All Submitted Surnames

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

Vään Estonian
Vään is an Estonian surname meaning "climbing".

Väänänen Finnish

Vaandrager Dutch
Means "flag-bearer, ensign" in Dutch, from vaan "banner, vane, flag" and drager "carrier, bearer".

Vaane Estonian
Vaane is an Estonian surname meaning "pious" and "devout".

Väär Estonian
Väär is an Estonian surname meaning "false" and "wrong".

Vaara Finnish, Sami
Means "forested hill" in Finnish, derived from Northern Sami várri "mountain".

Vääri Estonian
Vääri is an Estonian surname derived from "vääriv", meaning "worthy" and "deserving".

Vaarik Estonian
Vaarik is an Estonian surname derived from "vaarikas" meaning "raspberry".

Vaarmets Estonian
Vaarmets is an Estonian surname meaning "hill forest".

Väärsi Estonian
Väärsi is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "vääris", meaning "costly", "noble" and "valuable".

Väärt Estonian
Väärt is an Estonian surname meaning "worth".

Väärtnõu Estonian
Väärtnõu is an Estonian surname meaning "advice worthy".

Väät Estonian
Väät is an Estonian surname meaning "withe", "tendril" and "vine".

Vabamäe Estonian
Vabamäe is an Estonian surname meaning "unoccupied/vacant hill/mountain".

Vabec Croatian

Vabec French (Rare), Italian, Spanish

Vaca Spanish
Variant of Cabeza De Vaca.

Văcărescu Romanian
Patronymic derived from Romanian văcar meaning "cowherd".

Vaccarelli Italian
Form of Vaccarelli.

Vaccarello Italian
The pet form of Vaccaro.

Vaccari Italian
Form of Vaccaro.

Vaccarino Italian
From a diminutive of the occupational name Vaccaro meaning "cowherd".

Vacchiano Italian

Vacco Italian

Vácha m Czech
Possibly from a short form of Václav.

Vachel French (Rare)

Vacher French, English
occupational name from Old French vachier "cowherd".

Vachon French
French definition, cattle herder. Vashon English variant. Vaca Spanish.

Vācietis Latvian
Means "German (person)".

Václav Czech

Václavík Czech, Slovak
Václavík is nickname for Slavic name Václav.

Vadalà Italian
Derived from the Arabic given name Abd Allah, meaning "servant of God".

Vadász Hungarian
Hungarian surname meaning "hunter".

Vadbled German, French

Vaddhana Thai (Sanskritized)
Sanskritized transcription of Thai วัฒนา (see Watthana).

Vadeboncœur French (Quebec)
From the French phrase va de bon cœur meaning "go with a good (merry) heart". This was a secondary surname, common among soldiers in colonial French Canada, which has been adopted as a principal surname.

Vadelov Ingush (Russified)
Russified form of an Ingush family name, which is from the name of an Ingush teip (clan) which is of disputed origin, possibly derived from Ingush да (da) meaning "father", Arabic وَعْد (waʿd) meaning "promise" (through Turkish vaat), or from the hypothetical name Vadel derived from Lezgin вад (vad) meaning "five" (hypothetically given to the fifth-born child of a family).

Vadelova f Ingush (Russified)
Feminine form of Vadelov.

Vadén Swedish
Combination of Swedish place name element vad which in most cases mean "ford, place for wading", and the common surname suffix -én.

Vaden English
Meaning unknown.

Vader German (Rare)
From Middle Low German vader meaning ‘father’, ‘senior’; in the Middle Ages this was used a term of address for someone who was senior in rank or age.

Vadimov m Russian
Means "son of Vadim".

Vadovičová Slovak

Vaealiki Tongan

Værnes Norwegian
Værnes is a village in the municipality of Stjørdal in Nord-Trøndelag county in Mid-Norway. The original spelling of the village's name was Vannes and it is a combination of var "calm, quiet" and nes "headland"... [more]

Vaessen Dutch
Means "son of Vaas" or "son of Servatius".

