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Roosimägi Estonian
Roosimägi is an Estonian surname meaning "rose mountain".

Roosipuu Estonian
Roosipuu is an Estonian surname meaning "rose wood".

Roossaar Estonian
Roossaar is an Estonian surname meaning "rose island".

Rootsmaa Estonian
Rootsmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "leaf stalk/stem land".

Rootsmäe Estonian
Rootsmäe is an Estonian surname meaning "leaf stalk/stem hill/mountain".

Rooväli Estonian
Rooväli is an Estonian surname meaning "cane/reed field".

Roppongi Japanese
From 六 (ro) meaning "seven", 本 (pon) meaning "origin", and 木 (gi) meaning "wood, tree".

Rosberg German
Meaning "rose" "mountain"

Rosemary English
From the plant, meaning "dew of the sea".

Rosendahl Swedish, Danish, German
Swedish and Danish ornamental name meaning "rose valley" and German variant of Rosenthal, also meaning "rose valley".

Rosenheim German (Rare)
Derived from "home of roses".

Rosenthal German, Jewish
name for any of numerous places named rosenthal or rosendahl. means " rose valley"

Rosenwald German, Jewish
Means "rose forest" in German. As a Jewish surname it is ornamental.

Roser German
German: topographic name for "someone who lived at a place where wild roses grew" (see Rose 1), with the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.German (Röser): habitational name from places called Rös, Roes, or Rösa in Bavaria, Rhineland, and Saxony, or a variant of Rosser.Swiss German (Röser): from a short form of a Germanic personal name based on hrod "renown".English: "unexplained".

Rosevear Cornish, English
From the name of a Cornish village near St Mawgan which derives from Celtic ros "moor, heath" and vur "big".

Rothacker German
Either a topographic name based on a field name derived from Middle High German riuten roten "to clear land (for cultivation)" and acker "field"... [more]

Rothberg German
From the elements rot "red" and berg "mountain" meaning "red mountain". Variant of Rothenberg.

Rotten Popular Culture
From the English word rotten, meaning "In a state of decay/cruel, mean, immoral/bad, horrible". In the Icelandic children's television program LazyTown, Robbie Rotten is the main antagonist of the show who desires silence and peace, continuously formulates reckless schemes that often feature him masquerading in various disguises as a means of hoodwinking or tempting residents away from an active lifestyle... [more]

Rotterdam Dutch
Denoting someone from a place named Rotterdam "place of the muddy water".

Rottscheit German
Modernization of Rotscheidt, also a city in Germany (Rottscheidt) bearing another modern alternate spelling. When broken down it ultimately means "red" and "piece of wood", implying that the families of today descends from woodwrokers.

Routh English
From the village and civil parish of Routh in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (recorded in the Domesday book as Rutha). The place name may derive from Old Norse hrúedhr meaning "rough shaly ground"... [more]

Rovira Catalan
Topographic name for someone who lived by an oak wood, from Catalan rovira meaning "oak wood, oak grove".

Rowell English
From a diminutive of Rowland or Rolf or a location name meaning "rough hill".

Roxburgh Scottish
From Roxburgh, a village near the market town of Kelso in the Scottish Borders area in Scotland, derived from the Old English byname Hroc meaning "rook" and burh meaning "fortified place"... [more]

Rude Norwegian, German
German: From a pet form of a personal name formed with Old High German hrōd "fame", for example Rudolf or Rüdiger... [more]

Rudén Swedish (Rare)
Swedish rud "clearing" (compare Ruud) combined with the common surname suffix -én.

Rudström Swedish
Combination of Swedish rud "deforested land, clearing" and ström "stream".

Rudyard English
From the location Rudyard (Staffs) which is recorded as Rudegeard in 100 The place-name probably derives from Old English rude "rue" and geard "enclosure yard".

Rugeley Anglo-Saxon
A locational surname whose literal meaning is "woodland clearing on or near a ridge", derived from the Old English hrycg meaning "ridge" and leah, meaning "clearing". First recorded as a surname in Staffordshire, England, but refers to a village in Normandy called Rugles.

Rumbelow English
Means "person from Rumbelow", the name of various locations in England ("three mounds").

Rumfelt German, Dutch
Altered spelling of German Romfeld, derived from Middle Low German rüm- meaning "to clear (land)" and feld meaning "open country, field", hence a topographic name or possibly a metonymic occupational name for a person engaged in clearing woodland, or in some cases a habitational name for someone from Romfelt in the Ardennes... [more]

Rundell English
Nickname derived from a diminutive of Middle English and Old French rond, rund meaning "fat, round" (see Rounds), or derived from Rundale, a local place in the village and civil parish of Shoreham in Kent, England, named with Old English rum(ig) meaning "roomy, spacious" and dæl meaning "valley".

