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Ao Chinese
From Chinese 敖 (áo) referring to Tai Ao, a legendary teacher who mentored the mythological emperor Zhuanxu.
Ao Estonian
Ao is an Estonian surname, possibly a corruption of "lao", meaning "warehouse".
Aoba Japanese
青 (Ao) means "green, blue" and 葉 (ba) being a form of, ha meaning "leaf". This surname refers to a fresh leaf. ... [more]
Aochi Japanese
Ao means "green, blue" and chi means "ground".
Aoda Japanese
So means "green, blue" and da is a form of ta meaning "field, rice paddy".
Aohara Japanese
From 青 (ao) meaning "green, blue" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".
Aoi Japanese
From Japanese 葵 "hollyhock, althea" or 碧 "blue". This name is a given name as well as a surname.
Aoike Japanese
青 (Ao) means "blue, green" and 池 (ike) means "pond, pool".
Aokaki Japanese
Ao means "green, blue" and kaki means "fence".
Áolāshì Mongolian
A Daur surname.
Aomatsu Japanese
Ao means "green, blue" and matsu means "pine".
Aomine Japanese
Written 青嶺 (青 ao, meaning "blue") (嶺 mine, meaning "peak"). It is the surname of a character in the anime/manga Kuroko no Basket.
Aondio Italian
Possibly a contracted form of Abundio.
Aono Japanese
From Japanese 青 (ao) meaning "green, blue" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".
Aonuma Japanese
From Japanese 青 (ao) meaning "green, blue" and 沼 (numa) meaning "swamp, marsh".
Aosaka Japanese
Ao means "green, blue" and saka means "slope, hill".
Aosaki Japanese
Ao means "blue, green" and saki means "promontory, cape, peninsula".
Aosawa Japanese
Ao means "blue, green" and sawa means "swamp, wetland, marsh".
Aoshima Japanese
Ao means "green, blue" and shima means "island".
Aota Japanese
From Japanese 青 (ao) meaning "green, blue" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".
Aotsuki Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 青 (ao) or 蒼 (ao) both meaning "blue" combined with 月 (tsuki) meaning "moon".
Aoun Arabic (Mashriqi), Arabic (Maghrebi)
Derived from a French-influenced variant of a given name based on the Arabic noun عون (aun) meaning "help, aid". This surname is more commonly used by Maronite Christians in Lebanon. A notable bearer is the former Lebanese president Michel Aoun (1933-).
Aoyagi Japanese
From Japanese 青 (ao) meaning "green, blue" and 柳 (yagi) meaning "willow".
Aozaki Japanese (Rare)
Ao means "blue,somewhat green" & zaki means "blossom". So, Nobutaka "Blue Blossom",is an artist who was born in Japan,but now lives in New York as an artist who has been featured in magazines.
Aozora Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 青 (ao) meaning "blue" and 空 (sora) meaning "sky".
Apa Samoan
Best known as the surname of KJ Apa.
Apacible Spanish (Philippines)
Means "peaceful" in Spanish. Galicano Apacible was a Filipino physician and politician who was the co-founder of La Solidaridad and the Nacionalista Party.
Apale Nahuatl
Possibly means "coloured water", from atl "water" and tlapalli "painting".
Apanecatl Nahuatl
Possibly related to Nahuatl apantli, "canal, channel, water ditch".
Aparício Portuguese
Cognate with spanish Aparicio.
Aparicio Spanish
Derived from the Latin word “aparitio” meaning “appearance” or “arrival”. It may also be a habitational name, indicating a person who lived near or at a place with the same name.
Apas Filipino, Cebuano
Means "catch up with, overtake" in Cebuano.
Apaydın Turkish
Means "very bright, well lit" in Turkish.
Apaydin Turkish
Means "very bright".
Apdunlo Thai (Muslim)
From the given name Apdunlo.
