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Ayler Englishoccupational name from Old French aillier ‘garlic seller’, from ail ‘garlic’ (from Latin allium).... [
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Aylesworth EnglishIt was first found in Warwickshire where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor of Kineton.... [
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Ayliff EnglishFrom the medieval female personal name Ayleve (from Old English
Æthelgifu, literally "noble gift"), or from the Old Norse nickname
Eilífr, literally "ever-life".
Ayllón SpanishThis indicates familial origin within the eponymous Castilian municipality.
Ayohua NahuatlMeaning uncertain, possibly from
ayotli "squash, pumpkin" or
ayotl "turtle" combined with the possessive suffix
-hua, or from
ayohua "to fill with water".
Ayotle NahuatlPossibly from Nahuatl
ayoctle "nothing, no more", or from
ayotli "squash, pumpkin".
Ayotte FrenchIt means 'small hedge' or 'small woody plot of land' in Old French.
Ayutthaya ThaiFrom
Ayutthaya, the name of a kingdom that reigned from 1350 to 1767 that is considered the precursor of modern Thailand.
Azabu Japanese (Rare)From Japanese 麻布 (
Azabu), a clipping of 元麻布 (
Motoazabu) meaning "Motoazabu", an area in the ward of Minato in the city of Tokyo in Japan.
Azabu Japanese (Rare)From Japanese 麻布 (
Azabu) meaning "Azabu", a division in the area of Nakauri in the city of Shinshiro in the prefecture of Aichi in Japan.
Azahara JapaneseFrom Japanese 字 (aza) meaning "a section of a village" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".
Azer PersianAzer or temple fire from the Zoroastrian period in ancient Persia,as a surname relates the individual to the fire maintainers at the Zoroastrian temples
Azi AfizereAzi is actually pronounced Azīh which means "Unending, in ended father of many generations" it is named after children believed to become the origin or source of lasting families.
Azinheira PortugueseOriginates from the Portuguese word "azinheira," which refers to the evergreen oak tree known as the "holm oak"
Azkona BasqueThis indicates familial origin within the neighborhood of Aizkoa in the Navarrese municipality of Deierri.
Azmat UrduDerived from the Arabic عَظَمَة
(ʿaẓama) meaning "majesty, glory".
Aznar SpanishAznar is a Spanish surname of Basque origin and an obsolete given name. It probably stems from old Basque "azenar(i)" ('fox', modern "azeri").
Azoulay Judeo-SpanishMeaning uncertain. It may be derived from French
azur or Spanish
azul both meaning "blue" (of Persian origin), from Tamazight
izîl meaning "good, pure, sublime", or from an acronym of the Biblical passage אִשָּׁ֨ה זֹנָ֤ה וַחֲלָלָה֙ לֹ֣א יִקָּ֔חוּ
(’iš-šāh zō-nāh wa-ḥă-lā-lāh lō yiq-qā-ḥū) meaning "They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane".
Azpilkueta BasqueIt indicates familial origin within the eponymous settlement in the Navarrese municipality of Baztan.
Azua BasqueThis indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of Burgu, Province of Araba.
Azuaje-fidalgo Portuguese (Rare), Spanish, ItalianFidalgo from Galician and Portuguese
filho de algo — equivalent to "nobleman", but sometimes literally translated into English as "son of somebody" or "son of some (important family)"—is a traditional title of Portuguese nobility that refers to a member of the titled or untitled nobility... [
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Azuara AragoneseThis indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.
Azusagawa Japanese (Rare)Azusa (梓) means "catalpa", gawa/kawa (川) means "river", kawa changes to gawa due to rendaku. Sakuta Azusagawa (梓川 咲太) and his sister Kaede (梓川 花楓) from Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai are notable fictional characters who bear this surname.
