All Submitted Surnames

Kara Turkish
Means "black, dark" in Turkish.

Karaan Filipino

Karabatsos Greek
Uncommon Greek surname.

Karabegović Bosnian

Karabeynik Belarusian
Alyaksey Karabeynik is a member of the band Shuma, the band performed at Eurovision in 2018. It means peddler. The Russian form is Korobeynik.

Karaboué Ivorian, Western African

Karabourniotis Greek (Rare)

Karabuğa Turkish
Means "black bull" from Turkish kara meaning "black, dark" and boğa meaning "bull".

Karabulut Turkish
Means "black cloud" in Turkish.

Karaca Turkish
Means "roe deer" in Turkish.

Karaçam Turkish
Means larch.

Karacan Turkish

Karadağ Turkish
From Turkish kara meaning "black" and dağ meaning "mountain".

Karadeniz Turkish
Means "black sea" in Turkish.

Karadere Turkish
Means "black creek" in Turkish.

Karađić Serbian
Variant of Karadžić, and often its misspelling.

Karadinovski Macedonian (Italianized)

Karađorđević Serbian
Derived from the nickname Karađorđe.

Karaduman Turkish
Means "black smoke" in Turkish.

Karadžić Montenegrin, Serbian
Derived from Turkish karaca, meaning "roe deer".

Karaev Turkmen, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Ossetian, Dagestani

Karagiannakis Greek

Karagiannopoulos Greek

Karagöz Turkish
Means "black eye" in Turkish.

Karagulian Armenian

Karahan Turkish

Karahasan Bosnian

Karahasanović Bosnian

Karaj Albanian

Karakalos Greek

Karakas Hungarian
Means "maker of wheels".

Karakaş Turkish
Means "black eyebrow" from Turkish kara meaning "black, dark" and kaş meaning "eyebrow".

Karakatsanis Greek
Variant of Sarakatsanis.

Karakawa Japanese
Kara means "larch" and kawa means "river, stream".

Karakaya Turkish
Means "black rock" in Turkish.

Karakitsos Greek

Karakoç Turkish
Means "black ram" in Turkish.

Karakostas Greek

Karakuş Turkish
Means "black bird" from Turkish kara meaning "black, dark" and kuş meaning "bird".

Karal Indian, Bengali
This Surname was given in honour by the Britishers to Nikhil Chandra Banerjee to recognize his efforts in constructing The Karali Kali temple in Dhaka,now the capital of Bangladesh. It was a very expensive construction and still attracts tourists every year... [more]

Karalić Serbian

Karalis Latvian
Cognate of Karalius.

Karalius Lithuanian
From Lithuanian meaning "king".

Karam Arabic, Urdu, Persian
Derived from the given name Karam.

Karaman Turkish

Karamarko Croatian

Karamatić Croatian, Serbian

Karamatsu Japanese
Kara means "Larch" (green needles poking from a tree) and Matsu means "Pine/Fur Tree".

Karamehmedović Bosnian

Karamel Indian

Karami Persian
From the given name Karam.

Karamoy Minahasa, Indonesian

Karan Indian

Karan Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 加覧 (see Garan).

Karanci Turkish
Means "merchant","someone who deals with transport"

Karanfil Turkish
Means "carnation" or "clove" in Turkish.

Karangounis Greek

Karanjeet Nepali

Karantinos Greek

Karapandža Croatian (?)
Originally given to people by their then masters (Ottomans) as an insult. Meaning "dark witch".

Karapetian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Karapetyan.

Karapetyan Armenian
Means "son of Karapet".

Karas Czech

Kara-Sal Tuvan
Means "black beard", derived from Tuvan кара (kara) meaning "black" combined with сал (sal) meaning "beard, moustache".

Karasawa Japanese

Karasevdas Greek
Possibly from the Turkish word kara meaning "black, dark" and the given name Sevda literally meaning "passion, strong love" in Turkish.

Karasick Cherokee

Karask Estonian
Karask is an Estonian surname meaning "barley bread".

Kárason Icelandic
Means "son of Kári" in Icelandic.

Karasu Japanese (Rare)
This surname is used as 烏 (u, o, izukunzo, karazu, nanzo) meaning "crow, raven" or 鴉, which is an outdated variant of 烏.... [more]

Karasu Turkish
Means "black water" derived from Turkish kara meaning "black, dark" combined with su "water".

