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Hageman Dutch
Variant of German Hagemann.
Hagemann German, Danish
Combination of Middle Low German hage "enclosure, hedge" and mann "man".
Hagen German, Dutch, Danish
from the ancient Germanic personal name Hagen a short form of various compound names formed with hag "enclosure protected place" as the first element.
Hager Dutch, North Frisian
From a Germanic personal name composed of hag 'hedge', 'enclosure' + hari, heri 'army'.
Hägg Swedish
From Swedish hägg meaning "prunus padus", but also known as "hackberry, bird cherry". It is a type of small tree native to northern Asia and Europe.
Häggkvist Swedish
Combination of Swedish hägg "bird cherry" (a type of tree native to Sweden) and kvist "twig".
Hägglund Swedish
Combination of Swedish hägg "bird cherry" (a type of tree native to Sweden) and lund "grove".
Häggström Swedish
Combination of Swedish hägg "bird cherry" and ström "stream, small river".
Haghighi Persian
Means “high” or “elevated” in Persian. It is believed to be a nickname or occupational surname for someone who lived or worked in a high or elevated location, such as a mountain or hill. It may also be a surname that refers to a person’s high social status or standing within their community.
Haginaga Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 脛永 (Haginaga) meaning "Haginaga", a division in the town of Ibigawa in the district of Ibi in the prefecture of Gifu in Japan, or it being a variant spelling of 脛長 (Haginaga) meaning "Haginaga", a former large village in the same location, in the district of Ikeda in the former Japanese province of Mino in parts of present-day Gifu in Japan.
Hagino Japanese
Hagi means "bush clover" and no means "field, plain, wilderness". ... [more]
Hagiwara Japanese
From Japanese 萩 (hagi) meaning "bush clover" and 原 (wara) meaning "field, plain".
Hagman Swedish
Combination of Swedish hage "encousure, pasture" and man "man", thus making it a cognate of German Hagemann.
Hagman English (Rare)
From a little town in Scotland.
Hagström Swedish
Combination of Swedish hage "enclosure, garden" and ström "stream, small river".
Hagstrom English
Anglicized form of Swedish Hagström.
Hagu Estonian
Hagu is an Estonian surname meaning "brush".
Hahm German
Metonymic occupational name for a sealer of weights and measures, from Middle High German hāme ‘(standard) measure’.
Hähner German
Pet form of Heinrich.
Hahner German
Occupational name for a poultry farmer, from an agent derivative of Middle High German hane "rooster".
Hahner German
Habitational name for someone from any of several places called Hahn or Hag.
Hai Chinese
Means "ocean" in Chinese.
Hai Hui
From the Arabic name Haydar.
Haidar Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Haidar.
Haider Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
From the given name Haider.
Haijima Japanese (Rare)
Hai (拝) here means "worship", hai (灰) here means "ash", jima/shima (島) means "island".
Haile Ethiopian
Meaning "power" or "might".
Hailes Scottish, English
Scottish habitational name from Hailes in Lothian, originally in East Lothian, named from the Middle English genitive or plural form of hall ‘hall’. ... [more]
Haim Jewish
From the given name Haim.
Haimawari Japanese
From Japanese 灰 (hai) meaning "ashes, puckery juice, cremate" and 廻 (mawari) meaning "round, revolve, go around, circumference"
Hainey Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Scottish, English
(Celtic) A lost me devil village in Scotland; or one who came from Hanney island in Berkshire.
Hainrick Micronesian
Derived from the German surname Heinrich.
Hairfield English
Probably a variant of Harefield, a habitational name from a place so named, for example the one Greater London or Harefield in Selling, Kent, which are both apparently named from Old English here ‘army’ + feld ‘open country’.
Haitham Arabic
Derived from the given name Haytham.
Haiya Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 灰屋 (haiya) meaning "ash store", referring to an ash fertilizer seller or a crematory operator.
Haiya Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 灰屋 (Haiya), a clipping of 京北灰屋 (Keikokuhaiya) meaning "Keikokuhaiya", an area in the ward of Ukyō in the city of Kyōto in the prefecture of Kyōto in Japan.
