All Submitted Surnames

Yamaoka Japanese
From Japanese 山 (yama) meaning "mountain" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Yamara African

Yamasato Japanese
This surname combines 山 (san, sen, yama) meaning "mountain" and 里 (ri, sato) meaning "league, parent's home, ri (unit of distance - equal to 3.927 km), village," 県 or 縣 - outdated variant of 県 - (ken, ka.keru) meaning "county, district, subdivision, prefecture," the last meaning reserved for 県.... [more]

Yamasawa Japanese
Yama means "hill, mountain" and sawa means "swamp, marsh".

Yamase Japanese
Yama means "mountain" and se means "ripple".

Yamashiro Japanese
From Japanese 山 (yama) meaning "mounain, hill" and 城 (shiro) meaning "castle".

Yamata Japanese

Yamatani Japanese
Yama means "mountain" and tani means "valley". ... [more]

Yamato Japanese
From the given name Yamato.

Yamato Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Nihon.

Yamauba Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 山姥 (yamauba/yamamba) meaning "mountain hag", referring to someone with mountain hag-like traits.

Yamawaki Japanese
From 山 (yama, sen) meaning "mountain, hill", and 脇 (waki) meaning "armpit, side, flank, underarm".

Yamaya Japanese
Variant of Yamatani.

Yamaya Japanese
From Japanese 山 (yama) meaning "mountain" and 谷 (ya) meaning "valley".

Yamazawa Japanese
Variant of Yamasawa.

Yamazoe Japanese
Variant of Yamasoe.

Yamba Kongo

Yambao Filipino
Possibly from Vietnamese iàm-báu meaning "treasure."

Yameen Urdu, Bengali, Dhivehi
Variant transcription of Yamin.

Yamikawa Japanese
From Japanese 闇 (Yami) meaning "darkness" 川(Kawa) meaning "river", the name basically means "Dark river"

Yamkovyy m Ukrainian

Yammada Indian

Yampilskiy Ukrainian (Rare)
This was used by people originating from any of various Ukrainian settlements by the name of "Yampil".

Yamura Japanese
From 矢 (ya) meaning "arrow" and 村 (mura) meaning "village".

Yan Chinese (Russified)
Russified form of Yang used by ethnic Chinese living in parts of the former Soviet Union.

Yan Chinese
From Chinese 严 (yán) referring to the ancient fief of Yan Jun (嚴君) that existed in what is now Sichuan province.

Yan Chinese
From Chinese 阎 (yán) meaning "gate", also referring to a fief that existed in the ancient state of Jin in what is now Shanxi province.

Yan Chinese
From Chinese 颜 (yán) meaning "face, countenance", also referring to the ancient fief of Yan that existed during the Western Zhou dynasty in what is now Shandong province.

Yanabu Japanese
From 柳 (yana) meaning "willow" and 父 (bu) meaning "father".

Yanada Japanese

Yanagawa Japanese
From Japanese 柳 (yana) meaning "willow" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Yanagi Japanese
From Japanese 柳 (yanagi) meaning "willow".

Yanagibara Japanese
Variant of Yanagihara.

Yanagida Japanese
From Japanese 柳 (yanagi) meaning "willow" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Yanagihara Japanese
From Japanese 柳 (yanagi) meaning "willow" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Yanagimi Japanese
Yanagi means "willow" and mi means "viewpoint, outlook".

Yanagimoto Japanese
Yanagi means "Willow" and Moto means "Source, Root, Origin."

Yanagino Japanese

Yanagisawa Japanese
From Japanese 柳 (yanagi) meaning "willow" and 沢 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Yanagita Japanese

Yanagiwara Japanese
Variant of Yanagihara.

Yanagiya Japanese
From Japanese 柳 (yanagi) meaning "willow" and 谷 (ya) meaning "valley".

Yanagizawa Japanese
Variant of Yanagisawa.

Yanai Japanese
From the Japanese 矢 (ya) "arrow" and 内 (nai or uchi) "inside."

Yanaibara Japanese
Variant of Yanaihara.

Yanaihara Japanese

Yanaiwara Japanese
Variant of Yanaihara.

Yanakawa Japanese

Yanami Japanese

Yanar Turkish
Means "burns, lights, combusts" in Turkish.

Yanase Japanese
From Japanese 柳 (yana) meaning "willow" and 瀬 (se) meaning "rapids, current".

