All Submitted Surnames

Gladys Welsh

Glæpur Popular Culture
Means "crime" in Icelandic. Glanni Glæpur, or Robbie Rotten as he is called in English, is a fictional character in the Icelandic children's TV-show 'LazyTown' played by Stefán Karl Stefánsson... [more]

Glaessel German (Anglicized)
Anglicized spelling of German Gläßel.

Glandt German
Nickname from Middle High Geman glander meaning "gleam", "sparkle", "shine", for someone with such a temperament.

Glaros Greek
Shiny eyes .

Glas Welsh
Nickname meaning "gray, green, silver-haired".

Glasgow English (American), English (British)
Derived from the city of Glasgow in Scotland.

Glasnak Slovak
slovak

Glasnović Croatian
Derived from glasno, meaning "loud".

Glass Irish, Scottish
Anglicized form of the epithet glas "gray, green, blue" or any of various Gaelic surnames derived from it.

Glassenbury English

Glasson Irish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form O'Glasain.

Glauber Jewish (Ashkenazi)
Derived from German glauben "to believe" and the suffix -er. It was originally given either to an elder of the tribe, one renowned for his counsel, or to a layman who kept 'the faith'.

Glaus German (Swiss)
Derived from a late medieval short form of Niklaus.

Glauser German (Swiss)
Patronymic form of Glaus.

Glausiusz Jewish

Glavan Slo

Glavina Maltese

Glavnyy m Russian
Means "main".

Glaza Polish
Means "eyes".

Glazkov m Russian
Derived from Russian word "глазка (glazka)" meaning peephole, or from "глаза (glaza)" mean eyes.

Gleason Old Irish (Anglicized)
Irish (Munster): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Glasáin, from a diminutive of glas ‘green’, ‘blue’, ‘gray’.

Gleave English
Means either "sword-maker" or "sword-seller", or else from a nickname applied to a skilled swordsman (in either case from Middle English gleyve "sword").

Glebov Russian
Means "son of Gleb".

Gledhill English

Gleeson Irish

Gleichenhaus German
From Proto-Germanic galīkaz meaning "alike" combined with the word haus meaning "house"

Gleichmann German

Glencoe English

Glenday Scottish

Glendenning Scottish
Habitational name from a place in the parish of Westerkirk, Dumfries, recorded in 1384 as Glendonwyne. It is probably named from Welsh glyn meaning "valley" + din meaning "fort" + gwyn meaning "fair", "white".

Glendon Scottish, English
From the first name, which means "from the dark glen" in Scottish Gaelic.

Glennan Irish

Glentworth English

Glenway English

Glick French, German, Jewish

Glickman Jewish

Glidden English

Gliese German, Danish

Gligorijević Serbian
Means "son of Gligorije".

Glik Polish

Glineur Belgian

Gliott Romansh
Derived from a diminutive of the given name Gagl.

Glispie English Creole

Glissen English, Irish
Possible British version of the Irish surname Glasson from the the Gaelic word O’Glasain. Meaning green from the counties of Tipperary.

Globocnik German (Austrian)

Glock German
Meant "person who lives by a church bell-tower or in a house with the sign of a bell", "bell-ringer" or "town crier" (German Glocke "bell"). It was borne by Sir William Glock (1908-2000), a British music administrator.

Głodzińska f Polish, Yiddish (Polonized)
Feminine form of Głodziński.

Głodziński m Polish, Yiddish (Polonized)

Gloeckner German
Variant of Glöckner

Gløersen Norwegian (Rare)
Means ”son of Gløer”.

Gloff German
German and Swiss German: from the Germanic personal name Egilolf, composed of the elements agi(l) ‘edge’, ‘point’ (of a sword) + wolf ‘wolf’, cognate with Old English Ecgwulf. This was the name of several Lombard kings (ancestors of the Bavarian ducal line of the Agilolfinger), who introduced the name to Italy.

Glomski Polish

Glon Polish (Americanized, Rare)

Gloop Literature, Popular Culture
Augustus Gloop is an obese and gluttonous character in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, published in 1964.

Glorian German

Glorigiano Italian

Glorioso Spanish (Philippines), Italian
Means "glorious" in Spanish and Italian.