Karasuma Japanese

Karatarakis Greek

Karataş Turkish
From Turkish kara meaning "black" and taş meaning "stone, rock".

Karatay Turkish

Karatzas Greek

Karavella Albanian

Karay Turkish

Karayusuf Turkish
Yusuf is a name for men and Karayusuf means Dark Yusuf.

Karaz Turkish

Karbasi Iranian

Karbauskis Lithuanian

Karbowski Polish
Habitational name for someone from Karbowo in Torun voivodeship, a place so named from Polish karbowy "overseer (of farm laborers)", from karbowac "to make notches", i.e. to keep records.

Karch Jewish
1 Jewish (Ashkenazic): Americanized spelling of Karcz .... [more]

Karczewski Polish
habitational name for someone from Karczew, named with Polish karcz ‘stump’.

Kardas Polish

Kardashian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Kardashyan. This is the name of an Armenian-American family of socialites.

Kardashyan Armenian
Western Armenian transcription of Kartashyan.

Kardović Bosnian

Kareaga Basque
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Barakaldo.

Kareama Maori

Kareem Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Karim.

Karélin Russian
Altered spelling of Russian Karélin, ethnic name for someone from Karelia (see Karjala).

Kareluša Serbian
Famous bearer of this surname is Serbian singer Jelena Kareluša (1978-)

Karen Czech
From a diminutive of the given name Karel.

Karene Western African

Karenin Russian
Masculine form of the surname Karenina.

Karenina Literature
In Leo Tolstoy's novel 'Anna Karenina' (1877), this is the title character's surname, the feminine form of her husband's surname, Karenin.

Kärg Estonian
Kärg is an Estonian surname meaning "honeycomb".

Kargačin Croatian

Kargaja Estonian
Kargaja is an Estonian surname meaning "jumper" and "springer".

Kargar Persian
Means "worker, labourer" in Persian.

Kargin German

Karhu Finnish
Means "bear" (the animal) in Finnish.

Kari Finnish, German (Austrian), Slovene (?), Hungarian, Indian, Marathi
As a Finnish name, it is a topographic and ornamental name from kari "small island", "stony rapids", "sandbar", or "rocky place in a field". This name is found throughout Finland.... [more]

Kari Estonian
Kari is an Estonian surname meaning both "reef" and "herd".

Karia Indian (Christian)
Derived from the given name Zechariah.

Kariatsumari Japanese (Rare)
Combination of 狩り (kari) meaning "hunt(ing)" and 集まり (atsumari) meaning "gathering, meeting, assembly," mainly concentrated in Kagoshima prefecture in southern Japan.... [more]

Karigai Japanese

Karigaya Japanese

Karimian Persian
From the given name Karim.

Karimpour Iranian

Karimpour Persian
Means "son of Karim".

Kərimzadə Azerbaijani
Azerbaijani form of Karimzadeh.

Karimzadeh Persian
Means "offspring of Karim" in Persian.

Karin Estonian

Karineeme Estonian
Karineeme is an Estonian surname meaning "reef cape". It is also the name of several locations in Estonia.

Karino Japanese

Kariņš Latvian

Karion Russian

Karitani Japanese

Kariv Hebrew
Means "battle, fight, war" in Hebrew.

Kariya Japanese

Kariyapperuma Sinhalese
Derived from the words “black” or "dark", and “peruma,” which means “big.” Together, the name can be interpreted to mean "great blackness" or "big darkness."

Karja Estonian
Karja is an Estonian surname meaning "herding".

Karjahärm Estonian
Karjahärm is an Estonian surname, possibly derived from "pasture (karjamaa) frost (härmatis)".

Karjala Finnish
Finnish from karja ‘cattle’ + the local suffix -la, or possibly from a word of Germanic origin, harja- ‘host’, ‘crowd’, Old Swedish haer. Historic records suggest that the Germanic inhabitants of the area around Lake Ladoga (in present-day Russia) used this term to refer to the Finns who once lived there.

Karjamaa Estonian
Karjamaa is an Estonian surname meaning "pastureland".

Karjane Estonian
Karjane is an Estonian surname meaning "herdsman".

Karjewski Polish (Rare)

Kark Estonian
Kark is an Estonian surname meaning "stilt" (Himantopus himantopus).

