All Submitted Surnames

Konkwo Igbo
"Boy born on Nkwo"

Konkyu Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 今給黎 (see Konkyū).

Konkyū Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 今給黎 (see Imakiire).

Konkyuh Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 今給黎 (see Konkyū).

Konkyuhrei Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 今給黎 (see Konkyūrei).

Konkyuhri Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 今給黎 (see Konkyūri).

Konkyuhryoh Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 今給黎 (see Konkyūryō).

Konkyūrei Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 今給黎 (see Imakiire).

Konkyurei Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 今給黎 (see Konkyūrei).

Konkyūri Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 今給黎 (see Imakiire).

Konkyuri Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 今給黎 (see Konkyūri).

Konkyūryō Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 今給黎 (see Imakiire).

Konkyuryo Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 今給黎 (see Konkyūryō).

Konkyuu Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 今給黎 (see Konkyū).

Konkyuurei Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 今給黎 (see Konkyūrei).

Konkyuuri Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 今給黎 (see Konkyūri).

Konkyuuryou Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 今給黎 (see Konkyūryō).

Konn Estonian
Konn is an Estonian surname meaning "frog".

Konno Japanese
Variously written, most usually with characters meaning ‘now’ or ‘near’ and ‘field’. Found mostly in eastern Japan, farther to the northeast it is pronounced Imano.

Konno Japanese
From Japanese 今 (kon) meaning "this, now" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Konno Japanese
From Japanese 金 (kon) meaning "gold, money" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Konno Japanese
From Japanese 紺 (kon) meaning "dark blue, navy blue" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Kõnnusaar Estonian
Kõnnusaar is an Estonian surname meaning "wilderness island".

Kōno Japanese
From Japanese 河 (kō) meaning "river" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Kōno Japanese
From Japanese 高 (kō) meaning "tall, high" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Kono Japanese
Alternate transcription of Japanese 河野 (see Kōno).

Konoe Japanese
Means "royal guardian" in Japanese. The kanji that make up this name are 近 (kon, "near, close") and 衛 (e, "protection"). A famous bearer of this surname was Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe (近衞 文麿; 1891–1945).

Konofagos Greek
Shortened form of the word, εικονοφάγος means 'icon eater'. Remnant of the iconoclastic years during the Byzantine empire.

Konoike Japanese

Kononov m Russian

Kononovs Latvian

Konopásek Czech
From konopa meaning "hemp", probably an occupational name for a rope maker.

Konopinski Polish

Konoplyanik Russian

Konovalov Russian
Derived from dialectal Russian коновал (konoval) meaning "farrier, horseleech".

Konovanets Ukrainian

Konparu Japanese
Kon means "gold" and paru is a form of haru, meaning "spring".

Konrad German
From the given name Konrad.

Konradski Polish
Son of Konrad...?

Konstantin Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, German, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian
From the given name Konstantin

Konstantinakos Greek
Probably meaning little or the son of Konstantinos.

Konstantinopolites Greek
Given to someone from Constantinople.

Konstantinović Serbian
Means ''son of Konstantin''.

Konstantinovsky m Russian
Means "son of Konstantin"

Kont Estonian
Kont is an Estonian surname meaning "bone".

Kontakos Greek

Kontaratos Greek

Kontes Greek

Kontio Finnish
Means "bear, bruin" in Finnish.

Kontoníkou Greek

Kontostephanos Greek
The surname means short (κοντός) Stefanos.

Kontrafouris Greek
A surname of Italian origin, from the Italian words 'contra' meaning against, and 'furo' meaning thief. Common in Greece and among the Greek diaspora.

Konts Estonian
Konts is an Estonian surname meaning "heel" and "stubb".

Kontsov m Russian
Derived from Russian конец (konets), meaning "end".

Konuk Turkish
Means "guest" in Turkish.

Konushi Japanese

Konvalinka Czech
Means "lily-of-the-valley" in Czech.

Konxheli Kosovar

Konyakhin m Russian

Kon'yashima Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 紺屋嶋 or 紺屋島 (see Koyajima).

Konyashima Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 紺屋嶋 or 紺屋島 (see Kon'yashima).

Könz Romansh
Variant of Chönz.

Konzelman German
Orginating from Konrad, which is a variant of Conrad, meaning "brave counsel." The second half of the name indicates one who was a councilman or advisor to someone of importance or power.

Kõo Estonian
Kõo is an Estonian surname derived from "kõu" meaning "thunder".