Apellido Spanish (Philippines)
This likely originated as a surname taken by people who didn't have a surname and wrote "Apellido" (the Spanish for surname) when filling in an official form.
Apelsinov m Russian
From Russian aпельсин (apel'sin) meaning "orange (fruit)". Probably denoted to someone who worked with oranges or lived by orange trees.
Apeltia English (Rare)
Comes from the word "appellation" referring to the Appellation Mountains.
Apfel German
Means "apple" in German.
Apfelbaum German, Jewish
Means "apple tree" in German.
Apicella Italian
Southern Italian: from a diminutive of apa ‘bee’, probably applied as a nickname for an industrious person, or possibly as a metonymic occupational name for a beekeeper.
Apilado Spanish (Philippines)
Means "stack, pile up."
Apisamaimongkol Thai
From Thai อภิ (aphi) meaning "superhuman, magic knowledge", สมัย (samai) meaning "time, era", and มงคล (mongkhon) meaning "prosperity".
Aplin English
Probably a patronymic of the popular medieval English given name Abel. See also Appling.
Apolinar Spanish
From the given name Apolinar
Apolinario Portuguese, Spanish
From the given name Apolinario; variant of Apolinar.
Apollo Italian, Spanish
From the Greek personal name Apollo. There are several saints Apollo in the Christian Church, including an Egyptian hermit and monastic leader who died in 395 ad. The personal name derives from the name in classical mythology of the sun god, Apollo, an ancient Indo-European name, found for example in Hittite as Apulana "god of the gate" (from pula "gate", cognate with Greek pylē), therefore "protector, patron".
Apolloni Italian
From the given name Apollonia, which is the Latin feminine form of Apollonios, which in turn was derived from the name of the Greek god Apollo.
Apollonio Italian
From the given name Apollonio
Aponte Spanish
A misdivision of Daponte. It originates from Majorca, Spain.
Apóstol Spanish (Rare)
Means "apostle" in Spanish.
Apostol Spanish (Philippines), Romanian
Means "apostle" in Romanian and is an unaccented form of Apóstol in Filipino.
Apostoł Polish
Polish cognate of Apostol.
Apostolidis Greek
Means "son of Apostolos".
Apostolopoulos Greek
Means "apostle."
Apostolos Greek
Means "messenger, apostle" in Greek.
Apostoloski m Macedonian
Means "son of Apostol".
Apostolović Serbian
Means "son of Apostolos" in Serbian.
Apostolski Macedonian
Derived from apostol (апостол), meaning "apostle".
Appadoo Mauritian Creole
Derived from Telugu అప్ప (appa) meaning "father" combined with the suffix -డు (-du) added to nouns.
Appel German, Dutch, Jewish, Yiddish
From Low German Appel, Middle Dutch appel, or Yiddish epl "apple", an occupational name for a grower or seller of the fruit. As a Jewish surname, it is generally ornamental rather than occupational.
Appel German, Dutch
From the personal name Appel, a pet form of Apprecht (common especially in Thuringia and Franconia), itself a variant of Albrecht... [more]
Appelkvist Swedish
Combination of Swedish apel or äpple both meaning "apple" and kvist "branch, twig".
Appelman Dutch
Occupational name from Middle Dutch apelmanger "apple seller".
Appelmann German
German cognate of Appelman.
Appenzell German
Habitational name for someone from Appenzell (village or canton) in northeastern Switzerland. The placename derives from Latin abbatis cella, "cell (i.e., estate) of the abbot".
Apperley English
From the settlements in England called Apperley.
Appiah Akan
Appiah is derived from an Akan male personal name of unexplained etymology.
Apple English
From Middle English appel meaning "apple" (Old English æppel). An occupational name for a grower or seller of apples.
Applebee English
Variant spelling of Appleby.
