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Kimmey Scottish

Kimoshita Japanese

Kimoto Japanese
Derived from the Japanese kanji 木 (ki) or 樹 (ki) both meaning "tree, wood, plant" combined with 本 (moto) or 元 (moto) both meaning "base, root, origin".... [more]

Kimotsuki Japanese

Kinamura Japanese

Kindersley English

Kindy English
"From Kinder".

Kinemuchi Japanese

Kingbird English

Kingetsu Japanese

Kingfisher English (Americanized, ?)

Kingford English

Kings English

Kingsbery English

Kingsby English

Kingslow English

Kingslowe English

Kingsman English

Kington English
Variant of Kingston meaning "King's Town".

Kingwell English

Kingwood English

Kinoh Japanese

Kinose Japanese
Ki means "tree, wood", no could be a possessive particle or it could mean "field, wilderness", and se means "current, ripple".

Kinoshita Japanese
From Japanese 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood", an unwritten possessive marker 之 (no), and 下 (shita) meaning "under, below".

Kinoue Japanese
From Japanese 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood", an unwritten possessive marker の (no), and 上 (ue) meaning "above, top, upper".

Kinsie Irish (?)

Kinuda Japanese

Kinugai Japanese (Rare)
Variant of Kinutani.

Kinugasa Japanese
From Japanese 衣 (kinu) meaning "clothing, clothes" and 笠 (kasa) meaning "bamboo hat".

Kinugawa Japanese
From 絹 (kinu) meaning "silk" combined with 川 or 河 (gawa) meaning "stream, river".

Kinugaya Japanese (Rare)
Variant of Kinutani.

Kinukawa Japanese
From 絹 (kinu) meaning "silk" combined with 川 or 河 (kawa) meaning "stream, river".

Kinuta Japanese

Kinutani Japanese
Kinu means "silk" and tani means "valley".

Kinuya Japanese (Rare)
Variant of Kinutani.

Kipley English

Kipton English

Kira Japanese

Kiribara Japanese
A variant of Kirihara.

Kiribata Japanese
Variant of Kirihata.

Kirida Japanese
Kiri means "paulownia" and da means "field, rice paddy".

Kirieda Japanese
"Paulownia tree branch".

Kirigai Japanese
A variant of Kiritani.

Kirihara Japanese
From Japanese 桐 (kiri) meaning "paulownia" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Kirihata Japanese

Kirimura Japanese
Kiri means "paulownia" and mura means "hamlet, village".

Kirino Japanese
Kiri means "paulownia" and no means "field, wilderness, plain".

Kirita Japanese
Variant of Kirida.

Kiritani Japanese
From 桐 (kiri) meaning "paulownia" and 谷 (tani) meaning "valley".

Kiriwara Japanese
A variant of Kirihara.

Kiriya Japanese
A variant of Kiritani.

Kirkley English

Kirkton English

Kiryuin Japanese (?), Popular Culture (?)
Either from 桐生 (Kiryu), a place name, combined with 院 (in) meaning "college" or 鬼 (ki, oni) meaning "demon" and 龍 (ryu) meaning "dragon, imperial" combined with 院 (in) meaning "college".

Kiryuu Japanese

Kisara Japanese

Kisby English

Kishibe Japanese

Kishigami Japanese

Kishii Japanese
Koshi means "shore, bank, beach" and i means "well, mineshaft, pit".

Kishima Japanese

Kishimura Japanese

Kishio Japanese
Kishi means "bank, shore, beach" and o means "tail".

Kishlansky Russian (?)
Mark Kishlansky was a historian.

Kishu Japanese

Kiston English

Kitabashi Japanese
Variant of Kitahashi.

Kitabatake Japanese
From 北 (kita) meaning "north" and 畠 (batakat) meaning "field".

Kitada Japanese

Kitadai Japanese
From 北 (kita) meaning "north" and 代 (dai) meaning "society, world, cost, price" or 台 (dai) meaning "Taiwan, machine or vehicle counter, stand, pedestal".

Kitae Japanese

Kitagaki Japanese
From 北 (kita) meaning "north" and 垣 (gaki) meaning "hedge, fence".

Kitahara Japanese
From Japanese 北 (kita) meaning "north" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Kitahashi Japanese
Kita means "north" and hashi means "bridge".

Kitakado Japanese
Kita means "north" and kado means "gate".

Kitakawa Japanese
Kita means "north" and kawa means "river, stream".

