sweetkit's Personal Name List

Occupational name for a silversmith from Yiddish zilber "silver" and schlag "strike".

Derived from Basque zaldi meaning "horse" combined with ibar meaning "valley". This is also the name of a town in Biscay, Spain.

From Japanese 吉 (yoshi) meaning "good luck" and 永 (naga) meaning "perpetual, eternal".

Derived from Yewdale, which is the name of a village near the town of Skelmersdale in Lancashire. Its name means "valley of yew trees", as it is derived from Middle English ew meaning "yew tree" combined with Middle English dale meaning "dale, valley".

Notable bearers of this surname include the Australian politician Les Yewdale (1928-1999) and the Canadian painter M. A. Yewdale (1908-2000).

Means "son of Xanthos".

Derived from the given name Wine.

From Thai วงศ์ (wong) meaning "lineage, family, dynasty" and ใหญ่ (yai) meaning "big, large, great".

Nickname for someone with white or light-coloured hair, from Old English hwit "white" and heafod "head".

From a diminutive of the given name Walther.

From a nickname for a carefree person, derived from German Wald meaning "forest" and Vogel meaning "bird". As a Jewish name it is ornamental.

Derived from Russian ворона (vorona) meaning "crow".

From the village of Vivar, later renamed Vivar del Cid, nowadays part of Quintanilla Vivar located near Burgos, Castile and León, Spain.

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (c. 1043–1099) known as 'El Cid Campeador' was a Castilian knight and warlord in medieval Spain. El Cid became Spain's celebrated national hero and the protagonist of the most significant medieval Spanish epic poem, 'El Cantar de Mio Cid'.

Habitational name for someone from any of the various locations in Spain named Vera or La Vera from Spanish meaning "shore, bank".

Derived from Spanish vara "stick". It may have originally been given to one who used a stick in his line of work, for example an animal herder.

From the Navajo suffix -tsʼósí meaning "slender, slim", originally a short form of a longer name such as kiitsʼósí "slender boy", hashkétsʼósí "slender warrior", cháalatsʼósí "slim Charlie", dághaatsʼósí "the one with a slender mustache", dinétsʼósí "slender man", or hastiintsʼósí "slender man".

From Ukrainian ткач (tkach) meaning "weaver".

Means "wood grouse" in Swedish.

Name for someone originally from the town of Tartakiv (or Tartakov) in Ukraine, derived from Ukrainian тартак (tartak) meaning "sawmill".

Means "dancer" in German, derived from Middle High German tanzen "to dance".

From Japanese 白 (shira) meaning "white" and 鳥 (tori) meaning "bird".

Denoted a person from a town by this name in Buckinghamshire, England. It is derived from that of a river combined with Old English broc "stream".

Occupational name for a blacksmith, literally meaning "swing hammer" in German.

Means "son of Sargis" in Armenian.

Means "son of Rubin" in Russian, though it could also be derived from Russian рубин (rubin) "ruby".

Means "rose mountain" in German and Swedish. As a Swedish and Jewish name it is ornamental.

Means "thrush" in Hungarian.

From the given name Rexhep.

From Rauenilde or Ravenild, medieval English forms of the Old Norse given name Hrafnhildr.

Hispanicized form of Quechua qispi meaning "free".

Originally denoted a person from the town of Quiroga in Galicia, Spain.

Means "jaw" in Spanish, a nickname for someone with a large jaw.

Probably a variant of Percival.

From Albanian prift meaning "priest".

Indo-Guyanese form of Prasad. This is the most common surname in Guyana.

Originally indicated a person from Padmore in England, derived from Old English padde "toad" and mor "moor, marsh".

Derived from the Old English given name Uhtric.

From Japanese 大 (o) meaning "big, great" and 坪 (tsubo), a traditional unit of measurement equivalent to approximately 3.306 square metres.

Originally indicated a person from one of the two towns named Orellana in Badajoz, Spain. Their names are probably derived from Latin Aureliana meaning "of Aurelius".

Means "wild olive" in Spanish, originally indicating one who lived near such a tree.

Means "white mouse" in Thai.

Nickname for someone with a good voice from Middle English nightegale "nightingale" (Old English nihtegale, ultimately from niht "night" and galan "to sing").

From the given name Mousa.