Karkamu Basque
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Gaubea, Province of Araba.

Karkavandian Armenian, Iranian
Those belonging to the Karkevand/Garkevand district of Iran who are most likely of Armenian origin. Typical modern Armenian last names end with the originally patronymic suffix -յան or -եան, transliterated as -yan, -ian, or less often '-jan'... [more]

Karkhanis Marathi

Karki Nepali
Occupational name for a tax collector from Nepali कर (kar) meaning "tax" (ultimately of Sanskrit origin).

Kärkkäinen Finnish
From Finnish kärkäs meaning ”eager” and the suffix -nen. A Finnish department store chain bears this name after its founder, Juha Kärkkäinen.

Karkus English
Anyone with information about this last name please edit.

Karla Czech
Karla, from English - carla

Karlberg Swedish
Variant of Carlberg.

Karlewicz Polish
Variant of Karłowicz.

Karlgren Swedish
Combination of the given name Karl and Swedish gren "branch".

Kärlin German
German surname from the personal name Karl. Also an altered spelling of German Gerling.

Karlin Jewish
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) habitational name for someone from Karlin, a suburb of Pinsk in Belarus, in which the Jews formed the majority of the population until the Holocaust. A well-known Hasidic sect originated in Karlin and at one time it attracted so many followers that a (now obsolete) Russian word for ‘Hasid’ was Karliner (of Yiddish origin)... [more]

Karlin Swedish (Rare)
Variant spelling of Carlin 3.

Karlin Polish
Polish habitational name from a village in Poland.

Karling German
A habitational name from Karling in Bavaria.

Karlov Russian
Means "son of Karl".

Karlović Croatian
Means "son of Karlo".

Karłowicz Polish
Patronymic from Karol 1 or Karl.

Karlowicz Polish (Anglicized)
Simplification of Karłowicz.

Karlowitsch German
German form of Karłowicz.

Karlowitz German
German form of Karłowicz.

Karlsberg German
Means "Carl's Mountain" in German language, it is also used in other Germanic languages

Karlson English
Means "Son of Karl".

Karlström Swedish
Literally means "Carl's stream" in Swedish.

Karlu Indian

Karm Estonian
Karm is an Estonian surname meaning "strict" and "austere".

Karmakar Indian, Bengali, Assamese
Means "blacksmith" in Bengali and Assamese.

Karman English, Dutch
Variant of Carman 1

Kärmas Estonian
Kärmas is an Estonian surname meaning "smart", "ready", "swift" and "brisk".

Karmazinas Lithuanian
Perhaps a habitational name taken from the Lithuanian village Karmazinai. The name of the village is allegedly derived from Polish karmazyn "crimson". See also Karmazsin, a Hungarian occupational name for a dyer or for someone making dyestuff (taken directly from Hungarian karmazsin "crimson").

Kärner Estonian

Karnik Bengali

Károly Hungarian
From the given name Károly.

Karon Filipino

Karotamm Estonian
Karotamm is an Estonian surname, possibly derived from "karu" (bear) and "tamm" (oak).

Kärp Estonian
Kärp is an Estonian surname meaning "stoat" or "ermine".

Karp English
From the given name Karp.

Karp Polish
From Middle High German karp(f)e Middle Low German karpe or Slavic (Russian and Polish) and Yiddish karp ‘carp’ hence a metonymic occupational name for a carp fisherman or seller of these fish or a nickname for someone thought to resemble the fish.... [more]

Karpiak Ukrainian
Possibly a patronym from the given name Karp.

Karpoche Tibetan

Karpov Russian
Means "son of Karp".

Karpowicz English
Patronymic from Karp.

Karrantza Basque
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality in the Basque Country.

Karras Greek
Means "dark" in Greek. Feminine form is Karra.

Karsan Indian

Karslake English
Variant spelling of Kerslake.

Karson English
Variant of Carson

Kartallozi Albanian
Meaning unknown.

Kartashov Russian
Meaning uncertain.

Kartashyan Armenian
Means "son of the stonemason" from Armenian քարտաշ (kʿartaš) meaning "stonecutter, stonemason".

Karter Breton
Breton form of Carter. This was the birth surname of Breton-French explorer Jacques Cartier (1491-1557), who is known for discovering the gulf of St. Lawrence.

Kartner German
Variant of Cartner

Kartoshkin Russian
From Russian Картошка (kartoshka) "potato".

