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Iwama Japanese
From Japanese 岩 (iwa) meaning "cliff, rocks" and 間 (ma) meaning "among, between".

Iwami Japanese
Iwa means "stone" and mi means "viewpoint, outlook".

Iwamura Japanese
Iwa means "stone " and mura can mean "village, hamlet" or "town".

Iwan Welsh
Derived from the given name Iwan.

Iwanaga Japanese
From Japanese 岩 (iwa) meaning "cliff, rocks" and 永 (naga) meaning "perpetual, eternal".

Iwanaka Japanese
Iwa means "stone" and naka means "middle".

Iwanari Japanese
From 岩 (iwa) meaning "stone, rock", and 成 (nari, naru, sei) meaning "become, get".

Iwano Japanese
Iwa means "stone" and no means "wilderness, plain, rice paddy, field".

Iwański Polish
Name for someone from a place called Iwanie (now Iwonie), derived from the given name Iwan.

Iwao Japanese
Iwa means "stone" and o means "tail".

Iwaoka Japanese
From Japanese 岩 (iwa) meaning "cliff, rocks" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Iwasa Japanese
Iwa means "stone" and sa could mean "support".

Iwasa Japanese
From Japanese 岩 (iwa) meaning "cliff, rocks" and 佐 (sa) meaning "help, aid".

Iwasawa Japanese
From Japanese 岩 (iwa) meaning "cliff, rocks" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Iwase Japanese
From Japanese 岩 (iwa) meaning "cliff, rocks" and 瀬 (se) meaning "rapids, current".

Iwashimizu Japanese
From 岩 (iwa) meaning "rock, cliff", 清 (shi) meaning "pure, purify, exorcise, clean", and 水 (mizu) meaning "water".

Iwashita Japanese
From Japanese 岩 (iwa) meaning "cliff, rocks" and 下 (shita) meaning "under, below".

Iwatachi Japanese
Variant reading of Iwatate.

Iwatake Japanese

Iwatani Japanese
From Japanese 岩 (iwa) meaning "rock" and 谷 (tani) meaning "valley".

Iwatani Japanese
From Japanese 岩 (iwa) meaning "cliff, rocks" and 谷 (tani) meaning "valley".

Iwatate Japanese
From Japanese 岩館 (Iwatate) meaning "Iwatate", a former village in the former district of Tsugaru in parts of present-day Aomori, Japan, in the former Japanese province of Mutsu.

Iwatatsu Japanese
Variant reading of Iwatate

Iwatatsu Japanese
Variant reading of Iwatate.

Iwatsubo Japanese

Iwatsuki Japanese
From Japanese 岩 (iwa) meaning "cliff, rocks" and 槻 (tsuki) meaning "Zelkova tree".

Iwawaki Japanese
Iwa means "stone" and waki means "side".

Iwaya Japanese
From Japanese 岩 (iwa) meaning "cliff, rocks" and 屋 (ya) meaning "house".

Iwayama Japanese
Means "rocky mountain" in Japanese, from 岩 (iwa) "rock" and 山 (yama) "mountain".

Iwazaki Japanese
Variant of Iwasaki, meaning "stone slope, hill."

Iwerks East Frisian, Frisian
Meaning Unknown.

Iwuchukwu Igbo, African
It means God's covenant is unwavering. This name is a bearer is a testimony of God's command. This ia a Christian name.

Iwwerks German
Possibly derived from the given name Euwerik (also Ewerk), a name of uncertain etymology... [more]

Iya Japanese

Iyadomi Japanese

Iyama Japanese
I means "well, pit, minehaft" and yama means "mountain, hill".

Iyazoi Japanese

Iykofos American
A surname means "Twilight" in Greek.

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

Izadi Persian
Derived from Persian ایزد (izad) meaning "god, angel".

Izagirre Basque
Derived from Basque (h)aize "wind" and ageri "prominent, visible, exposed".

Izaguirre Basque (Hispanicized), Spanish
Castilianized form of Izagirre.

Izarra Basque
Derived from either the village Izarra in Álava, or the town Lizarra in Navarre. The etymology of the former is uncertain, but it coincides with a form of the Basque word izar "star"; the latter derives from lizar "ash tree", but is called Estella ("star") in Spanish due to confusion with the aforementioned word izar.

Izawa Japanese
Variant of Isawa.

Izawa Japanese
From Japanese 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Izebboudjen Berber
From the berber word meaning "Olive tree".

Izem Berber, Northern African
From the given name Izem, directly taken from the Tamazight word ⵉⵣⴻⵎ (izem) meaning "lion".