Rundgren Swedish
Swedish surname with somewhat unclear etymology. The first element is possibly taken from a place named with either of the elements rund and/or run. Rund coincides with the Swedish word for "round", but it is not clear if the element used in this name is derived from that word... [more]

Rüngas Estonian
Rüngas is an Estonian surname meaning "rock" and "cliff".

Rünk Estonian
Rünk is an Estonian surname meaning "crag" and "rock".

Rusconi Italian
From Italian rusca, "splinter, sliver of wood".

Rush Irish
Reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ruis "descendant of Ros", a personal name perhaps derived from ros "wood". In Connacht it has also been used as a translation of Ó Luachra (see Loughrey).

Ruusuvuori Finnish
Means "rose mountain" in Finnish.

Ruutopõld Estonian
Ruutopõld is an Estonian surname derived from "ruut (square)" and "põld" ("field").

Ruutsoo Estonian
Ruutsoo is an Estonian surname meaning "square swamp".

Ruwanpura Sinhalese
From Sinhala රුවන (ruvana) meaning "gem" combined with Sanskrit पुर (pura) meaning "city".

Ryall English
From any of several places in England named from Old English ryge "rye" + hyll "hill".

Rydberg Swedish
Combination of Swedish ryd "woodland clearing" and berg "mountain". Notable bearers are author and poet Viktor Rydberg (1828-1895) and physicist Johannes Rydberg (1854-1919).

Rydell Swedish
Combination of Swedish ryd "woodland clearing" and the common surname suffix -ell.

Rydén Swedish
Combination of Swedish ryd "woodland clearing" and the common surname suffix -én.

Rydinger Swedish (Rare)
Either a combination of Swedish ryd "woodland clearing" and the common surname suffix -ing "belonging to, coming from" (compare Norling), a variant of Ryding, or a Swedish form of German Rüdinger.

Ryuen Japanese (Rare)
龍 (Ryuu) means "Dragon" and 円 (En) means "Circle, Round". En also can also mean "Garden" in this surname. ... [more]

Ryumine Japanese
竜/龍 (Ryu) means "Dragon, Imperial" and 嶺,峰,峯 (Mine) means "Peak, Summit, Mountaintop".

Ryusaki Japanese
Ryu means "dragon" or "imperial" and Saki means "peninsula".

Ryuuen Japanese
Most common transcription of Ryuen, meaning "dragon garden".

Ryūzaki Japanese
From Japanese 竜, 龍 (ryū) meaning "dragon" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula". One bearer of this surname was actor Katsu Ryūzaki (竜崎 勝, 1940–1984), born Fumiaki Takashima (高島 史旭).

Ryūzono Japanese (Rare)
Means "dragon garden" in Japanese.

Saarejõe Estonian
Saarejõe is an Estonian surname meaning "island river".

Saareke Estonian
Saareke is an Estonian surname meaning "islet".

Saarela Estonian
Saarela is an Estonian surname meaning "island area".

Saaremäe Estonian
Saaremäe is an Estonian surname meaning "island hill/mountain".

Saarepera Estonian
Saarepera is an Estonian surname meaning "island folk".

Saarkoppel Estonian
Saarkoppel is an Estonian surname meaning "island paddock".

Saarmaa Estonian
Saarmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "island land".

Saarniit Estonian
Saarniit is an Estonian surname meaning "island meadow".

Saaroja Estonian
Saaroja is an Estonian surname meaning "island stream".

Saarsalu Estonian
Saarsalu is an Estonian surname meaning "island grove".

Saarsoo Estonian
Saarsoo is an Estonian surname meaning "island swamp".

Sackhoff German
Occupational name for a farmer who cultivated land to grow plants, particularly crops, derived from Middle High German sack meaning "sack, end of a valley, area of cultivation" and hof meaning "farmstead, manor, farm"... [more]

Sada Japanese
From 佐 (sa) meaning "assist" and 田 (ta) meaning "rice paddy, field".

Saeki Japanese
This surname is used as 佐伯, 三枝木 or 佐柄木 with 佐 (sa) meaning "assistant, help", 伯 (haku, eki) meaning "chief, count, earl, uncle, Brazil", 三 (san, zou, mi, mi'.tsu, mi.tsu) meaning "three", 枝 (shi, eda, e) meaning "bough, branch, twig, limb", 柄 (hei, gara, e, tsuka) meaning "design, pattern, build, nature, character, handle, crank, grip, knob, shaft" and 木 (boku, moku, ki, ko-) meaning "tree, wood."... [more]

Saeki Japanese
From Japanese 冴 (sae) meaning "clear, serene" and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".

Saengmai Thai (Rare)
From Thai แสง (saeng) meaning "light, ray, beam" and ไม้ (mai) meaning "wood, tree".