Vaga Estonian
Vaga is an Estonian surname meaning "devout" and "pious".

Vagabov Chechen, Dagestani
Means "son of Vagab".

Vaganov m Russian

Vagaon Romanian

Våge Norwegian
Habitational name from any of several farms named Våge, derived from Old Norse vágr "bay, inlet, fjord".

Vagel Italian

Vagh Indian
Means "tiger" in Hindi

Vaglia Italian
From the commune in the city of Florence.

Vagliano Italy
Variant of Vaglia.

Vágner Croatian

Vagner German (Russified)
Russified form of Wagner.

Vágó Hungarian
Occupational name for a wood- or stonecutter, or butcher, from vágni ‘to cut’.

Vagu Estonian
Vagu is an Estonian surname meaning "furrow".

Vague French

Vagula Estonian
From the name of a village and a lake in Võru Parish, Võru County in southern Estonia. Possibly derived from vagu "furrow, groove" and the locative suffix -la.

Vaha'akolo Tongan

Vahapoğlu Turkish
Means "son of Vahap".

Vahe Estonian
Vahe is an Estonian surname meaning "middle".

Vahedi Persian
From the given name Vahed.

Vahejõe Estonian
Vahejõe is an Estonian surname meaning "mid/dividing river".

Vahemaa Estonian
Vahemaa is an Estonian surname meaning "middle land".

Vahemets Estonian
Vahemets is an Estonian surname meaning "middle/dividing forest".

Vahenõmm Estonian
Vahenõmm is an Estonian surname meaning "dividing/middle heath".

Vaher Estonian
Means "maple (tree)" in Estonian.

Vahesaar Estonian
Vahesaar is an Estonian surname meaning "middle island".

Vahesalu Estonian
Vahesalu is an Estonian surname meaning "dividing/middle grove".

Vahey English, Irish (Anglicized)
Variant of Fahey

Vähi Estonian
Vähi is an Estonian surname, derived from "vähim", meaning "smallest" or "lightest".

Vahi Estonian
Means "watch" or "guard" in Estonian, derived from vahimees meaning "watchman".

Vahidi Persian
From the given name Vahid.

Vahidov m Azerbaijani
Means "son of Vahid".

Vahidova f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Vahidov.

Vahidpour Persian
Means "son of Vahid".

Vahidzadeh Persian
Means "born of Vahid".

Vähk Estonian
Vähk is an Estonian surname meaning "crayfish".

Vahtmaa Estonian
Vahtmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "foam/lather land".

Vahtra Estonian
Vahtra is an Estonian surname meaning "maple" (Aceraceae).

Vahtramäe Estonian
Vahtramäe is an Estonian surname meaning "maple hill/mountain".

Vahylevych Ukrainian

Vaid Hindi

Vaidya Indian, Marathi
Derived from Sanskrit वैद्य (vaidya) meaning "physician, doctor", ultimately from the word विद् (vid) meaning "to know".

Vaik Estonian
Vaik is an Estonian surname meaning both "quiet/still ("vaikus") and "resin/pitch", "tar".

Vaikjärv Estonian
Vaikjärv is an Estonian surname meaning "quiet/still lake".

Vaikla Estonian
Vaikla is an Estonian surname meaning "quiet area".

Väikmeri Estonian
Väikmeri is an Estonian surname meaning "small sea".

Vaiksaar Estonian
Vaiksaar is an Estonian surname meaing "quiet/still ("vaikus") island ("saar")". May also come from "väike saar", meaning "little island".

Vaiksoo Estonian
Vaiksoo is an Estonian surname meaning "quiet/still swamp".

Vaikvee Estonian
Vaikvee is an Estonian surname meaning "quiet/still water".

Vail English

Vaillancourt French (Quebec)
Possibly a variant of Valencourt. This is the surname of a noble family who probably lived near Willencourt.