Izetbegović Bosnian

Izett English

Izod Anglo-Norman

Izokov m Russian
Derived from изок (izok), the Russian term for June used before the Christianisation of the Rus'.

Izotov m Russian

Izsák Hungarian
From the given name Izsák.

Izturitzaga Basque
It indicate familial origin in the vicinity of the eponymous tower house in the municipality of Andoain.

Izturitze Basque
From the name of a commune in south-western France, possibly derived from Basque estura "strait, scrape; narrowing, tightening" and the abundance suffix -tza.

Izu Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 井筒 (see Idzutsu).

Izubuchi Japanese
From Japanese 出 (Izu) meaning "to exit" and 渕 (buchi) meaning "abyss, bottom (of a pool)".

Izuchukwu Nigerian

Izuhara Japanese
This surname is used as 出原, 泉原 or 伊豆原 with 出 (shutsu, sui, i.dasu, i.deru, da.su, -da.su, -de, de.ru, izu) meaning "come out, exit, go out, leave, protrude, put out", 泉 (sei, izumi, izu) meaning "fountain, spring", 伊 (i, kare) meaning "Italy, that one", 豆 (zu, tou, mame, mame-) meaning "beans, midget, pea" and 原 (gen, hara) meaning "field, meadow, original, plain, prairie, primitive, tundra, wilderness."

Īzuka Japanese
From Japanese 飯 (ii) meaning "cooked grains, rice" and 塚 (tsuka) meaning "hillock, mound".

Izumigawa Japanese
Variant of Izumikawa.

Izumikawa Japanese
Izumi means "fountain" and means "river".

Izumiya Japanese

Izumo Japanese
This surname combines 出 (shutsu, sui, i.dasu, i.deru, da.su, -da.su, -de, de.ru) meaning "come out, exit, go out, leave, protrude, put out" with 雲 (un, kumo, -gumo, zumo) meaning "cloud" or 茂 (mo, shige.ru) meaning "be luxuriant, grow thick, overgrown."... [more]

Izurieta Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Isurieta.

Izutsu Japanese

Izutsu Japanese
Variant reading or transcription of Japanese Kanji 井筒 (see Idzutsu).

Izuz Hebrew
Derived from the Hebrew name Oz, means "strength, courageous".

Izzard English
Derived from the feminine given name Iseut.

Izzo Italian
From the given name Azzo.

Jaadla Estonian
Jaadla is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "jaataja" meaning "yea-sayer". Also, possibly a futher Estoniazation of surnames with foreign language suffixes or roots, such as "Jaakson" and "Jaanson".

Jaafar Arabic
Derived from the given name Jafar.

Jääger Estonian
Jääger is an Estonian surname meaning "game warden". Ultimately, from the German-language "jäger" meaning "hunter".

Jaago Estonian
Jaago is an Estonian surname; a diminutive of the masculine given name "Jaagup".

Jaakson Estonian
Jaakson is an Estonian surname meaning "son of Jaak". From the Estonian masculine given name "Jaak" and the Germanic suffix "son".

Jaaksoo Estonian
Jaaksoo is an Estonian surname meaning "Jaak's swamp" in Estonian. However, it most likely derived from a corruption of the surname "Jackson" or "Jaakson" that has been Estonianized.

Jäälaid Estonian
Jäälaid is an Estonian surname meaning "ice islet".

Jäämets Estonian
Jäämets is an Estonian surname meaning "ice forest".

Jaana Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 蛇穴 (Jaana) meaning "Jaana", a former village in the former district of Katsujō in the former Japanese province of Yamato in present-day Nara, Japan, or it being a variant reading of 蛇穴 (Saragi) meaning "Saragi", an area in the same place, in the city of Gose in the prefecture of Nara in Japan.

Jaana Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 蛇穴 (Jaana) meaning "snake pit", from 蛇 (ja) meaning "snake; serpant" and 穴 (ana) meaning "hole; pit".

Jaanimaa Estonian
Jaanimaa is an Estonian surname meaning "Jaan's land"; Jaan is a masculine given name, an Estonian variant of "John".

Jaanimägi Estonian
Jaanimägi is an Estonian surname meaning "Jaan's (Jaan is a masculine give name) mountain".

Jaaniorg Estonian
Jaaniorg is an Estonian surname meaning "Jaan's valley".

Jaaniste Estonian
Jaaniste is an Estonian name derived from the masculine given name "Jaan".

Jaansalu Estonian
Jaansalu is an Estonian surname meaning "Jaan's (a masculine given name) grove".

Jaanson Estonian
Jaanson is an Estonian surname derived from the Estonian masculine given name "Jaan" and the Germanic suffix "-son"; "son of Jaan".