Applegarth English, Scottish
Topographic name from northern Middle English applegarth meaning "apple orchard" (Old Norse apaldr meaning "apple tree" + gar{dh}r meaning "enclosure"), or a habitational name from a place so named, of which there are examples in Cumbria and North and East Yorkshire, as well as in the county of Dumfries.
Applegate English
Extremely common variant of Applegarth, in which the less familiar final element has been assimilated to the northern Middle English word gate meaning "road" or to modern English gate.
Appleman English
English cognate of Appelman.
Appler German
Variant of Eppler.
Applewhite English
Habitational name from a place named Applethwaite, from Old Norse apaldr ‘apple tree’ and þveit ‘meadow’. There are two or three such places in Cumbria; Applethwaite is also recorded as a surname from the 13th century in Suffolk, England, pointing to a possible lost place name there... [more]
Apprecht German (Rare)
Derived from the given name Albrecht.
Aprahamian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Աբրահամյան (see Abrahamyan)
Apród Hungarian
From the given name Apród, meaning "page, squire" in Hungarian.
Aps Estonian
Aps is an Estonian surname meaning both "howler" and "slip".
Apse Latvian
Derived from Latvian apse "aspen tree" (ultimately from Proto-Baltic *apse).
Apsītis Latvian
Derived from Latvian apse meaning "aspen tree".
Apt German, Yiddish
German: variant of Abt.... [more]
Apte Indian
Hindu (Brahman) name found among the Konkanasth Brahmans, probably from Marathi ap̣ta, denoting the tree Bauhinia tomentosa.
Apukhtin m Russian
Maybe derived from пуха (pukha), meaning fluff.
Apúlia Portuguese
Refers to a town named "Apúlia" in Portugal.
Aqeel Arabic, Urdu
Derived from the given name Aqil.
Aquila Italian
Habitational name from L'Aquila in Abruzzo or from any of various smaller places called Aquila.
Aquilina Maltese
Nickname for a person with eagle-like features or a person who owned an eagle, from Latin aquila meaning "eagle".
Aquina Dutch (Rare)
Possibly a Dutch variant of Aquino.
Aquinas Italian
Aquinas indicates ancestral origins from the Italian county "Aquino." Aquino comes from the latin word "Aquinum" which itself probably comes from the latin word aqua. Aqua means water in English.
Ara Japanese
From the Japanese 荒 (ara) "primitive," "rude," "crude."
Ara Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 安良 (see Yasura) or a form of Yasura but written 荒.
Arabacı Turkish
Occupational name for a driver, maker or seller of carts and wagons, from Turkish araba meaning "cart, carriage".
Arabe Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 新部 (see Niibe).
Arabeya Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 荒 (ara) meaning "uncultivated, desolate", 部 (be) meaning "department, division; part", and 谷 (ya) meaning "valley".
Arabi Arabic, Persian
Means "Arab" in Arabic and Persian.
Aràbia Italian, Spanish
Ethnic name for someone from Arabia or some other Arabic-speaking country or a nickname for someone who had visited or traded with one of these countries.
Arabia English (American)
Americanized form of French Arabie.
Arabian Armenian
Patronymic from the ethnic term arab ‘Arab’.
Arabie French
Ethnic name denoting someone from Arabia or an Arabic-speaking person.
Arabiki Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 荒 (ara) meaning "rough; harsh; intense", referring to rough land, and 引 (biki), from 引き (biki), the joining continuative form of 引く (hiku) meaning "to pull".
Arable Popular Culture
An occupational surname for people who are capable of being farmed productively. Also used in the novel Charlotte's Web (1952).
Arabuka Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 荒深 (see Arafuka).
Arabuli Georgian
Means "Arabic, Arab" in Georgian, referring to Arabs who historically resided in the region of Khevsureti in Georgia.
Arachchi Sinhalese
From a title used during the British colonial era of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) to denote a native village headman or leader.
Arachchige Sinhalese
From the colonial-era Sinhala title ආරච්චි (arachchi) used to denote a native village headman combined with the suffix -ගේ (-ge) meaning "of, home, house".