Koo Chinese
Alternate transcription of Chinese 辜 (see Gu).

Koo Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 神 (see Jin).

Kooij Dutch
From Dutch kooi meaning "cage", often referring to a pen or duck decoy (a plot of land with a pond set aside to lure in ducks). Occupational name for someone who raised or hunted ducks, or who made cages.

Kooistra West Frisian, Dutch
Variant form of Kooij, using the Frisian habitational suffix -stra.

Köök Estonian
Köök is an Estonian surname meaning "kitchen".

Kookmaa Estonian
Kookmaa is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "koks" meaning "coke" and "charred coal" and "maa" meaning "land": "coke/charred coal land".

Koolhof Dutch
Denoted someone from the Dutch neighbourhood Koolhof, derived from koolhof "vegetable garden".

Kooli Estonian
Kooli is an Estonian surname meaning "scholastic".

Koomar Indian

Koon American
Americanized spelling of German Kuhn or Dutch Koen.

Koonings Dutch
Means "of the king", related to Koning.

Kööp Estonian
Kööp is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "köök" meaning "kitchen".

Koop West Frisian
From the given name Jakob, a form of Jacob.

Koop Estonian
Derived from Estonian koopa, the genitive form of koobas meaning "cave; hole, burrow".

Koop German, Dutch
From kopen "to buy".

Koopmans Dutch
Patronymic form of Koopman.

Koopmeiners Dutch, German
Perhaps derived from koop "purchase, buy" and meiners "mine." An alternate interpretation is that "meiners" could be derived from the German word miner.

Koops Dutch, Low German
Patronymic from the given name Koop, a diminutive form of Jakob. Alternatively, a variant of German and Dutch Koop.

Koor Estonian
Koor is an Estonian surname meaning "bark" or "crust".

Koori Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 氷 (see Kōri).

Koorits Estonian
Koorits is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "koor" meaning both "(tree) bark" and "choir". It may also be a corruption of "kõrvits" meaning "pumpkin".

Koorogi Japanese

Koort Estonian
Koort is an Estonian surname meaning "cord".

Koot Estonian
Koot is an Estonian surname meaning both "flail" and "leg/shank".

Koot Dutch
Possibly derived from Middle Dutch kuut "coot (bird)".

Koovit Estonian
Koovit is an Estonian surname meaning "curlew" (Numenius).

Kopaczewski Polish

Kopanuk Yupik

Kopciuch Polish (?)

Kopečný Czech

Kopel Jewish
From a Yiddish diminutive of the given name Jacob.

Kopeliovich Belarusian (Russified, ?)

Kopernik Polish
Occupational name for a copper miner or copper smelter.

Kopf German
Means "head" in German.

Kopfle German (Austrian)
“Kopfle” Lower Austria.

Kopko Polish, Ukrainian
Kopeck is a reduced pet form of the personal name Prokop.... [more]

Koplakov m Russian

Kopli Estonian
Kopli is an Estonian surname, possibly derived from "koppel", meaning "enclosure" or "paddock".

Kopo Southern African

Koppán Hungarian

Köppel German (Silesian)
Derived from Silesian German Köppel "head" (ulitmately derived from Low German Kopp), this name was a nickname for someone with a visible deformity or peculiarity of the head.

Koppen German
Patronymic from a reduced pet form of the personal name Jakob.

Koppen German
Habitational name from any of several places named Koppen.

Kopřiva Czech
Means "nettle".

Kopriva Slovak
Means "nettle".

Koprivica Serbian, Croatian
A diminutive of kopriva meaning ''nettle''.

Kopyto Polish, Jewish
Jewish Polish name possibly meaning "hoof"

Kopytov Russian
Patronymic surname derived from Russian копыто (kopyto) meaning "hoof". This may have been a nickname for a lame man or a shepherd.

Kopyttsev m Russian

Kör Turkish
Means "blind" or "blunt" in Turkish, ultimately from Persian کور (kor).

Korać Serbian

Korada Polish
Polish: nickname from porada ‘advice’, ‘counsel’.

Koralewski Polish
Habitational name for someone from a place called Koralewo in Ciechanów voivodeship.

Kõrb Estonian
Kõrb is an Estonian surname with several meanings depending on the context: "desert", "wilderness", and "chestnut(color)/tawny".

Korb German
Means "basket" in German, denoting a basket maker or a basket vendor.