Sæther Norwegian
Derived from Old Norse sætr "farm" or setr "seat, residence, mountain pastures".

Sagawa Japanese
From Japanese 佐 (sa) meaning "help, aid" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Sagorsky Polish, Russian
It means literally "of the city/town Sagorsk". Sagorsk is a city near the Russian capital of Moskva. The ending of "sky" means "of". The "Sagor" part of the surname sounds to me like "za gor" which is "za gorod"... [more]

Sahara Japanese
From Japanese 佐 (sa) meaning "aid; help" or 佐 (Sa), a clipping of 佐野 (Sano), a former manor in the former Japanese province of Shimotsuke in present-day Tochigi, Japan, and 原 (hara) meaning "meadow; plain; field"... [more]

Sahara Japanese
From Japanese 左 (sa), a clipping of 左衛門尉 (saemon-no-jō) meaning "judge of senior gate guards" and 原 (hara) meaning "meadow; plain; field".

Saharaoui Arabic (Maghrebi)
From Arabic صحراوي (Ṣaḥrāwī) meaning "inhabitant of the desert" (from صحراء (Ṣaḥrā') "desert"), referring to the indigenous Sahrawi people of Western Sahara (see Sahraoui)... [more]

Sahraoui Arabic (Maghrebi)
Means "of the desert" or "of the Sahara" from Arabic صَحْرَاء (ṣaḥrāʾ) meaning "desert".

Sainsbury English
habitational name from Saintbury (Gloucestershire) from the Old English personal name Sæwine (genitive Sæwines from Old English sæ "sea" and wine ‘friend’) plus burg "fortified place".

Saionji Japanese
Japanese surname derived from the kanji for "west", "park, garden" and "Buddhist temple".

Saitama Japanese
Japanese surname meaning "precious stone peninsula".

Saka Japanese
Saka means "slope, hill", often found in other surnames and place names such as Osaka.

Saka Japanese
From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope".

Sakabe Japanese
From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope" and 部 (be) meaning "part, section".

Sakagami Japanese
From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope" and 上 (kami) meaning "high place, top".

Sakagashira Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 坂 (saka) meaning "slope; hill" and 頭 (gashira), the joining form of 頭 (kashira) meaning "head", referring to the top of a hill.... [more]

Sakagawa Japanese
From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Sakaguchi Japanese
From Japanese 坂 (saka) meaning "slope" and 口 (kuchi) meaning "mouth, entrance".

Sakahara Japanese
From Japanese 阪 (saka) meaning "slope" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Sakai Japanese
From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".

Sakakawa Japanese
Saka means "slope, hill" and kawa means "river, stream".

Sakakibara Japanese
From Japanese 榊 (sakaki) meaning "sakaki" (a type of tree) and 原 (hara) meaning "meadow, plain, field".

Sakakihara Japanese
Sakaki refers to the "sakaki tree" and hara means "field plain".

Sakami Japanese
Salad means "slope, hill" and mi means "view".

Sakamizu Japanese
From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope, hill" and 水 (mizu) meaning "water".

Sakan Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 佐官 (sakan) meaning "field officer".

Sakane Japanese
From the Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) "slope" or 酒 (saka or sake) "alcohol" and 根 (ne) "root."

Sakano Japanese
From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Sakashita Japanese
From Japanese 坂 (saka) meaning "slope" and 下 (shita) meaning "under, below".

Sakata Japanese
From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Sakatani Japanese
阪 (Saka) means "hill, slope" and 谷 (tani) means "Valley".

Sakayanagi Japanese (Rare)
阪 (Saka) means "slope, hill" and 柳 (yanagi) means "willow". ... [more]

Sakazaki Japanese
From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Saki Japanese
Saki means "peninsula, cape, promontory".

Sakii Japanese
Saki means "cape, promontory, peninsula" and i means "mineshaft, pit, hole".

Sakimoto Japanese
From Japanese 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Sakino Japanese
Saki means "peninsula, cape, promontory" and no means "field, wilderness, plain".

Sakiyama Japanese
From Japanese 崎 (saki) "small peninsula, cape" and 山 (yama) "mountain".

Sakoda m Japanese
Derived from the Japanese kanji 迫 (sako) meaning "a small valley on the mountain side" and 田 (da) meaning "paddy, field".... [more]

Sakota Japanese
From Japanese 迫 (sako) meaning "mountainside valley" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Sakuraba Japanese
From Japanese 桜 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom" and 庭 (ba) meaning "garden".