Kitakoji Japanese

Kitano Japanese
From Japanese 北 (kita) meaning "north" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Kitao Japanese
From 北 (kita) meaning "north" and 尾 (o) meaning "tail".

Kitaoka Japanese
From Japanese 北 (kita) meaning "north" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Kitasawa Japanese
Kita means "north" and shima means "island".

Kitase Japanese
Kita means "north" and and se means "ripple".

Kitashima Japanese
Kita means "north" and shima means "island".

Kitaura Japanese
Kita means "north" and ura means "bay, seacoast".

Kitaya Japanese
From 北 (kita) meaning "north" and 谷 (ya) meaning "valley".

Kitchell English

Kitz German
Meaning "kid".

Kitzmüller German
Meaning "kid miller".

Kiuchi Japanese
From Japanese 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood" and 内 (uchi) meaning "inside".

Kiwara Japanese
Variant of Kihara.

Kiyako Nigerian (?)

Kiyama Japanese

Kiyoda Japanese

Kiyoi Japanese

Kiyomizu Japanese
A variation of the popular surname Shimizu. 清 (Kiyo) means "Pure, Clean" and 水 (Mizu) means "Water".

Kiyomoto Japanese
Kiyo means "clean, pure" and moto means "origin".

Kiyonari Japanese

Kiyono Japanese

Kiyooka Japanese

Kiyosaka Japanese
Kiyo means "pure, clean" and saka means "slope, hill".

Kiyosaki Japanese
Kiyo means "pure" and saki means "cape, promontory, peninsula".

Kiyose Japanese
Kiyo means "pure, clean" and se means "ripple".

Kiyoshi Japanese (Rare)
Means "pure, clean" in Japanese. It is more common as a given name (see Kiyoshi).

Kiyozaki Japanese
Variant of Kiyosaki.

Kjeldahl Danish

Klaarwater German
"Clear water."

Klarwasser German
"Clear water."

Klasky Sorbian, Belarusian, Czech, Russian, Slovak, Bulgarian, Polish, Serbian

Klinefelter German
Americanized form of Kleinfelder.

Kluver German
From the word kluven meaning "split wooden block". It used to refer to bailiffs.

Kneeland Irish (Anglicized)

Knife Indigenous American

Knoxville English

Kobai Japanese

Kobara Japanese
Variant of Kohara.

Kobashi Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small" or 古 (ko) meaning "ancient, old, previous" combined with 橋 (hashi) meaning "bridge".

Kobashigawa Japanese
Variant of Kobashikawa.

Kobashiri Japanese

Kobasigawa Japanese (Anglicized)
The more common form of Kobashigawa in the Western world.

Kobata Japanese
Variant of Kohata.

Kobatashi Japanese

Kobokawa Japanese

Kochi Japanese

Kodaira Japanese
Ko means "small" and daira is a form of taira meaning "peace, level". ... [more]

Kodama Japanese

Kodera Japanese
"Little temple".

Koehn German

Kogaki Japanese

Kogami Japanese
Variant of Kokami.

Koganesawa Japanese

Koganezawa Japanese

Kogawa Japanese
Variant of Kokawa.

Kogino Japanese

Kohara Japanese

Kohashi Japanese
Ko means "small" and hashi means "bridge".

Kohata Japanese

Kohatsu Japanese
From 小 (ko) meaning "small, little" or 古 (ko) meaning "old", 波 (ha) meaning "wave", and 津 (tsu) meaning "harbor, port".

Kohchi Japanese

Kohchiyama Japanese
Variant of Kochiyama.

Kohira Japanese
A variant of Kodaira.... [more]

Kohls German

Kohno Japanese
Variant transcription of Kono.

Kohrogi Japanese

Kohrs German

Kohsaka Japanese
Variant transcription of Kosaka.

Kohyama Japanese
Variant transcription of Koyama.

Koida Japanese

Koigakubo Japanese
Koi means "love", ga is a language particle, ku means "long time ago, lasting" and bo means "guarantee, protect".

Koinuma Japanese
From 鯉 (koi) meaning "carp fish" and 沼 (numa) meaning "swamp, marsh".

Koishi Japanese
Ko means "small" and ishi means "stone".

Koitabashi Japanese

Koiwai Japanese
From 小 (ko) meaning "little, small" combined with 岩 (iwa) meaning "stone" and 井 (i) meaning "pit, mineshaft, well" or 祝 (iwai) meaning "blessing, celebrate, congratulations".

Kokawa Japanese
Ko means "small" and kawa means "river".

Kokubun Japanese

Komaba Japanese
From 駒 (koma) meaning "young horse, foal" and 場 (ba) meaning "place".