Jaansoo Estonian
Jaansoo is an Estonian surname meaning "Jaan's swamp" in Estonian. However, it most likely derived from a corruption of the surname "Jansen" or "Janson" that has been Estonianized.

Jäär Estonian
Jäär is an Estonian surname meaning "Aries".

Jäärats Estonian
Jäärats is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "jää" (ice)" and "ratas (wheel)".

Jäätes Estonian
Jäätes is an Estonian surname derived from "jäätee" meaning "ice road/causeway".

Jäätma Estonian
Jäätma is an Estonian surname derived from "jäätmaa" meaning "undeveloped land".

Jääväli Estonian
Jääväli is an Estonian surname meaning "ice field".

Jabagat Filipino, Cebuano
Variant of Habagat.

Jabar Arabic, Urdu
Derived from the given name Jabbar.

Jabari Arabic
From the given name Jabbar.

Jabashiri Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 蛇走 (jabashiri), sound- and script-changed from 砂場走 (shabahashiri), from 砂 (sha) meaning "sand", 場 (ba) meaning "place", and 走 (hashiri), from 走り (hashiri) meaning "run", referring to a place where the sand collapses quickly.

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

Jabbari Persian, Arabic (Maghrebi)
Alternate transcription of Jabari.

Jabbie Western African, Manding

Jabeen Urdu
From a given name derived from Arabic جبين (jabin) meaning "forehead".

Jaber Arabic
From the given name Jabir.

Jaberi Persian
From the given name Jaber.

Jabes Spanish

Jabeur Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Jabir.

Jabez Spanish

Jabir Arabic
From the given name Jabir.

Jablanović Croatian
Derived from jablan meaning ''poplar''.

Jabłonowski Polish
Name for someone from a place called Jabłonowo or Jabłonow, both derived from Polish jabłoń meaning "apple tree".

Jabo Rwandan

Jabr Arabic
From the given name Jabr

Jacaruso Italian
An Italian surname from a compound of Ia- (from the personal name Ianni) and the southern Italian word caruso, which means ‘lad’ or ‘boy’.

Jace English (Rare)
Derived from the given name Jace

Jacey American
Derrived from the given name Jacey

Jachimi Okinawan (Rare, Archaic)
From Okinawan 座喜味 (Jachimi) meaning "Jachimi", a former area in the former district of Yuntanja in the former Ryūkyū kingdom of Chūzan in parts of present-day Okinawa, Japan, or it being the Okinawan form of Japanese 座喜味 (Zakimi) meaning "Zakimi", an area in the same place, in the village of Yomitan in the district of Nakagami in the prefecture of Okinawa in Japan.

Jacinto Portuguese, Spanish
From the given name Jacinto.

Jacke English

Jackett English
From a pet form of the given name Jack.

Jackowski m Polish
Habitational surname for someone from a village called Jacków, derived from a diminutive of Jacenty.

Jacks English
Possibly derived as a diminutive of the given name Jack. A famous bearer is Canadian singer-songwriter Terry Jacks, best known for his 1974 single 'Seasons in the Sun.'

Jackso English (Rare)
Rare English variant of Jackson.

Jacó Portuguese
From the given name Jacó.

Jacob Nigerian

Jacob Jewish, English, German, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Indian (Christian)
From the given name Jacob.

Jacobe Jewish
Variant spelling of Jacobi.

Jacobi Jewish, Dutch, German, French
Latinized patronymic form of Jacob.

Jacobo Spanish
From the given name Jacobo.

Jacobowitz Jewish
Germanized spelling of a Slavic patronymic from the personal name Jacob.

Jacobsmeyer German
Habitational name from an estate so named.

Jacobsohn German, Jewish
Means "son of Jacob".

Jacobsson Swedish
Means "son of Jacob".

Jacoby Jewish, English, German
Variant spelling of Jacobi.

Jácome Spanish

Jacomet Romansh
Derived from the given name Jacom combined with the diminutive suffix -et.

Jacot French
Variant spelling of Jacquot.

Jacovitti Italian, Albanian

Jacoway English (American)
Altered form of the personal name Jacques.

Jacox English
A variant spelling of Jaycox.

Jacque French

Jacqueline Eastern African

Jacqueman French
Alsace-Lorraine

Jacquemin French
From a pet form of the given name Jacques.

Jacqueson French (Rare)

Jacquette French

Jacquot French
From the given name Jacquot, a diminutive of Jacques.

Jacson English
Variant of Jackson.

Jadal Indian

Jadallah Arabic
Means "the generosity of Allah" in Arabic.

Jadan Arabic

Jade English, French
From the given name Jade. It could also indicate someone with jade green eyes.

Jaden English

Jadhav Indian, Marathi
Marathi variant of Yadav.