Arada Japanese
Variant of Arata.
Aradera Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 新寺 (see Niidera).
Aradhya Indian, Sanskrit
Means "one who worships god". Commonly seen in India, Karnataka and other parts of India like kashi. They wear holy thread (yagnopaveetha).
Arafa Arabic (Egyptian)
Possibly from Arabic عَرَفَ (ʿarafa) meaning “to know”.
Arafat Arabic, Bengali
From the given name Arafat.
Arafuka Japanese
From Japanese 荒 (ara) meaning "uncultivated, desolate" and 深 (fuka) meaning "deep; profound". It may have been derived from Ara 2.
Aragaki Japanese
From Japanese 新 (ara) meaning "new" or 荒 (ara) meaning "rough, wild" and 垣 (kaki) meaning "hedge, fence".
Aragasi Filipino, Maranao
Means "bully" or "ogre" in Maranao.
Aragón Spanish
Habitational name from Aragon Spain which was an independent kingdom from 1035 to 1479. It took its name from the river Aragón which arises in its northwestern corner... [more]
Aragon Spanish, Catalan, French
A surname and an autonomous community of Spain.
Arahi Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 荒 (ara) meaning "rough; harsh; intense", referring to rough land, and 樋 (hi) meaning "gutter".
Arahira Japanese
From Japanese 荒 (ara) meaning "rough; harsh; intense" and 平 (hira) meaning "flat; flattened" or, in a dialect, "cliff", referring to a rough flatland or a rough cliff.... [more]
Arai Japanese
From Japanese 新 (ara) meaning "new, natural" or 荒 (ara) meaning "rough, sparse, wild" and 井 (i) meaning "well".
Araidaira Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 荒平 (see Arahira).
Arājs Latvian
Means "the ploughman".
Arak Estonian
Arak is an Estonian surname meaning "arrak (an alcoholic liquor typically distilled from the sap of the coconut palm or from rice)".
Arakaki Japanese
Alternate romanization of Aragaki.
Arakawa Japanese
From 荒 (ara) meaning "rough, wild, violent" or 新 (ara) meaning "new" combined with 川/河 (kawa) meaning "river, stream."
Arakelyan Armenian
Means "son of Arakel".
Araki Japanese
From Japanese 荒 (ara) meaning "rough, sparse, wild" and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".
Araki Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 蘭 (see Araragi).
Araldi Italian
Means “heralds” in Italian. Famous bearers include Italian painters Alessandro Araldi (c. 1460 – c. 1529) and Paolo Araldi (18th century – after 1820).
Aramaki Japanese
Ara means "wild" and maki means "shepherd".
Aramberri Basque
From Basque aran "valley" and berri "new".... [more]
Arámbul Catalan
Catalan variant of Aramburú.
Arámbulo American (Hispanic)
Hispanic variant of Aramburú, mostly found in Peru and the Philippines.
Aramburo Spanish
Castilianized variant of Aramburú.
Aramburú Basque (Hispanicized), Spanish
Habitational or topographic name derived from Basque (h)aran "valley" and buru "head, top, summit".
Aran Irish
From the given name Aran 1.
Aran Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
From the given name Aran 2.
Aran Japanese
From 亜 (a), a phonetic character, and 蘭 (ran) meaning "orchid."
Arana Basque
This indicates familial origin within either of 3 eponymous localities: the hamlet in the County of Trebiñu, the neighborhood in Gasteiz, or the neighborhood in Bermeo.
Aranami Japanese
Ara (荒) means rough, wild. Nami (波) means wave(s).
Aranburu Basque
Original Basque form of Aramburú, literally meaning "valley peak".
Arancedo Asturian
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous parish of the municipality of El Franco.
Aranda Spanish
Habitational name from any of various places for example Aranda de Duero in Burgos province which bears a name of pre-Roman probably Celtic origin.