Gloster English
habitational name from the city of Gloucester. The place originally bore the British name Glevum (apparently from a cognate of Welsh gloyw "bright") to which was added the Old English element ceaster "Roman fort or walled city" (from Latin castrum "legionary camp")... [more]

Gloucester English
habitational name from the city of Gloucester. The place originally bore the British name Glevum (apparently from a cognate of Welsh gloyw "bright") to which was added the Old English element ceaster "Roman fort or walled city" (from Latin castrum "legionary camp")... [more]

Głowacz Polish

Glowczenski American
This is my surname. My cousin Steve Glowzenski, had the C dropped along the way somewhere, probably the military.

Głownia Polish
Derived from Polish word głownia which means "blade".

Glücks German

Glud Danish

Gluhačević Bosnian

Gluhak Croatian
Derived from gluh, meaning "deaf".

Gluhek Croatian
Derived from gluh, meaning "deaf".

Glukhov Russian
From glukhoi, meaning "deaf".

Glushikhin m Russian

Glushkov Russian
Derived from Russian глухой (glukhoy) meaning "deaf" or "remote, out-of-the-way", either used as a nickname for a deaf person or for someone originally from a remote place.

Glyndon English

Gmajnić Croatian

Gmelin German
German nickname for an unhurried person from Middle High German gmēle, based on the adjective gemach meaning "comfortable calm".

Gmür German (Swiss)

Gmyza Russian

Gnabry Western African

Gnanam Malayalam, Tamil, Indian (Christian)

Gnewuch Pommern

Gniel German

Gnuschke Sorbian

Go Korean
Variant romanization of Ko.

Goan Northern Irish
Northern Irish form of Gowan.

Goat Indonesian

Gobac Croatian

Gobara Arabic (Egyptian, Anglicized), Arabic
In Egypt and Sudan the surname Jabbar is pronounced with a ‘G’ sound in English. It is also feminine form hence the additional ‘A’ at the end of the name.

Gobel Gorontalo

Gober English, French
The surname Gober was first found in Warwickshire where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. The Norman influence of English history dominated after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed.

Gobert French, German, English
From the given name Gobert a compressed form of Godebert composed of the ancient Germanic elements god "good" or god/got "god" and berht "bright famous".

Gobet English

Goble English
From “Gobble”, meaning “to gorge, to guzzle”

Gobzems Latvian

Gochadze Georgian
Means "son of Gocha".

Gochev Bulgarian

Goc-ong Filipino, Cebuano

Gōda Japanese
From Japanese 合 (gō) meaning "connect, join" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Goda Hungarian
From the old Hungarian secular personal name Goda, probably from a short form of Godimir, Godislav, or some other Slavic name.

Goda Japanese (Rare)
Go ("Connected to") + Da ("Rice Paddy"). This is mostly on Shikoku Island.

Goda Japanese
Alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji 合田 (see Gōda).

Godbole Indian

Godchaux French

Godeau French

Godefroy French
From the given name Godefroy. Cognate of Godfrey.

Godek Polish
Variant of Gondek.

Gödel German
From an Old German personal name, Godilo, Godila.German (Gödel): from a pet form of a compound personal name beginning with the element god ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’.Variant of Godl or Gödl, South German variants of Gote, from Middle High German got(t)e, gö(t)te ‘godfather’.

Godenzi Romansh
Derived from the given name Gaudentius.

Godet French
From Old French godet, meaning "glass, tumbler", used as a nickname for a maker or seller.

Godiah Nigerian

Godil English
English: habitational name for someone from Gadshill in Kent, either of two places called Godshill in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, or Godsell Farm in Wiltshire, which were all originally named Godeshyll ‘God's hill’.

Godin English
Comes from the Germanic personal name Godin-, a pet form of any of various compound names beginning with god, got ‘god’. Compare Godbold, Goddard, and Godfrey.

Godinet French

Godínez Spanish
Patronymic from the personal name Godino.

Godly Romansh

Godoi Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Variant of Godoy.

Godolphin Cornish
From Godolphin, in Cornwall; alternatively, a patronymic from the rare given name Dolfin.

Godoy French, Spanish
It is derived from the personal name Gaudi.

Godrich German
German form of Goodrich.

Godsæt Norwegian (Archaic)

Godsil Irish

Godwin English
Derived from the first name Godwine.

Godwinson English
Means "Son of Godwin". First born by Harold Godwinson. From his father Godwine, Earl of Wessex... [more]

Goe Korean
Varient of Ko.

Goebbels German, History
Originally an occupational name for a brewer. Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.

Goedeke Low German
Low German surname composed of the element gode and the diminutive suffix -ke. Gode can mean either "good", "God" or "a Goth".

Goedel German
Variant of Gödel.