Haizlip English (American)
American variant spelling of Scottish Hyslop.
Haj Arabic
Refers to a person who has participated in the حج (hajj), the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia that Muslims must undertake at least once in their lifetimes.
Hajake Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 羽者 (haja), sound- and script-changed from 刃物 (hamono) meaning "blade; edged tool" and 家 (-ke), a suffix representing family, referring to a family who specialized with knives.
Hajdaraj Albanian
Means "descendant of Hajdar" in Albanian.
Hajdari Albanian
From the given name Hajdar.
Hajian Persian
From Persian حاجی (haji) meaning "hajji" (of Arabic origin), referring to a person who has participated in the حج (hajj), the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia that Muslims must undertake at least once in their lifetimes.
Hajime Japanese (Rare)
From the given name Hajime meaning "beginning". A notable bearer is Japanese singer Chitose Hajime.
Hajiri Japanese
From Japanese 羽尻 (Hajiri) meaning "Hajiri", a division in the area of Hidaka in the city of Toyooka in the prefecture of Hyōgo in Japan.... [more]
Hajizadeh Persian
Means "son of the pilgrim" from Arabic حَاجِيّ‎ (ḥājiyy) meaning "pilgrim" and the Persian suffix -زاده (-zâde) meaning "offspring".
Hajj Arabic
Alternate transcription of Arabic حاج (see Haj).
Hajjar Arabic
Means "stonemason" from Arabic حَجَر (ḥajar) "stone, weight".
Hak Korean
From Sino-Korean 鶴 (Hag) meaning "Crane" or 斈 (Hag) meaning "Learn".
Hakeem Arabic
From the given name Hakim.
Hakimi Persian, Arabic (Maghrebi)
Means "son of" or derived from "Hakim".
Hakin Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 何 (see Nani).
Hakizimana Central African
Means "God cures" in Burundian and Rwandan.
Hakk Estonian
Hakk is an Estonian surname meaning "stack".
Häkkinen Finnish
From given name Heikki
Hakobian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Հակոբյան (see Hakobyan).
Håkonsen Norwegian
Means "son of Håkon".
Hakopian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Հակոբյան (see Hakobyan)
Hakopyan Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Հակոբյան (see Hakobyan)
Hakosaki Japanese
Hako means "box" and saki means "cape, peninsula, promontory".
Hakurei Japanese
From haku (博) meaning "wide" or "exposition" and rei (麗) meaning "lovely", "graceful", or "beautiful".... [more]
Hakuryū Japanese (Rare)
This surname combines 白 (haku, byaku, shira-, shiro, shiro.i) meaning "white" with 竜 (ryuu, ryou, rou, ise, tatsu) meaning "dragon, imperial" or 柳 (ryuu, yanagi) meaning "willow."... [more]
Halabi Arabic
Means "Aleppine" in Arabic, referring to someone from the city of Aleppo in Syria.
Halaby Arabic
Variant transcription of Halabi.
Halama Polish, Czech
Unflattering nickname meaning ‘big, lumbering fellow’, ‘lout’.
Halart French
Derived from the Germanic given name Halhard.
Halawa Arabic
Means "sweetness" in Arabic.
Halawa Nias
Nias clan name derived from the given name Halawa referring to an ancestor.
Halbershtot Yiddish
Yiddish form of Halberstadt. It was first adopted as a surname by Tzvi Hirsh, the rabbi of the eponymous Eastphalian town.
Halberstadt German
Habitational name from any of various places so named, notably the city near Magdeburg and Halberstadt near Königstein in Saxony.
Haldane English, Scottish
From an old personal name, Old Norse Halfdanr, Old Danish Halfdan, Anglo-Scandinavian Healfdene, meaning ‘half-Dane’.
Haldar Indian, Bengali
Probably from Sanskrit हलधर (haladhara) meaning "one who holds a plough", an epithet of the Hindu god Balarama.
Halder Bengali
Alternate transcription of Haldar.
Haldon English (Rare)
From a place name in Devon, England.
Hale Hawaiian
"House" in Hawaiian.
