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Äär Estonian
Äär is an Estonian surname meaning "border" and "boundary".

Äärismaa Estonian
Äärismaa is an Estonian surname meaning "edge/border land".

Äärmaa Estonian
Äärmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "border/boundary land".

Äärt Estonian
Äärt is an Estonian surname meaning "edge".

Amrein German (Swiss)
Derived from the prepostion am "at" and German Rain "edge of plowed land".

Bergschneider German
topographic name for someone living by a mountain trail (as in cut into the hillside) from Berg "mountain hill" and Schneit "trail path running on a border" (Old High German sneita).

Bian Chinese
Romanization of a Chinese surname, which in Pinyin may be respectively Biàn, Biān or Biǎn. The former, written with the character 卞 means "to be impatient", "to be in a hurry" or "excitable" and is by far the most common... [more]

Biện Vietnamese
From Sino-Vietnamese 边 (biān) meaning "edge".

Blade English
Metonymic occupational name for a cutler, from Middle English blade "cutting edge, sword".

Brink Low German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish
The Dutch and Low German meaning is "village green". In Danish and Swedish, the name is thought to be a borrowing of Middle Dutch brinc / brink, meaning "grassy edge" or perhaps "slope",, and the Danish word now means "where the water runs deep".

Brinker German, Dutch
From the word brink "edge, slope". This indicated that the bearer of the surname lived near a prominent slope of land

Byeon Korean (Modern)
Variant romanization of Sino-Korean 邉 (Byun) meaning "Border".

Byun Korean
From Sino-Korean 邉 (Byun) meaning "Border".

Creig Scottish, English
Derived from Scottish Gaelic crioch "border".

Creighton English
From Irish 'crioch' meaning "border", and Old English 'tun' meaning "town".

Eck German
From Old High German ekka meaning "edge, corner".

Edge English
Topographic name, especially in Lancashire and the West Midlands, for someone who lived on or by a hillside or ridge, from Old English ecg "edge".

Edgecombe English
From a location meaning ridge valley, from Old English ecg "edge, ridge" and cumb "valley".

Eggert German, Jewish
Derived from the Proto-Germanic root agi meaning "edge".

Ehlert German
From a Germanic personal name composed of the elements agil "edge", "point (of a sword)" + hard "brave", "hardy", "strong" or ward "guard".

Hallikäär Estonian
Hallikäär is an Estonian name meaning "grayish edge".

Hashitsume Japanese
Hashi means "bridge" and tsume means "edge, end".

Hashizume Japanese
From Japanese 橋 (hashi) meaning "bridge" and 爪 (zume) meaning "end, edge".

Ibaiguren Basque
Means "river's edge" from the Basque words ibai, meaning "river" and guren, meaing "edge".

Iwabuchi Japanese
From Japanese 岩 (iwa) meaning "cliff, rocks" and 渕 or 淵 (fuchi) meaning "abyss, edge, deep pool".

Kadowaki Japanese
From Japanese 門 (kado) meaning "corner, edge" and 脇 (waki) meaning "side".

Kajitani Japanese
Rare Japanese surname, roughly meaning "to add to the field; extend field boundaries".

Kawabata Japanese
From Japanese 川 (kawa) or 河 (kawa) both meaning "river, stream" and 端 (hata) meaning "edge, end, tip".

Kirishima Japanese (Rare)
From 桐 (kiri), referring to the tree known commonly as the empress or foxglove tree, 霧 (kiri) meaning "fog, mist" or 切 (kiri) meaning "end, finish; bounds, limits" combined with 島/嶋 (shima) meaning "island."

Knick German
German: from Knick “hedge”, “boundary”, hence a topographic name for someone living near a hedge or hedged enclosure or a metonymic occupational name for someone who lays hedges. Hedging is a characteristic feature of the pastureland of Holstein, Mecklenburg, Westphalia, and Lower Saxony.

Krajewski Polish (Rare)
Habitational name taken from places in Poland named with Polish kraj "border area".

Krumreihn German
Possibly derived from Middle High German krum(b) meaning "crooked" and rein meaning "border of a field, margin", and hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a field with a crooked edge, or perhaps a nickname for a farmer who plowed a crooked furrow... [more]

Laaneots Estonian
Laaneots is an Estonian surname meaning "wintergreen tip" or "edge".

Lepsy Slavic (Rare), Turkish (Rare)
Possibly dating back to the Ottoman Empire's invasion of Europe, the original Turkic meaning is veiled in mystery, and possibly meant "one who comes from the edge of the lake." ... [more]

Leverich English
The surname Leverich was first found in West Yorkshire at Liversedge, a township that dates back to the Domesday Book where it was listed as Livresec, a manor belonging to Radulf, a vassal of Ilbert de Lacy... [more]

Linde Spanish
From Spanish linde "boundary" or a habitational name from places called La Linde in Spain.

Luhaäär Estonian
Luhaäär is an Estonian surname, derived from "water meadow (marsh) edge".

Lumbantobing Batak
From Batak lumban meaning "village, hamlet" and tobing meaning "riverbank, edge".

Markland English
From Old English mearc meaning "boundary" and lanu meaning "lane", it is a habitational name from a place in the town of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England. It can also be a topographic name for someone who lived by a stretch of border or boundary land, or a status name for someone who held land with an annual value of one mark.

Markley English
From Old English mearc meaning "border, mark" combined with leah meaning "clearing, grove."

Marks English
This surname is derived either from the name Mark or from Old English mearc meaning "border, mark."