Sakuragi Japanese, Popular Culture
From Japanese 桜, 櫻 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom" combined with 木 (gi) meaning "tree, wood" or 樹 (gi) meaning "tree". Chloe Cerise and Professor Cerise (also known as Koharu Sakuragi and Dr... [more]

Sakurajima Japanese
From Japanese 桜 or 櫻 (sakura) both meaning "cherry blossom" combined with 島 (jima) meaning "island". This surname comes from 桜島 (Sakurajima), an active stratovolcano located in Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan... [more]

Sakurakōji Japanese
From Japanese 桜 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom", 小 (kō) meaning "small" and 路 (ji) meaning "road, path, journey" or 寺 (ji) meaning "Buddhist temple". A famous bearer is Kanoko Sakurakōji (surname written 桜小路), a Japanese manga artist.

Sakuramachi Japanese
Sakura means "cherry blossom" and machi means "town".

Sakuramiya Japanese
From Japanese 桜, 櫻 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom" combined with 宮 (miya) meaning "temple, shrine, palace".

Sakurano Japanese
Means "cherry blossom field" in Japanese, from 桜 (sakura) "cherry blossom" and 野 (no) "field".

Sakurasaka Japanese
Sakura means "cherry blossom" and saka means "cape, peninsula".

Sakurasaki Japanese
Sakura means "cherry blossom" and saki means "peninsula".

Sakurashima Japanese
Sakura means "cherry blossom" and shima means "island".

Sakurayashiki Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 桜 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom" and 屋敷 (yashiki) meaning "estate; grounds; mansion; compound; residence".... [more]

Sakurazaka Japanese (Rare)
Sakura means "cherry blossom" and zaka is a form of saka that means means "peninsula, cape". ... [more]

Sakurazaki Japanese
Variant of Sakurasaki. Sakura means "cherry blossom" and zaki is a form of saki means "peninsula".

Sala Latvian
From Latvian sala meaning "island".

Saliste Estonian
Saliste is an Estonian surname derived from "salu", meaning "grove".

Sallo Estonian
Sallo is an Estonian surname. It is a corruption of "salu", meaning "grove" or "copse".

Salmi Finnish
Means "a strait" in Finnish.

Salu Estonian
Salu is an Estonian surname meaning "grove".

Saluäär Estonian
Saluäär is an Estonian surname meaning "grove edge".

Salulaht Estonian
Salulaht is an Estonian surname meaning "grove bay".

Salumäe Estonian
Salumäe is an Estonian surname meaning "grove ridge".

Salumets Estonian
Salumets is an Estonian surname meaning "grove/coppice forest", derived from the compounds "salu" (grove/coppice) and "mets" (forest).

Saluorg Estonian
Saluorg is an Estonian surname meaning "grove valley".

Salupalu Estonian
Salupalu is an Estonian surname meaning "meadow heathy woodland".

Salurand Estonian
Salurand is an Estonian surname meaning "grove beach".

Salusoo Estonian
Salusoo is an Estonian surname meaning "grove swamp".

Saluste Estonian
Saluste is an Estonian surname, relating to "grove".

Saluveer Estonian
Saluveer is an Estonian surname meaning "grove embankment (berm)".

Samarage Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit समर (samara) meaning "coming together, meeting" or "conflict, struggle" combined with the Sinhala suffix -ගේ (-ge) meaning "of, home, house".

Samarasekara Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit समर (samara) meaning "conflict, struggle" and शेखर (shekhara) meaning "crest, peak, top".

Samejima Japanese
”鮫” (sa me) is meaning ”shark”(in ancient use, ”alligator” ) and ”島”(or ”嶋”) (shima in west Japan , jima in east Japan) is meaning "island" in Japan.... [more]

Samonte Filipino, Tagalog
Most likely a topographic name derived from the Tagalog prefix sa- and Spanish monte meaning "mountain".

Samrajyam Indian
It means "a kingdom".

Samura Japanese
Sa means "support, assist" and mura "village, hamlet" or "town".

Sandahl Swedish, Norwegian (Rare)
Combination of Swedish and Norwegian sand "sand" and dal "valley".

Sande Norwegian
Habitational name from any of forty or more farmsteads so named, especially on the west coast, from the dative case of Old Norse sandr meaning "sand", "sandy plain", "beach".

Sandvall Swedish
Combination of Swedish sand "sand" and vall "wall, pasture, field of grass".

Sandvik Norwegian
Combination of Norwegian sand "sand" and vik "bay, inlet".

Santander Spanish
From the toponymy, it is discussed whether Santander is a derivation of San Emeterio or San Andrés. Due to the proximity of the Basque country (Ander = Andrés) and the tenor of some ancient texts, it can be concluded that it refers to San Andrés... [more]

Santerre French
Habitational name from a place to the southeast of the Somme river, named with Latin sana terra "healthy, wholesome land".

