Submitted Surnames with "region" in Meaning

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Alajõe Estonian
Alajõe is an Estonian surname meaning "area/region water".

Alakivi Estonian
Alakivi is an Estonian surname meaning "area/region stone".

Alamäe Estonian
Alamäe is an Estonian surname meaning "area/region hill/mountain".

Alamets Estonian
Alamets is an Estonian surname meaning "area/region forest".

Alaoja Estonian
Alaoja is an Estonian surname meaning "area/region creek".

Alas Estonian
Alas is an Estonian surname, derived from either "ala-" meaning "area" and "region"; or "alasti", meaning "bald" and "nude"; "alastus" means "bareness".

Alasalu Estonian
Alasalu is an Estonian surname meaning "area/region grove".

Alasoo Estonian
Alasoo is an Estonian surname meaning "area/region swamp".

Alaväli Estonian
Alaväli is an Estonian surname meaning "area/region field".

Alavee Estonian
Alavee is an Estonian surname meaning "area/region water".

Chénier French
French surname which indicated one who lived in an oak wood or near a conspicuous oak tree, derived from Old French chesne "oak" (Late Latin caxinus). In some cases it may be from a Louisiana dialectical term referring to "an area of shrub oak growing in sandy soil" (i.e., "beach ridge, usually composed of sand-sized material resting on clay or mud... [more]

Dissanayake Sinhalese
From Sanskrit देश (desha) meaning "region, country, kingdom" and नायक (nayaka) meaning "hero, leader".

Geiselhart German (Silesian, Rare), Lombardic (Rare), Old High German (Rare)
Possibly after the Geisel, a river in Saxony-Anhalt, which likely received its name from either the Lombardic patronym Giso, meaning "noble, precious promise" or from the Old High German gewi, from the Gothic gavi, or gaujis, a which is a medieval term for a "region within a country", often a former or actual province combined with the suffix Hart, which means "stag", and comes from the Middle English hert and the Old English heort.... [more]

Isobe Japanese
From the Japanese 磯 (iso) "beach" and 部 (be) "region," "division," "part."

Jeffrey English
From a Norman personal name that appears in Middle English as Geffrey and in Old French as Je(u)froi. Some authorities regard this as no more than a palatalized form of Godfrey, but early forms such as Galfridus and Gaufridus point to a first element from Germanic gala "to sing" or gawi "region, territory"... [more]

Miyabe Japanese
From the Japanese 宮 (miya) "{Shinto} shrine" and 部 (be) "region," "division," "part."

Sussex English
Derived from an English county name meaning "region of the Saxons from the south" in Old English.

Yabe Japanese
From the Japanese 矢 (ya) "arrow" and 部 (be) "region," "division," "part."

Yorkshire English
From Yorkshire "the county of York". The place-name is recorded as Eoforwicscire in 1065 and derives from the city name York and Old English scir "district region".

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