Yanase Japanese
From Japanese 簗 (yana) meaning "fish trap" and 瀬 (se) meaning "rapids, current".

Yanata Japanese
Variant of Yanada.

Yancey Dutch (Anglicized)
Variant of Yancy.

Yanchenko Ukrainian
Variant of Yanenko.

Yanchuk Ukrainian
Variant of Yanchenko.

Yandarbiev Chechen
Means "son of Yandarbi".

Yandarbieva f Chechen
Feminine form of Yandarbiev.

Yandarbin Chechen
Variant of Yandarbiyev.

Yandarbiyeva Chechen
Feminine spelling of Yandarbiyev.

Yandarov Chechen
Possibly from the given name Yandar, which is of uncertain meaning, perhaps of Turkic or Iranian origin.

Yandarova f Chechen
Feminine form of Yandarov.

Yandikov m Russian

Yane Korean

Yanenko Ukrainian
Means "son of Yan 1".

Yáñez Spanish
Patronymic of Juan 1.

Yang Korean
Korean form of Liang, from Sino-Korean 梁 (yang).

Yang Hui

Yanga Filipino

Yanık Turkish
Means "burn, scald" in Turkish.

Yanishchyts Belarusian

Yaniv Hebrew
From the given name Yaniv.

Yankelovich Yiddish (Rare)
Means "son of Yankel".

Yankouskaya f Belarusian
Feminine form of Yankouski.

Yankouski m Belarusian
Belarusian form of Jankowski.

Yankoviac English
Variant of the name Yankovic.

Yankovic Slovene, Slovak, Serbian, Croatian, Polish
Americanized form of Janković, or perhaps Jankowicz.

Yanković Croatian, Serbian
means "son of Janko"

Yankovich Serbian, Croatian, Slovene
Americanized spelling of Janković or Jankovič.

Yankovoy Russian

Yankovska f Ukrainian
Feminine form of Yankovskyi.

Yankovskaya f Russian
Feminine form of Yankovsky.

Yankovsky m Russian
Russian form of Jankowski.

Yankovskyi m Ukrainian
Ukrainian form of Jankowski.

Yannotta American
Possibly a variant of Iannotta.

Yano Japanese
From Japanese 矢 (ya) meaning "arrow" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Yanong Filipino
Yanong in Tagalog can mean "that kind" or "that sort".It can also be a regional name from local dialects and cultures.

Yanqi Chinese
Yanqi is/ was a county of China. It is also the surname of Mao Yanqi, also known as VAVA.

Yansen Indonesian, Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Jansen. Most commonly found in Indonesia and Argentina.

Yanshiji Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 薬師寺 or 藥師寺 (see Yakushiji).

Yanson Filipino
From Hokkien 燕孫 (iàn-sun), derived from 燕 (iàn) meaning "swallow (bird)" and 孫 (sun) meaning "grandchild".

Yant American

Yantorno Italian (Americanized)
Probably an altered spelling of Iantorno, which could derive from the given name Ianni combined with torno meaning "returns, comes back".

Yanukovich Belarusian
See Yanukovych.

Yanukovych Belarusian (Ukrainianized)
Yanukovych was the last name of the Ukrainian president from 2010-2014 who was overthrown during Euromaidan.... [more]

Yanyuk Ukrainian
Variant of Yanenko.

Yanzon Filipino
Variant of Yanson.

Yao Chinese
From Chinese 姚 (yáo) meaning "handsome, elegant".

Yaoyorozu Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 八 (ya) meaning "eight", 百 (o) meaning "one hundred", and 万 (yorozu) meaning "ten thousand"

Yap Chinese (Hakka), Chinese (Hokkien)
Hakka and Hokkien romanization of Ye.

Yapıcı Turkish
Means "builder, maker, constructor" in Turkish.

Yapıcıoğlu Turkish

Yapontsev m Russian
Denotes to a Japanese person.

Yapp English (British)
Derives from Old English ġēap meaning "crooked, bent" and could either refer to a cunning person or someone with crooked features (e.g. curved nose). Famous bearers of this name include English botanist Richard Henry Yapp and Sir Stanley Graham Yapp, Labour politician and first leader of West Midlands County Council.

Yaprak Turkish
Means "leaf" in Turkish.

Yaqoob Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Yaqub.