Korbeci German, Albanian
German name for Korb "basket" changed over time to Korbeci

Korbee Dutch
From the French surname Corbé, which might derive from courbet "bent, bowed", a nickname based on a crooked posture or manner of walking, or from corbeau "crow, raven".

Korbel German
Diminutive of Korb "basket".

Korbel Czech
Occupational name for a maker of drinking vessels, from korbel "tankard".

Korbut Ukrainian, Belarusian
From a form of the Lithuanian given name Kaributas. A famous bearer is former Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut (1955-).

Korchak Rusyn, Polish (Ukrainianized)
Rusyn form of Korczak as well as the Ukrainianised form.

Kordestani Kurdish
Originally indicated a person from the Kurdistan province (also known as the Kordestan province) in Iran.

Kordić Croatian, Serbian

Kore German

Korea ?

Kore-eda Japanese (Rare)
Derived from the medieval given name Kore-Eda(是枝) means 'correct branch'. Hirokazu Kore-Eda is a famous movie director.

Koremune Japanese

Koren Slovene, Hebrew
Koren is a surname which has multiple origins. Koren may be a variant of the German occupational surname Korn, meaning a dealer in grain. Alternatively, it may be a variant of the Greek female name Kora... [more]

Korentajer Polish, Yiddish

Kores German

Koreshi Albanian

Koressios Greek

Koretskiy Russian
Name for a person originally from the Ukrainian city of Korets, derived from Russian корец (korets) or корчик (korchik) both referring to a type of ladle.

Koretsky Russian, Jewish
Alternate transcription of Koretskiy.

Koretsugu Japanese

Kõrge Estonian
Kõrge is an Estonian surname meaning "tall" and "exalted".

Kõrgemaa Estonian
Kõrgemaa is an Estonian surname meaning "highland".

Kõrgemäe Estonian
Kõrgemäe is an Estonian surname meaning "high hill/mountain".

Kõrgesaar Estonian
Kõrgesaar is an Estonian surname meaning "high/tall ash tree".

Kōri Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 氷 (kōri) meaning "ice".

Kori Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 氷 (see Kōri).

Korić Croatian, Bosnian

Koridze Georgian
Meaning unknown.

Koriki Japanese

Koriyama Japanese
Possibly from 氷 (kori, hyou) meaning "ice" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

Korjus Estonian
Korjus is an Estonian surname meaning "carrion".

Kork Estonian
Kork is an Estonian surname meaning both "cork" and "cap".

Korkmaz Turkish
Means "unafraid, fearless" in Turkish.

Korkut Turkish
Means "big hailstone, stern, resolute" in Turkish.

Körmendi Hungarian

Körmös Hungarian
From Hungarian köröm "nail, claw", indicating someone with long or dirty nails, or perhaps someone aggressive.

Kormos Hungarian
Means "sooty" in Hungarian. Most likely a nickname for someone with dark hair or a shabby appearance, but may also be an occupational name for a house painter who used soot as a raw material. ... [more]

Korn German
From Middle High German korn "grain", a metonymic occupational name for a factor or dealer in grain or a nickname for a peasant.

Kornaros Greek
The Greek version of the surname Cornaro.

Korndilok Thai
It is a surname bestowed upon the reign of King Rama VI of the Thai Chakri Dynasty.

Körner German
Variant of Koerner.

Kornet English (American), Dutch

Korneychukov m Russian

Kornfeld German, Jewish
Means "cornfield" in German.

Korniaktos Greek

Kornili Greek (Rare)

Kornilov m Russian
Means "son of Kornelij". Lavr Kornilov (1870-1918) was a Russian military intelligence officer, explorer, and general in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and the ensuing Russian Civil War.

Korniyenko Ukrainian
From the given name Korniy.

Kornkosiakat Thai
It is a surname bestowed upon the reign of King Rama VI of the Thai Chakri Dynasty.

Kornkowit Thai
It is a surname bestowed upon the reign of King Rama VI of the Thai Chakri Dynasty.

Kornnaimuang Thai
The surname "ก้อนในเมือง" is used after the place they was born Nai Muang District in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand.

Korntemi Thai
It is a surname bestowed upon the reign of King Rama VI of the Thai Chakri Dynasty.

Kornthaswin Thai
It is a surname bestowed upon the reign of King Rama VI of the Thai Chakri Dynasty.

