Submitted Surnames with "flower" in Description

Abebe Amharic, Ethiopian
Means "flower" in Amharic.

Agojo Tagalog
From Tagalog aguho referring to a type of flowering tree (scientific name Casuarina equisetifolia).

Aibana Japanese
From Japanese 藍 (ai) meaning "indigo" combined with 花 (hana, bana, ka) meaning "flower".

Alimasag Filipino, Cebuano
Means "flower crab" in Cebuano.

al-Rumaithi Arabic
Originally indicated a person who came from the city of Al-Rumaitha in Iraq, or the Rumaithiya area in Kuwait City, Kuwait. The place names are derived from either the Arabic words الرمث (al-ramth) or حافة (rimth), both the names of a type of flowering plant (genus Haloxylon), called saxaul in English... [more]

Al-Zahrani Arabic
Means "the Zahrani" in Arabic, referring to the Zahran (زهران) tribe in Saudi Arabia. The name itself is derived from Arabic زهراني (zahran) meaning "flowering, blossoming", ultimately from زَهْرَة (zahra) meaning "flower, blossom" (see Zahrah).

Anilao Tagalog
From Tagalog anilaw referring to a type of flowering plant (scientific name Colona serratifolia).

Antury Greek, Hebrew
Haifa, Israel.... [more]

Ashikaga Japanese
Ashikaga is a surname that originated with samurai families. Kaga means "Flower Bud,Reed" and Ashi means "Place",but it is most commonly, ( if not always ) written with characters meaning ,"foot" and "advantage".

Belfiore Italian
Means "beautiful (as a) flower", derived from Italian bel "beautiful" combined with Italian fiore "flower". Two Italian sources claim that this surname was derived from the medieval masculine given name Belfiore (which has of course the same meaning), but I can find no evidence that this was an actual given name in medieval Italy... [more]

Bellefleur French, Literature
Means "beautiful flower" in French. This is the surname of the notable family in the 2001 to 2013 novel series The Southern Vampire Mysteries and the 2008-2014 TV series that inspired it, True Blood.

Blancaflor Spanish (Philippines)
Means "white flower," from the Spanish words blanca meaning "white" and flor meaning "flower."

Blanchflower English
From a medieval nickname applied probably to an effeminate man (from Old French blanche flour "white flower"). This surname was borne by Northern Irish footballer Danny Blanchflower (1926-1993).

Blaum German
German last name, likely a variant of the last name Blom or Blum, referring to the word flower/blooming.

Bleibaum German
"Lead tree" possibly changed at Ellis Island from Blumenbaum meaning "flowering tree"

Bloem Dutch
Means "flower, bloom" or "flour (of wheat, corn)" in Dutch. Could be a nickname for a pretty or cheerful person, a metonymic occupational name for a florist, gardener, baker or miller, or a habitational name for a person who lived near flowers or a sign depicting them... [more]

Bloemen Dutch, Flemish
Means "flowers, blooms" or "flour" in Dutch. Can be a nickname denoting beauty or a cheerful disposition, an occupational name for a gardener, miller, or baker, or a habitational name for someone who lived near flowers, or a sign depicting them... [more]

Bloemendaal Dutch
Means "valley of flowers", the name of several places in the Netherlands, derived from bloem "flower" and dal "valley, dale". Cognate to German Blumenthal.

Blomstrand Swedish
From Swedish blomma (Old Norse blóm) meaning "flower" and strand (Old Norse strǫnd) meaning "beach, sea shore".

Bloomfield English
This interesting surname is of early medieval English origin, and is a locational name from either of the two places thus called in England, one in Staffordshire, and the other in Somerset, or it may be a dialectal variant of Blonville (-sur-Mer) in Calvados, Normandy, and hence a Norman habitation name... [more]

Bluemel German
Diminutive of the Middle High German bluome meaning "flower." The name is believed to be an occupational name.

Bluhm German
German alternate spelling of the Italian surname, Blum meaning flower.

Blumenberg Jewish
Ornamental name composed of German Blume "flower" and Berg "mountain, hill".

Blumenkrantz German, Jewish
Means "flower-wreath" in German.

