All Submitted Surnames

Karagulian Armenian

Karahan Turkish

Karahasan Bosnian

Karahasanović Bosnian

Karaj Albanian

Karak Ukrainian

Karakalos Greek

Karakas Hungarian
Means "maker of wheels".

Karakaş Turkish
Means "black eyebrow" from Turkish kara meaning "black, dark" and kaş meaning "eyebrow".

Karakatsanis Greek
Variant of Sarakatsanis.

Karakawa Japanese
Kara means "larch" and kawa means "river, stream".

Karakaya Turkish
Means "black rock" in Turkish.

Karakitsos Greek

Karakoç Turkish
Means "black ram" in Turkish.

Karakostas Greek

Karakuş Turkish
Means "black bird" from Turkish kara meaning "black, dark" and kuş meaning "bird".

Karal Indian, Bengali
This Surname was given in honour by the Britishers to Nikhil Chandra Banerjee to recognize his efforts in constructing The Karali Kali temple in Dhaka,now the capital of Bangladesh. It was a very expensive construction and still attracts tourists every year... [more]

Karalić Serbian

Karalis Latvian
Cognate of Karalius.

Karalius Lithuanian
From Lithuanian meaning "king".

Karam Arabic, Urdu, Persian
Derived from the given name Karam.

Karaman Turkish

Karamanian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Քարամանյան (see Karamanyan).

Karamanli f Greek
Feminine form of Karamanlis. Anna Karamanli (1968-) is a Greek politician, sports journalist, and former athlete.

Karamanlis m Greek
Originally indicated a person who came from Karaman, a city located in south-central Turkey, itself is derived from Karaman Bey, a Turkoman chieftain who ruled the Karamanids in the 13th century... [more]

Karamanukyan Armenian
Variant of Karamanyan.

Karamanyan Armenian
From Ottoman Turkish قرامان (Karaman), a city in south-central Turkey, or قرامان (karaman) "swarthy, black, dark-skinned".

Karamarko Croatian

Karamatić Croatian, Serbian

Karamatsu Japanese
Kara means "Larch" (green needles poking from a tree) and Matsu means "Pine/Fur Tree".

Karamehmedović Bosnian

Karamel Indian

Karami Persian
From the given name Karam.

Karamoy Minahasan

Karan Indian

Karan Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 加覧 (see Garan).

Karanci Turkish
Means "merchant","someone who deals with transport"

Karanfil Turkish
Means "carnation" or "clove" in Turkish.

Karangounis Greek

Karanjeet Nepali

Karantinos Greek

Karapandža Croatian (?)
Originally given to people by their then masters (Ottomans) as an insult. Meaning "dark witch".

Karapetian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Karapetyan.

Karapetyan Armenian
Means "son of Karapet".

Karas m Czech

Karas Ukrainian (?)

Kara-Sal Tuvan
Means "black beard", derived from Tuvan кара (kara) meaning "black" combined with сал (sal) meaning "beard, moustache".

Karasawa Japanese

Karasevdas Greek
Possibly from the Turkish word kara meaning "black, dark" and the given name Sevda literally meaning "passion, strong love" in Turkish.

Karasick Cherokee

Karask Estonian
Karask is an Estonian surname meaning "barley bread".

Karaskevich Belarusian

Kárason Icelandic
Means "son of Kári" in Icelandic.

Karasu Japanese (Rare)
This surname is used as 烏 (u, o, izukunzo, karazu, nanzo) meaning "crow, raven" or 鴉, which is an outdated variant of 烏.... [more]

Karasu Turkish
Means "black water" derived from Turkish kara meaning "black, dark" combined with su "water".

Karasuma Japanese

Karasyov m Russian
From карась (karas') meaning "crucian carp".

Karatarakis Greek

Karataş Turkish
From Turkish kara meaning "black" and taş meaning "stone, rock".

Karatay Turkish

Karatayev m Uzbek

Karatzas Greek

Karavella Albanian

Karay Turkish

Karayusuf Turkish
Yusuf is a name for men and Karayusuf means Dark Yusuf.

Karaz Turkish

Karbasi Iranian

Karbauskis Lithuanian

Karbowski Polish
Habitational name for someone from Karbowo in Torun voivodeship, a place so named from Polish karbowy "overseer (of farm laborers)", from karbowac "to make notches", i.e. to keep records.

Karch Jewish
1 Jewish (Ashkenazic): Americanized spelling of Karcz .... [more]

Karchinskiy m Russian, Jewish

Karczewski Polish
habitational name for someone from Karczew, named with Polish karcz ‘stump’.