Korobchak Russian, Ukrainian

Korobeynik Russian
Derived from Russian word "коробейник (korobeynik)" meaning peddler.... [more]

Korobeynikov m Russian
Means "son of a peddler" from коробейник (korobeynik) meaning "peddler"

Korobeynikova f Russian
Feminine form of Korobeynikov.

Korobov Russian
From Russian коробка (korobka) meaning "box".

Korochkin m Russian
Derived from корочка (korochka) meaning crust.

Kôrogi Japanese

Koroi Fijian
Fijian surname of unknown meaning.

Koroibanuve Fijian

Korol Russian, Ukrainian
From Russian and Ukrainian meaning "king".

Korolev Russian
From korol, meaning "king".

Koroliuk Ukrainian
Based on the root word "король" (Korol), meaning "King"

Korolyov Russian
Derived from Russian король (korol) meaning "king".

Korolyova f Russian
Feminine form of Korolyov.

Korp Estonian
Korp is an Estonian surname meaning both "rough/outer bar" and "raven".

Korpela Finnish
From korpi, a marsh type, and -la, a suffix used for places. This surname was found in Lapua, Vassa, Finland, circa 1900 and before.

Körper German (Austrian, ?)

Korre English

Korsak m Russian
Possibly denoting a sly person, derived from Russian корсак (korsak) "corsac fox", itself derived from Proto-Turkic *karsak "short, steppe fox".

Korsakov m Russian
From Russian корсак (korsak), meaning "corsac (fox)". Probably to a sly person. A variant of Korsak.

Korshunov Russian
From a nickname derived from Russian коршун (korshun) meaning "kite (a type of bird)".

Korsik Belarusian

Kort Dutch
Means "short" in Dutch, a nickname for a short person.

Kort Ottoman Turkish
Kort is an ottoman surname from Anatolya,most korts are of ottoman or berber origin,the people with this surname have expressed that their ancestors were aghas(ottoman military or harem commanders)

Kortava Abkhaz
Mingrelian form of the Abkhaz surname Кәартаа (Kuartaa) of unknown meaning. During the reign of Stalin, the Abkhaz began adopting the Mingrelian spelling.

Kortazar Basque
Habitational name derived from Basque korta "stable, stall, yard; farm" and zahar "old".

Kortland Dutch
From any of the places in the Netherlands called Kortland, which means "short land."

Kortni Russian

Kortright English
Variant of Cartwright

Kõrts Estonian
Kõrts is an Estonian surname meaning "pub" or "inn".

Korus Czech, Polish
Derived from the given name Kornel.

Korutürk Turkish

Korutürk Turkish
Nickname meaning "protector of the Turks", derived from the Turkish verb korumak "to protect". This name was acquired by Turkish president Fahri Korutürk (1903-1987). It was given to him by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey (the verb korumak refers to Atatürk's expectation of Korutürk to preserve his legacy).

Kõrve Estonian
Kõrve is an Estonian surname meaning to "scorch" or "singe".

Korver Dutch
Derived from Dutch korf meaning "basket", an occupational name for someone who either made baskets or used them, such as a fisherman.

Kõrvits Estonian
Kõrvits is an Estonian surname meaning "pumpkin".

Koryagin m Russian
From Russian коряга (koryaga), meaning "uprooted tree stump, rotten tree".

Koryakin Russian

Koryakov m Russian
Denotes to a Koryak person. Koryaks are the native ethnic group of Kamchatka.

Kosach Ukrainian
Means "mower" in Ukrainian, ultimately from косити (kosyty), meaning "to mow". This was the birth surname of Lesya Ukrainka.

Kosaka Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small" and 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope".

Kosaka Japanese
From 香 (kou) meaning "fragrance" and 坂 (saka) meaning "slope."

Kosaki Japanese
Ko means "small" and saki means "peninsula, cape, promontory".

Kosarev m Russian
Derived from косарь (kosar') meaning mower.

Kosarin Polish, Russian, Jewish
Derived from the surname Kosarinsky.

Kosarinsky Polish

Koschek Hebrew
Derives from the ancient Hebrew given name "Yaakov" meaning "following-after".

Kościarz Polish
Means "bone collector, a person selling bones".

Koscik Polish

Kościuszko Lithuanian
Variant of Kostiuk.

Köse Turkish
Means "beardless" in Turkish.

Koseki Japanese
Ko means "small" and seki means "frontier pass".