Komada Japanese
Ko could mean "small, little" or "old", ma could mean "real, genuine" and da comes from ta meaning "rice paddy, field".

Komagata Japanese
Ko could mean "little, small" or "old". Ma could mean "genuine, real" or "horse". Gata could come from kata meaning "shape, form".

Komarova Russian

Komarovsky Russian (?)

Komata Japanese

Komatsu Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small" and 松 (matsu) meaning "pine tree, fir tree".

Komatsusaki Japanese

Komatsuzaki Japanese (Rare)
Ko ("Small") + Matsu ("Pine Tree") + Zaki ("Peninsula, Cape"). This is a uncommon name, but it has kanji that 90% of Japanese family names have.

Kome Japanese
Variant of Yone.

Komemoto Japanese
Kome means "rice, America" and moto means "base, origin, root, source".

Komi Japanese

Kominami Japanese

Komine Japanese
Ko mean "small" or "light" and mine means "peak".

Komiya Japanese
小 (Ko) means "small" and 宮 (miya) means "shrine".

Komiyama Japanese

Komoku Japanese

Komoto Japanese

Komura Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small, Little" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, hamlet, village".

Kon Japanese

Konaka Japanese
小 (Ko) means "small" and 中 (naka) means "middle".

Kondoh Japanese

Konoike Japanese

Konparu Japanese
Kon means "gold" and paru is a form of haru, meaning "spring".

Konushi Japanese

Koorogi Japanese

Kore German

Koremune Japanese

Kores German

Koretsugu Japanese

Koriki Japanese

Koriyama Japanese
Possibly from 氷 (kori, hyou) meaning "ice" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

Kôrogi Japanese

Kosaka Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small" and 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope".

Kosaki Japanese
Ko means "small" and saki means "peninsula, cape, promontory".

Kose Japanese
From 小 (ko) meaning "small, little" or 古 (kose) meaning "old" combined with 瀬 (se) meaning "current, ripple".

Koseki Japanese
Ko means "small" and seki means "frontier pass".

Koshigai Japanese

Koshigaya Japanese

Koshikawa Japanese

Koshima Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small" or 児 (ko) meaning "young" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".

Koshimizu Japanese
From 小 (ko) meaning "small", 清 (shi, kiyo) meaning "pure, clean, purify, exorcise, cleanse", and 水 (mizu) means "water".

Koshimoto Japanese

Koshino Japanese

Koshitani Japanese

Koshiya Japanese

Kosho Japanese

Kosugi Japanese
Ko means "small" and sugi means "cedar". ... [more]

Kosumi Japanese

Kota Japanese

Kotaira Japanese
Ko means "small" and taira means "peace, level".

Kotani Japanese
Ko means "Small" and Tani means "Valley".

Koteda Japanese

Kotomura Japanese
Koto means "flute" and mura means "village".

Kotono Japanese

Kotooka Japanese

Kotsuki Japanese
It means "above moon".

Koumoto Japanese
It might mean "light source origin".

Kouno Japanese
Variant transcription of Kono.

Koura Japanese
Ko means "small" and ura means "bay, seacoast".

Kourogi Japanese

Kousaka Japanese

Kousho Japanese

Kowaka Japanese

Kowara Japanese
Variant of Kohara.

Koyanagi Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small" and 柳 (yanagi) meaning "willow".

Kozaka Japanese
Variant of Kosaka.

Kozaki Japanese
Variant of Kosaki.

Kozen Japanese

Kozu Japanese
From 神 (ko) meaning "god" and 津 (tsu) meaning "harbor, port".

Kozuka Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "little, small" and 塚 (tsuka) meaning "hillock, mound".

Kozuki Japanese
It is written as 上 (Ko) meaning "above" and 月 (tsuki) meaning "month, moon".

Krentz German

Kubara Japanese (Rare)
Variant of Kuhara.

Kuboda Japanese

Kubodera Japanese
Variant of Kubotera.

Kuboki Japanese

Kubooka Japanese

Kubotera Japanese

Kudoh Japanese
Variant transcription of Kudo.

Kuge Japanese

Kugisaki Japanese
Kugi means "nail, tack, peg" and saki means "peninsula, promontory, cape".

Kuhara Japanese (Rare)
Ku means "long time" and hara means "plain, field".

Kujira Japanese (Rare)
Kujira is an uncommon Japanese surname and first name that literally means "whale".