Haleem Arabic, Urdu, Dhivehi
From the given name Halim.
Halevi Hebrew
Means "The Levite" in Hebrew, from the word ha which means "the", and the surname Levi.
Halfpenny English
Nickname probably for a tenant whose feudal obligations included a regular payment in cash or kind (for example bread or salt) of a halfpenny. From Old English healf "half" (from proto Germanic halbaz) and penning "penny" meaning "half penny".
Haliburton Scottish
Means "town fortified in stone". It comes from a combination of the Old Norse element hallr meaning rock (as in Halle) and of the Old English place name Burton, denoting a fortified town... [more]
Haliche Berber, Northern African
Variant transcription of Halliche.
Halifax English
Habitational name for someone from Halifax in Yorkshire.
Halilaj Albanian
Means "descendant of Halil" in Albanian.
Halili Filipino, Tagalog
Means "successor" in Tagalog.
Halili Albanian
From the given name Halil.
Halilović Bosnian
Means "son of Halil".
Halimi Arabic (Maghrebi), Albanian
Derived from the given name Halim.
Halimović Bosnian
Means "son of Halim".
Halitaj Albanian
Means "descendant of Halit" in Albanian.
Haliti Albanian
Derived from the given name Halit.
Haljand Estonian
Haljand is an Estonian surname (and masculine given name) derived from "haljas" meaning "green/verdant".
Haljas Estonian
Haljas is an Estonian surname meaning "verdant".
Haljaspõld Estonian
Haljaspõld is an Estonians surname meaning "verdant field".
Häll Estonian
Häll is an Estonian surname meaning "cradle" and "birthplace".
Hall Estonian
Hall is an Estonian surname meaning both "grey" and "frost".
Halla Danish
Derived from the Old Norse HALLR, which means 'flat stone, rock' or 'sloping, leaning to one side'... [more]
Hallam English
habitational name from Halam (Nottinghamshire) or from Kirk or West Hallam (Derbyshire) all named with the Old English dative plural halum "(at the) nooks or corners of land" (from Old English halh "nook recess"; see Hale ). The name may also be derived from Hallam in Sheffield (Yorkshire) sometimes called Hallamshire named from Old English hallum "(at the) rocks" the dative plural of Old English hall "stone rock" Old Norse hallr.
Hallas Greek
Given to one who is exempted
Hållberg Swedish (Rare)
The first element might be taken from place names starting with (or containing) hå, hål, or håll. The second element is Swedish berg "mountain".
Hallberg Swedish
Combination of Swedish hall "hall, stone, rock" and berg "mountain".
Halldén Swedish
Combination of the dialectal Swedish word hall (Standard Swedish häll, Old Norse hallr), a type of flat rock, and the common surname suffix -én. The first element may be taken from a place named with this element (e.g. Halland, Hallsberg, or Hallstavik).
Halldórsdóttir Icelandic
Means "daughter of Halldór" in Icelandic.
Halldórsson Icelandic
Means "son of Halldór" in Icelandic.
Hallén Swedish
Combination of Swedish hall "hall" or häll "rock, stone" and the common surname -én.
Hallett English
Derived from the given name Hallet (see Adalhard).
Halley English
Location name combining the elements hall as in "large house" and lee meaning "field or clearing."
Hallgren Swedish, English
Combination of the dialectal Swedish word hall (Standard Swedish häll, Old Norse hallr), a type of flat rock, and gren meaning "branch". The first element may be taken from the name of a place named with this element (e.g. Halland, Hallsberg, or Hallstavik)... [more]
Hallgrímsdóttir Icelandic
Means "daughter of Hallgrímur" in Icelandic.
Halliche Berber, Northern African
Kabyle surname of unknown meaning.
Hallie English
Spelling variant of Halley.
Hallik Estonian
Hallik is an Estonian surname derived from "hallikas" meaning "greyish".
Hallikäär Estonian
Hallikäär is an Estonian name meaning "grayish edge".
Hallikas Estonian
Hallikas is an Estonian surname meaning "grayish".