Goedhart Dutch
Means "good heart" in Dutch, a nickname for a kind person. Could also be an altered form of the given name Gotthard

Goel Indian, Hindi, Punjabi
Variant of Goyal.

Goelman Hebrew

Goeman German
Patronym from a Germanic name: good or god + man.

Goertze German
Probably a variant of Göretz, a reduced form of Gerhards (see Gerhardt), or a variant of Goertz.

Goertzen German
German: probably a variant of Göretz, a reduced form of Gerhards (see Gerhardt), or a variant of Goertz.

Goes Portuguese

Goeta Judeo-Spanish
Variant of Guetta.

Goetbloet Flemish
Means "good blood".

Goethe German
From a short form of the personal name Godo, formed with the Germanic element god, got 'god', or from Middle High German göte 'godfather'.

Goettel German
From a pet form of Gottfried, or any of the other personal names formed with Got(t)-.

Goettems German, Brazilian
Brazilian adaptation of the German surname Goedems; altered for easier comprehension by the Portuguese-speaking population of Brazil. All members of the Goettems family in Brazil are descendants of Johann Goedems, born in Oberlöstern, Saarland, on September 17, 1798.

Goettner German (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Göttner.

Goetz German

Goetz German
Originally a hypocorism of the given name Gottfried. Variants include the surnames Getz, Götz and the given name Götz.

Goetzinger German
Originally denoted a person who came from an place called Götzing, Götzingen or Goetzingen.... [more]

Goff Welsh
Variant of Gough 1.

Goffo Italian
From Italian meaning "clumsy, awkward".

Goffredo Italian
From the given name Goffredo.

Gofigan Chamorro
Chamorro for "very hot climate". Gof- is an amplifier which means very. Figan is a word for "hot", implying the climate

Goforth English
Probably given to someone who likes to lead

G'ofurov Uzbek
Means "son of Gʻofur".

Goga Albanian

Gogić Serbian

Gogishvili Georgian
Means "son of Gogi"

Goglia Italian
Nickname or a metonymic occupational name for a person who used leaves from a kind of plant to bind grafts, derived from the Italian dialectal goglia.

Gognon French, Occitan
Nickname for an aggressive or belligerent man, from Old French Gagnon ‘ mastiff’, ‘guard dog’. Possibly from Occitan ganhon ‘young pig’, applied as an offensive nickname. See also Gonyeau.

Gogoi Indian, Ahom
Means "younger brother" or "king" in Ahom.

Gogol Ukrainian, Polish, Jewish
Means "Common goldeneye (a type of duck)" in Ukrainian. Possibly a name for a fowler. A famous bearer was Nikolai Gogol.

Gogula Indian, Telugu
Possibly from Telugu గోగు (gōgu) "hemp plant".

Goh Chinese (Hokkien)
Hokkien romanization of Wu 1.

Gohar Persian, Urdu, Pashto
From the given name Gohar.

Gohil Indian

Gohrband German (Rare)
Contained in a Latin land deed granted to a German for a castle-keep dated February 21, 1308. It is believed to be the first written record and original spelling of the name, generally understood to mean in German, "he who lives by the marsh"... [more]

Goienetxe Basque
Derived from Basque goien "highest, superior; apex, peak" and etxe "house, home, building".

Goikoetxea Basque

Goivra Portuguese Creole (Hispanicized, ?)
Jubilee

Gojković Serbian
Serbian patronymic surname, derived from the masculine given name Gojko.

Gojo Japanese (Rare)

Gojūri Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 五十里 (see Ikari 2).

Gojuri Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 五十里 (see Gojūri).

Gojuuri Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 五十里 (see Gojūri).

Gök Turkish
Means "sky, blue" in Turkish.

Gok Korean
From Sino-Korean 谷 (Gog) meaning "Valley".

Gokan Japanese

Gökçe Turkish
Means "celestial, heavenly, sky" in Turkish.

Gokhale Indian, Marathi
Derived from Sanskrit गवाक्ष (gavaksha) meaning "round window" (literally "cow eye"), from गो (go) meaning "cow" and अक्षि (akshi) meaning "eye"... [more]

Gokongwei Filipino
From the surnames Goh, Kong, and Wei.

Göktaş Turkish
From Turkish gök meaning "sky" and taş meaning "stone".

Göl Turkish
Means "lake" in Turkish.

Gola Italian
Topographic name from gola "mountain hollow, cavity".

Gołąb Polish
Nickname for a mild-mannered or peace-loving man, from Polish golab "dove".

Golan Jewish
Israeli ornamental name from the Golan Heights in Israel.

