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Furtado PortugueseMeans "stolen" in Portuguese, probably used to refer to an illegitimate or kidnapped child.
Furtwängler GermanDenotes somebody from Furtwangen im Schwarzwald, a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
Furusho JapaneseFrom 古 (
furu) meaning "ancient, old" and 荘 (
sho) meaning "villa, solemn".
Furuta JapaneseFrom Japanese 古
(furu) meaning "old" and 田
(ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".
Furutachi JapaneseFrom Japanese 古
(furu) meaning "old" and 舘
(tachi) meaning "large building, mansion, palace".
Furuya JapaneseFrom Japanese 古
(furu) meaning "old" and 谷
(ya) meaning "valley" or 屋
(ya) meaning "roof, house".
Furze EnglishGiven to someone who lived by a field of furzes, a type of flower
Fuse JapaneseFrom Japanese 布
(fu) meaning "cloth" and 施
(se) meaning "give, bestow".
Fusi ItalianItalian: of uncertain origin; it could be Greek, compare modern Greek Soyses, or alternatively, Caracausi suggests, of Arabic or Hebrew origin.
Fusillo ItalianFrom Italian
fuso "spindle", referring to their occupation, or a nickname based on the bearer's build. Also the name of a type of pasta.
Fuss Medieval Low GermanGerman from Middle High German
fus ‘foot’, hence most probably a nickname for someone with some peculiarity or deformity of the foot, but perhaps also a topographic name for someone who lived at the foot of a hill.
Fust GermanVariant of
Faust or a nickname for a person who was strong and pugnacious, derived from Old German
fust "fist".
Fuster CatalanMeans "carpenter" in Catalan, derived from the word
fusta meaning "wood".
Futaba JapaneseFuta can mean "a pair" or "two" and ba is a form of ha meaning "leaf".... [
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Futami JapaneseFrom Japanese 二
(futa) meaning "two" and 見
(mi) meaning "look, appearance".
Futamura JapaneseFrom Japanese 二 (futa) meaning "two" or 双 (futa) meaning "pair", and 村 (mura) meaning "village, hamlet".
Futterman JewishOccupational name for a furrier, from Yiddish
futer "fur, fur coat" and Yiddish
man "man".
Fuwa JapaneseFrom 不 (
fu) meaning "not, non-, un-" and 破 (
wa) meaning "break, cut".
Fuyuki JapaneseFrom 冬 (
fuyu, tou) meaning "winter" and 木 (
ki) meaning "tree, wood".... [
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Fuyuno JapaneseFuyu means "winter" and no means "plain, wilderness, field".
Fyodorovtsev m RussianMeans "from Fyodorovsk".
Fyodorovsk is the name of many villages in Russia, the most notable of which being Fyodorovsk, Permskiy Kray.
Gabaraty OssetianDerived from Алгуз
(Alguz), an earlier Ossetian family name of unknown meaning. Historically, the last of the Alguz family migrated to the village of Zalda (located in present-day South Ossetia), where most members of the family presently reside.
Gabiria BasqueFrom the name of a town and municipality in Basque Country, Spain, derived from Basque
gabi "blacksmith’s hammer, mallet" and
hiri "village, town, city".
Gabison Judeo-SpanishFrom the name of a town located in either the province of Valladolid or near the city of Santander in Spain. It has also been connected to the Spanish word
cabeza, used as a nickname for a stubborn person.
Gable EnglishNorthern English: of uncertain origin, perhaps a habitational name from a minor place named with Old Norse
gafl ‘gable’, which was applied to a triangular-shaped hill. The mountain called Great Gable in Cumbria is named in this way.... [
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Gabras GreekA corruption of the name Gabriel is also the name of a Byzantine family. Branches of the family live in Greece using the name Gabras, in Turkey as Kavraz and in Russia as Khovrin.
Gabriel English, Cornish, Welsh, Scottish, French, German, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Slovene, Jewish, Indian (Christian)Derived from the given name
Gabriel.
Gadbury EnglishHabitational name from Cadborough, alias Gateborough, in Rye, Sussex, probably so named from Old English gāt meaning "goat" + beorg meaning "hill".
Gadd WelshMeans "battlefield" in Welsh. Comes from the Welsh word
gad which means battlefield.
Gaddafi Arabic (Maghrebi)From قذاذفة
(Qadhadhfa), the Arabic name for a Berber tribe in Libya. The name possibly means "thrower, archer", from Arabic قَذَفَ
(qaḏafa) meaning "to throw". A famous bearer was
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011), a Libyan politician and revolutionary.
Gaddam TeluguThis surname means "on the hill" It is derived from the Telugu words "gadda (గడ్డ)" which means hill and "meeda (మీద)/meedi (మీది)" which means on. The two words were put together and shortened to Gaddam.
Gaddamu TeluguVariant of Gaddam. This surname means "on the hill" It is derived from the Telugu words "gadda (గడ్డ)" which means hill and "meeda (మీద)/meedi (మీది)" which means on. The two words were put together and shortened to Gaddamu.
Gadgil MarathiA Chitpavan Brahmin surname from the Konkan region of Maharashtra. Likely means "Holder of a Urn of water" during a Hindu ritual.
Gadolin Finnish (Rare)Derived from the name of the homestead Magnula in Kalanti (formerly Nykyrko) parish in southwest Finland. Magnula is thought to be associated with Latin
magnus "large, big, great" and the name Gadolin is derived from Hebrew
gadol with the same meaning... [
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Gadžo BosnianIt is assumed that Gadžo derives from the old-Indian gārhya ("domestic") and means farmer, villager, head of the house or husband.
Gaeta ItalianDerived from the town of Gaeta, in the province of Latina, in Lazio, central Italy. It can also derive from the given name
Gaetano which shares its origin.
