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This is a list of submitted surnames in which the meaning contains the keyword rooster.
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Cantagallo Italian
From the name of a town, or possibly a nickname meaning "singing rooster".
Cochet French
Either from cochet a diminutive of coq "rooster" used as a nickname for a vain conceited or womanizing individual. Or possibly also a habitational name from (Le) Cochet the name of several places in various parts of France.
Cogotti Italian
From Sardinian cogotto "cockerel, rooster".
Cowburn English
The place-name, in turn, comes from the Old English cocc, meaning "rooster," and burna, meaning "a stream." As such, the surname is classed as a local, or habitational name, derived from a place where the original bearer lived or held land.
Feuerhahn German
Feuerhahn comes from the Old High German words (fivr) meaning "fire" & (hano) meaning "cock".
Fumagalli Italian
Means "smoke the rooster" in Italian, from fuma "to smoke" and gallo "rooster". Refers to filling a henhouse with smoke to keep the chickens quiet when stealing them, thus making this a name probably given to chicken thieves.
Gailis Latvian
Means "rooster".
Gailītis Latvian
Derived from the word gailis meaning "rooster".
Galishoff Upper German, German (Austrian)
Derived from the ancient Roman name Gallus, meaning "rooster" in Latin. Hoff meaning house combines the growing or tending to poultry on a farm house, hence the name Galishoff which has been modified over the millennia... [more]
Gallatini Italian (Archaic)
Derived from the given name Galla and a suffix, meaning "little rooster".
Gally French
Derived from southern French gal "rooster", this name was used as a nickname for a vain or conceited person.
Hahner German
Occupational name for a poultry farmer, from an agent derivative of Middle High German hane "rooster".
Horoz Turkish
Means "rooster" in Turkish.
Kikkas Estonian
Kikkas is an Estonian surname, derived from "kikas", meaning "rooster".
Kokotović Croatian, Serbian
From the Slavic word kokot meaning "rooster, cock".