Yaqoub Arabic
From the given name Yaqub.

Yaqub Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Yaqub.

Yaqubov Azerbaijani, Uzbek
Means "son of Yaqub".

Yaqubova f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Yaqubov.

Yaqubzadə Azerbaijani
Means "born of Yaqub".

Yara Japanese

Yarakhmedov m Dagestani

Yarar Turkish
Means "benefit, profit, gain" in Turkish.

Yarasavych English (American, Rare)

Yarborough English

Yarbrough English
Habitational name derived from Yarborough or Yarburgh in Lincolnshire, England, both composed of Old English eorþe "earth, ground, dirt" and burg "fortress, citadel, stronghold".

Yarchak Ukrainian

Yarchevskiy m Russian, Polish (Russified), Jewish
Russian form of Jarczewski.

Yarchi Hebrew
From Hebrew יָרֵחַ (yareach), meaning "moon".

Yard Dutch (Surinamese)

Yarden Hebrew (Rare)
From the given name Yarden, which is named after the Jordan 2 River. ... [more]

Yardeni Hebrew (Modern)
Means "of Jordan 2" in Hebrew.

Yardım Turkish
Means "help, aid" in Turkish.

Yardımcı Turkish
Means "helper, assistant, aide" in Turkish.

Yardley English
Habitational name for someone from any of the various locations in England named Yardley, derived from Old English gierd meaning "branch, twig, pole, stick" and leah meaning "wood, clearing".

Yardly English
Variant of Yardley.

Yardy English
The most likely origin of this surname is that it was used to denote someone who held a piece of land known as a "yarde", from the Middle English word "yerd".

Yared Arabic
From the given name Yared.

Yaremchuk Ukrainian
Means "son of Yarema".

Yarger English (American)
Americanized form of German Järger or Jerger

Yarhak Ukrainian (Rare)

Yari Japanese
From the kanji 槍, meaning spear. Other kanji combinations are also possible.

Yarian English
Americanized form of Irion.

Yarigo Western African

Yarimizo Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 鑓 (yari) meaning "sword" and 溝 (mizo) meaning "ditch; drain".

Yarish American
Anglicized form of Jaroš.

Yarmola Ukrainian

Yarmolenko Ukrainian
Regional name for someone from Yarmolyntsi, an urban-type settlement in Ukraine.

Yarmolnik Russian, Ukrainian (Russified, ?)

Yarosh Ukrainian
Variant of Yaroshenko.

Yaroshchuk m Ukrainian
Variant of Yaroshenko.

Yaroshenko Ukrainian
Derived from a diminutive form of Yaroslav.

Yaroshevitz Jewish
Ashkenazi Jewish form of Yarrow.

Yaroslavl Russian

Yarovenko Ukrainian
Possibly from the given name Yaroslav.

Yarrow English (British, Modern, Rare)

Yarusov Russian

Yarwood English
habitational name from Yarwood Heath in Rostherne Cheshire earlier Yarwode. The placename derives from Old English earn "eagle" or gear "yair enclosure for catching fish" and wudu "wood".

Yaryan English
Americanized form of Irion.

Yarzagaray Spanish (Caribbean), Papiamento (?)
Aruban surname of Basque origin.

Yasaka Japanese

Yasaki Japanese

Yaşar Turkish
From the given name Yaşar.

Yaseen Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Yasin.

Yasenov Bulgarian
Means "son of Yasen".

Yaser Arabic
Derived from the given name Yasir.

Yasevich Belarusian
Possibly derived from ясна (yasna), meaning "clear" in Belarusian.

Yashima Japanese
From Japanese 八 (ya) meaning "eight" and 島 or 嶋 (shima) meaning "island".

Yashin Russian
Means "son of Yasha". This surname was borne by the Soviet soccer goalkeeper Lev Yashin (1929-1990).

Yashin Uzbek
Means "lighting" in Uzbek.

Yashina Russian
Feminine transcription of Russian Я́шин (see Yashin).

Yashnikov m Russian

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

Yasinkov m Russian

Yasir Arabic, Urdu, Dhivehi
From the given name Yasir.

Yasmin Bengali, Urdu
From the given name Yasmin.

Yasohachi Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 八十八 (yasohachi), the characters broken down from a single character 米 (kome) meaning "rice".

Yasser Arabic
From the given name Yasir.