Azzopardi MaltesePossibly derived from the Hebrew term סְפָרַדִּי
(s'faradí) used to refer to Jews originating from Iberia (called Sephardim or Sephardic Jews). It may also be of Greek origin from a word meaning "black, Mauritanian" or "soldier" with a connection to Middle Persian
spʿh "army" used to refer to a person of African descent or someone who worked as a mercenary... [
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Ba ArabicArabic from a shortened form of
Aba, accusative case of
Abu ‘father’.
Ba ChineseChinese from the name of the kingdom of Ba, which existed in Sichuan during the
Zhou dynasty (1122–221 bc). Descendants of some of the ruling class adopted the name of the kingdom as their surname... [
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Baack North Frisian, DutchEither from a reduced form of the Germanic personal name
Baldeke (a short form of any of the compound names with the first element bald ‘bold’, for example Baldewin) or from Middle Low German baec, bake ‘pork’, ‘bacon’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a butcher or pig farmer.
Baamonde GalicianThis indicates familial origin within either of 5 eponymous parishes.
Baamonde Spanishhabitational name from one of the Galician places called Baamonde (earlier written Bahamonde) in the province of Lugo most probably Santiago de Baamonde (Begonte).
Baba JapaneseFrom Japanese 馬場
(baba) meaning "riding ground".
Babaylan VisayanFrom "babaylan" which were pre-Hispanic priestesses or mediums. The root word of which is "babaye" which is Cebuano for woman.
Babazoe Japanese (Rare)From Japanese 馬場添 (
Babazoe) meaning "Babazoe", a name of a group of several households for the Kadowari System that took place in the Edo Period in the former Japanese province of Satsuma in parts of present-day Kagoshima, Japan.
Babbit Anglo-SaxonBabbitt is part of the ancient legacy of the Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. It is a product of when the family lived in Suffolk. The surname refers to a person who came from Babe, which may refer to an area known as the Hundred of Babegh in the county of Suffolk... [
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Babel FrenchEither (i) from the medieval French personal name
Babel, apparently adopted from that of St
Babylas, a 3rd-century Christian patriarch of Antioch, the origins of which are uncertain; or (ii) an invented Jewish name based on German or Polish
Babel "Babylon".
Babinec CzechNickname from Old Czech babinec meaning "coward".
Babington EnglishHabitational name for someone from Babington in Somerset or Great or Little Bavington in Northumberland, named with the Old English personal name Babba + the connective particle -ing- meaning "associated with", "named after" + tūn meaning "settlement".
Babla Polish, IndianPolish: nickname from babula ‘(old) little woman, granny’, a hypocoristic derivative of baba (see Baba).... [
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Babrauskas LithuanianUltimately from the Balto-Slavic element
*bébrus meaning "beaver". It is possibly an adaptation of Polish
Bobrowski, or a related Slavic surname.
Bacal Romanian, JewishDerived from Romanian
bacal, an alternative form of
băcan meaning "grocer".
Baccellieri ItalianFrom
baccelliere "batchelor", a title for a young knight, or a university disciple who had studied Canon Law for 5 years and Civil Law for 7 years.
Bacchus English(i) Variant of
Backus (meaning "one who lives in or works in a bakery", from Old English
bǣchūs "bakehouse, bakery"), the spelling influenced by
Bacchus (name of the Greek and Roman god of wine).... [
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Bacha PashtoMeans "king" in Pashto, ultimately from Persian پادشاه
(padeshah).
Bacharach German, JewishDerived from
Bacharach, a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. This surname was borne by the American composer and pianist Burt Bacharach (1928-2023).
Bacharachas JewishBacharachas is a derivate of the Bacharach that is a town in Germany.
Bacigalupo ItalianFrom Ligurian
bacigare "to beat with a stick" and
lupo "wolf", or from Genoese
basigâ "to swing, to tease" and
lupo "wolf". Possibly a nickname for someone considered courageous or cowardly, or an occupational name for a hunter.
Baciu RomanianRomanian surname from the word "baci" (shepherd)or the capitan of the game "oina".
Bäckman SwedishCombination of Swedish
bäck "small stream" and
man "man".
