Browse Submitted Surnames

Kullberg Swedish
Combination of Swedish kulle "hill" and berg "mountain".

Kumada Japanese
From Japanese 熊 (kuma) meaning "bear" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Kumano Japanese
Kuma means "bear" and no means "field, wilderness, plain".

Kumanomidō Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 熊野 (Kumano), a name of a shrine that is/was somewhere in Ōita in Japan, 御 (o), a honorific indicator, and 堂 (dō) meaning "temple, shrine, hall", referring to a hall in Kumano Shrine.... [more]

Kumanomidō Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 熊野 (Kumano), a name of a shrine that was somewhere in the former Japanese province of Kii in parts of present-day Wakayama and Mie in Japan, 御 (o), a honorific indicator, and 堂 (dō) meaning "temple, shrine, hall", referring to a hall in Kumano Shrine.... [more]

Kumasaka Japanese
From Japanese 熊 (kuma) meaning "bear" and 坂 (saka) meaning "slope".

Kumasawa Japanese
Kuma means "bear" and sawa means "swamp, marsh".

Kumasawa Japanese
From Japanese 熊 (kuma) meaning "bear" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Küng Estonian
Küng is an Estonian surname derived from "küngas" meaning "knoll", "mound" and "hillock".

Kunida Japanese
From Japanese 国 (kuni) meaning "a land, a large place" combined with 田 (da) meaning "paddy, field".

Kunihiko Japanese
Kuni means "country, large place" and hiko means "prince".

Kunii Japanese
"Country well."

Kunii Japanese
From Japanese 国 or 國 (kuni) meaning "country, land" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".

Kuniki Japanese
Kuni means "country, large place" and ki means "tree, wood".

Kunimatsu Japanese
Kuni means "country, land, large place" and matsu means "pine".... [more]

Kunimoto Japanese
From Japanese 国 (kuni) meaning "country" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Kunimura Japanese
Kuni means "country, large place" and mura means "village, hamlet".

Kunio Japanese
Kuni means "country, large place" and o means "tail".

Kuniyoshi Japanese
Kuni means "large place, country" and yoshi means "good luck".

Kuniyuki Japanese
Kuni means "country, large place" and yuki can mean "good" or "snow".

Kunizane Japanese
From 国 (kuni) meaning "country" and 実 (zane) meaning "truth," "fruit."

Künnis Estonian
Künnis is an Estonian surname meaning "threshold" and "doorstep" and "crest".

Kuno Japanese
From Japanese 久 (ku) meaning "long time ago" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Kurahayashi Japanese
Kura means "storehouse" and hayashi means "forest, grove".

Kuramura Japanese
Kura means "storehouse" and mura means "village, hamlet".

Kurano Japanese
Kura means "storehouse, warehouse" no means "field, wilderness, plain".

Kurasawa Japanese
倉 (Kura) means "Owns, Storehouse, Posesses" and 沢 (Sawa) means "Marsh, Swamp".

Kuribayashi Japanese
From Japanese 栗 (kuri) meaning "chestnut" and 林 (hayashi) meaning "forest".

Kurida Japanese
From 栗 (kuri) meaning "chestnut" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Kurigawa Japanese
The Surname "Kurigawa/Kurikawa" translates to "Chestnut River"

Kurihara Japanese
From Japanese 栗 (kuri) meaning "chesnut" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Kuriki Japanese
Kuri means "chestnut" and ki means "tree, wood".

Kurimida Japanese
Kurimi means "chestnut" and da comes from ta meaning "rice paddy, field".

Kurimita Japanese
Kurimi means "chestnut" and ta means "field, rice paddy".

Kurisoo Estonian
Kurisoo is an Estonian surname meaning "evil swamp/marsh".

Kurisu Japanese
This surname is used as 栗栖, 栗須, 栗洲 with 栗 (ri, ritsu, ononoku, kuri) meaning "chestnut", 栖 (sei, su.mu) meaning "cobweb, den, hive, nest, rookery", 須 (shu, su, subekara.ku, subeshi, hige, matsu, mochi.iru, moto.meru) meaning "by all means, necessarily, ought" and 洲 (shuu, su, shima) meaning "continent, country, island, sandbar."... [more]

Kurita Japanese
From Japanese 栗 (kuri) meaning "chesnut" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Kuritsuka Japanese
Kuri means "chestnut" and tsuka means "mound, hillock".

Kuriyama Japanese
Kuri means "chestnut" and yama means "mountain".