Yassin Arabic
From the given name Yasin.

Yassine Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Yassine.

Yassir Arabic
Derived from the given name Yasir.

Yassman Russian

Yastrebov m Russian
Derived from Russian ястреб (yastreb) meaning "hawk".

Yastremskyi m Ukrainian
Ukrainian form of Jastremski.

Yasu Japanese

Yasuan Alaskan

Yasue Japanese
From Japanese 安 (yasu) meaning "inexpensive, rested, peace, quiet" and 江 (e) meaning "bay, inlet".

Yasuhara Japanese

Yasuhiko Japanese
Yasu means "peace, even, level, cheap, inexpensive, relax" and hiko means "prince".

Yasuhiro Japanese
From Japanese 安 (yasu) meaning "peace, quiet" combined with 央 (hiro) meaning "centre, middle". Other Kanji combinations are possible.

Yasuhiru Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 安蒜 (see Ambiru).

Yasui Japanese
From Japanese 安 (yasu) meaning "calm, peaceful, tranquil" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".

Yasuki Japanese
Yasu means "Relax, Cheap" and Ki mean "Tree". Yasuki is also a first name.

Yasukochi Japanese

Yasumatsu Japanese
Yasu means "relax, peaceful, cheap, inexpensive" and matsu means "pine, fir tree".

Yasumi Japanese
Yasu meaning 安 (yasu) meaning "rest, peace, cheap, relax" and 己 (mi) meaning "oneself".

Yasumizu Japanese
From 安 (yasu) meaning "calm, peaceful, low, inexpensive" and 水 (mizu) meaning "water".

Yasumoro Japanese
Variant reading of Amuro.

Yasumoto Japanese
From 安 (yasu) meaning "relax, cheap, inexpensive" and 元 (moto) meaning "origin".

Yasumuro Japanese
Variant reading of Amuro.

Yasunami Japanese
Means "calm wave" in Japanese.

Yasunishi Japanese
yasu means "Peace,Quiet" and nishi means "West". See Anzai for alternative, but similar meaning.

Yasur Jewish

Yasura Japanese
Yasu means "cheap, relax, peace" and ra means "good".

Yasura Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 安良 (Yasura) meaning "Yasura", a former village in the former district of Izushi in the former Japanese province of Tajima in parts of present-day Hyōgo, Japan.

Yasuraoka Japanese (Rare)
安 (yasu) means "cheap, low, inexpensive, rested, peaceful, relax".良 (ra) means "good, excellent", and 岡 (oka) means "ridge, hill"... [more]

Yasuryo Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 安良 (see Yasuryō).

Yasuryō Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 安良 (see Yasura).

Yasusan Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 安蒜 (see Ambiru).

Yasuta Japanese

Yasutomi Japanese
Yasu means "relax, cheap, peace" and tomi means "wealth, abundance".

Yasuyama Japanese
安 (yasu) means "peaceful, rested, relax, cheap, low" and 山 (yama) means "mountain".

Yasuzato Japanese
See Asato.

Yasyuchek Russian, Ukrainian (?)

Yata Japanese

Yata Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 八田 (see Hatta).

Yataba Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 八田羽 (see Hattawa).

Yatabe Japanese
From 谷 (ya) meaning "valley" or 矢 (ya) meaning "arrow", 田 (ta) meaning "rice paddy, field", and 部 (be) meaning "section, bureau, division".

Yatani Japanese

Yatano Japanese (Rare)
Variant of Hatta, added Japanese 野 (no) meaning "field; plains".

Yata'uyungana Tsou

Yatauyungana Tsou

Yatco Tagalog
Meaning uncertain, of Hokkien origin.

Yatsenko Ukrainian
Derived from the given name Yatsentiy.

Yatsenyuk Ukrainian
Another form of Yatsenko.

Yatsko Ukrainian

Yatsuda Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 八田 (see Hatta).

Yatsue Japanese

Yatsui Japanese

Yatsujima Japanese

Yatsuka Japanese
From Japanese 八 (ya) meaning "eight" and 束 (tsuka) meaning "bundle, bunch, sheaf".

Yatsuki Japanese

Yatsumura Japanese

Yatsushima Japanese

Yatsushiro Japanese

Yatsuta Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 八田 (see Hatta).

Yatsutko Russian (?), Ukrainian (?)

Yatsuyama Japanese
Variant reading of Hachiyama.