Backman English, Swedish, GermanCombination of Old English
bakke "spine, back" and
man "man". In Swedish, the first element is more likely to be derived from Swedish
backe "hill", and in German the first element can be derived from German
backen "to bake"... [
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Bäckström SwedishCombination of Swedish
bäck "brook, small stream" and
ström "stream".
Bacolod Filipino, Hiligaynon, CebuanoDerived from Hiligaynon
bakolod meaning "hill, mound, rise". This is also the name of a city in the Negros Occidental province in the Philippines.
Bacon English, French, NormanAn occupational surname for someone who sold pork, from Middle English and Old French
bacun or
bacon, meaning 'bacon', which is ultimately of Germanic origin. Can also be derived from the Germanic given names
Baco,
Bacco, or
Bahho, from the root
bag-, meaning 'to fight'... [
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Bacot FrenchDerived from the root
bac-, which is of unknown meaning.
Bacque BasqueIt's a Basque and Gascon surname whose meaning is cowboy, rancher (cattle rancher) or breeder.
Bacunawa Filipino, CebuanoDerived from Cebuano
bakunawa referring to a type of serpent or dragon in Visayan mythology.
Bačvar CroatianBačvar family my grandfather Stjepan Bačvar born July 11 1904 in Bosiljevo Croatia in Croatia it means barrel Here in Canada it's spelled Bacvar thank you
Bączalski PolishThis indicates familial origin within either of a cluster of 3 Lesser Polish villages: Bączal Dolny, Bączal Górny, or Bączałka.
Badami IndianThe town of Badami is situated in the northern part of Karnataka. It was formerly known as Vatapi and was the capital of the Chalukya kingdom from the 6th to the 8th century ad.
Baddeley EnglishFrom place names in both Suffolk and Staffordshire derived from an Old English personal name, 'Badda,' possibly meaning "battle" and
lee or
leah for a "woodland clearing," therefore meaning someone from "Badda's woodland clearing."
Bade EnglishFrom the Old English personal name
Bada which possibly a short form of various names with the first element being the Old English
beadu "battle"... [
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Badillo SpanishTopographic name from a diminutive of vado ‘ford’ (Latin vadum) or a habitational name from either of two places named with this word: Valillo de la Guarena in Zamora province or Vadillo de al Sierra in Ávila.
Badillo SpanishOne who came from Badillo (small ford), in Spain. This looks like the diminutive form of "badil" meaning a fire shovel. "Badillo" comes from "vado" meaning a place to cross the river. Other Spanish names from this name source are Vado, Bado and Vadillo.
Badowski PolishHabitational name for someone from a place called Badowo in Skierniewice voivodeship.
Badrinette EnglishApparently an extremely rare name of French origin, but isn't used as a first name in France. It might come from the rather uncommon French surname
Bardinette, which apparently is a variant spelling of the surname
Bardinet... [
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Baer GermanDerived from Old High German
bero "bear".
Baffa ItalianThe origins of this surname are uncertain, but it may be from Italian
baffo "mustache", with the Latinate feminine suffix probably due to the influence of the word
famiglia "family". Alternatively it may be Albanian in origin, of unexplained meaning.
Bagaoisan Filipino, TagalogFrom Tagalog
bagwisan meaning "to grow wings" or "to pull out the wing feathers (of a bird)".
Bagatsing FilipinoFilipinized form of
Bhagat Singh, a combination of Sanskrit भगत
(bhagat) meaning "devotee, follower" combined with सिंह
(siṃhá) meaning "lion". A notable bearer was
Ramon Bagatsing (1916-2006), the 19th Mayor of Manila who was of Indian descent.
Bagchi BengaliHabitational name from the village of Bagcha in present-day West Bengal, India.
Bagci Turkish (Rare)Bagci translated into English means vigneron, a vigneron is a person who cultivates grapes for winemaking. Originated in the 1920s in Turkey after the Balkan wars
Bagdonas LithuanianPatronymic from the personal name Bagdon, Lithuanian form of Polish Bogdan.