Kuriyama Japanese
From Japanese 栗 (kuri) meaning "chestnut" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Kurogi Japanese
Variant of Kuroki, Kuro means "Black" and Gi means "Tree, Wood".

Kurokawa Japanese
From Japanese 黒 (kuro) meaning "black" combined with 川 (kawa) or 河 (kawa) both meaning "river."

Kuromiya Japanese
Kuro means "Black" and Miya means "Shrine".... [more]

Kuroniwa Japanese
Kuro means "black" and niwa means "garden".

Kurono Japanese
Kuro means "black" and no means "field, wilderness, plain".

Kuronuma Japanese
Kuro means "black" and numa means "swamp".

Kurosaka Japanese
Kuro means "Black" and Saka means "Hill, Slope".

Kurosaki Japanese
From Japanese 黒 (kuro) meaning "black" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Kuroshima Japanese
From Japanese 黒 (kuro) meaning "black" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".

Kurushima Japanese
From 栗 (kuru) meaning "chestnut" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".

Kurzberg German, Yiddish, Jewish
From a location name meaning "short mountain" in German, from Middle High German kurz meaning "short" and berg meaning "mountain". As a Jewish surname it is ornamental.

Kusano Japanese
From Japanese 草 (kusa) meaning "grass, herbs" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Kuse Japanese
Ku means "long time ago" and se means "world"

Kushida Japanese (Rare)
This surname is written multiple ways, Kushi meaning "Skewer" or "Comb" (these are different kanji),and da is "Rice Paddy".

Kusuda Japanese
From Japanese 楠 (kusu) meaning "camphor tree" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Kusunoki Japanese
From Japanese 楠 (kusunoki) meaning "camphor tree". This name can also be formed from 楠 (kusu) meaning "camphor" and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".

Kuurmaa Estonian
Kuurmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "shed/hovel land".

Kuusalu Estonian
Kuusalu is an Estonian surname derived from "kuusik" meaning "spruce wood" and "salu" meaning "grove".

Kuuskmaa Estonian
Kuuskmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "fir/spruce land".

Kuuspalu Estonian
Kuuspalu is an Estonian surname meaning "fir (kuusk) heathy woodland (palu)".

Kuwahara Japanese
From Japanese 桑 (kuwa) meaning "mulberry" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Kuwajima Japanese (Rare)
Kuwa (桑) means "mulberry", shima/jima (島) means "island". Shima changes to jima because of rendaku. It is also possible to be spelled as Kuwashima

Kuwashima Japanese (Rare)
Kuwa (桑) means "mulberry", shima (島) means "island". It is also possible to be spelled as Kuwajima

Kuwata Japanese
From Japanese 桑 (kuwa) meaning "mulberry" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Kuwatani Japanese
From Japanese 桑 (kuwa) meaning "mulberry" combined with 谷 (tani) meaning "valley". A notable bearer of this surname is Natsuko Kuwatani (桑谷 夏子), a Japanese voice-actress who is best known for voicing Ryōko Asakura from the Haruhi Suzumiya series and Alph from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha.

Kuwayama Japanese
From Japanese 桑 (kuwa) meaning "mulberry" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Kuze Japanese
Ku means "long time ago" and ze comes from ze meaning "world".

Kwak Korean
From Sino-Korean 郭 (gwak) meaning "outer city" (making it the Korean form of Guo) or 霍 (gwak) meaning "quickly, suddenly".

Kyōō Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 京 (kyō) meaning "capital city" and 応 (ō) meaning "to comply; to respond; to accord".

Laanemaa Estonian
Laanemaa is an Estonian surname meaning "wintergreen land".

Laanemäe Estonian
Laanemäe is an Estonian surname meaning "wintergreen hill/mountain".

Läänemets Estonian
Läänemets is an Estonian surname meaning "western forest".

Laanepõld Estonian
Laanepõld is an Estonian surname meaning "chickweed-wintergreen field".

Laanoja Estonian
Laanoja is Estonian surname derived from "laanelill", meaning "starflower" and "wintergreen" (Trientalis europaea) and "oja" meaning "stream/creek".

Laansalu Estonian
Laansalu is an Estonian surname meaning "wintergreen grove".

Läänsoo Estonian
Läänsoo is an Estonian surname meaning "west swamp".

Laas Estonian
Laas is an Estonian surname meaning "greenwood" (wood that has been recently cut) and "woodland".

Laasalu Estonian
Laasalu is an Estonian surname meaning "woodland grove".

Laasik Estonian
Laasik is an Estonian surname meaning "woodland area/stand".

