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Brubaker American
American form of Brubacher
Bruch German
Topographic name for someone who lived by a marsh or a stream that frequently flooded, from Middle High German bruoch "water meadow" or "marsh" (cognate to old English broc "brook", "stream" cf... [more]
Brück German
Topographic name for someone who lived near a bridge, or an occupational name for a bridge keeper or toll collector on a bridge, from Middle High German bruck(e) "bridge".
Bruck Jewish
From Polish, Belorussian, or Yiddish bruk "pavement", possibly an occupational name for a paver.
Bruck German
Variant of Brück.
Brucker German
Variant of Brück.
Brucker Jewish
From Polish brukarz or Yiddish bruk "pavement", possibly an occupational name for a paver.
Brucker English
Variant spelling of Brooker.
Bruckheimer German (Rare)
Bruckheimer is a German surname and is for someone who lived near a bridge.... [more]
Bruckman German, English
German (Bruckmann): variant of Bruck, with the addition of the suffix -mann ‘man’. ... [more]
Bruckner German
Topographic name for someone living by a bridge or an occupational name for a bridge toll collector; a variant of Bruck with the addition of the suffix -ner.
Bruder German
From a byname meaning "brother", occasionally used for a younger son, i.e. the brother of someone important, or for a guild member.
Brueck German
Variant of Brück.
Brueckman Low German
it means "bridge man" or one who cares for a bridge
Brueckner German, German (Silesian)
German (Brückner): from Middle Low German brugge, Middle High German brugge, brücke, brügge ‘bridge’ + the agent suffix -ner, hence a topographic name for someone living by a bridge, an occupational name for a bridge toll collector, or in the southeast (Silesia for example) a bridge keeper or repairer... [more]
Brueggeman German
Variant of German Brueggemann.
Brueggemann Low German, German
North German (Brüggemann): topographic name for someone who lived near a bridge or a metonymic occupational name for a bridge keeper or street paver, Middle Low German brüggeman (see Bruckman, Brueckner).
Bruegger Low German
North German (Brügger): occupational name for a bridge keeper, paver, or road builder, Middle Low German brügger. Compare Brueggemann.
Brueggert Germanic (Anglicized)
Translated literally, the name means "bridge-man," and referred to the occupation of taking toll at bridges. The name was found most frequently in Frankfurt in the 12th and 13th centuries. North German (Brügger) and South German: occupational name for a bridge keeper paver or road builder... [more]
Bruen German
This is my 2nd great uncle's wife's Surname of German ancestry.
Brüesch Romansh
Derived from the given name Ambrosius.
Brüggemann German
Name for someone who worked as a street paver or bridge keeper, or someone who lived near a bridge. From Middle Low German brügge "bridge" or brüggeman "street paver".
Brugger German, American
South German variant or Americanized spelling of North German Brügger (see Bruegger). habitational name for someone from any of various (southern) places called Bruck or Brugg in Bavaria and Austria.
Brugman Dutch, Swiss
Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived near a bridge or a metonymic occupational name for a bridge keeper, from Dutch brugge ‘bridge’ (see Bridge); in some cases, it is a habitational name for someone from the Flemish city of Bruges (or Brugge), meaning ‘bridges’... [more]
Brühl German, Jewish
Topographic name for someone who lived by a swampy area, derived from Middle High German brüel and Middle Low German brul meaning "swampy land with brushwood". It may also be a habitational name from various places named Brühl in Germany.
Bruins Dutch
Patronymic from Bruin meaning "brown" in Dutch.
Bruinsma Dutch, West Frisian
Means "son of Bruin", the suffix -(s)ma indicating that it is of Frisian origin.
Brumbaugh Germanic
Brumbaugh is derived from towns of the same name, located in various regions of Germany: from "in der Brumbach" a farm near Müsen, Germany, or in the town of Brombach, Swabia and or Switzerland.
Brumby English
English habitational name from a place in Lincolnshire named Brumby, from the Old Norse personal name Brúni or from Old Norse brunnr "well" + býr "farmstead, village".
Brún Frisian, Jewish
Frisian form of Brun.
Bruneau French
Derived from a diminutive form of French brun "brown", a nickname for a person with brown hair or skin.
Brunel French
Diminutive of Brun meaning "brown". Variant of Lebrun and Brunet.
Brunello Italian
From the given name Brunello.
Brunette French (Quebec)
Variant of Brunet, reflecting the French Canadian pattern of pronouncing the final -t, which is not pronounced in metropolitan French.