Blumenschein German
from Middle High German bluomenschin "flower splendor" from the elements bluomo "bloom" and sconi "beautiful" probably a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by a sign depicting a bunch of flowers or decorated with flower designs or noted for its flower garden.

Blumreisinger German (Anglicized)
Meaning "flower raiser". See also Blum.

Bluth German, Jewish
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from Middle High German bluot, German Blüte ‘bloom’, ‘flower head’. ... [more]

Boupha Lao
Means "flower" in Lao, ultimately from Sanskrit पुष्प (pushpa).

Broccoli Italian, Sicilian
From the Italian plural for “The flowering crest of a cabbage”. Best known as the surname of the (Calabrian-originated) Sicilian American family who made James Bond internationally famous, by making movies (loosely) based on the books where the titular antihero himself appeared.

Bucad Filipino, Tagalog
From Tagalog bukad meaning "opening, unfolding (of flowers)".

Buenaflor Spanish (Philippines)
Means "good flower" in Spanish.

Bugayong Pangasinan
From Pangasinan bugayong meaning referring to a type of flowering plant (genus Abrus). It was perhaps used as an occupational name for someone who practiced folk medicine with this plant.

Bulac Filipino, Cebuano
From Cebuano bulak meaning "flower, bloom, blossom".

Ca-ang Filipino, Cebuano
From Cebuano kaang meaning "flowerpot".

Chabana Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 茶 (cha) meaning "tea" and 花 (bana), the joining form of 花 (hana) meaning "flower".

Chibana Japanese
千 (Chi) means "one thousand" and 花 (bana) is a variation of hana, meaning "blossom, flower".... [more]

Chigusa Japanese
This surname is used as 千種, 千草 or 千艸 with 千 (sen, chi) meaning "thousand", 種 (shu, -gusa, tane) meaning "class, kind, seed, species, variety", 草 (sou, kusa, kusa-, -gusa) meaning "draft, grass, herbs, pasture, weeds, write" and 艸 (sou, kusa) meaning "grass, plants."... [more]

Chrysanthe French
From the Greek Χρύσανθος (Chrysanthos), meaning "golden flower". This surname was first given to children found on October 25, the feast day of Saint Chrysanthos.

Çiçek Turkish
Means "flower, blossom" in Turkish.

Cvijetić Serbian, Croatian
Means "little flower".

Doolittle English
From a medieval nickname applied to a lazy man (from Middle English do "do" + little "little"). It was borne by the American poet Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961). A fictional bearer is Eliza Doolittle, the flower seller in Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmalion' (1913); and a variant spelling was borne by Dr Dolittle, the physician who had the ability to talk to animals, in the series of books written by Hugh Lofting from 1920.

Douangmala Lao
From Lao ດວງ (douang) meaning "circle" and ມາລາ (mala) meaning "bunch of flowers, garland".

Fa Chinese
From Chinese 花 (huā) meaning "Flower, blossom"

Faucett English
Locational surname from various British places: Fawcett in Cumberland, Facit in Lancashire, Forcett in North Yorkshire, or Fa’side Castle in East Lothian, Scotland. The linguistic origins of the name arise variously from, in Cumberland and Lancashire, "multi-coloured hillside" in 7th century Old English fag or fah, "brightly coloured, variegated, flowery" with side, "slope"; in North Yorkshire from Old English ford, "ford", and sete, "house, settlement"; or, reputedly, in East Lothian, "fox on a hillside"... [more]

Fawcett English
Originates from the Anglo-Saxon word 'fag' or 'fah' meaning bright or flowery.

Feinblum Jewish
From Yiddish fayn meaning "fine, excellent" and blum meaning "flower".

Fialka Czech
Means ''violet'' (the flower) in Czech.

Fleureme Haitian Creole
The surname Fleureme is found in Haiti more than any other country/territory.Meaning is French Flower.

Floarea Romanian
Means "flower" in Romanian.

Floerke German
Floerke Name Meaning German (Flörke): from a pet form of the personal names Florian or Florentinus, from Latin Florus (from florere ‘to bloom’).Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4... [more]

Florén Swedish
Combination of Latin flor "flower" and the common surname suffix -én.