Laasma Estonian
Laasma is an Estonian surname derived from "laas" meaning "forest" and "woodland".

Laasmaa Estonian
Laasmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "forest/woodland land".

Laasmägi Estonian
Laasmägi is an Estonian surname meaning "forest/woodland mountain".

Laaspere Estonian
Laaspere is an Estonian surname meaning "forest/woodland folk".

Laborde French
Derived from the French word borde meaning "small farm" (from Frankish bord meaning "plank") with the definite article la. This is an occupational surname for a tenant farmer.

Læstadius Swedish
From the name of the village Lästa in Ångermanland, Sweden, whose name possibly means "Leiðulfr's home". Lars Levi Læstadius (1800-1861) was a Swedish priest who founded a Lutheran revival movement known as Laestadianism.

Lafrenière French
Topographic name derived from French frenière meaning "place of ash trees". It is often Americanised as Freeman.

Lage Estonian
Lage is an Estonian surname meaning "plain" or "flat".

Lagemaa Estonian
Lagemaa is an Estonian surname meaning "plain/flat land".

Lago Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Topographic name for someone living by a lake from lago "lake" (from Latin lacus) or a habitational name from any of the many places called with this word.

Laguna Spanish
Habitational name for someone from any of the various locations in Spain named Laguna meaning "lake, pond" in Spanish.

Lahemaa Estonian
Lahemaa is an Estonian surname meaning "spacious land".

Lahesalu Estonian
Lahesalu is an Estonian surname meaning "spacious grove".

Laht Estonian
Laht is an Estonian surname, meaning "bay" or "gulf".

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

Laidla Estonian
Laidla is an Estonian surname meaning "near an islet".

Laidvee Estonian
Laidvee is an Estonian surname meaning "islet water".

Laikmaa Estonian
Laikmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "blotch land".

Laisaar Estonian
Laisaar is an Estonian surname meaning "wide/expansive island".

Lakerbaia Abkhaz
Mingrelian form of the Abkhaz aristocratic family name Lakrba possibly from Abkhaz а-лакра (a-lakra) meaning "in thickets, to catch in thickets" or "to rank, to include". It was most likely used to refer to a hunter or a member of a large group of peasants.

Lakoba Abkhaz
From the nickname Lako, possibly meaning "swamp" in Abkhaz (denoting someone who lived in a marshy area).

Lalonde French
Habitational name from any of various places in Normandy called La Londe, from the French feminine definite article la combined with Old Norse lundr meaning "grove".

Lamberg Finnish, Swedish
Perhaps combination of an unexplained first element (maybe taken from a place name) and Swedish berg "mountain". It could also be of German origin (see other submission).

Lambers French
Means "illustrious land", variant of Lambert

Lamborghini Italian
Probably from Germanic landa "land" and burg "fortress, castle".

Lampela Finnish
From Finnish word lampi which means "pond" or "pool". There is almost 2000 Finns and 127 people from other countries with this name.

Lancaster English
From the name of a city in northwestern England derived from Middle English Loncastre, itself from Lon referring to an ancient Roman fort on the River Lune combined with Old English ceaster meaning "city, town".

Land English, German
Topographic name from Old English land, Middle High German lant, "land, territory". This had more specialized senses in the Middle Ages, being used to denote the countryside as opposed to a town or an estate.

Landin Swedish
A combination of Swedish land "land" and the common surname suffix -in, derived from Latin -inus, -inius "descendant of"

Landry French, English
From the Germanic personal name Landric, a compound of land "land" and ric "powerful, ruler".

Långbacka Finland Swedish
From Swedish lång "long" and backe "slope, hillside".

Langeland Norwegian
Derived from the elements lang meaning "long" and land meaning "land" or "farmstead".

Langfield English
Habitational name for someone originally from any of the various locations in England named Langfield, from Old English lang meaning "long" and feld meaning "field".

Langit Filipino, Tagalog, Ilocano, Cebuano
Means "heaven, sky" in several languages.

Langwade English
From an English village Langmead, in the county of Devon. It was used to refer to those individuals who lived at the lang-mead, which literally means "the long meadow".

Lanthier French
From the given name Lantier derived from German elements Land "land" and Hari "army".

Lánzé Chinese
From Chinese 蓝, 藍 (lán) meaning "blue" combined with 澤, 泽 (zé) meaning "lake, swamp".

Lapčević Serbian
Serbo-Croatian surname meaning "river" or "white". Likely from the river Elbe in Germany, which is called Labe and Laba in Slavic languages. Lab also having the meaning "white" in archaic Slavic (like the bird labud - swan).

