All Submitted Surnames

Ayden English, Scottish
From a Scottish surname which was derived from Gaelic caol meaning "narrows, channel, strait".

Ayden Turkish
Possibly a variant of Aydın.

Aydın Turkish
From the given name Aydın.

Aydin Turkish (Cypriot)

Aydınlar Turkish
Derived from the Turkish word “aydın” meaning “enlightened”.

Aydinlisoy Turkish
Means "enlightened family" in Turkish.

Aydoğan Turkish
From the given name Aydoğan.

Aydoğdu Turkish
From Turkish ay meaning "moon" and doğdu meaning "born".

Aydyn Turkish (Russified)
Russified form of Aydın.

Ayenew Ethiopian

Ayer English, Scottish
Means "heir, inheritor", from Anglo-Norman aire.

Ayer English
From the Middle English given name Aier, a form of Germanic Agihari, possibly derived from agaz "fear" and hari "army".

Ayerbe Spanish

Ayestarán Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Aiestaran.

Ayet French

Aygün Turkish
From Turkish ay meaning "moon" and gün meaning "sun".

Ayhan Turkish
Derived from the given name Ayhan.

Aykroyd English
Variant of Ackroyd. A famous bearer is Canadian actor and comedian Dan Aykroyd (1952-).

Aylen English
Either derived from the given name Alan or from the Old English word ætheling which were princes eligible to be king. The word ætheling was sometimes used as a given name

Ayler English
occupational name from Old French aillier ‘garlic seller’, from ail ‘garlic’ (from Latin allium).... [more]

Aylesworth English
It was first found in Warwickshire where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor of Kineton.... [more]

Aylett English (British), English (Australian)

Ayliff English
From the medieval female personal name Ayleve (from Old English Æthelgifu, literally "noble gift"), or from the Old Norse nickname Eilífr, literally "ever-life".

Ayllón Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Castilian municipality.

Aylwen English (?)

Ayman Arabic (Egyptian)
Derived from the given name Ayman.

Aymond French

Aynesworth English
Variant of Ainsworth.

Ayohua Nahuatl
Meaning uncertain, possibly from ayotli "squash, pumpkin" or ayotl "turtle" combined with the possessive suffix -hua, or from ayohua "to fill with water".

Ayón Spanish (Mexican)

Ayonan Maranao
Means "king, ruler" in Maranao.

Ayoob Arabic
From the given name Ayyub

Ayotle Nahuatl
Possibly from Nahuatl ayoctle "nothing, no more", or from ayotli "squash, pumpkin".

Ayotte French
It means 'small hedge' or 'small woody plot of land' in Old French.

Ayoub Arabic
From the given name Ayyub.

Ayoubi Persian, Arabic
From the given name Ayyub.

Ayre English
Variant of Eyre

Ayres English
Variant of Ayers 1, Ayers 2 or Ayers 3.

Ayris English

Ayriss English (British, Anglicized)

Ayrton English

Aysayev m Avar

Ayson English

Aysultanov Kazakh, Dagestani
Means "son of Aysultan."

Aytekin Turkish
From the given name Aytekin.

Aytmatov Kyrgyz
Means "son of Aytmat".

Ayub Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
From the given name Ayyub.

Ayubi Persian, Pashto, Urdu
Variant transcription of Ayoubi.

Ayugawa Japanese
Variant of Ayukawa.

Ayukawa Japanese
From 鮎 (ayu) meaning "trout" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river."

Ayuluk Yupik

Ayunerak Yupik

Ayurov m Buryat (Russified)
Means "son of Ayur".

Ayurova f Buryat (Russified)
Feminine form of Ayurov.

Ayutthaya Thai
From Ayutthaya, the name of a kingdom that reigned from 1350 to 1767 that is considered the precursor of modern Thailand.

Ayyagari Indian
Owner, Teacher

Ayyub Arabic, Urdu
Derived from the given name Ayyub.