Vaillant French
From a medieval nickname for a brave person (from Old French vaillant "brave, sturdy").

Vain Estonian
Vain is an Estonian surname meaning "village common", or "village green".

Vainauskaite Lithuanian

Vaŝingtono Esperanto
Esperanto form of Washington.

Vainikolo Tongan

Vainküla Estonian
Vainküla is an Estonian surname meaning "(village) green/common village"

Vainmäe Estonian
Vainmäe is an Estonian surname meaning "(village) green/common hill/mountain".

Vaino Estonian
Vaino is an Estonian surname, derived from the patronymic given name Vaino.

Vainumäe Estonian
Vainumäe is an Estonian surname derived from "vainurästas", meaning "redwing blackbird" (Turdus iliacus) and "mäe", meaning ""hill".

Vaipulu Tongan

Vais French

Väisänen Finnish
Topographic name from väisä meaning either meaning "road" or "sign placed on the ice" + the common surname suffix -nen.

Vaishali Indian

Vaisinen Finnish

Vaišutis m Lithuanian (Rare)
Diminutive of Vaišys.

Vaisutis Lithuanian (Rare, Expatriate)
Simplified form of Vaišutis.

Vaišys m Lithuanian
Possibly from vaišės ("feast, entertainment") or a related word.

Vaitai Tongan

Vaitov Crimean Tatar
Means "son of Vait".

Vaitova f Crimean Tatar
Feminine form of Vaitov.

Väits Estonian
Väits is an Estonian surname derived from "väit" meaning "insist".

Vaj Hmong
Original Hmong form of Vang.

Vajciachovič Belarusian
Means "son of Vojciech".

Vajda Slovak

Vajs Belarusian
Belarusian Latin spelling of Vays.

Vakameau Fijian

Vakapuna Tongan

Vakarchuk Ukrainian

Vakhaev m Chechen
Means "son of Vakha".

Vakhaeva f Chechen
Feminine form of Vakhaev.

Vakhayev Chechen
Alternate transcription of Chechen Вахаев (see Vakhaev).

Vakhayeva Chechen
Feminine transcription of Chechen Вахаев (see Vakhayev).

Vakhitov m Tatar (?)

Vakhtangadze Georgian
Means "son of Vakhtang".

Vakhtangishvili Georgian
Means "son of Vakhtang".

Vakhvakhishvili Georgian

Vakhyanin m Russian

Vakili Persian
Derived from Persian وکیل (vakil) meaning "lawyer, attorney".

Vakk Estonian
Vakk is an Estonian surname meaning "granary bin".

Vaknin Judeo-Spanish
Hebrew transcription of Ouaknine.

Vakulenko Ukrainian

Vakulov m Russian

Vakurunabili Fijian

Val Spanish, French
It means valley. It comes from Britain and then moved to Aragón (Spain).

Valade French
Variant of Vallée.

Valadez Asturian, Spanish, Mexican
Asturian-Leonese variant of Valdez.

Valaitis Lithuanian, German (East Prussian)
Best known as the surname of a certain Lena.

Valakakis Greek

Valance English
Variant of Vallance.

Valančiūnas m Lithuanian (Rare)
Derived from the place name Valančiūnai.... [more]

Valante Latvian

Valantine English
Variant of Valentine.

Valär Romansh

Valatovich Belarusian

Valaulta Romansh
Derived from Romansh val "valley" and aulta, the feminine form of the adjective ault, "high".

Valbuena Spanish
Habitational name from any of the places called Valbuena for example in Valladolid Cáceres and Salamanca.

Valcazar Spanish

Valcourt French

Valdemar Danish (Rare), Swedish (Rare), Spanish, Portuguese, French Creole
From the given name Valdemar.

Valden Dutch (Expatriate, ?)
Possibly an altered form of Velden.

Valderrábano Spanish
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.

Valderrama Spanish
Habitational name from any of the places named Valderrama, as for example in Burgos province.