Laramie English
From the French la ramée "the small wood, the arbour".

Larramendi Basque
It literally means "mountain grassland".

Laskurain Basque
It literally means "creek of abundant water".

Lass Estonian
Lass is an Estonian surname, a corruption of "laas", meaning "woodland".

Lätt Estonian
Lätt is an Estonian surname, probably derived from "Läti", meaning "Latvia", or "läte" meaning "spring" and "fountain".

Lättemäe Estonian
Lättemäe is an Estonian surname derived from "läte" meaning "spring" or "fountain" and "mäe" meaning "hill" and "mountain"; "spring mountain".

Laudrup Danish
Possibly from the name of homesteads in Denmark, most likely derived from Old Norse laut meaning "barn", combined with the Danish suffix -drup (itself from Old Norse thorp) meaning "outlying farmstead, village, settlement"... [more]

Laupmaa Estonian
Laupmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "front/fore land".

Laurimaa Estonian
Laurimaa is an Estonian surname meaning "Lauri's land" (Lauri is an Estonian masculine given name).

Laurisoo Estonian
Laurisoo is an Estonian surname meaning "Lauri's (a masculine given name) swamp". However, the name is probably an Estoniazation of the masculine given name "Lauri" and the Germanic suffix "son"; "Lauri's son".

Lavalle French
means "of the valley" in english.

Lavelle French
From Old French val "valley".... [more]

Laycock English
The name comes from a small village in England called "Laycock" and has something to do with "the place of the birds."... [more]

Lazenby English
From a place name which was derived from leysingi and byr, two Norse words meaning "freedman" and "settlement" respectively.

Łazowski Polish
Habitational name for someone from any of various places called Łazy, Łazow, or Łazowa, named with łazy meaning "clearing in a forest".

Lbov Russian
Derived either from Russian лоб (lob) meaning "forehead" or from the name of the Elbe river meaning "river".

Leah English
It means "clearing".

Lear English
Means (i) "person from Leire", Leicestershire ("place on the river Leire", a river-name that may also be the ancestor of Leicestershire); or (ii) "person from Lear", any of several variously spelled places in northern France with a name based on Germanic lār "clearing"... [more]

Leckey Scottish, English, Irish
Originally Scottish, but also found in England, Northern Ireland and Ireland. Possibly derives from the barony of Leckie (meaning "place of flagstones", from Gaelic leac, "flagstone") in Stirlingshire.

Lecubarri Basque
Noble and old surname from the province of Biscay in the Basque Country, were it was first recorded. It comes from the roots "lek(h)u" meaning "place", and the ending "barri" which means "new" in the Basque language... [more]

Leetmaa Estonian
Leetmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "podzolic soil land".

Lehemaa Estonian
Lehemaa is an Estonian surname derived from "lehine" ("leafy" or "foliage") and "maa" ("land").

Lehigh German, Irish
Derived from a Native American word "Lechauwekink", meaning "where there are forks in the stream". Variant of Lechau .

Lehismets Estonian
Lehismets is an Estonian surname meaning "larch forest".

Lehtmets Estonian
Lehtmets is an Estonian surname meaning "leaf(y) forest".

Lehtomäki Finnish
Lehto means "grove" and Mäki means "hill" in Finnish. This type of surname (combination of two nature related words) is very common in Finland.

Lehtsaar Estonian
Lehtsaar is an Estonian surname meaning "leaf(y) island".

Leinberg German
Habitational name for someone in Bavaria, or a topographic name from Middle High German lin meaning "flax" and berg meaning "mountain".

Leisalu Estonian
Leisalu is an Estonian surname meaning "leeward grove".

Leitaru Estonian
Leitaru is an Estonian surname meaning "found grassland/meadow".

Leland English
derived from the Old English elements leah "wood, clearing, meadow" or læge "fallow" and land "land, area"... [more]

Lemberg German
Habitational name from a place called Lemberg in Silesia, originally Löwenberg, from Middle High German lewe, löwe "lion" and berg "mountain".

Lemmiksoo Estonian
Lemmiksoo is an Estonian surname meaning "favoured/favourite swamp/bog". Possibly an Estoniazation of the Germanic "-son"; "favourite son".

Lemsalu Estonian
Lemsalu is an Estonian surname, possibly derived from the masculine given name "Lembit" and "salu", meaning "grove"; "Lembit's grove".

Lenkeit German (East Prussian)
East Prussian German (and thus heavily Lithuanian influenced) surname.... [more]

Le Pen Breton
Le Pen is a Breton surname meaning "the head", "the chief" or "the peninsula".