Kardas Polish

Kardashian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Kardashyan. This is the name of an Armenian-American family of socialites.

Kardashyan Armenian
Western Armenian transcription of Kartashyan.

Kardjena Arabic (Maghrebi)

Kardović Bosnian

Kareaga Basque
Derived from Basque kare "lime (mineral)" and -aga "place of, abundance of".

Kareama Maori

Kareem Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Karim.

Karélin Russian
Altered spelling of Russian Karélin, ethnic name for someone from Karelia (see Karjala).

Kareluša Serbian
Famous bearer of this surname is Serbian singer Jelena Kareluša (1978-)

Karen Czech
From a diminutive of the given name Karel.

Karene Western African

Karenin Russian
Masculine form of the surname Karenina.

Karenina Literature
In Leo Tolstoy's novel 'Anna Karenina' (1877), this is the title character's surname, the feminine form of her husband's surname, Karenin.

Karepesina Moluccan

Kärg Estonian
Kärg is an Estonian surname meaning "honeycomb".

Kargačin Croatian

Kargaja Estonian
Kargaja is an Estonian surname meaning "jumper" and "springer".

Kargar Persian
Means "worker, labourer" in Persian.

Kargin German

Karhu Finnish
Means "bear" (the animal) in Finnish.

Kari Finnish, German (Austrian), Slovene (?), Hungarian, Indian, Marathi
As a Finnish name, it is a topographic and ornamental name from kari "small island", "stony rapids", "sandbar", or "rocky place in a field". This name is found throughout Finland.... [more]

Kari Estonian
Kari is an Estonian surname meaning both "reef" and "herd".

Karia Indian (Christian)
Derived from the given name Zechariah.

Kariatsumari Japanese (Rare)
Combination of 狩り (kari) meaning "hunt(ing)" and 集まり (atsumari) meaning "gathering, meeting, assembly," mainly concentrated in Kagoshima prefecture in southern Japan.... [more]

Karić Croatian

Karigai Japanese

Karigaya Japanese

Karimian Persian
From the given name Karim.

Kərimli Azerbaijani
From the given name Kərim and the Turkic adjective suffix -li.

Karimpour Iranian

Karimpour Persian
Means "son of Karim".

Kərimzadə Azerbaijani
Azerbaijani form of Karimzadeh.

Karimzadeh Persian
Means "offspring of Karim" in Persian.

Karin Estonian
Possibly derived from Estonian kari "reef, outcrop of stone in water".

Karineeme Estonian
Karineeme is an Estonian surname meaning "reef cape". It is also the name of several locations in Estonia.

Karino Japanese

Kariņš Latvian

Kario Japanese
From 苅 (kari) meaning "reap, prune, cut" and 尾 (o) meaning "tail, rear, end".

Karion Russian

Karitani Japanese

Kariv Hebrew
Means "battle, fight, war" in Hebrew.

Kariya Japanese

Kariyapperuma Sinhalese
Derived from the words “black” or "dark", and “peruma,” which means “big.” Together, the name can be interpreted to mean "great blackness" or "big darkness."

Karja Estonian
Karja is an Estonian surname meaning "herding".

Karjahärm Estonian
Karjahärm is an Estonian surname, possibly derived from "pasture (karjamaa) frost (härmatis)".

Karjala Finnish
Finnish from karja ‘cattle’ + the local suffix -la, or possibly from a word of Germanic origin, harja- ‘host’, ‘crowd’, Old Swedish haer. Historic records suggest that the Germanic inhabitants of the area around Lake Ladoga (in present-day Russia) used this term to refer to the Finns who once lived there.

Karjamaa Estonian
Karjamaa is an Estonian surname meaning "pastureland".

Karjane Estonian
Karjane is an Estonian surname meaning "herdsman".

Karjewski Polish (Rare)

Kark Estonian
Kark is an Estonian surname meaning "stilt" (Himantopus himantopus).

Karkavandian Armenian, Iranian
Those belonging to the Karkevand/Garkevand district of Iran who are most likely of Armenian origin. Typical modern Armenian last names end with the originally patronymic suffix -յան or -եան, transliterated as -yan, -ian, or less often '-jan'... [more]

Karkhanis Marathi

Karkhin m Russian

Karki Nepali
Occupational name for a tax collector from Nepali कर (kar) meaning "tax" (ultimately of Sanskrit origin).

Kärkinen Finnish
Combination of Finnish kärki "peak, point, tip" and the common surname suffix -inen.