Hallikmäe Estonian
Hallikmäe is an Estonian surname meaning "grayish hill/mountain".
Hallinan Irish
Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÁilgheanáin "descendant of Áilgheanán", a pet form of a personal name composed of old Celtic elements meaning "mild, noble person".
Hallingsworth English (British, Rare), English (Australian, Rare)
Unknown origin and meaning. I found it listed a few times on the 1881 census in the County Durham and in London; it is also supposedly a surname in Australia. Possibly a misspelling of Hollingsworth.
Halliste Estonian
Halliste is an Estonian name relating to "hall", meaning "grey" and "frost".
Halliwell English
Derived from various place names in England named with Old English halig "holy" and well "spring, well".
Hallmark English
From Middle English halfmark ‘half a mark’, probably a nickname or status name for someone who paid this sum in rent.
Hallmets Estonian
Hallmets is an Estonian surname meaning "grey forest".
Hallow English
English: topographic name from Middle English hal(l)owes ‘nooks’, ‘hollows’, from Old English halh (see Hale). In some cases the name may be genitive, rather than plural, in form, with the sense ‘relative or servant of the dweller in the nook’.
Hallowell English
Variant of Halliwell meaning "holy spring".
Hallquist Swedish
Composed of the elements hall "stone, rock" and quist, an old spelling of kvist "twig".
Halls English
Variant of Hall.
Hallström Swedish
Combination of Swedish hall "hall, stone, rock" and ström "stream, small river".
Haložan Slovene
From the Haloze region of Slovenia.
Halperin Jewish
Variant of Heilprin, a Yiddish spelling of the city of Heilbronn, Germany.
Halpern Jewish
Habitational name for someone originally from the city of Heilbronn in Germany, derived from Old High German heil meaning "whole" or "holy" combined with brunno meaning "well".
Halpin Irish
Anglicized form of the Irish-Gaelic given name Ó Hailpín.
Halprin English
Halprin is the last name of the main character the book called Ashfall by Mike Mullin.
Halstead English
Geographic surname from places by the same name in Essex, Kent, and Leicestershire.
Haltz Basque
Derived from Basque haltz "alder (tree)".
Halužan Croatian, Slovene
Habitational name for someone from Haloze, a region in Slovenia.
Halvarsson Swedish
Means "son of Halvar".
Halverson English
Anglicized form of Norwegian or Danish Halvorsen.
Ham English, German, Scottish, Anglo-Saxon
Anglo-Saxon meaning the home stead, many places in England. One who came from Hamm in North-Rhine Westphalia, or one who came from Ham in Caithness Scotland's most northerly county. In Scotland this surname devires from the Norse word "Hami", meaning homestead.
Hama Japanese
Hama means "Beach, Seashore".
Hamabe Japanese
Hama means "beach" and be means "division".
Hamabe Japanese
From Japanese 浜 (hama) meaning "beach, seashore" and 辺 (be) meaning "area, place, vicinity".
Hamad Arabic
Derived from the given name Hamad.
Hamada Arabic
From the given name Hamada.
Hamada Japanese
From Japanese 浜 (hama) meaning "beach, seashore" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".
Hamadache Berber, Northern African
Kabyle surname derived from the Arabic given name Hamada.
Hamadate Japanese
From the Japanese 浜 or 濱 (hama) "beach" and 舘 or 館(date or tate) "mansion," "large building," "palace"
Hamado Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 浜戸 or 濱戸 (see Hamato).
Hamadou Western African
From the given name Hamadou.
Hamajima Japanese
From Japanese 浜 (hama) meaning "beach, seashore" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".
Hamakawa Japanese
From the Japanese 浜 or 濱 (hama) "beach" and 川 or 河 (kawa) "river."
Hamamasa Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 浜正 or 濱正 (see Hamashō).
Hamamoto Japanese
From Japanese 浜, 濱 (hama) meaning "beach, seashore" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".
Hamamura Japanese
From Japanese 浜, 濱 (hama) meaning "beach, seashore" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".
Hamanaka Japanese
Hama means "beach" and naka means "middle".
Hamano Japanese
From Japanese 浜 or 濱 (hama) meaning "beach, seashore" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".