Lepik Estonian
Lepik is an Estonian surname meaning "alder stand/wood".

Lepmets Estonian
Lepmets is an Estonian word meaning "alder (lepp) forest (mets)".

Leppnurm Estonian
Leppnurm is an Estonian surname meaning "alder meadow".

Leppoja Estonian
Leppoja is an Estonian surname meaning "alder creek".

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]

Lester English
Habitational name from Leicester which is recorded as Ligeraceastre in the 10th century. The placename derives from an Old English folk name Legore "the dwellers by the river Legor (a lost river name)" and Old English ceaster "city Roman fortification" (from Latin castrum) "camp fortress".

Levant English
Derived from the Italian word levante, meaning "rising" and the French word levant, meaning "to rise". The term entered the English language in 1497 and was used to describe the "Mediterranean lands east of Italy" by referring to the rising of the sun in the east... [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]

Leverton English
This surname combines the Old English personal female name Leofwaru or the Old English word læfer meaning "rush, reed" with another Old English word tún meaning "enclosure, field, farm, dwelling." The etymology with the female name addition fits in with the town of the same name in Berkshire while the etymology with the word addition fits in with the one in Lincolnshire.

Lickert German (East Prussian)
Derived from the German feminine name Luitgard, and thus ultimately from Old High German liut "people" and garto "garden; enclosure".

Liddell English
From the Liddel river, which takes its name from Okd English hl̄de “loud” + dæl “valley”.

Liddiard English
From Celtic place names in England meaning "gray hill".

Lidén Swedish
Combination of the Swedish place name element lid "slope, hillside" and the common surname siffix -én.

Lidholm Swedish
Combination of Swedish lid "slope" and holm "islet".

Lidman Swedish
Combination of Swedish place name element lid "slope, hillside" and man "man". A notable bearer was Swedish writer Sara Lidman (1923-2004).

Lidström Swedish
Combination of the Swedish place name element lid "slope, hillside" and ström "stream, flow". A notable bearer is Swedish ice hockey player Nicklas Lidström (b. 1970).

Lieshout Dutch
Originally indicated a person from the village of Lieshout in the province of Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands. It is derived either from Dutch lies meaning "great manna grass" (a grasslike plant that grows near riverbanks and ponds) or Middle Dutch lese meaning "track, furrow", combined with hout meaning "forest".

Lihtmaa Estonian
Lihtmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "common/simple land".

Liinamäe Estonian
Liinamäe is an Estonian surname meaning "straight hill"; derived from "liin" meaning "straight/line" and "mäe" meaning "hill/mountain".

Liivamäe Estonian
Liivamäe is an Estonian surname meaning "sandy hill/mountain".

Liivamägi Estonian
Liivamägi is an Estonian surname meaning "sand mountain".

Liivaru Estonian
Liivaru is an Estonian surname meaning "sand(y) upland meadow".

Lilienthal Jewish
Means "valley of lilies" in German, being this word derived from Lilie "lily" and Thal "valley".

Lilienthal German
habitational name from any of the places called Lilienthal in Schleswig-Holstein Lower Saxony and Baden-Württemburg named with Middle High German liljen "lilies" (from Latin lilium) and tal "valley".

Liljedahl Swedish, Norwegian
Ornamental name derived from Swedish lilje, a genitive form of lilja "lily" used in compounds, and the archaic word dahl (Old Norse dalr) meaning "valley"... [more]

Lillemägi Estonian
Lillemägi is an Estonian surname meaning "flowery mountain".

Lillemets Estonian
Lillemets is an Estonian surname meaning "flower forest".

Lilleorg Estonian
Lilleorg is an Estonian surname meaning "flower(y) valley".

Lilleväli Estonian
Lilleväli is an Estonian surname meaning "flower field".

Lilly English
Derived from Lilly, a pet name for Elizabeth. It was also used as a nickname for someone with fair skin or hair, and is derived from Old English lilie meaning "lily (the flower)"... [more]

Lily English
Derived from Lily, a pet name for Elizabeth. It was also used as a nickname for someone with fair skin or hair, and is derived from Old English lilie meaning "lily (the flower)"... [more]

Lima Portuguese
Topographic name for someone who lived on the banks of the Lima River in Portugal, most likely derived from Indo-European *léymō meaning "lake".