Bruney English
First found in Languedoc, France, possibly meaning "brown."
Bruni Italian
Patronymic or plural form of Bruno.
Brunke German
Nickname for an ostentatious dresser, from Middle High German brunke "splendor".
Brunke German
North German pet form of the given name Bruno.
Brunner German (Austrian), Upper German, Jewish
Derived from one of various places named Brunn or Brunnen as well as a habitational name denoting someone from the Czech city of Brno (Brünn in German).
Brunner Upper German, German (Austrian), German (Swiss), Jewish
Derived from Middle High German brunne "spring, well", this name denoted someone who lived beside a spring.
Bruno Portuguese
From a Germanic personal name, Brun.
Bruns French
Bruns was first found in Poitou where this noble family held a family seat since ancient times. The Bruns surname derives from the French word "brun," meaning "brown"; possibly a nickname for someone who habitually dressed in the color brown.
Brunsvig Danish, Jewish
Danish form of the German "Braunschweig", a German city.
Brunswick English, German
English habitational name from the city in Saxony now known in German as Braunschweig. ... [more]
Brunton English (Rare)
From Old English burna meaning "stream" and tun, settlement; hence, "settlement by a stream".
Brusch Romansh
Derived from the given name Ambrosius.
Brush Scottish (Rare)
Quite literally means "brush". Might derive from the Scottish Gaelic word bhrus which means "brush", or the Latin root br which means "explained". Was a nickname for those described to 'look like a brush'(i.e. hair that sticks up, thin with a big head, etc.)
Bruski Polish
Habitational surname for someone from a place called Brus.
Brusse French
Topographic name for someone living in a scrubby area of country, from Old French broce meaning "brushwood, scrub". It is also occupational name for a brush maker, from Old French brusse meaning "brush".
Brusseau French (Anglicized)
Probably an Americanized spelling of Brousseau.
Bryer Anglo-Saxon
This unusual surname is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and was originally given either as a topographical name to someone who lived by a briar patch, deriving from the Olde English pre 7th Century "braer, brer", Middle English "brer", prickly thorn-bush, or as a nickname to a prickly individual, "sharp as brere" (Chaucer), from the same word applied in a transferred sense.
Bryley English
Variant of Briley.
Bryn Welsh
Means hill in welsh
Bryngelsson Swedish
Means "son of Bryngel".
Brynn English
Derived from the given name Brynn.
Brynn Welsh
Variant of Bryn
Bryntesson Swedish
Means "son of Brynte"
Brzeziński Polish
Derived from any of the various places named with Polish brzezina "birch forest".
Brzobohatý Czech
Means "soon to be rich" in Czech.
Brzoza Polish
Topographic name from brzoza meaning ‘birch tree’.
Brzozogajski Polish
This indicates familial origin within the Greater Polish village of Brzozogaj.
Brzozowski Polish
Habitational name for someone from a place named with brzoza meaning "birch tree", for example Brzozowa, Brzozowice, or Brzozowo.
Brzumiński Polish
This indicates familial origin within the Masovian village of Brzumin.
Buan Filipino, Tagalog
From Tagalog buwan meaning "moon, month".
Buathong Thai
From Thai บัว (bua) meaning "lotus" and ทอง (thong) meaning "gold".
Buatong Thai
Alternate transcription of Thai บัวทอง (see Buathong).
Buaya Filipino, Cebuano
Means "crocodile" in Cebuano.
Buayaem Thai
From Thai บัว (bua) meaning "lotus" and แย้ม (yaem) meaning "bloom, blossom".
Buayam Thai
Alternate transcription of Thai บัวแย้ม (see Buayaem).
Bubanja Montenegrin
Derived from bubanj, meaning "drum".
Bubien Polish
The name came originally from France. An officer of Napoleon Bonaparte during the French Russian war, in 1812 stayed in Poland and married. One of his sons, became a regional Judge and large land owner in the Belarus area of Poland... [more]
Bubikoğlu Turkish
Means "son of Bubik".
Bublik Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian
From bublik, a bagel-like bread roll.
Bucad Filipino, Tagalog
From Tagalog bukad meaning "opening, unfolding (of flowers)".
Bucag Filipino, Cebuano
From Cebuano bukag meaning "basket".
Buçaj Albanian
Means "descendant of Buç" in Albanian.
Bucalov Russian
Unknown origin, but could be connected to Bakalov.
Bucalov Russian, Moldovan
Unknown origin and meaning, could be connected to Bakalov.