Saotome Japanese
From Japanese 早乙女 (saotome) meaning "Saotome", a former village in the former district of Shioya in the former Japanese province of Shimotsuke in present-day Tochigi, Japan. The name of the location itself is derived from Japanese 早乙女 (saotome) meaning "a woman who plants rice in the fields"... [more]

Sappingfield American (Anglicized, Rare)
From the German name "Sappenfeld," a small town in Bavaria, Germany. (Pop. 380.) The town itself is named after an early resident named "Sappo;" in English, the name means "Sappo's Field." The name "Sappo" may mean noble (unconfirmed)... [more]

Sara Sami
Probably derived from Finnish saari "island", though some claim that it is taken from the given name Sara.

Sarada Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 皿 (sara), an assigned character to 更 (sara) meaning "new; unused" and 田 (da), the joining form of 田 (ta) meaning "rice paddy, cultivated field", referring to unused farmland.

Sarapik Estonian
Sarapik is an Estonian surname meaning "hazel wood".

Sarasibar Basque
From sarats "willow" and ibar "valley". It's the name of a village in Navarre.

Sarıkaya Turkish
From Turkish sarı meaning "yellow" and kaya meaning "rock, cliff".

Saruta Japanese
From Japanese 猿 (saru) meaning "monkey" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Sasahara Japanese
Sasa means "bamboo" and hara means "field, plain".

Sasahara Japanese
From Japanese 笹 (sasa) meaning "bamboo grass" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Sasakawa Japanese
From Japanese 笹 (sasa) meaning "bamboo grass" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Sasano Japanese
From 笹 (sasa) meaning "bamboo grass" and 野 (no) meaning "field, plains". Other characters are also possible.

Sasayama Japanese
笹 (Sasa) means "bamboo" and 山 (yama) means "mountain".

Sassano Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 颯々 (sassa), sound- and script-changed from 颯爽 (sassō) meaning "gallant; jaunty" and 野 (no) meaning "field; plain", referring to a stately person who traveled to the fields.

Sata Japanese
From 佐 (sa) meaning "assist" and 田 (ta) meaning "rice paddy, field".

Satoda Japanese
From Japanese 里 (sato) meaning "village" and 田 (ta) meaning "rice field"

Satoki Japanese
Sato means "village, city" and ki means "wood, tree".

Satomi Japanese
Sato means "village" and mi means "mindset, view, outlook".... [more]

Satomiya Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 里 (sato) meaning "village" and 宮 (miya) meaning "temple, shrine, palace".

Satonaka Japanese
From Japanese 里 (sato) meaning "village" and 中 (naka) meaning "middle".

Satoya Japanese
Sato means "village" and ya means "valley".

Satterthwaite English
From a place in England named with Old English sætr "shielding" and Old Norse þveit "pasture".

Saupõld Estonian
Saupõld is an Estonian surname meaning "stick field".

Savisaar Estonian
Savisaar is an Estonian surname meaning "loam" or "clay island".

Sawa Japanese
From Japanese 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Sawabe Japanese
From Japanese 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh" and 部 (be) meaning "part, section".

Sawabe Japanese
From Japanese 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh" and 辺 (be) meaning "area, place, vicinity".

Sawada Japanese
From Japanese 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Sawaguchi Japanese
From Japanese 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh" and 口 (kuchi) meaning "mouth, entrance".

Sawai Japanese
Sawa means "marsh, swamp" and i means "mineshaft, pit, well."

Sawai Japanese
From Japanese 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".

Sawajiri Japanese
Sawa means "marsh, swamp" and jiri comes from shiri, meaning "rear".

Sawamura Japanese
From Japanese 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "swamp, marsh" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Sawano Japanese
Sawa means "swamp, marsh" and no means "field, plain, wilderness".

Sawaoka Japanese
Sawa means "swamp, marsh" and oka means "hill, mound".

Sawasaki Japanese
Sawa means "swamp, marsh" and saki means "cape, peninsula, promontory".

Sawasaki Japanese
From Japanese 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Sawashiro Japanese
From Japanese 沢 (sawa) meaning "marsh" and 城 (shiro) meaning "castle".

Sawayama Japanese
From Japanese 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Saxton English
Habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, possibly also one in Cambridgeshire, both so named from Old English Seaxe "Saxons" and tūn "enclosure, settlement".

Scannella Italian
Possibly from Italian scannellare "to channel, to cut a groove", itself from Latin scamnum "ridge (of earth formed by plowing)".

Scarborough English
Habitational name from Scarborough on the coast of North Yorkshire, so named from the Old Norse byname Skarði + Old Norse borg "fortress", "fortified town".

Schankweiler German
From the name of a German municipality, derived from Schank "bar, pub, tavern" and Weiler "hamlet".

S-charplaz Romansh
Derived from the given name S-cher and Romansh plaz "place".