Kujiradou Japanese

Kujo Japanese

Kujou Japanese

Kukino Japanese
It could be from 柊 (ku, kuki) meaning "holly, ilex" combined with 野 (no) meaning "field, plain". The ki portion could also be spelled with 木 (ki, gi) meaning "tree, wood"... [more]

Kuma Japanese
Kuma could mean "bear", or it could be written with ku meaning "long lasting, long time ago" and ma meaning "horse" or "flax".

Kumada Japanese
From Japanese 熊 (kuma) meaning "bear" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Kumagaya Japanese

Kumahashi Japanese

Kumaki Japanese
From 熊 (kuma) meaning "bear" and 木 (ki) meaning "wood, tree".

Kumakura Japanese
From Japanese 熊 (kuma) meaning "bear" and 倉 (kura) meaning "to have, to possess, granary, storehouse".

Kumano Japanese
Kuma means "bear" and no means "field, wilderness, plain".

Kumanogoh Japanese

Kumasaka Japanese
From Japanese 熊 (kuma) meaning "bear" and 坂 (saka) meaning "slope, hill".

Kumasawa Japanese
From Japanese 熊 (kuma) meaning "bear" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "swamp, marsh".

Kumashiro Japanese
Kuma means "bear" and shiro can mean "white" or "castle".

Kumata Japanese

Kumatani Japanese

Kumaya Japanese

Kumazaki Japanese
Variant of Kumasaki.

Kumazawa Japanese
Variant of Kumasawa.

Kumigashira Japanese
From 組 (kumi) meaning "group, set," and 頭 (kashira) meaning "head".

Kumobayashi Japanese

Kunce German (?)
Possibly a variant of Kunz.

Kuni Japanese

Kunihiko Japanese
Kuni means "country, large place" and hiko means "prince".

Kunii Japanese
From Japanese 国 or 國 (kuni) meaning "country, land" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".

Kuniki Japanese
Kuni means "country, large place" and ki means "tree, wood".

Kunimatsu Japanese
From Japanese 国 (kuni) meaning "land, a large place" combined with 松 (matsu) meaning "pine."

Kunimura Japanese
From Japanese 国 (kuni) meaning "country" and 村 (mura) meaning "village, hamlet".

Kuninaka Japanese
From 国 (kuni) meaning "country, land" and 仲 (naka) meaning "relations, terms".

Kunio Japanese
Kuni means "country, large place" and o means "tail".

Kunisue Japanese

Kunita Japanese

Kunito Japanese

Kunitoh Japanese

Kuniyasu Japanese

Kuniyoshi Japanese
Kuni means "large place, country" and yoshi means "good luck".

Kuniyuki Japanese
Kuni means "country, large place" and yuki can mean "good" or "snow".

Kunizaki Japanese
Variant of Kunisaki.

Kunogi Japanese

Kunoki Japanese

Kunou Japanese

Kurabashi Japanese
Variant of Kurahashi.

Kurabayashi Japanese
Variant of Kurahayashi.

Kurada Japanese

Kurahashi Japanese
From Japanese 倉 (kura) meaning "granary, storehouse" and 橋 (hashi) meaning "bridge".

Kurahayashi Japanese
Kura means "storehouse" and hayashi means "forest, grove".

Kurai Japanese
Kura means "warehouse, storehouse" and i means "well, pit, mineshaft".

Kuraishi Japanese

Kurama Japanese
Kura can mean "own, possess, warehouse, storehouse" and ma can mean "horse".

Kuramae Japanese
Kura means "storehouse, warehouse, have, possess" and mae means "front, forward".

Kuramochi Japanese

Kuramura Japanese
Kura means "storehouse" and mura means "village, hamlet".

Kuranishi Japanese
Kura means "granary, warehouse, storehouse, has, possess" and nishi means "west".

Kurano Japanese
Kura means "storehouse, warehouse" no means "field, wilderness, plain".

Kuranoo Japanese
From 倉 (kura) meaning "possess, have, granary, storehouse", 野 (no) meaning "field", and 尾 (o) meaning "end, tail".... [more]

Kurasawa Japanese
倉 (Kura) means "Owns, Storehouse, Posesses" and 沢 (Sawa) means "Marsh, Swamp".

Kurashiki Japanese
From 倉 (kura) meaning "have, possess, storehouse, granary", combined with 式 (shiki) meaning "formula, expression, ceremony" or 敷 (shiki) meaning "house, paving".

Kuri German

Kuri Japanese
From 栗 (kuri) meaning "chestnut".

Kuribara Japanese

Kuribashi Japanese
Variant of Kurihashi.