch".
Finn
Derived from the given name
Fionn.
Fitzgerald
Means
"son of Gerald" in Anglo-Norman French. It was brought to Ireland with William the Conqueror. A famous bearer was Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996), an American jazz singer.
Fleetwood
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means "From the town of Fleetwood, in Lancaster".
Forsythe
Usage: Scottish, Northern Irish
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
This surname has two possible origins. The more accepted explanation is that it comes from the Gaelic given name
Fearsithe, which means "man of peace" from the elements
fear "man" and
sithe "peace". The less accepted explanation is that it originated as a habitational name for a person from some minor or lost place called
Fersith or
Forsith, which is suggested by some early forms with prepositions (for example,
de Fersith, recorded in 1365). The hypothetical place name perhaps meant "fairy pastures" or "fairy mound" from the Gaelic elements
fer "grass" or
for "hill, mound" and
sithe "fairies"; however, no place name of suitable form is known.
This spelling is associated chiefly with northern Ireland.
Freud
Usage: German, Jewish
Pronounced: FROIT(German) FROID(English)
Means "joy" in German, a nickname for a cheerful person. A famous bearer was the psychologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).
Frisk
From Swedish frisk "healthy", which was derived from the Middle Low German word vrisch "fresh, young, frisky".
Fuchs
Usage: German
Pronounced: FUWKS
From Old High German fuhs meaning "fox". It was originally a nickname for a person with red hair.
Gagnon
Derived from old French gagnon "guard dog". The name most likely originated as a nickname for an aggressive or cruel person.
Gale
Usage: English
Pronounced: GAYL
Derived from Middle English gaile meaning "jovial".
Gatti
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: GAT-tee
Means "cat" in Italian, originally a nickname for an agile person.
Geier
Means "vulture" in German, a nickname for a greedy person.
Glynn
Usage: Welsh, Cornish
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, from Welsh glyn and Cornish glin, or a habitational name from a place named with this word.
Grell
Nickname for an irritable or irascible person, from Middle High German, Middle Low German grellen "to be angry".
Grieve
Occupational name meaning
"steward, farm manager" in Middle English, related to the German title
Graf.
Gutermuth
Derived from Middle High German guot meaning "good" and muot meaning "mind, spirit". It was a nickname for an optimistic person.
Hanson
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAN-sən
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Harrington
Usage: English
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From the name of towns in England, meaning either "Hæfer's town" or "stony town" in Old English.
Hart
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAHRT
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means "male deer". It was originally acquired by a person who lived in a place frequented by harts, or bore some resemblance to a hart.
Hase
From Middle High German and Middle Low German hase meaning "hare, rabbit". This was a nickname for a person who was quick or timid.
Haythornthwaite
Usage: English (British)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From a place name that was derived from Old English haguthorn meaning "hawthorn (tree)" and Old Norse þveit meaning "clearing, meadow".
Hirsch 1
Means "deer, hart" in German. This was a nickname for a person who resembled a deer in some way, or who raised or hunted deer.
Howarth
Usage: English
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
"From a hedged estate", from Old English haga ("hedge, haw") and worð ("farm, estate"). Likely originating from the Yorkshire village of the same name. Common in Lancashire and recorded from at least 1518, as Howorthe, with an earlier version of Hauewrth in Gouerton dated 1317 recorded in the Neubotle charters.
Hummel 1
Derived from the given name
Humbert.
Hummel 2
Nickname for a busy person, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch hommel, Middle High German hummel, all meaning "bee".
Jägermeisterssen
Usage: German
Pronounced: YAGER-meistur-sen
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Means son of the "Master-Hunter". Originally given to the son of the master-hunter in hunting camps.
James
Usage: English
Pronounced: JAYMZ
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Derived from the given name
James.
Jelen
From a nickname meaning "stag" in Czech and Slovene.
Jeż
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: YESH
Means "hedgehog" in Polish. It may have originally been given to a person who resembled a hedgehog in some way.
Kalb
Usage: German
Pronounced: KALP
Occupational name meaning "calf (animal)" in German.
Katz
Usage: Jewish
Other Scripts: כּץ, כּייץ(Hebrew)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Derived from Hebrew
כֹּהֵן צֶדֶק (kohen tzedek) meaning
"priest of justice", indicating a descendant of
Aaron.
Keen
Usage: English
Pronounced: KEEN
From Old English cene meaning "bold, brave".
Kenwood
Usage: English
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
From the settlement of Kenwood in the parish of Kenton, county of Devon, England.
The surname was first found in Gloucestershire long before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.