Az Indonesian

Azabagić Bosnian

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.

Azad Bengali, Persian, Urdu
From the given name Azad.

Azadi Persian
From the given name Azad.

Azadpour Persian
Means "son of Azad".

Azah African

Azahara Japanese
From Japanese 字 (aza) meaning "a section of a village" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Azakami Japanese

Azale Arabic (Maghrebi)

Azalea Indonesian

Azam Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
From the given name Azam.

Azamatov Uzbek
Means "son of Azamat".

Azami Japanese

Azami Persian
From the given name Azam.

Azami Japanese
From Japanese 薊 (azami) meaning "thistle".

Azar Hebrew
Means "(he) helped" in Hebrew, a verb form of Ezer or Ezra.

Azaranka Belarusian
Belarusian form of Azarenko.

Azarcon Filipino

Azarenka Belarusian
Alternate transcription of Belarusian Азаранка (see Azaranka).

Azarenko Ukrainian
Ukrainian form of Azarov.

Azari Persian
Means "Azeri, Azerbaijani" in Persian.

Azaria Jewish
From the given name Azariah.

Azarian Armenian (Expatriate)
Variant transcription of Azaryan, a patronymic likely derived from an Armenian form of the Hebrew given name 'Azaryah.

Azarin Russian
Variant of Azarov (Азаров)

Azarina Russian
Feminine form of Azarin (Азарин)

Azarov Russian
Derived from given name Azariy.

Azarova f Russian
Feminine form of Azarov.

Azarpey English

Azaryan Armenian
Patronymic from the Persian personal name Azar

Azayi Moroccan
Derived from the Berber singular word for Zayanes.

Azbury English

Azcárate Spanish, Basque

Azcárraga Basque (Hispanicized), Spanish
Castilianized form of Azkarraga.

Azcatl Nahuatl
Means "ant" in Nahuatl.

Azcona Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Azkona.

Azconovieta Spanish

Azebiru Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 畔蒜 (see Abiru).

Azebry Nigerian

Azeem Arabic, Urdu, Dhivehi
From the given name Azim.

Azeez Arabic, Urdu, Dhivehi
From the given name Aziz.

Azemi Albanian

Azemi Albanian
Derived from the given name Azem.

Azenira Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 畔蒜 (see Abiru).

Azer Persian
Azer or temple fire from the Zoroastrian period in ancient Persia,as a surname relates the individual to the fire maintainers at the Zoroastrian temples

Azeri Japanese (Rare)
Means "acharya" in Japanese.

Azeri Azerbaijani
Means "Azeri (Azerbaidzhani)" in Azerbaidzhani.

Azevedo Portuguese

Azhar Arabic, Urdu
Derived from the given name Azhar.

Azhel'skiy m Russian (Rare), Belarusian (Rare), Yiddish (Russified, Rare)

Azi Afizere
Azi 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.

Azim Arabic, Bengali, Dhivehi, Urdu
From the given name Azim.

Azimi Persian
From the given name Azim.

Əzimov Azerbaijani
Means "son of Əzim".

Azimov Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Kyrgyz, Chechen, Dagestani, Kazakh
Means "son of Azim".

Əzimova f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Əzimov.

Azinheira Portuguese
Originates from the Portuguese word "azinheira," which refers to the evergreen oak tree known as the "holm oak"

Aziz Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Aziz.

Aziza African

Azizi Persian, Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Aziz.

Azizian Persian
From the given name Aziz.

Əzizov Azerbaijani
Means "son of Əziz".

Azizov Uzbek, Tajik, Azerbaijani, Dargin, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Crimean Tatar
Means "son of Aziz".

Əzizova f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Əzizov.

Azizpoor Persian
Alternate transcription of Persian عزیزپور (see Azizpour).

Azizpour Persian
Means "son of Aziz" in Persian.

Azizzadeh Persian
Means "offspring of Aziz" in Persian.