Bucao Filipino, Cebuano
Means "hawk-owl" (genus Ninox) in Cebuano.
Buccambuso Sicilian, Italian
Believed to be an Americanization of the surname Buccinfuso
Buch German
Topographic name for someone who lived by a beech tree or beech wood, from Middle High German buoche, or a habitational name from any of the numerous places so named with this word, notably in Bavaria and Württemberg... [more]
Buchcicki Polish
This indicates familial origin within the Lesser Polish village of Buchcice.
Buche German
Meaning "beech" and denoting someone who lived near beech trees.
Bucher German
Upper German surname denoting someone who lived by a beech tree or beech wood, derived from Middle High German buoche "beech tree".
Buchli Romansh
Derived from Buchilo, a medieval diminutive of the given name Burkhard.
Buchmann German
Combination of Buch and German Mann "man".
Buchwalder German, German (Swiss)
Buchwalder is a German Surname.
Buck English
From the given name Buck.
Bucke English
Variant of Buck
Buckingham English
Habitational name from the former county seat of the county of Buckinghamshire, Old English Buccingahamm "water meadow (Old English hamm) of the people of (-inga-) Bucc(a)".
Buckland English
Habitational name from any of the many places in southern England (including nine in Devon) named Buckland, from Old English bōc "book" and land "land", i.e. land held by right of a written charter, as opposed to folcland, land held by right of custom.
Buckman English
Occupational name for a goatherd (Middle English bukkeman) or scholar (Old English bucman "book man"). It could also be a shortened form of Buckingham or a variant of BUCKNAM.
Bucknell English
From locations in Oxfordshire and Shropshire, England.
Bucks English
Variant of "Buck"; a deer.
Buckson English
Either a patronymic from Buck, or possibly an altered form of Buxton.
Buckwalter English (American)
Americanized spelling of German Buchwalder.
Bucog Filipino, Cebuano
From Cebuano bukog meaning "bone".
Bucsis English (Canadian)
Perhaps of Hungarian origin, but the original surname is not known.
Bucur Romanian
A ancient Romanian name of Dacian origin. It means "happy". A legendary Romanian shepherd named Bucur it is said to have founded Bucharest, the present capital or Romania, giving his name to it (The Romanian city name is Bucureşti).
Buczyński Polish
Name for a person from any of various towns named Buczyn or Buczyna, derived from Polish buczyna meaning "beechwood, beech forest".
Buda Hungarian (Rare)
Habitational name from the name of the old capital of Hungary.
Budak Turkish
Means "branch, shoot, knot" in Turkish.
Budaqov m Azerbaijani
Means "son of Budaq".
Budaqova f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Budaqov.
Budd English
Originated from the Old English personal name Budda, from the word budda, which means "beetle" or "to swell." Specifically of Celtic Welsh origin.
Buddhinan Thai
From Thai พุทธิ (putthi), a transcription of Sanskrit बुद्धि (búddhi) meaning "intelligence" and นันทน์ (nan) of unknown meaning.
Budge English
Nickname from Norman French buge "mouth" (Late Latin bucca), applied either to someone with a large or misshapen mouth or to someone who made excessive use of his mouth, i.e. a garrulous, indiscreet, or gluttonous person... [more]
Budimir Croatian, Serbian
From the given name Budimir.
Budoh Japanese
Variant transcription of Budou.
Budou Japanese
From Japanese 武 (bu) meaning "military, martial" combined with 堂 (dou) meaning "temple, shrine" or from 武道 (budou) meaning "Japanese martial arts".
Budurov Russian
It is believed to mean "The Blessed One" or "Bless You" in Russian.
Budziszewski Polish
Habitational name for someone from places called Budziszewo.
Buechler German
From the common field name Büchle 'beech stand', the -er suffix denoting an inhabitant. from buchel 'beech nut', hence a metonymic occupation name for someone who owned or worked in an oil mill producing oil from beech nuts.
Buehman German
Variant of Bauer.
Buelna Asturian
Asturian-Leonese and Spanish: habitational name from any of the places called Buelna in Asturies and Cantabria.
Buelter German, English
Middle European variant of Butler, also meaning "a vat or large trough used to contain wine." The name originated in southern Germany in the mid-seventeenth century.
Buena Spanish (Philippines)
Means "good" in Spanish.
Buenafe Spanish (Philippines)
Means "good faith" in Spanish, from buena meaning "good" and fe meaning "faith".
Buenaflor Spanish (Philippines)
Means "good flower" in Spanish.