Kenwyn
Usage: Cornish (Rare)
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
This surname is derived from the name of a town and river in Cornwall, England (called Keynwynn in Cornish). It is said that the name is derived from Cornish keyn meaning "back, keel, ridge" and gwynn meaning "white, fair, blessed."
Kenyon
Usage: English, Welsh
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Kenyon is a surname from Wales meaning "a person from Ennion's Mound"
Kerr
From Scots and northern Middle English kerr meaning "thicket, marsh", ultimately from Old Norse kjarr.
Kiefer 1
Usage: German
Pronounced: KEE-fu
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means "pine tree" in German.
Kikkert
Derived from Dutch kikker meaning "frog".
Klein
Usage: German, Dutch, Jewish
Pronounced: KLIEN(German)
Means "small, little" from German klein or Yiddish kleyn. A famous bearer of this name is clothes designer Calvin Klein (1942-).
Knecht
Usage: German, German (Swiss), Dutch
Pronounced: knekht(German, Dutch)
Means "servant, assistant" in German and Dutch, an occupational name for a journeyman or male servant derived from Old Germanic
kneht meaning "servant, knight" or "youth, boy". Cognate to English
Knight.
Knopfler
Usage: English, German
Pronounced: NAWP-flər(English) NAWF-lər(English) KNAWP-flu(German)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Derived from
Knopf (German for "button"), this surname was originally given to button makers or button sellers. A famous bearer of this surname is English musician Mark Knopfler (1949-).
Kohut
Usage: Ukrainian, Polish
Other Scripts: Когут(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: KAW-huwt(Ukrainian) KAW-khoot(Polish)
Means "rooster" in Ukrainian and Polish, a nickname for a proud person.
Konstantinopolites
Usage: Greek
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Given to someone from Constantinople.
Kouris
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Κουρής(Greek)
Topographic surname for someone who lived in a forest, ultimately from Turkish koru meaning "small forest, grove".
Krebs
Means "crab" in German, perhaps a nickname for a person with a crab-like walk.
Kuiper
Means "cooper, barrel maker" in Dutch.
Lai
Usage: Italian
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Possibly denoting someone from Alà dei Sardi, or derived from the given name
Nicola 1. Alternately, it may derive from
lai, a type of lyrical poem.
Lamb
Usage: English
Pronounced: LAM
From the name of the animal, perhaps a nickname for a shy person.
Lämmle
Usage: German, Jewish
Pronounced: LAM-lə(German)
Derived from German lamm meaning "lamb", a nickname for a meek and inoffensive person or a shepherd.
Láska
Usage: Czech, Slovak
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means "love" in Czech and Slovak.
Leaf
Derived from Old English lēof "dear, beloved".
Leland
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
derived from the Old English elements
leah "wood, clearing, meadow" or
læge "fallow" and
land "land, area". The name was indicative of one who lived near a clearing or piece of fallow land.
Lis
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: LEES
Means "fox" in Polish, a nickname for a sly person.
Lomasney
Usage: Irish
Personal remark: Lorz Loms. Macs.
From Gaelic Ó Lomasna meaning "descendant of Lomasna", a byname from lom "bare" and asna "rib".
Löwe
Usage: German, Jewish
Pronounced: LUU-və(German)
Means "lion" in German.
Lowell
Usage: English
Pronounced: LO-əl
From a nickname derived from a Norman French
lou meaning
"wolf" and a
diminutive suffix.
Luce
Usage: Norman, French
Pronounced: LOOS(English) LISS(French)
Rating: 80% based on 1 vote
Form of Lucius, meaning "light". A notable bearer of this surname is French singer-songwriter Renan Luce (1980-).
Lyon 2
Usage: English, French
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From a nickname derived from Old French and Middle English lion meaning "lion".
Lysenko
Usage: Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Лисенко(Ukrainian)
From a nickname, either from Ukrainian
лис (lys) meaning
"fox" or
лисий (lysy) meaning
"bald".
Mac Coingheallaigh
Usage: Irish
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Meaning, ‘son (or descendant) of
Coingheallach’, a personal name meaning ‘faithful to pledges’.
Mac Dhuibhshíthe
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: mək-GHIV-hee-hə
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means "son of Duibhshíth" in Irish. The given name Duibhshíth means "black peace".
Mac Fhlannchaidh
Usage: Irish
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Patronymic from the personal name
Flannchadh, which is derived from
flann "red".
Mac Fithcheallaigh
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: MAK-FYIHKHəLEE
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Proper, non-Anglicized form of
Mcfeely, meaning "son of Fithcheallach".