Kärkkäinen Finnish
From Finnish kärkäs meaning ”eager” and the suffix -nen. A Finnish department store chain bears this name after its founder, Juha Kärkkäinen.

Karkus English
Anyone with information about this last name please edit.

Karla Czech
Karla, from English - carla

Karlberg Swedish
Variant of Carlberg.

Karlewicz Polish
Variant of Karłowicz.

Karlgren Swedish
Combination of the given name Karl and Swedish gren "branch".

Kärlin German
German surname from the personal name Karl. Also an altered spelling of German Gerling.

Karlin Jewish
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) habitational name for someone from Karlin, a suburb of Pinsk in Belarus, in which the Jews formed the majority of the population until the Holocaust. A well-known Hasidic sect originated in Karlin and at one time it attracted so many followers that a (now obsolete) Russian word for ‘Hasid’ was Karliner (of Yiddish origin)... [more]

Karlin Swedish (Rare)
Variant spelling of Carlin 3.

Karlin Polish
Polish habitational name from a village in Poland.

Karling German
A habitational name from Karling in Bavaria.

Karlov Russian
Means "son of Karl".

Karlović Croatian
Means "son of Karlo".

Karłowicz Polish
Patronymic from Karol 1 or Karl.

Karlowicz Polish (Anglicized)
Simplification of Karłowicz.

Karlowitsch German
German form of Karłowicz.

Karlowitz German
German form of Karłowicz.

Karlsberg German
Means "Carl's Mountain" in German language, it is also used in other Germanic languages

Karlson English
Means "Son of Karl".

Karlström Swedish
Literally means "Carl's stream" in Swedish.

Karlu Indian

Karm Estonian
Karm is an Estonian surname meaning "strict" and "austere".

Karmakar Indian, Bengali, Assamese
Means "blacksmith" in Bengali and Assamese.

Kármán Hungarian
An ethnic name for people from Karaman, Turkey, via Medieval Latin Caramanus.

Karman Dutch
Dutch form of Carman 1

Karman Jewish
From Russian карман (karman) meaning "pocket, bag pocket", probably an occupational name for someone who made such items. Alternatively, could derive from Hungarian Kármán.

Karmann German
German form of Carman 1.

Kärmas Estonian
Kärmas is an Estonian surname meaning "smart", "ready", "swift" and "brisk".

Karmazinas Lithuanian
Perhaps a habitational name taken from the Lithuanian village Karmazinai. The name of the village is allegedly derived from Polish karmazyn "crimson". See also Karmazsin, a Hungarian occupational name for a dyer or for someone making dyestuff (taken directly from Hungarian karmazsin "crimson").

Kärner Estonian, German
Derived from an archaic loan word meaning "gardener", related to German Gärtner.

Karnik Bengali

Karnovskiy m Russian

Karol Jewish (Ashkenazi), Polish, Rusyn, Slovak
Polish, Slovak Rusyn, Slovak: from the personal name Karol 1, Polish and Slovak equivalent of Charles.... [more]

Károly Hungarian
From the given name Károly.

Karomatov m Uzbek

Karon Filipino

Karotamm Estonian
Karotamm is an Estonian surname, possibly derived from "karu" (bear) and "tamm" (oak).

Karotki m Belarusian
Means "small, short" in Belarusian.

Kärp Estonian
Kärp is an Estonian surname meaning "stoat" or "ermine".

Karp English
From the given name Karp.

Karp Polish
From Middle High German karp(f)e Middle Low German karpe or Slavic (Russian and Polish) and Yiddish karp ‘carp’ hence a metonymic occupational name for a carp fisherman or seller of these fish or a nickname for someone thought to resemble the fish.... [more]

Karpenko Ukrainian
Means "son of Karp".

Karpiak Ukrainian
Likely from the given name Karp.

Karpiński m Polish
Derived from karp, the Polish spelling of "carp." Historically, the Karpiński family was part of the royal Clan of Korab, one of the twelve noble tribes of Poland.

Karpoche Tibetan

Karpov m Russian
Means "son of Karp".

Karpova f Russian
Feminine form of Karpov.

Karpowicz English
Patronymic from Karp.

Karr German, Scottish, English
German: truncated form of Karren or Karrer.... [more]

Karrantza Basque
Habitational name from Basque Country, Spain, a Basque adaptation of Carrantia, a toponym probably of Cantabrian origin meaning "high rocks" (compare Basque harri "rock, stone" and (h)andi "big, large").

Karras Greek
Means "dark" in Greek. Feminine form is Karra.