Buenaventura Spanish (Philippines)
Derived from the given name Buenaventura.
Buenavista Spanish (Philippines)
Means "good view" in Spanish. This was likely a habitational name for any of the places in Spain named this.
Buendía Spanish
Probably a habitational name from Buendía in Cuenca province, Spain.
Buendia Spanish (Philippines)
Unaccented form of Buendía primarily used in the Philippines.
Buenrostro Spanish (Mexican)
Means "good visage" in Spanish.
Buensuceso Spanish (Philippines)
From a Spanish title of the Virgin Mary, Nuestra Señora del Buen Suceso, meaning "Our Lady of the Good Event," referring to the Purification of Mary and the Presentation of Jesus.
Buerk German (Anglicized)
German from a short form of the personal name Burkhardt, a variant of Burkhart.
Buermeister German
North German: status name for the mayor or chief magistrate of a town, from Middle Low German bur ‘inhabitant, dweller’, ‘neighbor’, ‘peasant’, ‘citizen’ + mester ‘master’.
Buffa Italian
From Sicilian buffa, "toad". May alternately derive from Rebuffo.
Buffet French
Occupational name for a maker of furniture, derived from Old French buffet meaning "table, cupboard". It could also be a nickname for an angry and violent man, from Old French buffet meaning "slap in the face"... [more]
Buffett French (Anglicized), English
Americanised form or a variant of French Buffet, or probably an English variant of Bufford. Famous bearers of this name include the Americans Warren Buffett (1930-), a businessman, investor and philanthropist, and Jimmy Buffett (1946-), a musician.
Buffo Italian
Character in an Opera Buffa; clown, jester, comedian, buffoon.
Buffon Venetian
Venetian form of Buffone.
Bufford English
Meaning unknown.
Buford English, French (Anglicized)
English: most probably a variant of Beaufort.... [more]
Bugajski Polish
Habitational name from any of numerous places called Bugaj.
Bugalho Portuguese
Portuguese surname Bugalho can be written in two different ways, with a U or with a O after de first letter. This because of different pronunciation from South and North. So with U South and with O North.... [more]
Bugas Filipino, Cebuano
Means "milled rice, grain" in Cebuano.
Buġeja Maltese
Possibly derived from Maltese abjad meaning "white", ultimately from Arabic أَبْيَض (ʾabyaḍ).
Bugg English
From the Old Norse nickname Buggi, literally "fat man", or from a medieval nickname for an eccentric or strangely behaved person (from Middle English bugge "bogeyman, scarecrow").
Buggly English
Variant of Bugg.
Buggs African American (Anglicized, Modern)
I do not know much about this surname except to say that an employee at my job has Buggs as their surname.
Bughao Filipino, Cebuano
From Cebuano bughaw meaning "blue".
Bugiardini Italian
Means "little liar" in Italian, from bugiardo "lying, false, deceitful; liar" and the diminutive suffix -ino.
Bugis Indonesian, Arabic
From the name of the Bugis people, itself derived from the endonym Ugi' of uncertain meaning. This surname is common among people of Indonesian ancestry in Saudi Arabia.
Buglass English
Possibly from the Booklawes region near Melrose, Roxburgshire, originally spelt "Buke-Lawes" (lit. "buck/stag" combined with "low ground"); otherwise from the Gaelic words buidhe - "yellow" and glas - "green".
Bugtai Filipino, Cebuano
Means "Siamese rough bush" (a type of tree in the genus Streblus) in Cebuano.
Buhagiar Maltese
Means "father of rocks" from Arabic أَبُو (ʾabū) meaning "father of" and حِجَارَة (ḥijāra) "stones, rocks".
Buhat Filipino, Cebuano
Means "work, job, deed" or "make, create" in Cebuano.
Bühler German
From the German word "bühl", meaning hill.
Bui Vietnamese
Simplified variant of Bùi.
Buican Romanian (Rare)
It comes from the name Buicani which comes from the village Buiucani situated in Moldova
Buisson French, Haitian Creole (Rare)
Topographic name for someone who lived in an area of scrub land or by a prominent clump of bushes from (Old) French buisson "bush scrub" (a diminutive of bois "wood"); or a habitational name from (Le) Buisson the name of several places in various parts of France named with this word.
Buitenhuis Dutch
Means "outside the house", derived from Dutch buiten meaning "outside, out of, in the country" and huis meaning "house".