From the given name Mauld, a medieval form of Matilda.

Referred to someone who lived near a pool, derived from South Slavic mlaka meaning "pool, puddle".

Of uncertain origin, probably an altered form of Mowbray. Possibly it is derived from an English place name.

Means "mangosteen" in Thai.

Means "happiness" in Danish.

From various places in Spain meaning "moon".

Means "pigeon, dove" in Finnish.

From a nickname meaning "red" in Greek.

Derived from Hebrew כֹּהֵן צֶדֶק (kohen tzedek) meaning "priest of justice", indicating a descendant of Aaron.

Derived from Sanskrit अध्यापक (adhyapaka) meaning "teacher".

Variant of Jewell.

Either from the given name Janvier or the French word janvier meaning "January", perhaps indicating a person who was baptized in that month.

From Japanese 泉 (izumi) meaning "spring, fountain".

From the name of the town of Ingersleben, Germany, which meant "Inge's village".

From the given name Ignat.

Hispanicized form of Quechua waman meaning "falcon, hawk".

Combination of Old Norse hestr "horse" and skeið "racecourse". This is the name of several paces in England.

From Japanese 萩 (hagi) meaning "bush clover" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Anglicized form of Swiss German Krähenbühl, meaning "crow hill".

Derived from Polish gomółka, a type of round cheese, ultimately from an old Polish word meaning "round".

Derived from the given name Giordano.

Originally indicated a person from Galicia, a region in northwestern Spain.

From Middle English, ultimately from Latin fortuna meaning "fortune, luck, chance". This was possibly a nickname for a gambler.

From Greek φλώρος (floros) meaning "greenfinch", derived from classical Greek χλωρός (chloros) meaning "green".

Means "fig tree" in German.

Means "beautiful child" in Middle English.

Means "evangelist" in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

The surname Ellesmere was first found in Shropshire at Ellesmere, a market-town and parish, and the head of a union.

Derived from an Old English given name, possibly *Ælfgod or *Æðelgod, in which the second element is god "god". (Another source gives the meaning "temple-god", presumably from ealh and god.)
According to surnamedb.com, 'Although recorded erratically in many parts of England, this unusual surname seems to originate in East Anglia, and specifically the Bury St. Edmunds region of Suffolk. Its survival through the Norman period after 1066 was probably because the fen country was for many years very remote and often untouched by events.'

From Spanish ejército meaning "army". A notable bearer was Joseph Ejercito Estrada (1937-), the 13th president of the Philippines.

Variant of Derryberry.

Means "tailor" in Persian.

Means "tanner, currier" in Arabic.

Means "quiet, shy, coy" from Middle English coi.

Derived from Russian черный (cherniy) meaning "black".

From Chinese 柴 (chái) meaning "firewood".

Possibly from Old Spanish servanto meaning "servant" or ciervo meaning "stag". A famous bearer was the Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616).

Derived from Italian cavalcare "to ride".

Probably a habitational name denoting someone originally from any of the multiple locations called Carbajal in León, Asturias, or Zamora in Spain. Alternatively, it may be of pre-Roman origin from the word carbalio meaning "oak", denoting someone who either lived near an oak tree or who was like an oak tree in some way.

This was the name of a family of Marranos (crypto-Jews) in Mexico at the end of the 16th-century through the beginning of the 17th-century, several of whom were executed for Judaizing.

From the name of Bunnag, an 18th-century general of Persian heritage.

From a place name derived from Old English brad "broad" and beonet "bent grass".

Means "grey wolf" from Turkish boz meaning "grey" and kurt meaning "wolf".

Occupational name for a person who raised or hunted birds.

Derived from a place name, which was derived from Old English burh "fortification".

Filipinized form of Bhagat Singh, a combination of Sanskrit भगत (bhagat) meaning "devotee, follower" combined with सिंह (siṃhá) meaning "lion". A notable bearer was Ramon Bagatsing (1916-2006), the 19th Mayor of Manila who was of Indian descent.

From Persian عطر ('atr) meaning "fragrance, perfume", ultimately from Arabic. It probably denoted a seller of perfume.

Means "son of Apostol".

From the given name Alonso.

Originally indicated a person who came from Gaza in Palestine.

Originally denoted a person from the town of Agramunt, Spain. It means "field hill" in Catalan.