Yatsyna Russian

Yatteau French (Acadian)
I was always told it was French

Ya'u Nigerian

Yau Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Qiu.

Yauchi Japanese
From Japanese 矢 (ya) meaning "arrow" and 内 (uchi) meaning "inside".

Yaun Dutch (Americanized)
Americanized form of Jahn.

Yavari Persian
Derived from Persian یاور (yavar) meaning "assistant, supporter".

Yavaş Turkish
Means "slow, calm, soft" in Turkish.

Yavi Eastern African

Yavorov Bulgarian
Means "son of Yavor".

Yavuz Turkish
Means "stern, tough" in Turkish.

Yaw Irish, English, Chinese
Irish: reduced and altered Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Eochadha Chinese : Cantonese variant of Qiu.

Yawana African

Yaxley English
Meant "person from Yaxley", Cambridgeshire and Suffolk ("glade where cuckoos are heard").

Yaya Western African
From the given name Yaya.

Yayama Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Hachiyama.

Yayla Turkish
Means "mountain pasture, highland, plateau" in Turkish.

Yaylacıoğlu Turkish
Means "descendant of the nomad" from Turkish yaylacı meaning "nomad, highlander, transhumant".

Yazaka Japanese

Yazaki Japanese
A variant of Yasaki.... [more]

Yazar Turkish
Means "writer, author" in Turkish.

Yazawa Japanese
From Japanese 矢 (ya) meaning "arrow" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Yazawa Japanese
From Japanese 谷 (ya) meaning "valley" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Yazbeck Arabic
Variant transcription of Yazbek.

Yazdi Persian
Indicated a family or person from the city of Yazd in Iran

Yazıcı Turkish
Means "writer" or "clerk" in Turkish.

Yaziji Turkish, Arabic
Arabic surname of Turkish origin meaning “clerk” or “writer”. Alternate spelling to Yazıcı.

Yazukhin m Russian

Yazvinskiy m Russian
From Russian язвина (yazvina), meaning "ulcer".

Yazzi Navajo

Yazzie Indigenous American, Navajo
Derived from the Navajo word yázhí meaning "little".

Ybañez Spanish (Philippines)
Filipino form of Ibáñez.

Ybanez Spanish (Philippines)
Unaccented variant of Ybañez.

Ybiricu Basque (Hispanicized, Rare)
Derived from Basque ibi "ford, river crossing".

Ybl Hungarian

Ybyrai Kazakh

Ychon Filipino
Variant of Echon.

Yde Danish

Ye Western African

Yeager English, Irish, Scottish
Anglicized form of German Jäger.

Yeap Chinese (Hakka), Chinese (Hokkien)
Hakka and Hokkien romanization of Ye.

Yeardley English
Means "enclosed meadow" in Old English, from Old English g(e)ard (“fence, enclosure”) + lēah (“woodland, clearing”).

Yearley English

Yearwood English

Yeasmin Bengali
From the given name Yeasmin.

Yeats English
Scottish and northern English variant spelling of Yates.

Yeboah Western African, Akan

Yednak Ukrainian

Yee Chinese (Taishanese)
Taishanese romanization of Yu 2.

Yefet Hebrew
From the given name Yefet (see Japheth).

Yefimov Russian
Means "son of Yefim".

Yefimova Russian
Feminine form of Yefimov.

Yefimovich Russian
Grigori Yefimovich who is best known as "Rasputin" was a Russian peasant, mystic and private adviser to the Romanovs (Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Tsarina Alexandra in the early 20th century).

Yefremov m Russian
Means "son of Yefrem".

Yegachev m Russian

Yeganeh Persian
Means "unique" in Persian.

Yeganyan Armenian

Yeghiazaryan Armenian
Means "son of Yeghiazar".

Yegiazarov m Russian

Yegin m Russian
Means "son of Yegor."

Yeh Chinese
Variant romanization of Ye.

Yehezkel Jewish
From the given name Yehezkel.

Yehia Arabic
From the given name Yahya.

Yehya Arabic, Uyghur
From the given name Yehya.

Yeibi Nigerian

Yeien Malaysian (Rare, ?)

Yekaterinburg Russian

Yekelchyk Ukrainian

Yekhamov m Russian

Yekhuranov m Russian

Yekutieli Hebrew
From the given name Yekutiel.