Gafafer RomanshDerived from Romansh
casa "house" and, by extension, "household, family" and Romansh
faver "smith".
Gagarin RussianA Russian surname derived from the word gagara, meaning loon (a waterbird, genus Gavia). Notable people with the surname include: Gagarin family, a Rurikid princely family.
Gagliano ItalianHabitational name from a few places in Italy, which all derived from the Latin personal name
Gallius Gagulia AbkhazMingrelian form of the Abkhaz name
Dzug-ipa meaning "son of
Dzug", the name itself of Adyghe or Circassian origin of unknown meaning.
Gaida LatvianFrom a personal name
Gaida, based on the verb
gaidīt meaning ‘to wait for’.
Gaines English, Norman, WelshEnglish (of Norman origin): nickname for a crafty or ingenious person, from a reduced form of Old French
engaine ‘ingenuity’, ‘trickery’ (Latin
ingenium ‘native wit’). The word was also used in a concrete sense of a stratagem or device, particularly a trap.... [
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Gainsborough EnglishFrom the city of Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, England. A famous bearer of this surname includes English painter Thomas Gainsborough.
Gaintza Basque (Rare)Habitational name derived from Basque
gain "above, upper part; top, summit, peak" and the abundance suffix
-tza.
Gaitán SpanishOriginated from the Spanish word "gato," which means "cat." It is thought that the name may have been used to describe someone who had cat-like qualities, such as being agile or quick on their feet.
Gaitanos GreekDerived from the Ancient Greek Καίετανος (
Kaietanos) meaning "who come from the cave/port" or "who come from Gaeta", an ancient Greek port that is located in the Italian modern province of Lazio.
Gaither EnglishOccupational name for a goatherd, derived from Middle English
gaytere literally meaning "goatherd".
Gajda Serbian, Croatian, CzechA slavicized variant of the German surname,
Geidl. This was most notably used by Radola Gajda, a Czech military commander and politician who slaviczed his name from Rudolf Geidl.
Gakpo Western African, EweMeans "iron, metal" in Ewe, possibly derived from a nickname or an occupation. It is usually found in Ghana and Togo. Dutch soccer player Cody Gakpo (1999-) bears this name.
Galano ItalianA Campanian name from Greek
γαλανός (
galanós) "light blue, pale blue", denoting someone with blue eyes.
Galante Italian, Portuguese, French, Spanish, JewishMeans "gallant, courteous, chivalrous; romantic" in Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese, both derived from French
galant "gentlemanly" or "flirtatious, amorous". In the case of Mordecai Galante, a Spanish exile in 16th century Rome, his courteous manners won for him from the Roman nobles the surname
Galantuomo, meaning "gentleman" in Italian, from which Galante was eventually derived.... [
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Galartza BasqueHabitational name derived from Basque
galar "dry wood, dead wood, kindling" and the abundance suffix
-tza.
Galbier RomanshDerived from Romansh
casa "house" and, by extension, "household, family" and the given name
Albert.
Galbraith Scottish, Scottish GaelicEthnic name for someone descended from a tribe of Britons living in Scotland, from Gaelic
gall ‘stranger’ +
Breathnach ‘Briton’ (i.e. ‘British foreigner’). These were either survivors of the British peoples who lived in Scotland before the Gaelic invasions from Ireland in the 5th century (in particular the Welsh-speaking Strathclyde Britons, who survived as a distinctive ethnic group until about the 14th century), or others who had perhaps migrated northwestwards at the time of the Anglo-Saxon invasions.
Galea Biblical LatinGalea in Latin is HELMET. The Galea was a Roman helmet in excess of 1000 BC. Another basis for the name was for a type of boat with oars and sails. The first Greek boats called galea, appeared around the second half of the 2nd millennium BC... [
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Galewski PolishHabitational name for someone from Galew, Galewice, or Galów in the voivodeships of Kalisz, Kielce, or Konin.
Galicia SpanishSpanish: ethnic name for someone from the former kingdom of Galicia, now an autonomous region of northwestern Spain.
Galicki Jewish, PolishA Jewish and Polish surname for someone from a lost location called 'Galice'
Galifianakis GreekPatronymic derived from
Galifa, a small village near the former municipality of Episkopi in the regional unit of Heraklion, in Crete, Greece. The place name itself is possibly derived from Greek γαλίφης (
galífis) meaning "flatterer", a cognate of Italian
gaglioffo... [
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Galindo SpanishEither from the given name
Galindo or from the name of the Galindians, an ancient Baltic tribe.
Galishoff Upper German, German (Austrian)Derived from the ancient Roman name
Gallus, meaning "rooster" in Latin.
Hoff meaning house combines the growing or tending to poultry on a farm house, hence the name
Galishoff which has been modified over the millennia... [
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Galkin RussianDerived from Russian галка
(galka) meaning "jackdaw".
Gałkowski PolishHabitational name for someone from a place called Gałkowo or Gałków, both derived from Polish
gałka meaning "knob, handle, lump".
Gall Scottish, Irish, EnglishNickname, of Celtic origin, meaning "foreigner" or "stranger". In the Scottish Highlands the Gaelic term
gall was applied to people from the English-speaking lowlands and to Scandinavians; in Ireland the same term was applied to settlers who arrived from Wales and England in the wake of the Anglo-Norman invasion of the 12th century... [
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Galland FrenchNickname for a cheerful or high-spirited or bold person from Old French
galant "lively vivacious" also "bold valiant" (the meanings "gallant" and "attentive to women" developed only in the 16th century) the present participle of Old French
galer "to be in good humor to enjoy oneself" a word of ancient Germanic origin... [
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