Kosem Cham

Kösetürk Turkish

Koshchakov m Russian

Koshiba Japanese
From 小 (ko) meaning "small, little" and 柴 (shiba) meaning "firewood".

Koshigai Japanese

Koshigaya Japanese

Koshikawa Japanese

Koshima Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small" or 児 (ko) meaning "young" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".

Koshimizu Japanese
From 小 (ko) meaning "small", 清 (shi, kiyo) meaning "pure, clean, purify, exorcise, cleanse", and 水 (mizu) means "water".

Koshimoto Japanese

Koshino Japanese

Koshitani Japanese

Koshiya Japanese

Koshkaki Persian
Means “having a small or pointed nose.”

Koshkarov Russian

Koshkin m Russian
Derived from Russian кошка (koshka) meaning "cat".

Koshkina f Russian
Feminine form of Koshkin.

Koshkov Russian (Rare)
Possibly from Russian кошка (koshka) "cat".

Kosho Japanese

Kosikar Slovak

Košir Slovene
From the Slavic word koš meaning "basket". It originally indicated a person who made or sold baskets.

Kosk Estonian
Kosk is an Estonia surname meaning "waterfall".

Koška Belarusian
Derived from Belarusian кошка (koška) meaning "cat".

Koski Finnish
Means "rapids" in Finnish.

Koslor German (?)

Koslov m Russian

Kosmas German, Greek
From the given name Kosmas.

Kosmen Russian (Rare), Ukrainian (Rare)

Kosonen Finnish

Kosopkin m Russian

Kosor Croatian

Kosova Albanian, Kosovar

Koss English

Kossen German

Kossow German
unknown

Kossuth German

Kostabi Estonian
Kostabi is an Estonian surname meaning "echo".

Kostadinov Bulgarian, Macedonian
Means "son of Kostadin".

Kostadinova f Bulgarian, Macedonian
Feminine form of Kostadinov.

Kostadinović Serbian
Means "son of Kostadin".

Kostadinovski Macedonian
Means "son of Kostadin".

Kostakis Greek

Kostanoski German, Polish, Russian

Kostas Greek
From the given name Kostas.

Kostelnik m Russian
Status name for a sacristan or sexton, from an agent noun based on kostel "church".

Kostenko Ukrainian
Derived from the given name Kostyantyn.

Köster Estonian
Köster is an Estonian surname meaning "sexton" and "parish clerk".

Kostikov Russian
Means "son of Kostik".

Kostin m Russian

Kostis Greek
From the given name Kostis.

Kostiuk Polish
Patronymic from a pet form of the personal name Konstanty

Kostka Polish
From Polish kostka meaning "small bone" or from a form of the name Konstanty.

Kostner Ladin

Koston English

Kostopoulos Greek
Means "son of Kostas".

Kostoska f Macedonian
Feminine form of Kostoski.

Kostoski m Macedonian
Means "son of Kosta".

Kostov Bulgarian, Macedonian
Means "son of Kosta".

Kostovska f Macedonian
Feminine form of Kostovski.

Kostovski Macedonian
Means "son of Kosta".

Kostra Czech, Slovak
Unusual surname found in Slovakia and the Czech Republic meaning "skeleton" from the word kostra, ultimately from the word kost meaning "bone". In Czech in particular, kostra refers only to the biological meaning of "skeleton" - a skeleton as an independent entity is known as a kostlivec.

Koštro Croatian

Kostrzewski Polish
Habitational name for someone from a place called Kostrzewice in Sieradz voivodeship or Kostrzewy in Kalisz voivodeship, both named with kostrzewa ‘fescue grass’.

Koštunica Serbian

Kosturi Albanian

Kostylev m Russian
Possibly from from костыль (kostyl') meaning "crutch"

Kostyuchenko Ukrainian
Variant of Kostenko.

Kostyuk Ukrainian
Variant of Kostenko.

Kostyukevich Belarusian
Probably from a diminutive of Konstantin.

Kosuga Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 小菅 or 小管 (see Kosuge).

Kosuge Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small; little; short" and 菅 (suge) meaning "sedge".... [more]

Kosugi Japanese
Ko means "small" and sugi means "cedar". ... [more]

Kosugi Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small" and 杉 (sugi) meaning "cedar".

Kosumi Japanese

Kot Polish, Slovak, Czech, Belarusian, Jewish, German
From a personal name or nickname based on Slavic kot "tom cat".

Kot Belarusian
Derived from Belarusian кот (kot) meaning "tomcat".