Schaumburg German, Belgian
Habitational name from any of the places called Schaumburg or Schauenburg in Germany, or Schauwberg in Brabant, Belgium. Derived from schūm "slag, cinder" and burg "mountain, hill".

Schiazza Italian
From chiazza "stain, blot", perhaps given to someone with a prominent birthmark. Might also from a regional dialect, meaning "piazza, town square".

Schlatter Upper German
Topographic name from Middle High German slâte "reedy place", or a habitational name from any of several places named Schlatt, from the same word.

Schoenbeck German, Jewish
Means "beutiful stream" in German.

Schoenberg German, Jewish
Means "beautiful mountain" in German

Scholten Dutch
From Middle Dutch scholte "sheriff, bailiff, village headman" or a patronymic of the given name Scholte.

Schorgl German (Austrian)
Austrian meaning, “Lover of the land”, used by farmers.

Schwarzberg German
Variant of Schwartzberg, which means "black mountain" in German.

Sciortino Italian
Occupational name from a diminutive of sciorta, sciurta "city guard, watchman, policeman" (Arabic ̣shuṛtī).

Scobie Scottish
Means "person from Scobie", an unidentified place in Perth and Kinross ("thorny place"). A fictional bearer is Henry Scobie, the conscience-wracked and ultimately suicidal deputy commissioner of police in Graham Greene's West Africa-set novel 'The Heart of the Matter' (1948).

Scotland English
(i) "person from Scotland"; (ii) "person from Scotland or Scotlandwell", Perth and Kinross; (iii) from the Norman personal name Escotland, literally "territory of the Scots"

Screeton English
Locational surname originating from the village of Screveton in Nottinghamshire. Derived of Old English elements scīr-rēfa "sheriff" and tun "settlement".

Scudamore Anglo-Norman
A locational surname that was first recorded in England in 1264. Derived from one of the ancient villages of Fifield Scudamore or Upton Scudamore, with Scudamore coming from the Old English scitemor, which means "one who lived at the moor."

Seaborn English
From an Old English personal name derived from the elements sǣ "sea, lake" and beorn "warrior".

Seabridge English
It means "sea bridge".

Seabright English
Derives from the Old English name Sæbeorht from sæ meaning "sea" and beorht meaning "bright". Related to Seabert.

Seaforth English
The name of a projection of the sea on the east coast of Lewis, on the Long Island, Scotland. Means "the forth of the sea".

Seagrave English
Habitational name from a place in Leicestershire, recorded in Domesday Book as Satgrave and Setgrave; probably named from Old English (ge)set meaning "fold", "pen" (or sēað meaning "pit", "pool") + grāf meaning "grove" or græf meaning "ditch".

Seatter Scottish
From an ancient barony called "The lands of Setter", Stromness, Orkney. Derives from the Ancient Norse word "saetr" meaning a hut or shelter for animals.

Seaward English
Means “dweller by the sea”.

Sedda Italian
From a place name in Sardinia, meaning "top of a mountain". May alternately derive from Sardinian sedda "saddle", indicating the bearer's occupation.

Seddon English
"Broad hill" in Old English. A surname that most occurs in Merseyside, and Lancashire.

Sedgwick English
Habitational name from Sedgwick in Cumbria, so named from the Middle English personal name Sigg(e) (from Old Norse Siggi or Old English Sicg, short forms of the various compound names with the first element "victory") + Old English wic "outlying settlement", "dairy farm"; or from Sedgewick in Sussex, named with Old English secg (sedge) + wic.

See English, German
Topographic name for someone who lived by the sea-shore or beside a lake, from Middle English see meaning "sea", "lake" (Old English sǣ), Middle High German sē. Alternatively, the English name may denote someone who lived by a watercourse, from an Old English sēoh meaning "watercourse", "drain".

Seedorf German
habitational name from any of the numerous places so named from See "lake" and Dorf "village".

Seehuus Norwegian
Norwegian for "house by the sea."

Seidenberg German, Jewish
Derived from several places with the same name. As an ornamental name, it is derived from German seide meaning "silk" and berg meaning "mountain".

Seinfeld German, Jewish
From the German word sein "to be" and the word of German Jewish origin feld which means "field". It was a name given to areas of land that had been cleared of forest.

Sekawa Japanese
From Japanese 瀬 (se) meaning "rapids, current" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Sekawa Japanese
Se means "current, ripple" and kawa means "river, stream".

Sekewael Indonesian
The last name Sekewael is an original name from one of the island in Maluku. That one island name is "Negeri Oma." The meaning of Sekewael is "The Guardian of the River" because in "Negeri Oma" any body want to use the river of the water they have to ask for permission by Sekewael family... [more]

Sekihara Japanese
From 関 (seki) meaning "frontier pass" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Sekikawa Japanese
From Japanese 関 (seki) meaning "frontier pass" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Sekino Japanese
Seki means "frontier pass" and no means "field, plain".