Azkarraga Basque
Derived from Basque azkar "maple tree" and -aga "place of, group of". Alternatively, it may contain the element harri "stone, rock".

Azkona Basque
From the name of a location in Navarre also called Aizkoa, probably derived from Basque (h)aitz "stone, rock", though azkon "badger" has also been suggested.

Azlor Aragonese (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Aflor.

Azmat Urdu
Derived from the Arabic عَظَمَة (ʿaẓama) meaning "majesty, glory".

Azmoun Persian
Means "test exam" in Persian.

Aznar Spanish
Aznar is a Spanish surname of Basque origin and an obsolete given name. It probably stems from old Basque "azenar(i)" ('fox', modern "azeri").

Aznavuryan m Armenian
Means "son of Aznavur".

Azoulai Judeo-Spanish
Variant of Azoulay.

Azoulay Judeo-Spanish
Meaning uncertain. It may derived from Spanish azul or French azur meaning "blue" (both ultimately derived from Persian via Arabic), possibly used as a nickname for someone with blue eyes or an occupational name for a maker of blue ceramic ware... [more]

Azov Russian, Ukrainian
From the Sea of Azov. Probably denoted to somebody who lived on the Azov coast... [more]

Azpilcueta Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Azpilkueta.

Azpilkueta Basque
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous settlement in the Navarrese municipality of Baztan.

Azria French

Azria Judeo-Spanish
From the given name Azariah.

Azua Basque
Habitational and topographic name derived from Basque (h)artsu "stony place; rocky", itself derived from (h)arri "stone, rock" and the suffix -tsu.

Azuaje-fidalgo Portuguese (Rare), Spanish, Italian
Fidalgo 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... [more]

Azuara Aragonese
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.

Azubuike Igbo
From the given name Azubuike.

Azuchi Japanese
Variant reading of Amuro.

Azudimma Nigerian

Azukigawa Japanese
Variant of Azukikawa.

Azukikawa Japanese

Azulai Judeo-Spanish
Variant of Azoulay.

Azulay Judeo-Spanish
Variant of Azoulay.

Azuma Japanese
From Japanese 東 (azuma) meaning "east".

Azuma Japanese

Azuma Japanese
Variant reading of Amuro.

Azuma Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 阿萬 (see Ama).

Azumagaito Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 東垣外 (see Higashigaito).

Azumagakito Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 東垣外 (see Higashigaito).

Azumayashiki Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 東屋敷 (see Higashiyashiki).

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.

Azusakawa Japanese

Azusawa Japanese
Surname of Kohane Azusawa from project sekai

Azzam Arabic
From the given name Azzam.

Azzilla Maltese

Azziz Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Bengali
From the given name Aziz.

Azzopardi Maltese
Possibly 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... [more]

Azzoulai Judeo-Spanish
Variant of Azoulay.

Ba Arabic
Arabic from a shortened form of Aba, accusative case of Abu ‘father’.

Ba Chinese
Chinese 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... [more]

Bâ Western African
Senegal

Baack German, North Frisian
Either 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, brave ", for example Baldewin), or from Middle Low German baec, bake "pork, bacon", hence a metonymic occupational name for a butcher or pig farmer.

Baamonde Galician
This indicates familial origin within either of 5 eponymous parishes.

Baamonde Spanish
habitational name from one of the Galician places called Baamonde (earlier written Bahamonde) in the province of Lugo most probably Santiago de Baamonde (Begonte).

Baard Afrikaans

Baatarsükhiin Mongolian

Baatirov Kyrgyz
Means "son of Baatir" in Kyrgyz.

Baba Nigerian, Yoruba, Western African
From an honourific title used to denote a father, wise man, or an elder.

Baba Japanese
From Japanese 馬場 (baba) meaning "riding ground".

Babaei Persian, Iranian

Babaev Uzbek, Tajik, Turkmen, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Russian
Variant transcription of Babayev.

Babaian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Babayan.

Babajanian Armenian
Meaning unknown.