Karsan Indian

Karslake English
Variant spelling of Kerslake.

Karson English
Variant of Carson

Kartallozi Albanian
Meaning unknown.

Kartashov Russian
Meaning uncertain.

Kartashyan Armenian
Means "son of the stonemason" from Armenian քարտաշ (kʿartaš) meaning "stonecutter, stonemason".

Karter Breton
Breton form of Carter. This was the birth surname of Breton-French explorer Jacques Cartier (1491-1557), who is known for discovering the gulf of St. Lawrence.

Kartman English
Variant of Cartman.

Kartman German (Americanized)
Americanized form of Kartmann.

Kartmann German
Derived from German karte meaning "card". Possibly an occupational name for someone who makes, sells or trades cards. In an alternative representation, it could be a nickname for someone who gambles.

Kartner German
Variant of Cartner

Kartoshkin Russian
From Russian Картошка (kartoshka) "potato".

Karube Japanese
From Japanese 苅 (karu) meaning "reap, cut" and 部 (be) meaning "part, section".

Karuli Indian, Southern African

Karunachandra Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, mercy" and चन्द्र (chandra) meaning "moon".

Karunadasa Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, mercy" and दास (dasa) meaning "servant, slave".

Karunananda Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, mercy" and नन्द (nanda) meaning "joy, delight".

Karunanayaka Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණානායක (see Karunanayake).

Karunanayake Sinhalese
From Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, kindness, mercy" and नायक (nayaka) meaning "hero, leader".

Karunapala Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, mercy" and पाल (pala) meaning "guard, protector".

Karunarathna Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණාරත්න (see Karunaratne).

Karunarathne Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණාරත්න (see Karunaratne).

Karunaratna Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණාරත්න (see Karunaratne).

Karunaratne Sinhalese
From Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, kindness, mercy" and रत्न (ratna) meaning "jewel, treasure".

Karunasekara Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, mercy" and सेना (sena) meaning "army".

Karunasekara Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, mercy" and शेखर (shekhara) meaning "crest, peak, top".

Karunasekera Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුනාසේකර (see Karunasekara).

Karunasena Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, mercy" and सेना (sena) meaning "army".

Karunasinghe Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, mercy" and सिंह (sinha) meaning "lion".

Karunasiri Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, mercy" and श्री (shri) meaning "diffusing light, radiance, splendour, beauty".

Karunathilaka Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, kindness, mercy" and तिलक (tilaka) meaning "mark (on the forehead), dot, ornament".

Karunathilake Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණාතිලක (see Karunathilaka).

Karunathileka Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණාතිලක (see Karunathilaka).

Karunatilaka Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණාතිලක (see Karunathilaka).

Karunatilake Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණාතිලක (see Karunathilaka).

Karunatillaka Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණාතිලක (see Karunathilaka).

Karunatillake Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණාතිලක (see Karunathilaka).

Karunatilleke Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණාතිලක (see Karunathilaka).

Karunawardana Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, mercy" and वर्धन (vardhana) meaning "increasing, strengthening, growing".

Karunawardena Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණාවර්ධන (see Karunawardana).

Karunaweera Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, mercy" and वीर (vira) meaning "hero, man, brave".

Karunungan Tagalog
Variant of Caronongan.

Karusha African

Karvelas Greek

Karvellas Greek

Karyakin Russian
Meaning uncertain.

Karyotakis Greek

Karypidis Greek

Karytskyy m Ukrainian

Karzai Afghan

Kaş Turkish

Kasabyan Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Ղասաբյան (see Ghasabyan)

Kasahara Japanese
From Japanese 笠 (kasa) meaning "conical hat" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Kasahara Japanese (Rare)
From an additional character of Japanese 上 (ka) meaning "above; high; up" added to 砂原 (Sunahara) (see Sunahara).

Kasai Japanese
It means fire in Japanese

Kasalica Montenegrin

Kasana Indian

Kasap Turkish
Means "butcher" in Turkish.

Kasatkin m Russian
From Russian касатка (kasatka), meaning "orca, killer whale".

Kasaya Japanese

Kašćelan Montenegrin
Derived from Italian castello, meaning "castle".

Kasdaglis Greek

Kase Japanese
From Japanese 加 (ka) meaning "add, increase" and 瀬 (se) meaning "rapids, current".

Kaseda Japanese
If kase is spelled like 加 (ka) meaning "add, increase, join, include, Canada" and 世 (se, yo) meaning "generation, world, society, public", then it can also be read as kayo... [more]

Kasei Japanese
From Japanese 火星 (kasei) meaning "Mars".