Karu Estonian
Karu is an Estonian surname meaning "bear".

Karuli Indian

Karunachandra Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, mercy" and चन्द्र (chandra) meaning "moon".

Karunadasa Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, mercy" and दास (dasa) meaning "servant, slave".

Karunananda Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, mercy" and नन्द (nanda) meaning "joy, delight".

Karunanayaka Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණානායක (see Karunanayake).

Karunanayake Sinhalese
From Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, kindness, mercy" and नायक (nayaka) meaning "hero, leader".

Karunapala Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, mercy" and पाल (pala) meaning "guard, protector".

Karunarathna Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණාරත්න (see Karunaratne).

Karunarathne Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණාරත්න (see Karunaratne).

Karunaratna Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණාරත්න (see Karunaratne).

Karunaratne Sinhalese
From Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, kindness, mercy" and रत्न (ratna) meaning "jewel, treasure".

Karunasekara Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, mercy" and सेना (sena) meaning "army".

Karunasekara Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, mercy" and शेखर (shekhara) meaning "crest, peak, top".

Karunasekera Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුනාසේකර (see Karunasekara).

Karunasena Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, mercy" and सेना (sena) meaning "army".

Karunasinghe Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, mercy" and सिंह (sinha) meaning "lion".

Karunasiri Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, mercy" and श्री (shri) meaning "diffusing light, radiance, splendour, beauty".

Karunathilaka Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, kindness, mercy" and तिलक (tilaka) meaning "mark (on the forehead), dot, ornament".

Karunathilake Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණාතිලක (see Karunathilaka).

Karunathileka Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණාතිලක (see Karunathilaka).

Karunatilaka Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණාතිලක (see Karunathilaka).

Karunatilake Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණාතිලක (see Karunathilaka).

Karunatillaka Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණාතිලක (see Karunathilaka).

Karunatillake Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණාතිලක (see Karunathilaka).

Karunatilleke Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණාතිලක (see Karunathilaka).

Karunawardana Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, mercy" and वर्धन (vardhana) meaning "increasing, strengthening, growing".

Karunawardena Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණාවර්ධන (see Karunawardana).

Karunaweera Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, mercy" and वीर (vira) meaning "hero, man, brave".

Karusha African

Karvelas Greek

Karvellas Greek

Karyakin Russian
Meaning uncertain.

Karyotakis Greek

Karzai Afghan

Kaş Turkish

Kasabyan Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Ղասաբյան (see Ghasabyan)

Kasahara Japanese
From Japanese 笠 (kasa) meaning "conical hat" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Kasahara Japanese (Rare)
From an additional character of Japanese 上 (ka) meaning "above; high; up" added to 砂原 (Sunahara) (see Sunahara).

Kasai Japanese
It means fire in Japanese

Kasalica Montenegrin

Kasana Indian

Kasap Turkish
Means "butcher" in Turkish.

Kasaya Japanese

Kašćelan Montenegrin
Derived from Italian castello, meaning "castle".

Kasdaglis Greek

Kase Japanese
From Japanese 加 (ka) meaning "add, increase" and 瀬 (se) meaning "rapids, current".

Kasei Japanese
From Japanese 火星 (kasei) meaning "Mars".

Kasei Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 何 (see Nani).

Kasekivi Estonian
Kasekivi is an Estonian surname meaning "birch stone".

Kaselaid Estonian
Kaselaid is an Estonian surname meaning "birch islet".

Kasemaa Estonian
Kasemaa is an Estonian surname meaning "birch land".

Käsemann German
Occupational name for someone who makes or sells cheese.

Kasemets Estonian
Kasemets is an Estonian surname meaning "birch forest".

Kasemsant Thai

Kasenurm Estonian
Kasenurm is an Estonian surname meaning "birch meadow".

Kaseorg Estonian
Kaseorg is an Estonian surname meaning "birch valley".

Kasepõld Estonian
Kasepõld is an Estonian surname meaning "birch field".

Kasepuu Estonian
Kasepuu is an Estonian surname meaning "birch tree".

Käser German, German (Swiss)
occupational name for a cheesemaker or a cheese merchant (see Kaeser ). topographic name for someone who lived by a summer dairy in the Alps from a Tyrolean dialect word derived from Ladin casura... [more]

Kasesalu Estonian
Kasesalu is an Estonian surname meaning "birch grove".