Valderrama Spanish
This surname is made up of the prefix "bal-" from latin "vallis," the equivalent of prefix "-valle" meaning a vale or a valley plus the Spanish "derramare" - to scatter or to spread. Hence, implies valley which is spread out.

Valdés Asturian, Spanish, Central American
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.

Valdivia Spanish
Topographic or habitational name based on Spanish val, valle meaning "valley". A notable bearer was Pedro de Valdivia (died 1553), a Spanish conquistador who conquered Chile with a small expedition corps after he served under Francisco Pizarro in Peru... [more]

Valdivieso Spanish
This place-name is derived from the Asturian word val-di-vieso, which means old man's-valley.

Valdiviezo South American, Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Valdivieso.

Valdobrev m Bulgarian

Valdoviño Galician
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.

Valdovinos Spanish
Spanish: from a personal name of ancient Germanic origin composed of the elements bald 'bold brave' + win 'friend'.

Valdre Estonian
Valdre is an Estonian surname possibly derived from the masculine given name "Valter", or relating to a "parish" or "borough" ("vald").

Vale English
Topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, Middle English vale (Old French val, from Latin vallis). The surname is now also common in Ireland, where it has been Gaelicized as de Bhál.

Valee German
From French origin, denoting someone who lives or comes from a valley.

Valeiro Portuguese
Variant of Valério.

Valen English, Scottish
English and Scottish: from a medieval personal name, Latin Valentinus, a derivative of Valens (see also Valente), which was never common in England, but is occasionally found from the end of the 12th century, probably as the result of French influence... [more]

València Catalan
Catalan form of Valencia.

Valenciano Spanish
A Spanish surname. It is a regional name denoting someone from Valencia.

Valencio Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian)
From the name of the Spanish city of Valencia.

Valens American (Hispanic), Popular Culture
English variant of Valenzuela.

Valensi Judeo-Spanish
From the name of the city of Valencia in Spain.

Valensuela Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish (Latin American)
Variant and Portuguese form of Valenzuela

Valent English
Means showing great bravery.

Valente Italian, Galician, Portuguese
Italian, Galician, and Portuguese: nickname from valente ‘brave’, ‘valiant’.... [more]

Valentić Croatian, Serbian
Means "son of Valent".

Valentim Portuguese
From the given name Valentim.

Valentín Spanish, Slovak
From the given name Valentín.

Valentina Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian
Feminine form of Valentin.

Valentinescu Romanian
Means "son of Valentin".

Valentinis Friulian, Spanish (Latin American)
Derived from the given name Valentinus

Valentino Italian

Valentins English, Portuguese
Derived from the given name Valentin.

Valentique English (Rare), French
From the given name Valentique.

Valentyn Ukrainian
From the given name Valentyn.

Valenza Maltese

Valenzuela Spanish
Habitational name from places named Valenzuela in Córdoba and Ciudad Real. The place name is a diminutive of Valencia, literally "little Valencia".

Valera Spanish
Habitational name from either of two places in Spain named Valera.

Valère French
From the given name Valère.

Valerian French

Valeriano Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Italian (Rare)
From the given name Valeriano.

Valério Portuguese
From the given name Valério.

Valery Romanian

Valeti Telugu

Valetsiotis Greek

Valette French
Topographic name for someone who lived in a small valley, from a diminutive of Old French valee meaning "valley".

Valez Spanish
I think it is of Spanish Background possibly meaning 'Soldier' or 'Guard'. ... [more]

Valezze Spanish
Variant of Valez

Valfré Italian (Hispanicized, ?), Mexican

Valgañón Spanish
This indicates familial within the eponymous Riojan municipality.

Valge Estonian
Valge is an Estonian surname meaning "white".

Valgemäe Estonian
Valgemäe is an Estonian surname meaning "white hill".

Valgepea Estonian
Valgepea is an Estonian surname meaning "white head".