Gołańcz Polish
It denotes that a family originated in the eponymous Greater Polish town.

Golantsev m Russian

Golava Russian (Rare, ?)

Goldam English (Rare, ?)

Goldberg German, Jewish, Danish
From German gold 'gold' and -berg, meaning 'gold-mountain'.

Golde English

Golden English
From the English word golden, likely a nickname for someone with blonde hair.

Goldenberg Jewish
Ornamental name from a compound of German golden literally meaning "golden" and berg meaning "mountain, hill".

Golder German
Meaning "gold worker, jeweller".

Goldfaden English (American)

Goldfarb English, German, Jewish
Goldfarb is a Jewish occupational name that was originally derived from the Old German word gold.

Goldfeder Jewish
Ornamental name composed of Old High German gold literally meaning "gold" and feder meaning "feather pen".

Goldfield English

Goldfinger Jewish
Ornamental name composed of Old High German gold literally "gold" and finger "finger". It may perhaps also be a nickname for someone who wore a prominent gold ring on their finger.

Goldie Scottish

Golding English

Goldman German, Jewish
Possibly meaning goldsmith in German, from Gold and Mann.... [more]

Goldmann German

Goldmann German, Jewish
occupational name for someone who worked with gold denoting anything from a gold-miner to a maker of gold jewelry or a gilder (someone skilled in decorating surfaces with a very thin layer of gold leaf)... [more]

Goldner German
"Gold maker, gilder".

Goldney English

Goldring German, English, Jewish
This surname was probably given to someone who wore a gold ring.

Goldring Scottish
Scottish: habitational name from Goldring in the bailiary of Kylestewart.

Golds English

Goldsberry English (British)

Goldsboro English

Goldsbury English

Goldsby English

Goldschlag German, Jewish

Goldschmid German
Variant spelling of Goldschmidt.

Goldschmied German (Swiss)
Swiss German form of Goldschmidt.

Goldschmitt German
Variant of Goldschmidt, meaning "gold smith" in German.

Goldschneider German
Means "gold cutter" in German, from the elements gold "gold" and snidan "to cut".

Goldsmith English
Occupational name for a worker in gold, a compound of Old English gold "gold" and smið "smith". In North America it is very often an English translation of German or Jewish Goldschmidt.

Goldstein Jewish
Means "gold stone" in German.

Goldstern Yiddish (Germanized, Rare)
It is a Jewish surname that means (Gold Star), which in Hebrew is כוכב המלך דוד the star of King David. This surname has its origins in Hungary, Austria and Germany, this surname was bought by the Jews who worked as sellers of gold, diamonds, emeralds and jewels... [more]

Goldston English

Goldstone English

Goldsworthy Cornish
Means "field of feast," from the Cornish gol-erewy.

Goldthwaite English
Possibly derived from Guilthwaite in South Yorkshire, which is named from Old Norse gil meaning "ravine" and þveit meaning "clearing". However, the modern surname is associated with Essex, suggesting some other source, now lost.

Goldvaser Yiddish

Goldwasser German
German form of the anglicised surname Goldwater.

Goldwater German (Anglicized), Jewish (Anglicized)
This name is an Anglicized form of the German or Ashkenazic ornamental surname 'Goldwasser', or 'Goldvasser'. The name derives from the German or Yiddish gold', gold, with 'wasser', water, and is one of the very many such compound ornamental names formed with 'gold', such as 'Goldbaum', golden tree, 'Goldbert', golden hill, 'Goldkind', golden child, 'Goldrosen', golden roses, and 'Goldstern', golden star.

Goldwyn English, Jewish
Derived from the Old English given name Goldwine, composed of the elements gold meaning "gold" and win meaning "friend".

Goldy English

Goldyn English, Irish, Scottish

Golelwar Marathi

Golemis Greek

Goliath Southern African

Golino Italian
Short form of the given name Ugolino

Golinski Polish

Golja Slovene

Golod Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian (Russified)
Means "famine".... [more]

Golomb Polish
Variant of GOLAB.

Golomb Jewish
Ornamental name from Polish golab "dove" (from Latin columba "dove").

Golovanov Russian
Means "son of the head chief".

Golovanova Russian

Golovchanskiy Russian, Jewish
Russian Jewish form of Holowczak.

Golovin Russian
From Russian голова (golova) meaning "head, chief", probably used as a nickname for the head of a household or village.

Golovkin Russian
Variant of Golovin.

Golovkins Latvian
Latvian form of Golovkin.