Kasetalu Estonian
Kasetalu is an Estonian surname meaning "birch farmstead".

Kasetsiri Thai
From Thai เกษตร (kaset) meaning "farmland" and ศิริ (siri) meaning "glory; splendor".

Kasey English
Variant of Casey.

Kashak Indian

Kashani Persian

Kashani Persian
Indicated a person from the city of Kashan in Isfahan province, Iran. The name may be derived from the Kasian, the original inhabitants of the area.

Kashapov Russian

Kashari Albanian

Kashatok Yupik

Kashem Assamese, Bengali (Muslim)

Kashevarov Russian
Derived from Russian кашевар (kashevar) meaning "cook (in military unit or team of workers)".

Kashgari Uyghur, Arabic
Originally denoted someone who came from the city of Kashgar, located in the Xinjiang region of western China. The city's name is of Persian origin probably meaning "rock mountain".

Kashia Georgian

Kashibara Japanese
Variant of Kashihara.

Kashif Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Kashif.

Kashihara Japanese
Kashi means "candy" and hara means "plain, field".

Kashii Japanese
Kashi can mean "candy" or "oak" and i means "well, mineshaft, pit"

Kashima Japanese

Kashima Japanese
From Japanese 鹿 (ka) meaning "deer" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".

Kashimoto Japanese
From Japanese 樫 (kashi) meaning "oak" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Kashimura Japanese

Kashimura Japanese
From Japanese 樫 (kashi) meaning "oak" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Kashio Japanese
Derived from 柏 ka meaning oak, cypress./ 尾 shio meaning tail-end, a counter for fish, the lower slope of a mountain.

Kashiwa Japanese
This surname is used as 柏 (haku, hyaku, byaku, kashiwa) meaning "oak."... [more]

Kashiwabara Japanese
Variant of Kashiwahara.

Kashiwabara Japanese
From Japanese 柏 (kashiwa) meaning "oak" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Kashiwada Japanese (Rare)
Kashiwa means "oak" and da comes from ta meaning "field, rice paddy". ... [more]

Kashiwade Japanese (Rare)
This name is made of two symbols literally meaning "Chef".

Kashiwado Japanese (Rare)
Kashiwa means "oak" and do means "door". ... [more]

Kashiwaeda Japanese
柏 (Kashiwa) means "Japanese emperor oak" and 枝 (eda) means "bough, twig, branch".

Kashiwagi Japanese
From 柏 (kashiwa), which specifically refers the Japanese Emperor Oak/Daimyo oak (Quercus dentata), and 木 (ki), meaning "tree".

Kashiwagi Japanese
From Japanese 柏 (kashiwa) meaning "oak" and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".

Kashiwahara Japanese
Kashiwa means "oak" and hara means "field, plain".

Kashiwako Japanese
Kashiwa means "oak" and ko means "child, sign of the rat".

Kashiwara Japanese
Variant of Kashihara.

Kashiwazaki Japanese
From Japanese 柏 (kashiwa) meaning "oak" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Kashiyama Japanese

Kashkov Russian
From kashka, meaning "bald".

Kashmanian Armenian
this name is believed to be a version of the name of a city called kashman

Kashperskiy m Russian, Yiddish

Kashyap Indian, Hindi, Punjabi
From the given name Kashyapa.

Kasich Ukrainian

Kaşıkçı Turkish
Means "spoonmaker" from Turkish kaşık meaning "spoon".

Kasim Arabic, Filipino, Maguindanao, Tausug
From the given name Qasim.

Kasimov Russian
From the city of Kasimov, located in Ryazan district, Russia.

Kasiyan Ukrainian

Kasmi Arabic (Maghrebi)
Variant of Kissami, used more frequently in modern times.

Kasner German, Jewish
Variant of Kästner.

Kasongo Central African
A Congolese surname derived from the town with the same name, located in the Maniema Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Kasoutas Greek

Kasovich American

Kasparian Armenian (Expatriate)
Variant of Gasparyan used by Armenians living outside Armenia.

Kasparov Armenian (Russified)
Russified form of Gasparyan. A notable bearer is Garry Kasparov (1963-), a Russian chess grandmaster.

Kaspbrak Polish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Kasprzak.

Käsper Estonian
Käsper is an Estonian surname derived from the masculine given name "Kasper".