Limb Medieval English
Rare name of medieval English origin. A dialectal variant of the locational name 'Lumb', from places so called in Lancashire and West Yorkshire, and derives from the Old English pre-7th Century 'lum(m)'... [more]

Limbach German
Derived from any of numerous places in Germany named with Germanic lindo meaning "lime tree" and bach meaning "stream". Several of these places are in areas such as the Palatinate, which contributed heavily to early German immigration to the United States.

Limnios Greek
From Greek λημνι (limni) meaning "lake".

Lindahl Swedish
Combination of Swedish lind "lime tree" and dal "valley".

Lindell English
Derived from various places in England named with Old Norse lind "lime tree" and dalr "valley".

Lindenberg German, Jewish, Dutch
As a German and Jewish name, it is derived from any of numerous places called Lindenberg in Germany, composed of Middle High German linde meaning "lime tree" and berg meaning "mountain, hill"... [more]

Lindfors Swedish
Combination of Swedish lind "lime tree, linden" and fors "rapid, waterfall".

Lindhagen Swedish
Combination of Swedish lind "lime tree" and hage "enclosed pasture". Carl Lindhagen was the Chief Magistrate of Stockholm in the early 1900s.

Lindhorst German
It means "linden forest" in German.

Lindmaa Estonian
Lindmaa is an Estonian name meaning "bird land".

Lindmäe Estonian
Lindmäe is an Estonian surname meaning "bird mountain/hill".

Lindskog Swedish
Derived from Swedish lind meaning "linden tree" and skog meaning "forest".

Lindstedt Swedish
Combination of Swedish lind "lime tree" and stad "town, city" (spelling possibly influenced by German Stadt, also meaning "town, city").

Lindvall Swedish
Combination of Swedish lind "lime tree" and vall "pasture, grassy field".

Lineker English
From a place name composed of Old English lin meaning "flax" and æcer meaning "field". A famous bearer is retired English soccer player Gary Lineker (1960-).

Linikoja Estonian
Linikoja is an Estonian surname meaning "cloth stream".

Linley English
This surname can be derived from a place of the same name in Shropshire, which is derived from Old English lín meaning "flax, linen" and leah meaning "clearing." As a modern surname, it can also be a variant of Lindley (Lindley is used in 2 places in Yorkshire), which is derived from Old English lind meaning "lime tree" and leah.

Linn Scottish, Scots, English, Irish, German, Jewish, Finnish (Anglicized), Estonian
As a Scottish and Northern English surname, it is a variant of Lyne. Its usage as an English name is primarily by Scots living in Northern England.... [more]

Linna Estonian
Linna is an Estonian surname meaning (urban) "town" or "city".

Linnamäe Estonian
Linnamäe is an Estonian surname meaning "urban (city) mountain".

Lippmaa Estonian
Lippmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "flag/pennant/banner land".

Litchfield English
locational origin either from Lichfield, south east of Stafford in Staffordshire, or from Litchfield in Hampshire... [more]

Littlefield English
It means "small field".

Littlewood English (British)
This surname is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and may be either a locational or topographical surname. If the former, it derives from any of several minor places in West Yorkshire, such as Littlewood in Wooldale near Holmfirth, all of which are so called from the Olde English pre 7th Century "lytel", little, small, and "wudu", wood... [more]

Lively English
A modern English surname possibly derived from a lost village called Laefer-leah which would give it the meaning "the farm by the lake".... [more]

Livingston English, Scottish
This surname is thought to be derived from Middle English Levingestun meaning "Leving's town" or "Leving's settlement."

Ljungberg Swedish
Combination of Swedish ljung "heather" and berg "mountain".

Ljungström Swedish
Combination of Swedish ljung "heather" and ström "stream".

Loch German
From German Loch "hole", ultimately derived from Middle High German loch "hole, hollow, valley".

Loch Scottish
From Scottish Gaelic loch "lake".

Lochhead Scottish
Topographic name for someone who lived at the head of a loch, derived from Scottish Gaelic ceann meaning "head (land)" and loch meaning "loch".

Lochner German
Means "a place where rivers meet with a partial obstruction from a wooden dam. "

Lodu Estonian
Lodu is an Estonian surname meaning "marsh" or "fen".

Löfdahl Swedish
Combination of Swedish löv "leaf" and dal "valley".

Löfholm Swedish (Rare)
From Swedish elements löv "leaf" and holme "islet".

Löfström Swedish
Combination of Swedish löv "leaf" and ström "stream".

Lõhmussaar Estonian
Lõhmussaar is an Estonian surname meaning "linden island".