Babajanyan Armenian
Means "son of Babajan".

Babaliu Albanian

Babao Filipino, Cebuano
From Cebuano babaw meaning "top, above, over".

Babao Filipino, Tagalog
From Tagalog babaw meaning "shallowness".

Babaoka Japanese
Baba means "riding ground" and oka means "hill".

Babar Urdu
From given name Babar

Babaryka Belarusian, Ukrainian (?)

Babasa Filipino, Tagalog
Means "will read" in Tagalog.

Babauta Chamorro
Chamorro name for "our banner or flag"

Babayan Armenian
Derived from Turkish baba meaning "father".

Babaylan Visayan
From "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.

Babb English (Canadian)

Babbit English (American)
Variant spelling of Babbitt.

Babbitt English (American)
Variant form of Bobbitt.

Babbs English (Rare)
A matronymic of Barbara.

Babe English

Babe Japanese
Variant reading of Umabe.

Babel French
Either (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".

Babenko Ukrainian
Ukrainian form of Babić.

Babeș Romanian
Meaning unknown.

Babiel Sundanese

Babika African

Babiker Arabic
From the given name Abu Bakr.

Babineau French
Variant of Babineaux.

Babinec Czech
Nickname from Old Czech babinec meaning "coward".

Babington English
Habitational 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, Indian
Polish: nickname from babula ‘(old) little woman, granny’, a hypocoristic derivative of baba (see Baba).... [more]

Babloki Albanian

Baboli Mazanderani
Means “from Babol”.

Babović Montenegrin, Serbian

Babowicz Polish

Babraitis Lithuanian
From babras, a variant of bebras meaning "beaver".

Babrauskas m Lithuanian
Ultimately from the Balto-Slavic element *bébrus meaning "beaver". It is possibly an adaptation of Polish Bobrowski, or a related Slavic surname.

Babu Indian, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada
Derived from Hindi बाबू (babu) meaning "father, sir", used as a respectful term of address for a man as well as a term of endearment for a young boy.

Babushkin m Russian, Jewish
Derived from Russian бабушка (babushka) meaning "grandmother".

Babych Ukrainian
Ukrainian cognate of Babić.

Bac Mayan
From Mayan b'aq meaning "bone, needle" or "thin".

Bača Czech, Slovak
Meaning Shepherd

Baca Spanish
From Spanish vaca meaning "cow".

Bacal Romanian, Jewish
Derived from Romanian bacal, an alternative form of băcan meaning "grocer".

Bacall Romanian, Jewish
Variant spelling of Bacal. A famous bearer was the American actress Lauren Bacall (1924-2014).

Bacalso Filipino, Cebuano
Meaning uncertain.

Bacani Filipino, Pampangan, Pangasinan
Meaning uncertain.

Bacaraman Filipino, Maranao

Bacardi Italian

Bacatan Filipino, Cebuano
Derived from Cebuano bakat meaning "billow, large wave of water".

Bacca Spanish

Bacca English
Origin: English (Norman origin).... [more]

Bacca English
Origin: English (Norman origin).... [more]

Baccara Italian

Baccari Italian

Baccay Filipino, Tagalog
Possibly from a Tagalog word meaning "to guard".

Baccellieri Italian
From 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).... [more]

Bacci Italian

Baccio Italian

Bacco Italian

Bạch Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Bai, from Sino-Vietnamese 白 (bạch).

Bach Vietnamese
Simplified variant of Bạch.

Bacha Pashto
Means "king" in Pashto, ultimately from Persian پادشاه (padeshah).

Bachar Central African

Bacharach German, Jewish
Derived 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 Jewish
Bacharachas is a derivate of the Bacharach that is a town in Germany.

Bachechi Italian
Comes from the Tuscan-Italian personal name Baccio.

Bachelor English
Variant of Batchelor.

Bachhuber German (Rare)
German cognate of Brookhouse.

