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VeetõusmeEstonian Veetõusme is an Estonian surname meaning "water (vee) surge (tõusma)".
VesiEstonian Vesi is an Estonian surname, meaning "water".
VesiloikEstonian Vesiloik is an Estonian surname meaning "water puddle/a small pool of water."
VeskijärvEstonian Veskijärv is an Estonian surname meaning "(water)mill lake".
VeskiojaEstonian Veskioja is an Estonian surname meaning "(water) mill creek".
VihmEstonian Vihm is an Estonian surname meaning "rain".
ViirmaaEstonian Viirmaa is an Estonian surname derived from "viir" meaning both "sea swallow" and "varved" (annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock) and "maa" ("land").
ViklundSwedish Combination of Swedish vik "bay" and lund "grove".
VoogEstonian Voog is an Estonian surname meaning "stream", "flow", "billow" and "flood".
VoolEstonian Vool is an Estonian surname meaning "current", "flow" and "stream".
WakaizumiJapanese Waka means "young" and izumi means "fountain, springs".
WalmerEnglish Habitational name from Walmer in Kent, so named from Old English wala (plural of walh "Briton") + mere "pool", or from Walmore Common in Gloucestershire.
WasserGerman, Jewish Topographic name from Middle High German wazzer "water".
WassermannGerman German cognate of Waterman 2. occupational name for a water-carrier or a topographic name from Middle High German wazzar "water" and man "man"... [more]
WataseJapanese Wata means "boat, ferry" and se means "ripple".
WaterhouseGerman Old German and Dutch locational name meaning “a house by water.”
WedderburnScottish From the name of a location in Berwickshire, Scotland, which is derived from wedder “wether” and Old English burn “stream”.
WeimarGerman Habitational name from any of several places called Weimar in Hesse and Thuringia.... [more]
WelburnEnglish English surname meaning "From the Spring brook"
WeldonEnglish Weldon is one of the many names that the Normans brought with them when they conquered England in 1066. The Weldon family lived in Northamptonshire, at Weldon.... [more]
WelfordEnglish English surname meaning "Lives by the spring by the ford"
WellerEnglish, German Either from the Olde English term for a person who extracted salt from seawater, or from the English and German "well(e)," meaning "someone who lived by a spring or stream."... [more]
WellmanEnglish From German Welle meaning "wave" and man, meaning "man", referring to someone who lived by a stream.
WennerströmSwedish Combination of the place name element wenner, which is probably derived from the name of Lake Vänern, and Swedish ström "stream".
WhaleyEnglish From the name of the village of Whaley and the town of Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire, or the village of Whalley in Lancashire, England. It is derived from Old English wælla meaning "spring, stream" and leah meaning "woodland clearing".
WidmanSwedish Meaning uncertain. Perhaps a combination of Old Swedish viþr "wood, forest" or vid "wide" and man "man". It is also possible, though less likely, that it is a re-spelling of Vikman, where the first element is Swedish vik "bay".
WikénSwedish (Rare) Combination of Swedish vik "bay" and the common surname suffix -én.
WikströmSwedish Composed of the elements vik "bay" and ström "stream"
WinfordEnglish English location name meaning "from a white ford or water crossing" or "from a meadow ford".
WinterbournEnglish A variant spelling of the surname Winterbourne, means "winter stream", a stream or river that is dry through the summer months.
WinterbourneEnglish (British) Probably meaning "winter stream". A large village in Gloucestershire, From the Thomas Hardy novel "The Woodlanders".
WinterburnEnglish habitational name from any of various places called with Old English winter "winter" and burna "stream" meaning "winter stream" for a stream which only flows or flows at a faster rate during the winter and more or less dries up in summer such as Winterburn in Gargrave (Yorkshire) Winterbourne (Berkshire Gloucestershire) Winterbourne Bassett (Wiltshire) or one of thirteen parishes named Winterborne in Dorset including Winterborne Abbas Winterborne Monkton and Winterborne Zelstone... [more]
WodzińskiPolish Habitational name for someone from Wodzin in Piotrków voivodeship, named with Polish woda meaning "water".
WoolleyEnglish A habitational name from any of various places so-called. Most, including those in Berkshire, Cambridgeshire, and West Yorkshire in England, are derived from the Old English wulf, meaning "wolf", and leah, meaning "wood" or "clearing"... [more]
WyckoffEast Frisian (Rare) The North Germanic meaning is "settlement on a bay," as in the cognate Viking (Viking is derived from Old Norse vík "bay").
YamakawaJapanese From Japanese 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".
YamamizuJapanese 山 (Yama) means "mountain" and 水 (mizu) means "water".
YamaseJapanese Yama means "mountain" and se means "ripple".
YamikawaJapanese From Japanese 闇 (Yami) meaning "darkness" 川(Kawa) meaning "river", the name basically means "Dark river"
YanagawaJapanese From Japanese 柳 (yana) meaning "willow" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".
YasueJapanese From Japanese 安 (yasu) meaning "peace, quiet" and 江 (e) meaning "bay, inlet".
YoheMedieval English The Yohe surname comes from the Old English word "ea," or "yo," in Somerset and Devon dialects, which meant "river" or "stream." It was likely originally a topographic name for someone who lived near a stream.
YokokawaJapanese From Japanese 横 (yoko) meaning "beside, next to" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".
YokoseJapanese Yoko means "beside next to" and se means "current, ripple".
YonekawaJapanese Yone means "rice" and kawa means "river, stream".
YonekawaJapanese From Japanese 米 (yone) meaning "rice" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".
YoshiizumiJapanese formed with 吉 (Yoshi, Kichi, Kitsu) meaning "good luck; joy; congratulations" and 泉 (Izumi, Sen) meaning "spring; fountain". So the meaning could be interpreted as “Fountain of Good Luck” or “Lucky Fountain”
YuasaJapanese From Japanese 湯 (yu) meaning "hot spring" and 浅 (asa) meaning "shallow".
YukawaJapanese From Japanese 湯 (yu) meaning "hot spring" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".
YumekawaJapanese Yumekawa means yume (夢) means "dream" and kawa (川) means "river", so this means "dream river".
ZaluskyUkrainian Derives from the Slavic word zalew, meaning "bay" or "flooded area". Given to families who lived near water or areas that flooded often.
ZdrojewskiPolish Habitational name for someone from any of several places called Zdroje or Zdrojewo, in particular in Bydgoszcz voivodeship, named with Polish zdroje meaning "springs","spa".
ZetterströmSwedish Combination of Swedish säter "outlying meadow" and ström "stream".