Arands English, Spanish
Anglicized version of a name given to residents of Aranda de Duero, a small town in the north of Spain.
Araneta Filipino
From a Basque name derived from haran meaning "valley" combined with the toponymic suffix -eta.
Arangiz Basque
From the name of a hamlet in Álava, Spain, probably derived from Basque aran "valley" and gisu "lime, limestone".
Aranguren Basque
Habitational name derived from Basque aran "valley" and -guren "limit, edge, bank".
Aranha Portuguese
Meaning spider in Portuguese.
Aranibar Basque
It indicates familial origin near Aranibar Palace in the Navarrese municipality of Arantza.
Arano Japanese
Ara means "rough" and no means "field, plain".
Arantzibia Basque (Rare)
Derived from Basque arantza "thorn, buckthorn" and ibi "ford, river crossing"
Aranyos Hungarian
Occupational name for a goldsmith.
Arao Japanese
Ara means "wild" and o means "tail".
Arao Japanese
From Japanese 荒 (ara) meaning "rough, sparse, wild" and 尾 (o) meaning "tail, foot, end".
Araoka Japanese (Rare)
Ara (荒) means "rough", oka (岡) means "hill", therefore, Araoka means rough hill
Araoka Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 荒 (see Ara).
Arapović Croatian, Bosnian (Rare)
From “Arap” meaning “Arab” in Croatian, derived from Turkish Arap
Araquistain Basque, Spanish
From Basque Arakistain, possibly derived from ira(k) "fern" and the toponymic suffix -ain.
Araragi Japanese
Means "taxus cuspidata" in Japanese.
Araraki Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 蘭 (see Araragi).
Arase Japanese
Ara means "wild" and se means "ripple".
Arashi Japanese
This surname is used as 嵐 (ran, arashi) meaning "storm, tempest."... [more]
Arashi Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 荒 (see Ara).
Arashiro Japanese (Rare)
A Japanese surname. A bearer of this surname is Yukiya Arashiro (Born 1984-) He is a Japanese cyclist.
Arata Japanese
From Japanese 荒 (ara) meaning "rough, sparse, wild" or 新 (ara) meaning "new, natural" and 田 (ta) meaning "field".
Arata Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 畭 (see Hari).
Aratai Japanese
"Wild well".
Aratani Japanese
From Japanese 荒 (ara) meaning "rough, wild" and 谷 (tani) meaning "valley".
Araúxo Galician
Galician form of Araújo
Aravena Corsican
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the commune of Fuzzà.
Aravind Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil
From the given name Aravind.
Araya Japanese
From Japanese 荒 (ara) meaning "rough, wild" and 谷 (ya) meaning "valley".
Arbab Persian, Urdu
Means "lord, master" in Persian.
Arbabi Persian
Derived from Persian ارباب (arbab) meaning "lord, master".
Arbeiter German
Occupational name from Middle High German arbeiter ‘laborer’.
Arbizu Basque
From the name of a village in Nevarre, Spain, meaning "turnip field", derived from Basque (h)arbi "turnip" and -zu "abundance of".
Arboleda Spanish
From arboleda meaning "grove of trees". This is the name of a prominent Colombian family, in which case it is derived from their region of origin in Arboleya, Spain.
Arborne English (British)
A surname found in England as well as in America. This surname has been attached to Americans of English ancestry.
Arbour French (Quebec)
Variant of Harbour or possibly a variant of Harbaud or Herbert.
Arbousset Occitan
Derived from Occitan arboç meaning "strawberry tree".
Arbuckle English
Means the "herdsman's portion" (of land).
Arcadiou Greek (Cypriot)
Alternate transcription of Greek Αρκαδίου (see Arkadiou).
Arcangel Spanish (Philippines)
Derived from Spanish arcángel meaning "archangel."
Arcangeli Italian
Meaning "archangel" in Italian.
Arcangelo Italian
From the given name Arcangelo.