Väli Estonian
Väli is an Estonian surname meaning "field".

Vali Spanish, Italian (Swiss), Arabic
This Spanish and Italian surname of VALI was a locational name for someone OR A family who lived in a valley. In valle quiescit ( In the valley of our home, we find peace.)... [more]

Valiant English, Scottish, Irish
Derived from Old French vaillant meaning "heroic, courageous".

Validov Dagestani, Chechen, Kazakh
Means "son of Valid".

Valier Romansh
Derived from the given name Valerius.

Valiev m Tatar
Tatar form of Vəliyev

Valikangas Finnish
A Finnish Surname

Valion French

Vəlixanov Azerbaijani
Means "son of Vəlixan".

Vəlixanova f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Vəlixanov.

Vəliyev Azerbaijani
Means "son of Vəli".

Valiyev Azerbaijani
Alternate transcription of Vəliyev.

Vəliyeva f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Vəliyev.

Vəlizadə Azerbaijani
Means "born of Vəli".

Välja Estonian
Välja is an Estonian surname meaning "outside" and "afield".

Väljaots Estonian
Väljaots is an Estonian surname meaning "out/afield (of the) cusp/tip".

Väljas Estonian
Väljas is an Estonian surname meaning "afield" or "out in the open".

Väljataga Estonian
Väljataga is an Estonian surname meaning "outside behind/at the back of".

Valjent Slovak

Välk Estonian
Välk is an Estonian surname meaning "lightning".

Valk Dutch
Means "falcon" in Dutch, a metonymic occupational name for a falconer, or possibly derived from the given name Falk. Compare Falco.

Valkama Finnish

Valkeapää Finnish
From the Finnish valkea "white" and pää "head, tip".

Valkonen Finnish
From Finnish valkoinen meaning "white" and the suffix -nen.

Valkov m Bulgarian
Means "son of Valko".

Valkova Bulgarian

Valkova f Bulgarian
Feminine form of Valkov.

Vall Estonian
Vall is an Estonian surname meaning "wall" or "berm".

Vallad Ojibwe
Name given to dozens of a First Nations Anishinaabek at residential schools.

Valladolid Spanish
Habitational name from the city of this name.

Vallance English
Means "person from Valence", southeastern France (probably "place of the brave").

Valle Spanish, Filipino, Italian
Habitational name from any of the many places named with valle "valley", or topographic name for someone who lived in a valley (Latin vallis).

Vallée French
topographic name for someone who lived in a valley from Old French valee "valley" (from Latin vallis) or a habitational name from (La) Vallée the name of several places in various parts of France... [more]

Vallee French

Vallejo Spanish, Caribbean
Denoted someone who lived in a small valley.

Vallentine English
Variant of Valentine.

Vallera French
French: habitational name from Vallery in Yonne, once a Romano-Gallic estate, recorded in 1218 as Valerianus. The surname is also found in the British Isles and may be of Norman origin, from the same place.

Vallet French, English
French topographic name from a diminutive of Old French val "valley" (see Val ) or a habitational name from (Le) Vallet the name of several places mainly in the northern part of France and French and English occupational name for a manservant from Old French and Middle English vallet "manservant groom".

Valley English
Topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, Middle English valeye.

Valli Italian

Vallianos m Greek
Derived from Vaglia. A commune in Florence, Italy.

Vallie German
Probably an altered spelling of German Valee, a fairly common surname of French origin denoting someone who lived in a valley. The name in Germany is also spelled Wallee.

Vallier French

Valliere French

Vallikivi Estonian
Vallikivi is an Estonian surname meaning "wall stone".

Vallin Swedish
Derived from either Latin vallis "valley" or Swedish vall "wall, pasture, field of grass".

Valliveere Estonian
Valliveere is an Estonian surname meaning "bank/embankment rolling".

Vallmitjana Catalan
From the name of a valley near the town of Taradell in Catalonia, Spain, composed of Catalan vall meaning "valley" and mitjana "middle, middle-sized".