Mac Gille Mhearnoch
Usage: Irish
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means "son of the servant of
Mernoch".
Mac Giolla Ruaidh
Usage: Irish
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means "son of the red-haired servant" in Irish.
Macmuircheartaich
Usage: Scottish Gaelic
Pronounced: MAK-MOO-ryoo-khehr-tikh
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Maki 1
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 牧(Japanese Kanji) まき(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: MA-KYEE
From Japanese
牧 (maki) meaning
"shepherd, tend cattle".
Malin
Usage: Serbian, Croatian (Rare)
Other Scripts: Малин(Serbian)
From the Serbian word мали meaning "small".
Maus
Usage: German
Pronounced: MOWS
From a nickname meaning "mouse", from Old High German mus.
Mcleish
Usage: Scottish (Anglicized), Northern Irish (Anglicized), Scottish Gaelic
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Northern Irish (Ulster) and Scottish Anglicized form of Gaelic
Mac Gille Íosa, patronymic from a personal name meaning ‘servant of
Jesus’.
Medved
Usage: Slovene, Croatian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Медведь(Ukrainian, Russian)
Means
"bear" in several languages, from the Old Slavic root
medvědĭ.
Mutton
Usage: English
Pronounced: MUT-ən
Referred to a shepherd or else someone who in some way resembled a sheep, derived from Norman French mouton "sheep".
Ó Caoindealbháin
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: O KEE-nyə-lə-wan
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Ó Deasmhumhnaigh
Usage: Irish
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Ó Maoilsheachlainn
Usage: Irish
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
Orsini
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: or-SEE-nee
From a nickname meaning "little bear" in Italian, from Latin ursus "bear".
Pain
Usage: English
Pronounced: PAYN
Pally
Usage: English
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Palmer
Usage: English
Pronounced: PAHL-mər, PAH-mər
Means "pilgrim", ultimately from Latin palma "palm tree", since pilgrims to the Holy Land often brought back palm fronds as proof of their journey.
Papachristodoulopoulos
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Παπαχριστοδουλόπουλος(Greek)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means "descendant of the priest and servant of
Christ" in Greek.
Paraskevopoulos
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Παρασκευόπουλος(Greek)
Pronounced: pa-ra-skyeh-VO-poo-los
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Paraskevopoulou
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Παρασκευοπούλου(Greek)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Pavone
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: pa-VO-neh
Means "peacock" in Italian. It was originally a nickname for a proud or haughty person.
Pecora
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: PEH-ko-ra
Means "sheep" in Italian, an occupational name for a shepherd.
Picasso
From Italian pica meaning "magpie". This probably denoted someone who was talkative or prone to stealing, although it may have described someone's unusual colouring. The Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was a famous bearer of this name.
Piccirillo
From Neapolitan piccerillo meaning "small, young".
Piccoli
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: PEEK-ko-lee
Nickname for a short person, from Italian piccolo "small".
Piórkowski
Habitational name from places called Piórkowo in Toruń voivodeship or Piórków in Tarnobrzeg voivodeship.
Polk
Usage: German
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Ethnic name for a Pole.
Porcher
Means "swineherd" from Old French and Middle English porchier, from Latin porcus "pig".
Pratt
Usage: English
Pronounced: PRAT
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
From Old English prætt meaning "trick, prank". This was a nickname for a trickster.
Protz
Usage: German
Pronounced: PRAWTS
From a nickname meaning "showy, pompous", derived from an old southern German word meaning "toad".
Prunty
Usage: Irish
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From Irish Ó Proinntigh meaning "descendant of Proinnteach", a given name probably derived from Irish bronntach meaning "generous".
Purcell
From Old French pourcel "piglet", from Latin porcellus, a derivative of porcus "pig". This was a nickname or an occupational name for a swineherd.
Quail
Usage: English, Manx
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
A variant of
Quayle, derived from various patronymics meaning "son of Paul". Alternately, an English nickname derived from the bird, perhaps given to a person who was timid, or known for being promiscuous.
Quigley
Usage: Irish
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Anglicized form of Irish Ó Coigligh meaning "descendant of Coigleach", a given name meaning "untidy".
Quinlan
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: KWIN-lən(English)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
From Irish
Ó Caoindealbháin, which means
"descendant of Caoindealbhán", a given name meaning "handsome form" (using a
diminutive suffix).
Quinn
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: KWIN(English)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Anglicized form of Irish
Ó Cuinn meaning
"descendant of Conn".
Quirk
Usage: Irish
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Ragno
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: RAN-nyo
From a nickname meaning "spider" in Italian.