Hämarik Estonian
Hämarik is an Estonian surname meaning "dusk". From "Hämarik" in Estonian mythology, a beautiful young maiden who was the personification of dusk.
Hamarneh Arabic
Jordanian
Hamasho Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 浜正 or 濱正 (see Hamashō).
Hamashō Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 浜 (hama) meaning "beach; seashore" and 正 (shō) meaning "correct".... [more]
Hamashoh Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 浜正 or 濱正 (see Hamashō).
Hamashou Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 浜正 or 濱正 (see Hamashō).
Hamataka Japanese
Hana means "beach" and taka means "tall, high, expensive".
Hamato Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 浜 (hama) meaning "beach; seashore" and 戸 (to) meaning "door; doorway".... [more]
Hamazono Japanese
Hamazono/濱園 = "Beach Garden"
Hamberg German, Danish, Jewish
German, Danish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) habitational name from any of several places named Hamberg. Jewish (Ashkenazic) variant of Hamburg.
Hamberger German, Jewish
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) habitational name for someone from any of various places named Hamberg. Jewish (Ashkenazic) variant of Hamburger.
Hamburg German, Jewish
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) habitational name from the great city and port at the mouth of the river Elbe, named with the Germanic elements ham ‘water meadow’ + burg ‘fortress’, ‘fortified town’.
Hamburger German, Jewish
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) habitational name for someone from Hamburg.
Hamdan Arabic
From the given name Hamdan.
Hamdani Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Hamdan.
Hamdaoui Arabic (Maghrebi)
Means "relating to Hamid" or "relating to Hamad" in Arabic (chiefly Maghrebi).
Hamdi Arabic
Derived from the given name Hamdi.
Hamdy Arabic (Egyptian)
Egyptian transcription of Hamdi.
Hamed Arabic
From the given name Hamed.
Hamedani Persian
Indicated a person from the city of Hamedan (or Hamadan) in Iran, from the Old Persian name Hagmatāna meaning "(place of) gathering".
Hameed Arabic, Urdu, Dhivehi
From the given name Hamid 1.
Hamel Yiddish, Dutch, German
The name Hamel has three origins.... [more]
Hamel French
topographic name for someone who lived and worked at an outlying farm dependent on the main village Old French hamel (a diminutive from an ancient Germanic element cognate with Old English hām "homestead"); or a habitational name from (Le) Hamel the name of several places in the northern part of France named with this word.
Hamer English, German
From the town of Hamer in Lancashire from the old english word Hamor combining "Rock" and "Crag". It is also used in Germany and other places in Europe, possibly meaning a maker of Hammers.
Hames English, Welsh, Scottish
Son of "Amy", in Old English. An ancient Leicestershire surname.
Hamid Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Filipino, Tausug
From the given name Hamid 1 or Hamid 2.
Hamidi Persian, Arabic
From the given name Hamid 1.
Hamidou Western African
From the given name Hamidou.
Həmidov Azerbaijani
Means "son of Həmid".
Hamidović Bosnian
Means "son of Hamid 1".
Hamill Scottish
Habitational name from Haineville or Henneville in Manche, France, named from the Germanic personal name Hagano + Old French ville "settlement".
Hamill English
Nickname for a scarred or maimed person, from Middle English, Old English hamel "mutilated", "crooked".
Hamill Irish
According to MacLysaght, a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÁdhmaill "descendant of Ádhmall", which he derives from ádhmall "active".
Hamitaj Albanian
Means "descendant of Hamit" in Albanian.
Hamiti Albanian
Possibly a variant of Amiti.
Hamiti Albanian
Derived from the given name Hamit.
Hamlin English
From an Old English word meaning "home" or "homestead" and a diminutive suffix -lin.
Hammad Arabic
Derived from the given name Hammad.
Hammadi Arabic
From the given name Hammad.
Hammami Arabic (Maghrebi)
Derived from the given name Hammam (see Hamam)... [more]
Hammar Swedish
From a common place name element ultimately derived from Old Norse hamarr meaning "hammer, stone, steep cliff".
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