Lomax English
Lomax is a territorial surname, derived from the hamlet of Lumhalghs, near Bury, Greater Manchester, and meaning "pool nook" or "recess". Notable persons with the surname Lomax include: Alan Lomax (1915–2002) American musicologist, son of John Avery Lomax... [more]

Lomp Estonian
Lomp is an Estonian surname meaning "pond" or "puddle".

Longley English
Geographic name referring to multiple places by the same name in Yorkshire, England. The name comes from the word "long" plus Old English leáh "meadow".

Lonsdale English
Habitational name from the district of Lonsdale (straddling Lancashire Yorkshire and Westmorland) and also from Lonsdale in Great Ayton (North Yorkshire). The district takes its name from the river Lune (of uncertain origin) annd Old English dæl "valley"... [more]

Loomis English
Derived from Lomax (Lumhalghs), near Bury, Lancashire, which means "pool nook/recess."

Loorand Estonian
Loorand is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "loor" meaning "veil" and "fog" and "rand" meaning "beach": "fog(gy) beach".

Loosaar Estonian
Loosaar is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "lood" ("level") and "saar" ("island"); or "loog" ("windrow") and "saar" ("ash tree").

Lothrop English
Habitational name from Lowthorpe in East Yorkshire named with the Old Norse personal name Logi and þrop "outlying farmstead".

Løvaas Norwegian
Ultimately derived from Old Norse lauf "leaf, foliage" and áss "hill, ridge". Taken from any of the many farms in Norway named Løvaas,

Løvdahl Norwegian (Rare)
From the name of any of the numerous homes or places named Old Norse lauf "leaf foliage" and dalr "valley".

Loveland English
From a surname which was derived from a place name, possibly meaning "Lufa's land" in Old English or "leaf land" in Norwegian.

Löwenthal Jewish, Swedish
Ornamental name composed of German Löwe "lion" and T(h)al "valley". In some cases the Jewish name would have been an ornamental elaboration associated with the personal name Levi (or other names meaning "lion").

Lowes English
Patronymic from of Low derived from Middle English lowe meaning "hill, mound".

Ludenberg German
From Latin ludere meaning "to play" and German berg meaning "mountain".

Ludlam English
Derived from the old English word hlud "loud, roaring" (compare germanic hlud), which gave the name to the river Hlude and ham "water meadow"

Ludwell English
From the Old English elements hlud meaning "famous, loud" and well meaning "well, spring, water hole"

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

Luhamaa Estonian
Luhamaa is an Estonian surname meaning "water meadow land".

Luhasalu Estonian
Luhasalu is an Estonian surname meaning "water meadow grove".

Luht Estonian
Luht is an Estonian surname meaning "marsh" or "watery meadow".

Luhtanen Finnish
Luhtanen is an Finnish surname derived from "luhta" meaning "swamp flood meadow".

Luhtla Estonian
Luhtla is an Estonian surname meaning "marsh/glade area".

Luhtmaa Estonian
Luhtmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "meadow land".

Lumbanbatu Batak
From Batak lumban meaning "village, hamlet" and batu meaning "stone".

Lumbangaol Batak
From Batak lumban meaning "village, hamlet" and gaol meaning "banana".

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

Lumbantoruan Batak
From Batak lumban meaning "village, hamlet" and toruan meaning "lower (area or place), below".

Lumisaar Estonian
Lumisaar is an Estonian surname meaning "snow island".

Lundell Swedish
Combination of Swedish lund "grove" and the common surname suffix -ell.

Lundholm Swedish
Combination of Swedish lund "grove" and holm "islet".

Lundmark Swedish
Combination of Swedish lund "grove" and mark "ground, field, land".

Lundstedt Swedish
Combination of Swedish lund "grove" and stad "town, city" (spelling possibly influenced by German Stadt, also meaning "town, city").

Lundsten Swedish
Combination of Swedish lund "grove" and sten "stone".

Lundvall Swedish
Combination of Swedish lund "groove" and vall "pasture".

Lundvik Swedish
Combination of Swedish lund "grove" and vik "bay".

Lundy English
Either (i) "person from Lundie", the name of various places in Scotland (meaning "place by a marsh"); or (ii) a different form of Mcalinden.

Lunn Norwegian, English
Derived from Lund, which in turn comes from the Old Norse lundr, meaning "grove of trees".

Luoma Finnish
A name derived from the Finnish topographic word luomi, meaning "creek" or "small river". Common in central and western Finland.

Lustgarten Jewish
An invented Jewish name based on German Lustgarten "pleasure garden" (perhaps alluding to the Garden of Eden). It was borne by British barrister, writer and broadcaster Edgar Lustgarten (1907-1978), presenter of television crime reconstructions.

