BainScottish, French, English Nickname for a hospitable person from northern Middle English beyn, bayn meaning "welcoming", "friendly".... [more]
ChigusaJapanese This surname is used as 千種, 千草 or 千艸 with 千 (sen, chi) meaning "thousand", 種 (shu, -gusa, tane) meaning "class, kind, seed, species, variety", 草 (sou, kusa, kusa-, -gusa) meaning "draft, grass, herbs, pasture, weeds, write" and 艸 (sou, kusa) meaning "grass, plants."... [more]
DayalIndian, Hindi, Punjabi From Sanskrit दयालु (dayālu) meaning "kind, compassionate, merciful".
De GoedeDutch From a nickname meaning "the good" or "the kind".
EunKorean (Rare) From Sino-Korean 慇 (eun) meaning "to be kind, to be wealthy".
GourkuñvBreton Breton combination of gour and kuñv meaning "a charming, affable, gentle or conciliatory man". The digraph -ff was introduced by Middle Ages' authors to indicate a nasalized vowel.
KibarTurkish Means "kind, polite, noble" in Turkish, ultimately from Arabic كبار (kibar).
LedouxFrench Means "the amiable" from French doux meaning "sweet, soft, gentle".
LiikEstonian Liik is an Estonian surname meaning "kind" or "benevolent".
MelmothEnglish From middle english milde, meaning "mild, gentle, friendly" and mouth. The development of the surname may have been influenced by association with Middle English mele-mouth, meaning "mealy-mouthed, reticent, ingratiating, hypocritical".
NadigGerman (Swiss), Romansh Derived from from Old High German (gi-)nadig "kind", this was a nickname for a kind and benevolent person.
NiceEnglish From the English word 'nice', meaning "kind".
SachanIndian, Hindi Derived from Sanskrit सचान (sácāna) meaning "kind, friendly".
SchönGerman, Swedish Derived from Middle High German schoene "beautiful, friendly".
SnällSwedish Possibly taken from English Snell or its German cognate Schnell, meaning "quick, fast", and having its spelling influenced by Swedish snäll "nice, kind"... [more]
SomsanithLao From Lao ສົມ (som) meaning "worthy, suitable, proper" and ສະນິດ (sanith) meaning "type, kind".
SwitserEnglish Either (i) from the medieval nickname Swetesire (literally "sweet sir, amiable master"), applied sarcastically either to someone who used the expression liberally as a form of address or to someone with a de-haut-en-bas manner; or (ii) an anglicization of Schweitzer (from Middle High German swīzer "Swiss person").