Sekino Japanese
From Japanese 関 (seki) meaning "frontier pass" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Sekiya Japanese
From Japanese 関 (seki) meaning "frontier pass" and 谷 (ya) meaning "valley".

Sekizawa Japanese
關 translates to "connection; barrier; gateway; involve; concerning" and 澤 translates to "swamp" so it could be translated as "a connected swamp"

Selander Swedish
Combination of Swedish sel "stretch of calm water in a river or stream" and the common surname suffix -ander (originally from Greek aner "man"). The first element, sel, is also a common place name element in Northern Sweden and it's possible that this name is both ornamental and locational in origin.

Self English
East Anglian surname, from the medieval English masculine name Saulf which was derived from the Old English elements sǣ "sea" and wulf "wolf".

Selfridge English
habitational name from an unidentified minor place called with Old English scelf "shelf" and hrycg "ridge".

Selland Norwegian
From the Old Norse habitational name Seljuland, from selja "willow" and land "land", "farm".

Selva Catalan, Italian
From any of various places in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, or northern Italy named Selva, as for instance the Catalan district La Selva, from selva "wood", Latin silva.

Selvik Norwegian
From any of the farms in Norway named with Old Norse selja "willow" or selr "seal" combined with vík "bay, inlet".

Selwyn English
from the Middle English personal name Selewin (Old English Selewine perhaps from sele "manor" or sǣl "happiness prosperity" and wine "friend")... [more]

Semura Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 瀬 (se) meaning "rapids; current" and 村 (mura) meaning "village".

Semura Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 瀬村 (Semura), a clipping of 杭瀬村 (Kuinose-Mura) meaning "Semura Village", formerly in the city of Wakayama in the prefecture of Wakayama in Japan.

Semura Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 瀬村 (Semura), a clipping of 瀬田蔵 (Setagura-Mura) meaning "Setagura Village", formerly in the city of Tottori in the prefecture of Tottori in Japan.

Senda Japanese
From Japanese 千 (sen) meaning "thousand" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Sengsavanh Lao
From Lao ແສງ (seng) meaning "light" and ສະຫວັນ (savanh) meaning "heaven".

Seno Japanese
From 瀬 (se) meaning "current, ripple" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness, plain".

Senri Japanese (Rare)
This surname is used as 千里 with 千 (sen, chi) meaning "thousand" and 里 (ri, sato) meaning "league, parent's home, ri (type of measurement), village."... [more]

Senuma Japanese
Se means "ripple" and numa means "marsh, swamp".

Senzaki Japanese
From Japanese 先 (sen) meaning "before, previous" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Serdar Turkish, Croatian
Turkish form of Persian sardar, meaning "chief", "leader", "field marshal".

Sesaki Japanese
Se means "ripple, current" and saki means "peninsula, cape, promontory".

Seta Japanese
From Japanese 瀬 (se) meaning "rapids, current" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Seto Japanese
From Japanese 瀬戸 (seto) meaning "strait, channel", derived from 瀬 (se) meaning "rapids, current" and 戸 (to) meaning "door".

Seton Scottish
It has been claimed in the past that the name Seton is Norman in origin, however evidence points to it being Flemish. Various suggestions have been put forward regarding the derivation of the name but nothing proved conclusively; it probably means "town by the sea" and possibly derives from the "sea town" of Staithes in modern day North Yorkshire... [more]

Setsuhara Japanese
From Japanese 節 (setsu) meaning "section, period, verse, melody" combined 原 (hara) meaning "plain, field".

Sevilla Spanish
Habitational name from the city of Seville (or Sevilla) in Andalusia, Spain. The city's name is probably derived from Phoenician šplh meaning "valley, plain" through Arabic إِشْبِيلِيَة‎ (ʾišbīliya).

Shackleton English
The place name probably means "valley by a point of land," from the Old English scacol + denu. Another source claims the word scacol, describes a "tongue of land."

Shadwell English
English surname meaning "By the shed spring"

Shainwald German
German for "beautiful forest", probably (?) related to Sheinfeld

Shallcross English
Means "person from Shallcross", Derbyshire ("place by the Shacklecross", an ancient stone cross in the High Peak, its name perhaps denoting a cross to which people could be shackled as a penance).

Shan Chinese
From the place name Shan. Cheng Wang, the second king (1115–1079 bc) of the Zhou dynasty, granted to a son the area of Shan, and the son’s descendants adopted the place name as their surname. It comes from the Chinese word meaning "mountain"... [more]

Sharon Hebrew
From an Old Testament place name, in Hebrew שָׁרוֹן (Sharon), which means "plain", referring to the fertile plain near the coast of Israel.