Lutsoja Estonian
Lutsoja is an Estonian surname meaning "burbot stream/creek".

Lyle English
Derived from Norman French l'isle "island".

Lynde Scottish Gaelic
Originated from the Strathclyde region of Scotland, meaning "waterfall," and located near the Castle of Lin.... [more]

Maamägi Estonian
Maamägi is an Estonian surname meaning "land/rural mountain".

Maandi Estonian
Maandi is an Estonian surname derived from "maandus" meaning "earth/ground".

Maarend Estonian
Maarend is an Estonian surname derived from either "maa rendileandja" meaning "landholder", or "maa rendilevõtja" meaning "land tenant".

Ma'ayan Hebrew (Rare)
Means "spring of water" or "fountain" in Hebrew, this is more common as a given name than a surname

Mac An Airchinnigh Irish
It literally means "son of the hereditary steward of church lands".

Macchia Italian
Topographic name from Italian macchia "thicket", "scrub" (from Latin macula) and Habitational name from any of various places named Macchia, as for example Macchia in Trapani province, Sicily.

Macedo Portuguese, Spanish (Latin American)
Referred to a person who worked or lived at an apple orchard. It is derived from Vulgar Latin mattianēta meaning "place with apple trees."

Machida Japanese
From Japanese 町 (machi) meaning "town" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Madani Arabic
Indicated a person from the city of Medina, itself from Arabic مدينة (madinah) meaning "city".

Madeiras Portuguese
Came from the Portuguese Madeira word "wood" or "timber". perhaps the portuguese version of the surname Woods or someone who's from the Portuguese island Madeira

Madera Spanish
describing someone who lived or worked in a forest. the word Madera means "wood" in Spanish. Spanish meaning of surname Wood

Mäe Estonian
Mäe is an Estonian surname meaning "hill".

Maegawa Japanese
A variant of Maekawa.... [more]

Mäehans Estonian
Mäehans is an Estonian surname, a corruption meaning "mountain/hill city".

Maehara Japanese
From Japanese 前 (mae) meaning "front, forward" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Mæhle Norwegian, Danish (Rare)
Denoted someone from a farm in Norway named Mele, ultimately derived from Old Norse melr meaning "dune, sandbank, gravel bank". Alternatively taken from the name of a farm named Male whose name was derived from Old Norse mǫl "pebbles, gravel".

Maejima Japanese
Mae means "Front, Forward" and Jima means "Island". This is a variant of Maeshima.

Maejima Japanese
From Japanese 前 (mae) meaning "front, forward" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".

Mäekalle Estonian
Mäekalle is an Estonian surname meaning "hill/mountain slope".

Mäekivi Estonian
Mäekivi is an Estonian surname meaning "hill/mountain stone".

Mäeloog Estonian
Mäeloog is an Estonian surname meaning "hill windrow".

Mäemets Estonian
Mäemets is an Estonian surname meaning "hill forest".

Maeno Japanese
From Japanese 前 (mae) meaning "front, forward" and 野 (no) meaning "area, field, wilderness".

Mäeorg Estonian
Mäeorg is an Estonian surname meaning "mountain/hill glen".

Mäeots Estonian
Mäeots is an Estonian surname meaning "hill cusp/tip".

Mäepea Estonian
Mäepea is an Estonian surname meaning "hill head" ("top of the hill").

Mäepõld Estonian
Mäepõld is an Estonian surname meaning "hill/mountain field".

Mäesalu Estonian
Mäesalu is an Estonian surname meaning "hill grove".

Maesawa Japanese
Mae means "front, forward" and sawa means "swamp, marsh".

Maeshima Japanese
Mae means "front, forward" and shima means "island".

Mäetalu Estonian
Mäetalu is an Estonian surname meaning "mountain/hill farmstead".

Maeyamada Japanese
Mae means "front, forward", yama means "mountain", and da is a variant of ta meaning "field, rice paddy, wilderness".

Magbanua Filipino, Cebuano
From Cebuano magbanwa meaning "townsperson", derived from Cebuano bánwa meaning "city, town".

Maglasang Filipino, Cebuano
Denotes a forest dweller or a person originally from a forest, derived from Cebuano lasang meaning "forest".

Maguadok Chamorro
Chamorro action word for "to dig a hole (in the ground)".

Mahlapuu Estonian
Mahlapuu is an Estonian surname derived from "mahlakas"; meaning "lush", "sappy" and "malapert" "tree/wood"; "lush tree".