Arcaro Late Roman
Occupational name for a maker or seller of bows.
Arcaya Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Arkaia.
Arceo Spanish
From the name of the town of Arceo in La Coruña, Galicia.
Arceri Italian
From Italian arciere "archer, bowman". May alternately be from a place name, such as Arcera.
Archaki Greek (Rare)
Possibly means "lord" or "ruler" from Greek derivative archos.
Archangel Eastern African
From the given name Archangel.
Archeambeau French
The name Archambeau is derived from the Latin personal name 'Arcambaldus'. In turn the name 'Arcambaldus', is derived from the Germanic word 'Ercan', which means precious in Germanic, and 'bald', meaning bold and daring.... [more]
Archibald English
From the personal name Archibald.
Archibold English
Variant spelling of Archibald
Archibong Efik, Ibibio
of Efik Origin, originally pronounced asibong but changed by the british to Archibong, meaning Kings Father, Kings Friend, (amasi Obong)
Archila Spanish
Either a variant of Arcila or derived from Arabic الشَّلَّال (aš-šallāl) meaning "the waterfall".
Archuleta Spanish, English
Castilianized form of Basque Aretxuloeta, a topographic name meaning "oak hollow".
Arcidiacono Italian
Means "archdeacon", denoting someone who worked for or was related to an archdeacon.
Arcila Spanish (Latin American)
Means "clay" in Spanish. (compare Arcilla)
Arcilla Spanish (Philippines)
From Spanish arcilla meaning "clay," derived via Latin from Greek ἄργιλλος (árgillos), ultimately from ἀργός (argós) meaning "white."
Arcillas Spanish (Philippines)
From Spanish arcillas, the plural of arcilla meaning "clay" (see Arcilla).
Arciniega Basque
Castilianized form. Name for someone from the Spanish town of Artziniega. The town's name likely comes from the Basque artzain meaning "shepherd" and -aga, a suffix for place names.
Arciniegas Basque
Pluralized variant of Arciniega.
Arciszewski m Polish
Habitational name for a person from the Polish village Arciszewo
Arczyński Polish
Patronymic from a name beginning with Jaro- (meaning "strong; robust") such as Jarosław, Jaromir or Jarogniew, suffixed with -yński based on habitational surnames.
Ard Scottish
Habitational name from any of several places called Aird, including one near Hurlford in Ayrshire, another near Stranraer in Galloway, and the Aird, the higher part of the Vale of Beauly, near Inverness... [more]
Ardagh Irish
A rare Irish surname named after Ardagh, in County Longford.
Ardehi Persian, Kurdish, Old Persian
House Ardehis of Zagors or Ardahvans (Persian: اردهیان) were one of the Persian Sassanid royal families, who occupied the Mounts of Zagros before the Islamic conquest of Persia in 650 CE. Ardahvans in Shahnameh and Persian mythology are mentioned to be the first settlers of Zagros mountains, and the constructors of Forts Of Zagros.
Ardella African American
Derivative of Arden, popularized by the poem of the same name by Langston Hughes, the most well-known Black poet of the Harlem Renaissance. Meaning is "garden dweller."... [more]
Arden English
From various English place names, which were derived from a Celtic word meaning "high".... [more]
Arder Estonian
Arder is an Estonian surname meaning, possibly a corruption of "ader", meaning "plow".
Ardern English
Means "eagle valley" or "gravel valley". From Old English ear "gravel" or eran "eagle" and denu "valley". Also a variant of Arden.
Ardies Irish
Irish Isle Of Ards
Ardis Scottish
Reduced form of Allardice.
Arditi Italian
The heraldic tradition has it that this illustrious family, called Ardito or Arditi, is the same one that flourished in Lombardy with the name of Conti, and that, transplanted in the Neapolitan with the Lombard hostages taken by the emperor Federico II, left that name, changing it.
Ardito Italian
From the given name Ardito.
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