Marple English
Means "boundary stream" from Old English maere (boundary), and pyll (stream).

Mccammon Scottish, Northern Irish
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Ámoinn "son of Ámoinn", a Gaelic form of the Norse personal name Amundr, which is composed of the elements ag "awe, fear", or "edge, point" and mundr "protection".

Merriott English
Either a habitational name from Merriott in Somerset. The placename may derive from Old English mere miere "mare" mere "pool" or gemære "boundary" and gæt "gate gap"... [more]

Metsaäär Estonian
Metsaäär is an Estonian surname meaning "forest edge".

Mõisaäär Estonian
Mõisaäär is an Estonian surname meaning "manor edge/periphery".

Obuchi Japanese
Combination of the kanji 小 (o, "small") and 渕 (淵, fuchi, "abyss, edge"). A famous bearer of this surname is Japanese Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi (小渕恵三; 1937–2000).

Ojakäär Estonian
Ojakäär is an Estonian name meaning "runnel" or "stream edge".

Oort Dutch
From Middle Dutch oort "edge, corner".

Ostrander Dutch
Translated as "from the east border." The name may have been originally borne by one who lived near the eastern border of a town, province, or country.

Piir Estonian
Piir is an Estonian surname meaning "border" and "frontier".

Piirikivi Estonian
Piirikivi is an Estonian surname meaning "border stone".

Piirimaa Estonian
Piirimaa is an Estonian surname meaning "border land".

Piirimäe Estonian
Piirimäe is an Estonian surname meaning "border mountain".

Piirimees Estonian
Piirimees is an Estonian surname meaning "border man".

Piirisaar Estonian
Piirisaar is an Estonian surname meaning "border island".

Piirisalu Estonian
Piirisalu is an Estonian surname meaning "border grove".

Piiroja Estonian
Piiroja is an Estonian surname meaning "border creek".

Raja Estonian
Raja is an Estonian surname meaning "boundary" or "border".

Rajala Estonian
Rajala is an Estonian surname meaning "boundary area/field".

Rajalaane Estonian
Rajalaane is an Estonian surname derived from "raja" ("boundary", "border") and "lääne" ("occidental", "western"): "western border/boundary".

Rajasaar Estonian
Rajasaar is an Estonian surname meaning "border island" or "storm island".

Rajasalu Estonian
Rajasalu is an Estonian surname meaning "border grove".

Rajaste Estonian
Rajaste is an Estonian surname derived from "raja" meaning "border".

Rajavee Estonian
Rajavee is an Estonian surname meaning "border water" or "storm water".

Randolph English, German
Classicized spelling of Randolf, a Germanic personal name composed of the elements rand "rim (of a shield), shield" and wolf "wolf". This was introduced into England by Scandinavian settlers in the Old Norse form Rannúlfr, and was reinforced after the Norman Conquest by the Norman form Randolf.

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

Severn English
From the name of the River Severn, which is of unknown meaning. The Severn is Great Britain's longest river, flowing from Wales through much of western England to the Bristol Channel. It is one of Britain’s most ancient river names, recorded as early as the 2nd century AD in the form Sabrina; its original meaning may have been "slow-moving" or "boundary".

Shore English
From the Old English word scora meaning "the land along the edge of an ocean, sea, lake, or river; a coast."

Soosõrv Estonian
Soosõrv is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "soo" meaning "swamp" and "sõrv", possibly a corruption of "serv" meaning "border" or "edge"; "swamp/marsh border".

Spatafora Italian
This surname originates from the Italian island of Sicily, where it was first borne by a noble family of Byzantine origin, which had settled on the island in the 11th century AD. Their surname was derived from the Greek noun σπάθη (spathe) "blade, sword" (akin to Latin spatha "broad sword with a double edge") combined with Greek φορεω (phoreo) "to carry, to bear", which gives the surname the meaning of "he who carries the sword" or "sword-bearer"... [more]

Staaf Swedish
Derived from various place names beginning with stav- or staf-, often meaning "boundary marker" when used in place names. Other meanings are possible. Also found occasionally as a soldier's name pre-20th century... [more]

Tabata Japanese
From Japanese 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" and 端 (hata) meaning "edge, end, tip".

Tabuchi Japanese
From Japanese 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" and 渕 or 淵 (fuchi) meaning "abyss, edge, deep pool".

Teeveer Estonian
Teeveer is an Estonian surname meaning "road/causeway edge".

Tera Estonian
Tera is an Estonia surname that can mean "blade", "edge" and "grain".

Tobing Batak
Means "riverbank, edge" in Batak. It is also used as a short form of Lumbantobing.

Van Bronckhorst Dutch
Means "from Bronckhorst", a town in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands, itself derived from Dutch brink meaning "edge, slope, village green" and horst meaning "overgrown hillock" or "higher located brushwood"... [more]

Van De Mark Dutch
Topographic name for someone who lived by a border or boundary, from Middle Dutch marke, merke meaning "boundary", "borderland".

Vangarde French
"(A soldier) in the leading edge of an army formation"

Van 't Boveneind Dutch
Means "from Boveneind", the name of various places in the Netherlands, itself meaning "from the top end" in Dutch. It is derived from boven meaning "upper, upstream" and eind meaning "edge, end".

Veermäe Estonian
Veermäe is an Estonian surname meaning "border hill/mountain".

Veermets Estonian
Veermets is an Estonian surname meaning "border forest".

Vice English
May come from "devise", an Old French word that means "dweller at the boundary". It may also derive a number of place names in England, or be a variant of Vise.

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