Vällo Estonian
Vällo is an Estonian surname, possibly a corruption of "väli" meaning "field" and "plain".

Valmadrid Medieval Spanish (Esperantized)

Valmaseda Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Balmaseda.

Valmer Estonian
Possibly derived from a diminutive form of the personal name Valdemar.

Valmont English, French
Means "Hill of the vale"

Valmore French

Valmores Spanish

Valmorida Filipino, Cebuano
Means "valley of the forest field" derived from Spanish val, a contraction of valle meaning "valley", combined with Japanese 森 (mori) meaning "forest, woods" and 田 (ta) "paddy, field" (see Morita).

Valo Finnish
means "light" in finnish

Valodźka Belarusian
Derived from a diminutive form Valodźka of the Belarusian given name Uladzimir.

Valois French
topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, or a habitational name from any of the various places called Vallois, or regional name from the district in northern France so called, which was once an independent duchy... [more]

Valore Italian
Meaning - Value

Valour French

Valov m Russian

Valsecchi Italian
Denoting someone from the former municipality of Valsecca in Lombardy.

Valskis Lithuanian

Valtierra Basque (Hispanicized)
From the name of the city of Valtierra in Navarre, Spain.

Valtierrez Spanish

Valton French

Valuyev m Russian

Valverde Spanish
Refers to a place name which suggests a landscape, agreeable with herbs, flowers and water.

Vamkaitis Greek

Vammus Estonian
Vammus is an Estonian surname meaning "jacket" and "doublet".

Vampyr English (American)
A gothic surname.

Van Chinese (Russified)
Russified form of Wang 1 used by ethnic Chinese living in parts of the former Soviet Union.

Van Khmer

Van Aanholt Dutch
Means "from Anholt", a small village in the northeast of the province of Drenthe in the Netherlands, itself meaning "hold, rest" in Dutch (a place where people could rest for the night). A famous bearer is the Dutch soccer player Patrick van Aanholt (1990-).

Vanaaseme Estonian
Vanaaseme is an Estonian surname meaning "old place".

Van Achterberg Dutch
Variant of Achterberg.

Van Acker Belgian

Van Ael Belgian

Van Agt Dutch
Means "from Acht", a small village within the city of Eindhoven in the province of Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands. It is derived from Middle Dutch acht, achte meaning either "eight" or "preserve, lordly possession, legal district"... [more]

Vanajuur Estonian
Vanajuur is an Estonian surname meaning "old roots/origins".

Van Amerongen Dutch
Means "from Amerongen", a town in the province of Utrecht in the Netherlands.

Van Ark Dutch
Habitational name from a place called Ark in Gelderland.

Vanatoa Estonian
Vanatoa is an Estonian surname meaning "old room".

Vanaveski Estonian
Vanaveski is an Estonian surname meaning "old mill".

Van Barneveld Dutch
Means "from Barneveld", a town in the Dutch province of Gelderland.

van Beethoven Flemish
Means "from the beet fields", a variant of Beethoven. A famous bearer of this name was German Clasical composer Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827).

Van Bergen Dutch, Flemish, German
Variant of Bergen.

Van Berkel Dutch
Means "from Berkel", the name of several villages derived from berk "birch tree" and lo "forest clearing".

Van Bijsterveld Dutch
Variant of Van Bijsterveldt.

Van Bijsterveldt Dutch
Means "from the waste land", derived from Middle Dutch bijstervelt meaning "waste land, chaffing and infertile land". Dutch politician Marja van Bijsterveldt (1961-) bears this name.

Van Blankenberg German, Belgian, Dutch
Means "from Blankenberg", a toponym from any of various places so called, in particular in Hennef and Gelderland, or from Blankenberge in West Flanders, Belgium. Probably derived from blanken "white, pale, bright" or "bare, blank" and berg "mountain, hill".