Golovko Russian, Ukrainian (Russified)
Derived from Russian голова (golova), meaning "head".

Golovsky Belarusian, Russian
From Russian голова (golova) meaning "head, chief".

Golovyonkov m Russian
A form of Golovin.

Golston English (Rare)
Meaning uncertain.

Golubev Russian
From Russian голубь (golub) meaning "dove, pigeon".

Golubić Croatian, Serbian
Derived from Golub.

Golubov Russian
From golub, meaning "dove".

Golubovec Croatian
From golub meaning ''pigeon''.

Golutvin m Russian

Gołyński Polish
This indicates familial origin within the Masovian village of Gołyń.

Golyshenkov m Russian

Golyshkin Russian
Uncertain meaning.

Gomaa Arabic (Egyptian)
Derived from the given name Juma.

Gombert French, German
French and German: from Gundbert, a Germanic personal name composed of the elements gund ‘battle’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’... [more]

Gomelsky Belarusian
Refers to the region in Belarus named "Gomel".

Gompert German

Gonçalo Portuguese
From the given name Gonçalo.

Gonçalvis Portuguese (Brazilian)
Variant of Gonçalves.

Goncharenko Ukrainian (Russified)
Russified form of Honcharenko.

Goncharov Russian
Derived from Russian гончар (gonchar) meaning "potter".

Gönczy Hungarian

Gonda Japanese
From Japanese 権 (gon) meaning "right" and 田 (Ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Gondek Polish
From the given name Godzisław.

Gondouin French

Gonella Italian
Means "short skirt," in Italian, as in a piece of armor.

Gönen Turkish
Means "moist" in Turkish.

Gong Chinese
Gong means palace.... [more]

Gong Chinese
From Chinese 龚 (gōng) referring to the ancient state of Gong (written as 共), which existed during the Shang dynasty possibly in what is now Henan province. This name was adopted in place of 共 by future descendants to flee persecution.

Gong Chinese
From Chinese 公 (gōng) meaning "lord, prince".

Gong Chinese
From Chinese 恭 (gōng) referring to the ancient state of Gong, which existed in what is now Gansu province.

Gongora Basque
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Aranguren in the Navarrese comarca of Iruñerria.

Goñi Basque
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Navarrese municipality.

Gonnaimueang Thai
End with the word "ในเมือง"(nai - mueang), which is the name of a sub-district in the northeastern region of Thailand.

Gonnella Italian

Gonnynge English (Rare)
A variant of the given name Gunwyn, which is derived from the Old English word gundwein, meaning "battle friend".

Gono Japanese

Gonoi Japanese

Gonsalves English (British), Portuguese, Indian (Christian)
Variant of Gonçalves more commonly used in Britain and western India.

Gontha Minahasan

Gonthier French
Derived from the given name Gonthier.

Gontier French
Variant of Gonthier.

Gontsov Russian
From gonets, meaning "courier".

Gönül Turkish
Means "heart, soul" in Turkish.

Gonyea French (?), English

Gonyeau French
Respelling of French Gagnon, found predominantly in New England, possibly also of Gagneau, from a diminutive of Gagne.

Gonzaga Spanish, Portuguese, Italian (Archaic)
Habitational name for someone from a location called Gonzaga in Mantua, Italy. This was the name of an Italian family that ruled Mantua from 1328 to 1708.

Gonzague French (Rare)
Gallicized form of Italian Gonzaga.

Gonze French
My family surname originated in southern French-speaking Belgium. There is a tiny village called Gonzeville in northern France near the Belgian border which you can find on Wikipedia. Many surnames from French speaking Belgium have 5 or 6 letters and end in -ze, such as Gonze and Meeze... [more]

Goobie English (Canadian)

Gooble English

Goobledasay English

Goobler English

Gooblet English

Gooby Anglo-Norman

Goodacre English

Goodall English
Habitational name from Gowdall in East Yorkshire, named from Old English golde "marigold" and Old English halh "nook, recess".

Goodall English
From Middle English gode "good" and ale "ale, malt liquor", hence a metonymic occupational name for a brewer or an innkeeper.

Goodarzi Persian
From the given name Goodarz.

Gooday English
Modernized form of Goody.

Goodbar German (Anglicized), English
Possibly an altered spelling of English Godber, derived from the medieval given name Godebert, or an occupational name for a beer brewer and a nickname for a toper... [more]

Goodchild English
Nickname derived from Middle English god "good" and cild "child". In some cases, it might have instead derived from godchild and been a nickname for someone who was the godchild of a prominent member of the community.