Buitrago Spanish
This indicates familial origin within either of 2 eponymous municipalities: the Castilian one in El Campo de Gómara or the Manchego municipality of Buitrago del Lozoya in Sierra Norte, Comunidad de Madrid.
Bujalski Polish
Nickname for a storyteller, Polish bujała.
Bujanda Basque
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous council of the municipality of Kanpezu.
Bujnowski Polish
Habitational name for someone from a place called Bujnowo or Bujnow, named with bujny ‘luxuriant’, ‘bushy’, ‘fertile’.
Bukater Irish, English (British)
From Fictional Titanic character: Rose DeWitt Bukater.
Bukhari Arabic, Urdu
Indicated a person from the city of Bukhara in present-day Uzbekistan, itself possibly derived from Sogdian βuxārak meaning "place of good fortune".
Bukit Indonesian
Means "hill" in Indonesian.
Bukovsky Russian
Russian variant of Bukowski.
Bulac Filipino, Cebuano
From Cebuano bulak meaning "flower, bloom, blossom".
Bulahan Filipino, Cebuano
Means "lucky, fortunate, blessed" in Cebuano.
Bulalacao Filipino, Tagalog
From Tagalog bulalakaw meaning "meteor, shooting star".
Bulan Filipino, Cebuano
Means "moon" in Cebuano.
Bulanon Filipino, Cebuano
Means "moonlit, moonstruck" in Cebuano.
Bulawan Filipino, Tagalog, Cebuano
Means "gold" in Tagalog and Cebuano.
Bülbül Turkish
Means "nightingale" in Turkish.
Bulgaria Italian, Spanish
Originally an ethnic name or regional name for someone from Bulgaria or a nickname for someone who had visited or traded with Bulgaria, which is named after the Turkic tribe of the Bulgars, itself possibly from a Turkic root meaning "mixed".
Bulguchev Ingush (Russified)
Russified form of an Ingush surname derived from the name of an Ingush teip (clan). The clan's name is derived from the name Bulguch of unknown meaning.
Bulić Croatian
Derived from Ottoman Turkish bula meaning "a married woman or a Muslim woman in harem pants or covered with a headscarf" or from the forename Bule a hypocoristic of Budislav, Budimir, Budivoj, Budimil.
Buljubašić Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Slovene
Buljubašić is a Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian surname derived from the Ottoman military rank Boluk-bashi.... [more]
Bulkeley English
From the place name of Bulkeley in Cheshire, related to Buckley 1.
Bullivant English
From a medieval nickname for a "good chap" or amiable companion (from Old French bon enfant, literally "good child").
Bulnes Asturian
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous parish of the council of Cabrales.
Bulsara Indian (Parsi)
From the name of the city of Valsad (historically known as Bulsar) in Gujarat, India. A famous bearer was British singer Farrokh Bulsara (1946-1991), better known as Freddie Mercury.
Bulstrode English
Locational surname referring to the medieval village of Bulstrode in Berkshire. ... [more]
Bulut Turkish
Means "cloud" in Turkish.
Bumb Indian
From Marathi bəmb ‘stout’.
Bumpus English
(i) from a medieval nickname for a vigorous walker (from Old French bon "good" + pas "pace"); (ii) perhaps "person who lives by a place through which travel is easy" (from Old French bon "good" + pas "passage")
Bumrap Bosnian (Rare)
Of Slavic origin, possibly originating near the city of Tuzla.
Bun Khmer
Possibly from a word derived from Thai บุญ (bun) meaning "merit".
Bunal Filipino, Cebuano
Means "hit, strike (with a bat or club)" in Cebuano.
Bunce Norman
Meaning "good" person in old french. Also means "bain"(exeptionaly tall) in old english
Bunch English
English: nickname for a hunchback, from Middle English bunche ‘hump’, ‘swelling’ (of unknown origin).
Bundhoo Mauritian Creole
Derived from Sanskrit बन्धु (bandhu) meaning "kinsman, relative".
Bundi Romansh
Derived from Romansh bun "good" and di "day" (compare Bongiorno and Bonasera). Another theory, however, derives this name from the given name Abundius.
Bundie English Creole
Creole variant of Bundy. Mostly used by Jamaicans.
Bundy English
Variant of Bond and Bandy.
Bunma Thai
From Thai บุญ (bun) meaning "merit" and มา (ma) meaning "come, arrive".
Bunmee Thai
Alternate transcription of Thai บุญมี (see Bunmi).
Bunmi Thai
From Thai บุญ (bun) meaning "merit" and มี (mi) meaning "have, own, possess".
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