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AchGerman Topographic name for someone who lived by a spring or stream, from Old High German aha meaning "running water".
AcquavivaItalian From an Italian place name meaning "running water, spring", literally "living water".
AkanTurkish Means "flowing, streaming, running" in Turkish.
BergschneiderGerman 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).
BrinkLow 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".
JabashiriJapanese (Rare) From Japanese 蛇走 (jabashiri), sound- and script-changed from 砂場走 (shabahashiri), from 砂 (sha) meaning "sand", 場 (ba) meaning "place", and 走 (hashiri), from 走り (hashiri) meaning "run", referring to a place where the sand collapses quickly.
JõksEstonian Jõks is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "jooks" meaning "run", "course", "scamper" and "traveling".
Mannay-oolTuvan (Rare) Derived from Tuvan маңнаар (mañnar) meaning "to run" combined with оол (ool) "son, boy".
PungKorean From Sino-Korean 馮 (pung) meaning "fast running horse".
ScorranoItalian Denotes someone from Scorrano, Italy. Coincides with scorrano "to run, to flow".
ShimekakeJapanese (Rare) From Japanese 七 (shichi) from 楠木七郎 (Kusunoki Shichirō), 五 (go) from 和田五郎 (Wada Gorō), 三 (san) from 三百騎 (sambyakuki) meaning "300 horses" and 掛 (kake), phonetically assigned to write 駆ける (kakeru) meaning "to run"... [more]