Raleigh
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAL-ee
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
English habitation name in Devon meaning "red woodland clearing".
Rask
Usage: Danish, Swedish
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Means "energetic, quick, healthy" in Danish and Swedish.
Rathbone
Usage: English
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Of unknown origin, but might denote a person with short legs. From Olde English rhath, meaning "short, and bon, "legs".
Ratti
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: RAT-tee
From Italian ratto meaning "rat", originally denoting a sly individual.
Reeves
Usage: English
Pronounced: REEVZ
Rey 2
Means "female roe deer" from Old English ræge, probably denoting someone of a nervous temperament.
Rigby
Usage: English
Pronounced: RIG-bee
Originally derived from the name of a town in Lancashire, itself from Old Norse
hryggr "ridge" and
býr "farm, settlement".
Rowntree
Usage: English
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Originally given to a person who lived near a rowan tree or mountain ash.
Salas
Usage: Spanish, Galician, Aragonese, Portuguese, Catalan, Asturian
Pronounced: SA-las(Spanish)
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Habitational name from any of several places named with the element
salas, the plural form of
Sala meaning "room, hall".
Sauer
Usage: German
Pronounced: ZOW-u
Means "sour" in German, a nickname for an embittered or cantankerous person.
Schade
From schade "damage, injury", a derivative of schaden "to do damage, harm, hurt", generally a nickname for a thug or clumsy person, or, more particularly, a robber knight, who raided others’ lands.
Schäfer
Usage: German
Pronounced: SHEH-fu
From Old High German scaphare meaning "shepherd".
Schimmelpfennig
From Middle High German schimel "mildew, mould" and pfennic "penny", a nickname for someone who was miserly or stingy with their money, hence it growing mouldy in its purse.
Schmeling
From Middle Low German smal meaning "small, slender".
Schmidt
Usage: German
Pronounced: SHMIT
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Occupational name derived from Middle High German
smit "smith, metalworker", a
cognate of
Smith.
Schreck
From Middle High German schrecken meaning "to frighten, to scare".
Seward 2
Usage: English
Pronounced: SOO-ərd
Means "swineherd" from Old English su "sow, female pig" and hierde "herdsman, guardian".
Shaw 2
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: SHAW
From a given name or byname that was derived from Gaelic sitheach meaning "wolf" (Old Irish sídach).
Shepherd
Usage: English
Pronounced: SHEHP-ərd
Occupational name meaning "shepherd, sheep herder", from Old English sceaphyrde.
Shine 1
Usage: English
Pronounced: SHIEN
Means "beautiful, attractive" from Old English sciene.
Shoemaker
Usage: English
Pronounced: SHOO-may-kuwr
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Siesztrzewitowski
Usage: Polish
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
A polish surname which is mostly used in Poland and polish area.
Smits
Usage: Dutch
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Sonnen
Means "sun" from Middle High German sunne. It probably denoted someone of cheerful temperament or a person who lived in a sunny area.
Sorge
Means "worry, care, anxiety" in German, from Old High German sorga.
Specht
Means "woodpecker" in German.
Spier
Usage: English
Pronounced: spiːr
An English surname, meaning "the one who watches".
Stern 1
Usage: English
Pronounced: STURN
From Old English styrne meaning "stern, severe". This was used as a nickname for someone who was stern, harsh, or severe in manner or character.
Strickland
From the name of a town in Cumbria, derived from Old English stirc "calf, young bullock" and land "cultivated land".
Sutherland
Regional name for a person who came from the former county by this name in Scotland. It is derived from Old Norse suðr "south" and land "land", because it was south of the Norse colony of Orkney.
Swallow
Usage: English
Pronounced: SWAHL-o
From the name of the bird, from Old English swealwe, a nickname for someone who resembled or acted like a swallow.
Swan
Usage: English, Scottish
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Originally given as a nickname to a person who was noted for purity or excellence, which were taken to be attributes of the swan, or who resembled a swan in some other way. In some cases it may have been given to a person who lived at a house with the sign of a swan. It is also possible that the surname is from the Old Norse and Old English given name
Swan.
Alternatively, it may be a variant of Swain or an Americanized form of German Schwan, Norwegian Sveen or Swedish Svan.
Sweet
Usage: English
Pronounced: SWEET
From a nickname meaning "sweet, pleasant", from Old English swete.
Tarragon
Usage: French (Rare)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Taube
From a nickname meaning "dove" in German.
Teke 2
Occupational name for a goat herder, from Turkish teke "goat".
