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Amai Japanese
This surname is used as 天井 or 甘井 with 天 (ten, ama-, amatsu, ame) meaning "heavens, imperial, sky", 甘 (kan, ama.i, ama.eru, ama.yakasu, uma.i) meaning "be content, coax, pamper, sugary, sweet" and 井 (shou, sei, i) meaning "community, town, well, well crib."

Amao Japanese
Aka can mean "sweet" or "heaven" and o means "tail".

Amari Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 甘 (ama) meaning "sweet" combined with 利 (ri) meaning "profit, benefit".

Dolce Italian, Sicilian
From the medieval name Dolce meaning "sweet, pleasant" derived from Latin dulcis.

Doucet French
Nickname for a gentle minded person from French doux "sweet" (from Latin dulcis).

Doux French
From French meaning "sweet". Probably a nickname for someone who's gentle and kind-hearted.

Dowson English
Either a patronymic surname derived from the given name Dow, a medieval variant of Daw (which was a diminutive of David), or else a metronymic form of the medieval feminine name Dowce, literally "sweet, pleasant", from Old French dolz, dous (cf... [more]

Gam Korean
South Korean, from Sino-Korean "甘" (Gam) meaning "Sweet".

Helo Syrian, Lebanese
Helo is Americanized from the name Helou which means "sweet". Origin around year 1717 from El Helou. Tribal name from Helou Massive a mountain in the Syrian, later Lebanon country. Mentioned in the narratives of the first Crusade.

Kalmus Estonian
Kalmus is an Estonian surname meaning "sweet flag (a waterside plant; Acorus calamus)".

Kam Korean
North Korean, from Sino-Korean "甘" (Kam) meaning "Sweet".

Kanroji Japanese
Fron Japanese 甘 (kan) meaning "sweet", 露 (ro) meaning "dew" and 寺 (ji) meaning "temple".

Lahlou Arabic (Maghrebi)
Derived from Arabic حُلْو (ḥulw) meaning "sweet" or "nice, charming", chiefly used in Moroccan Arabic.

Ledoux French
Means "the amiable" from French doux meaning "sweet, soft, gentle".

Madushanka Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit मधु (madhu) meaning "sweet, delicious, honey".

Mamilov Ingush (Russified)
Russified form of an Ingush surname, which is from the name of an Ingush teip (clan) possibly from a Turkic word meaning "sweet, delicious" or from an Arabic name of unknown meaning.

Nectaria Romanian
Feminine version of Nectarie, Greek saint-St.Nectarie from Egina. In Romanian this means "the juice of flowers". Nectaire is probably of the same derivation as the English word "nectar". This is the etymology of nectar (from http://www.etymonline.com/) from negtar > nogalon... [more]

Nuon Khmer
Means "sweet, tender, modest" in Khmer.

Oloroso Spanish (Philippines)
Means "fragrant" or "sweet (having a pleasant smell)" in Spanish.

Seuss German, Jewish
Means "sweet", "pleasant", or "agreeable".

Sis Czech
Derived from German süss "sweet".

Sisselman Yiddish
Possibly from German meaning "sweet man"

Słodki Polish
It means "sweet" in Polish.

Soete Low German
Derived from Low German söt /seut "sweet".

Sussman German, Jewish
In German, this is an elaborated form of Süß, meaning "sweet man".... [more]

Switser English
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").

Tatlı Turkish
Means "sweet, pleasant, agreeable" in Turkish.

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