Kasei Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 何 (see Nani).

Kasekivi Estonian
Kasekivi is an Estonian surname meaning "birch stone".

Kaselaid Estonian
Kaselaid is an Estonian surname meaning "birch islet".

Kasemaa Estonian
Kasemaa is an Estonian surname meaning "birch land".

Käsemann German
Occupational name for someone who makes or sells cheese.

Kasemets Estonian
Kasemets is an Estonian surname meaning "birch forest".

Kasemsant Thai

Kasenurm Estonian
Kasenurm is an Estonian surname meaning "birch meadow".

Kaseorg Estonian
Kaseorg is an Estonian surname meaning "birch valley".

Kasepõld Estonian
Kasepõld is an Estonian surname meaning "birch field".

Kasepuu Estonian
Kasepuu is an Estonian surname meaning "birch tree".

Käser German, German (Swiss)
occupational name for a cheesemaker or a cheese merchant (see Kaeser ). topographic name for someone who lived by a summer dairy in the Alps from a Tyrolean dialect word derived from Ladin casura... [more]

Kasesalu Estonian
Kasesalu is an Estonian surname meaning "birch grove".

Kasetalu Estonian
Kasetalu is an Estonian surname meaning "birch farmstead".

Kasetsiri Thai
From Thai เกษตร (kaset) meaning "farmland" and ศิริ (siri) meaning "glory; splendor".

Kasey English
Variant of Casey.

Kashafali Central African

Kashak Indian

Kashani Persian

Kashani Persian
Indicated a person from the city of Kashan in Isfahan province, Iran. The name may be derived from the Kasian, the original inhabitants of the area.

Kashapov Russian

Kashari Albanian

Kashatok Yupik

Kashem Assamese, Bengali (Muslim)

Kasher Jewish, Hebrew
From Hebrew כשר (ksher) meaning "fit, proper".

Kashevarov Russian
Derived from Russian кашевар (kashevar) meaning "cook (in military unit or team of workers)".

Kashgari Uyghur, Arabic
Originally denoted someone who came from the city of Kashgar, located in the Xinjiang region of western China. The city's name is of Persian origin probably meaning "rock mountain".

Kashia Georgian

Kashibara Japanese
Variant of Kashihara.

Kashif Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Kashif.

Kashihara Japanese
Kashi means "candy" and hara means "plain, field".

Kashii Japanese
Kashi can mean "candy" or "oak" and i means "well, mineshaft, pit"

Kashima Japanese
From Japanese 鹿 (ka) meaning "deer" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".

Kashimoto Japanese
From Japanese 樫 (kashi) meaning "oak" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Kashimura Japanese

Kashimura Japanese
From Japanese 樫 (kashi) meaning "oak" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Kashio Japanese
Derived from 柏 ka meaning oak, cypress./ 尾 shio meaning tail-end, a counter for fish, the lower slope of a mountain.

Kashirin m Russian

Kashiwa Japanese
This surname is used as 柏 (haku, hyaku, byaku, kashiwa) meaning "oak."... [more]

Kashiwabara Japanese
Variant of Kashiwahara.

Kashiwabara Japanese
From Japanese 柏 (kashiwa) meaning "oak" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Kashiwada Japanese (Rare)
Kashiwa means "oak" and da comes from ta meaning "field, rice paddy". ... [more]

Kashiwade Japanese (Rare)
This name is made of two symbols literally meaning "Chef".

Kashiwado Japanese (Rare)
Kashiwa means "oak" and do means "door". ... [more]

Kashiwaeda Japanese
柏 (Kashiwa) means "Japanese emperor oak" and 枝 (eda) means "bough, twig, branch".

Kashiwagi Japanese
From 柏 (kashiwa), which specifically refers the Japanese Emperor Oak/Daimyo oak (Quercus dentata), and 木 (ki), meaning "tree".

Kashiwagi Japanese
From Japanese 柏 (kashiwa) meaning "oak" and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".

Kashiwahara Japanese
Kashiwa means "oak" and hara means "field, plain".

Kashiwako Japanese
Kashiwa means "oak" and ko means "child, sign of the rat".

Kashiwara Japanese
Variant of Kashihara.

Kashiwazaki Japanese
From Japanese 柏 (kashiwa) meaning "oak" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Kashiyama Japanese

Kashkanov m Russian

Kashkov Russian
From kashka, meaning "bald".

Kashmanian Armenian
this name is believed to be a version of the name of a city called kashman

Kashperskiy m Russian, Jewish