Tennyson
Usage: English
Pronounced: TEHN-ə-sən
Thrussell
From Old English þrostle meaning "song thrush", referring to a cheerful person.
Tilki
From a nickname meaning "fox" in Turkish.
Tinklenberg
Usage: German
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Probably of German origin, a habitational name from Tecklenburg in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Todd
Usage: English
Pronounced: TAHD(American English) TAWD(British English)
Means "fox", derived from Middle English todde.
Utkin
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Уткин(Russian)
Pronounced: OOT-kyin
Derived from Russian
утка (utka) meaning
"duck".
Valen
Usage: English, Scottish
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
English and Scottish: from a medieval personal name, Latin
Valentinus, a derivative of
Valens (see also
Valente), which was never common in England, but is occasionally found from the end of the 12th century, probably as the result of French influence. The name was borne by a 3rd-century saint and martyr, whose chief claim to fame is that his feast falls on February 14, the date of a traditional celebration of spring going back to the Roman fertility festival of Juno Februata. A 5th-century missionary bishop of Rhaetia of this name was venerated especially in southern Germany, being invoked as a patron against gout and epilepsy.
Vandroogenbroeck
Usage: Flemish
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means "from the dry marsh" in Dutch. The city of Brussels was built on dry marshes.
van Maarschalkerweerd
Usage: Dutch
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Habitational name denoting someone from Maarschalkerweerd, a place near Utrecht in the Netherlands. Derived from Dutch maarschalk "marshal" and weerd "land next to water, riverine island".
Veselý
From a nickname meaning "cheerful" in Czech and Slovak.
Villaverde
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: bee-ya-BEHR-dheh
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Originally denoted a person from one of the various Spanish towns by this name, derived from villa "town" and verde "green".
Vogel
Usage: German, Dutch
Pronounced: FO-gəl(German)
From Old High German and Old Dutch fogal meaning "bird". It was originally an occupational name for a bird catcher, or a nickname for a person who liked to sing.
Volkov
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Волков(Russian)
Pronounced: vul-KOF
Derived from Russian
волк (volk) meaning
"wolf".
Von Bischhoffshausen
Usage: German, German (Austrian), German (Swiss)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Von Grimmelshausen
Usage: German
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means "from Grimmelshausen", a town in Germany. It is itself derived from Grimmel, of uncertain meaning, and hausen meaning "houses". A famous bearer was the German author Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1621-1676).
Voronin
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Воронин(Russian)
Derived from Russian
ворона (vorona) meaning
"crow".
Voss
From Middle Low German vos meaning "fox". It was originally a nickname for a clever person or a person with red hair.
Waller 1
Usage: English
Pronounced: WAHL-ər
Derived from Old French gallier meaning "person with a pleasant temper".
Weiss
Usage: German, Yiddish
Pronounced: VIES(German)
From Middle High German
wiz or Yiddish
װייַס (vais) meaning
"white". This was originally a nickname for a person with white hair or skin.
Whitlam
From a medieval nickname for a mild-mannered person (from Middle English whit "white" + lam "lamb"). This surname is borne by Australian Labour politician Gough Whitlam (1916-), prime minister 1972-75.
Wieczorek
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: vyeh-CHAW-rehk
From a nickname meaning "bat" in Polish, ultimately from wieczór meaning "evening".
Wilk
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: VEELK
Means "wolf" in Polish.
Winter
Usage: English, German, Swedish
Pronounced: WIN-tər(English) VIN-tu(German)
From Old English winter or Old High German wintar meaning "winter". This was a nickname for a person with a cold personality.
Wolf
Usage: German, English
Pronounced: VAWLF(German) WUWLF(English)
From Middle High German or Middle English wolf meaning "wolf", or else from an Old German given name beginning with this element.
Wruck
From Middle Low German wrok meaning "cantankerous".
Wyndham
From the name of the town of Wymondham, meaning "home belonging to Wigmund", from the given name
Wigmund combined with Old English
ham meaning "home, settlement".
Zacher
Usage: English
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
A reference to Sacheverell, a location in Normandy. May also refer to the given name Zacharias, meaning "to remember God," or "the Lord recalled."
Zackowski
Usage: English (American)
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
Americanized version of the surname
Zakowski
Zehren
Usage: German (Swiss)
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
From a prepositional phrase from Middle High German ze hērren, an occupational name for someone was in service of a lord.
Zollner
Usage: English
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Zwicker
Usage: German
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Zyler
Usage: English
Pronounced: ZIE-lər
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Zylstra
Usage: Dutch (Americanized), Frisian (Americanized)
Pronounced: ZIL-strə(Dutch)
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
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