Jadine Arabic (Maghrebi)

Jadwin English
"Jadwin" is said to mean "friend of a stonecutter" (Anglo-Saxon jad "stonecutter" + win or "friend.")

Jaegal Korean
Korean form of Zhuge, from Sino-Korean 諸葛

Jaekal Korean
Variant romanization of Chegal / Jaegal.

Jafar Arabic, Persian
From the given name Jafar

Jafarian Persian
From the given name Jafar.

Jafarpoor Persian
Alternate transcription of Persian جعفرپور (see Jafarpour).

Jafarpour Persian
Means "son of Jafar" in Persian.

Jafarzadeh Persian
From the given name Jafar combined with Persian زاده (zadeh) meaning "offspring".

Jaffar Arabic
From the given name Jaffar

Jaffe Hebrew
From the given name Jaffe.

Jaffé German, Jewish
German form of Jaffe.

Jaffer Arabic, Urdu
Derived from the given name Jafar.

Jaffray Scottish Gaelic, Breton

Jagabana Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 蛇ケ鼻 (see Jagahana).

Jagahana Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 蛇 (ja) meaning "snake; serpent", ケ (ga), an obsolete possessive marker for place names, and 鼻 (hana) meaning "nose", referring to a snake and land that sticks out.

Jägermeisterssen German
Means son of the "Master-Hunter". Originally given to the son of the master-hunter in hunting camps.

Jaggard English
The name Jaggard is rooted in the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture. It was originally a name for someone who worked as a person who tends draughthorses.

Jagher English

Jagiełło Polish
Originally from Old Lithuanian jotis and gaili, meaning "strong rider". This was the last name of the Polish King Władysław Jagiełło, who, along with his wife, started the Jagiellonian dynasty in the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Jagiri Melanesian

Jago Cornish
A patronym, Jago is the Cornish for James/Jacob but is most commonly found as a surname. It’s use as a surname dates back to the early 13th Century.... [more]

Jagodowski Polish

Jagodzińska f Polish
Feminine form of Jagodziński.

Jagodziński Polish
Name for someone from a place called Jagodno, Jagodziny, Jagodzinek or Jagodziniec, all derived from Polish jagoda meaning "berry".

Jagon Filipino

Jagr Czech
Jágr is a Czech-language surname. It is related to the German surname Jäger which means "hunter" in German. It is used by the Ice Hockey player Jaromír Jágr.

Jahan Bengali, Urdu, Persian, Indian, Hindi
From the given name Jahan.

Jahana Okinawan
Possibly from Japanese 謝 (ja) meaning "apologise, thanks" and 花 (hana) meaning "flower".

Jahanbakhsh Persian
Derived from the given name Jahan.

Jahangir Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Persian
From the given name Jahangir.

Jahangiri Persian
From the given name Jahangir.

Jahangirzadeh Persian
Means "born of Jahangir".

Jahani Persian
From the given name Jahan.

Jahelka Slovak

Jahić Bosnian

Jahimaa Estonian
Jahimaa is an Estonian surname meaning "shooting/hunting land".

Jahimees Estonian
Jahimees is an Estonian surname meaning "hunter" (literally, "hunting man").

Jahlan Arabic

Jahne German
Variant of Jahn.

Jahni Malaysian

Jahns German
Patronymic from the personal name Jahn.

Jahnson Swedish (Rare)
Variant of Jansson.

Jaho Albanian

Jahović Bosnian

Jahu Estonian
Jahu is an Estonian surname meaning "flour".

Jaiby Indian (Rare)

Jaik Estonian
Jaik is an Estonian surname derived from "jäik" meaning "rigid" and "stiff".

Jaime Spanish, Portuguese (African)
From the given name Jaime 1.

Jaimes Spanish
Variant of Jaimez.

Jaimez Spanish
Means "son of Jaime 1" in Spanish.

Jaimoukha Circassian
Means "cow herd, cowman", from Kabardian жэм (žăm) meaning "cow" and хъу (χ°) "male, man". It traditionally indicated someone who was wealthy because they possessed a large herd of bovine.

Jajalo Croatian

Jajčanin Croatian, Serbian
Derived from jaje, meaning "egg".

Jakaitis Lithuanian
Unknown meaning.

Jake English

Jaken Dutch
Possibly derived from the given name Jakob.

Jakers English

Jakes English

Jakeson English
It means "son of Jake"

Jaketsu Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 蛇穴 (see Jaana).

Jakić Croatian, Serbian
Patronymic, meaning "son of Jakov".

Jakimov m Macedonian
Means "son of Jakim".

Jakimova f Macedonian
Feminine form of Jakimov.