Bachinski m Polish (Americanized), Ukrainian
Americanized form of Baczyński. Possibly also a variant of Bachynsky.

Bachiri Arabic (Maghrebi)
Derived from the given name Bashir.

Bachmayer German
Variant of Bachmeier

Bachmeyer German
Variant of Bachmeier

Bachu Telugu

Bachynsky m Ukrainian
Habitational name for someone from the village of Bachyna.

Baciarello Italian

Bačić Croatian

Bacigalupo Italian
From 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 Romanian
Romanian surname from the word "baci" (shepherd)or the capitan of the game "oina".

Back Korean
Alternate transcription of Korean Hangul 백 (see Baek).

Backer Belgian
Variant of Bäcker.

Backhaus German
from Middle High German backhūs "bakehouse" a word composed of Middle High German bah "something baked" and hus "house"... [more]

Backhouse English (British), English (Australian)
Denoted someone who worked in a bakery, from Old English bæchūs meaning "bakehouse, bakery", a word composed of Old English *bæc "something baked" and hus "house".

Backhurst English (British)
Meaning bake house or wood cutter

Bäcklund Swedish
Combination of Swedish bäck "brook, stream" and Lund "grove".

Backlund Swedish
Combination of Swedish backe "hill, slope" and Lund "grove".

Bäckman Swedish
Combination of Swedish bäck "small stream" and man "man".

Backman English, Swedish, German
Combination 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"... [more]

Bäckstrand Swedish
Combination of Swedish bäck "stream" and strand "shore".

Bäckström Swedish
Combination of Swedish bäck "brook, small stream" and ström "stream".

Backström Swedish
Combination of Swedish backe "slope, hill" and ström "stream".

Baclan Celtic (Rare)
Form of the surname Backlund

Baclay Filipino, Cebuano
Means "long walk, hike" in Cebuano.

Bacolod Filipino, Hiligaynon, Cebuano
Derived 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, Norman
An 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'... [more]

Baconawa Filipino, Cebuano
Variant of Bacunawa.

Bacot French
Derived from the root bac-, which is of unknown meaning.

Baćović Montenegrin, Serbian

Bacque Basque, French
Possibly derived from French Basque "Basque (person)" (compare Vasco).

Bacquier Medieval Basque
Meaning cowboy or rancher.

Bacri Judeo-Spanish
Possibly derived from Arabic بكر (bikr) meaning "firstborn, eldest". Alternately it may be an occupational name for a cowherd or cattle merchant from بقر (baqar) meaning "cattle".

Bács Hungarian

Bacunawa Filipino, Cebuano
Derived from Cebuano bakunawa referring to a type of serpent or dragon in Visayan mythology.

Bačunić Vlach
From Bačuna

Bačvar Croatian
Bačvar 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 Polish
This indicates familial origin within either of a cluster of 3 Lesser Polish villages: Bączal Dolny, Bączal Górny, or Bączałka.

Baczynski m Polish
Habitational name for someone from any of several places called Baczyn or Baczyna.

Badagliacca Italian

Badalucco Italian

Badami Indian
The 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.

Badan Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 馬之段 (see Umanodan).

Badar Urdu
Derived from the given name Badar.

Badawi Arabic
Means "Bedouin" in Arabic.

Badawy Arabic (Egyptian)
Alternate transcription of Arabic بدوي (see Badawi) chiefly used in Egypt.

Badazhkov m Russian (?)

Baddeley English
From 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."

Baddhanabanij Thai (Sanskritized)
Sanskritized transcription of Phatthanaphanit.

Bade English
From the Old English personal name Bada, probably derived from Old English beadu "battle, war" or a name containing the element.

Bade German
Occupational name for a messenger, derived from an element related to Old Germanic budą "message, offer".

Bade German
From a short form of a Germanic personal name containing the element badu "strife, battle".

Badelj Croatian
Meaning unknown.... [more]

Bademosi English

Badenhorst Afrikaans