Sharpton English
Habitational name from Sharperton in Northumberland, possibly so named from Old English scearp "steep" and beorg "hill", "mound" and tun "settlement".

Sheard English
English surname which was originally from a place name meaning "gap between hills" in Old English.

Sheldon English, English (American)
From an Old English place name meaning "valley with steep sides".

Shelley English, Irish
From the given name Shelley It means "wooded clearing" in Irish.

Shelley English, Irish (Anglicized)
Habitational name from any of the three places called Shelley (Essex Suffolk Yorkshire) or from Shelley Plain in Crawley (Sussex)... [more]

Shenberger English (?)
The name Shenberger comes from a common mix up with the archaic Austrian-German surname Schoenberg; meaning "Beautiful Mountain."

Shenton English
"Beautiful town" in Old English. Parishes in Leicestershire, and Cheshire.

Shereshevsky Russian, Jewish
Name for someone originally from the city of Sharashova in Belarus, probably derived Russian шерешь (sheresh) meaning "frozen mud, ice (on a river)".

Sheriff English, Scottish
Occupational name for a sheriff, derived from Middle English schiref, shreeve, shryve literally meaning "sheriff", or from Old English scir meaning "shire, administrative district" and (ge)refa meaning "reeve"... [more]

Sherrell English
This surname is of English locational origin, from the place in Devonshire called Shirwell. The placename is first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Sirewelle, and by 1242 as Shirewill... [more]

Sherwood English
From a place name meaning "bright forest", derived from Old English scir meaning "bright" and wudu meaning "tree, wood".

Shibakawa Japanese
From Japanese 芝 (shiba) meaning "turf, lawn, sod" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river".

Shibata Japanese
From Japanese 柴 (shiba) meaning "brushwood, firewood" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Shibayama Japanese
From Japanese 柴 (shiba) meaning "firewood" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

Shibazaki Japanese
From Japanese 柴 (shiba) meaning "firewood, brushwood" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Shibuki Japanese
Shibu means "astringent, rough" and ki means "tree, wood".

Shibusawa Japanese
From Japanese 渋 or 澁 (shibu) meaning "astringent (taste), harsh" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Shibutani Japanese
From Japanese 澁 or 渋 (shibu) meaning "rough" and 谷 (tani) meaning "valley".

Shida Japanese
From Japanese 志 (shi) meaning "will, purpose" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Shidehara Japanese
Combination of the kanji 幣 (shide, of uncertain meaning) and 原 (hara, "meadow").

Shigemura Japanese
Shige means "luxurious" and mura means "hamlet, village" or "town".

Shigeoka Japanese
From Japanese 重 (shige) meaning "layers, folds" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Shigesato Japanese
Shige means "luxurious" and sato means "village".

Shigeta Japanese
From Japanese 重 (shige) meaning "layers, folds" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Shijou Japanese
From Japanese 市 (shi) meaning "market, town", 四 (shi) meaning "four" or 砥 (shi) meaning "whetstone"; combined with 場 (jou) meaning "place", 條 (jou) meaning "article, twig, ray", 条 (jou) with the same meaning as the previous one, or 上 (jou) meaning "above".

Shima Japanese
From Japanese 島 (shima) meaning "island".

Shimai Japanese
Shima means "island" and i means "well, pit, mineshaft".

Shimajiri Japanese
From 島 (shima) meaning "island" and 尻 (jiri) meaning "rear".

Shimamori Japanese
Shima (島) means "island", mori (森) means "forest"

Shimamoto Japanese
From Japanese 島 (shima) meaning "island" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Shimano Japanese
Shima means "island" and no means "field, wilderness, plain".

Shimaoka Japanese
島 (Shima) means "jsland", 岡 (oka) means "ridge, hill".

Shimazaki Japanese
From Japanese 島 (shima) meaning "island" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Shimazu Japanese
From Japanese 島 (shima) meaning "island" and 津 (zu) meaning "harbor".

Shimoda Japanese
From Japanese 下 (shimo) meaning "below, down, under" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Shimoji Okinawan (Rare)
Comes from the island in Okinawa, Japan, called Shimoji. The combination of Kanji characters are 下 meaning "down, below", and 地 meaning "place, territory".

Shimokawa Japanese
From Japanese 下 (shimo) meaning "below, down, under" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Shimomura Japanese
From Japanese 下 (shimo) meaning "below, down, under" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Shimono Japanese
From Japanese 下 (shimo) meaning "under, below" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Shimooka Japanese
Shimo means "under, below" and oka means "ridge, hill". ... [more]

Shimosawa Japanese
Shimo means "below, under" and sawa means "swamp, marsh".

Shimoyama Japanese
Shimo means "under, below" and yama means "mountain". ... [more]

Shimura Japanese
From Japanese 志 (shi) meaning "will, purpose" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".