Florido Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
From Spanish, Italian and Portuguese meaning "flowery, florid".

Florimonte Italian
Roughly "flower mountain".

Floris Italian
Cognate to Flores, or a toponym from Sardinian floris "flowers". Possibly from the Latin cognomen Florens meaning "prosperous, flourishing".

Floros Greek
From the Latin word for flower, 'florus', also could be associated with the name Florus

Flower Welsh
Anglicized form of the Welsh personal name Llywarch, of unexplained origin.

Flower English
Occupational name for an arrowsmith, from an agent derivative of Middle English flō ‘arrow’ (Old English flā).

Flowerdew English

Foieri Italian
Flower

Furze English
Given to someone who lived by a field of furzes, a type of flower

Ghiocel Romanian
From Romanian ghiocel meaning "snowdrop" (flower).... [more]

Gul Pakistani, Pashto, Punjabi, Sindhi, Balochi, Urdu, Persian
Derived from Persian گل (gol) meaning "flower" or "rose".

Guli Uzbek, Kurdish, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Albanian, Bosnian
Derived from Persian گل (gol) meaning "flower" or "rose". It is sometimes borne by Georgians and Armenians of Persian descent.

Hana Japanese
From Japanese “hana” (花) meaning flower.

Hanabusa Japanese
From Japanese 花 (hana) meaning "flower" and 房 (busa) meaning "room*.

Hanada Japanese
From Japanese 花 (hana) meaning "flower" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Hanai Japanese
From Japanese 花 (hana) meaning "flower" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".

Hanaki Japanese
"Flower tree".

Hanami Japanese
Hana means "blossom, flower" and mi means "view".

Hanamori Japanese
Hana means "flower, blossom" and mori means "forest".

Hanamura Japanese
From Japanese 花 (hana) meaning "flower" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Hanao Japanese
Hana means "blossom, flower" and o means "tail".

Hanaoka Japanese
From Japanese 花 (hana) or 華 (hana) both meaning "flower" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Hanarashi Japanese
From Japanese, using the kanjis 花 (hana) meaning "flower", combined with 嵐 (arashi) meaning "storm".

Hanasaki Japanese
From Japanese 花 (hana) meaning "flower" or 華 (hana) meaning "flower, petal" combined with 咲 (saki) meaning "blossom". A fictional bearer of this surname is Tsubomi Hanasaki (花咲 つぼみ) from Heartcatch! Pretty Cure.

Hanasawa Japanese
Haha means "flower, blossom" and sawa means "swamp, marsh".

Hanasono Japanese
Hana means "flower" and sono means "garden".

Hanaue Japanese
From Japanese 花 (hana) meaning "flower" or 華 (hana) meaning "flower, petal" combined with 上 (ue) meaning "above, top, upper, superior" or 植 (ue) meaning "planting".

Hanaya Japanese
From Japanese 花屋 (hanaya) meaning "florist", which combines 花 (hana) meaning "flower" with 屋 (ya) meaning "shop".

Hanazawa Japanese
From Japanese 花 (hana) meaning "flower" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Hanazono Japanese
Hana means "flower" and zono is a form of sono meaning "garden".

Hua Chinese
From Chinese 华 (huá) meaning "splendid, illustrious, flowery, Chinese".

Huāwū Chinese
From Chinese 花 (huā) meaning "flower, blossom" combined with 屋 (wū) meaning "shop".

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

Järvelill Estonian
Järvelill is an Estonian surname meaning "lake flower".

Jeglič Slovene
"The Slovenian word for the Carniolan primrose." This name would likely have been given to people who inhabited the meadows of northwestern Slovenia where this flower is endemic.

Jungbluth German
Means "young blossom" in German, from German jung "young" and blüte "blossom, flower", possibly denoting a person who blossomed early in their life.

Kikyo Japanese
This surname is used as 桔梗, 喜京, 木京 or 鬼京 with 桔 (kitsu, ketsu, ki), which is used in plant names, 梗 (kyou, kou, oomune, fusagu, yamanire) meaning "close up, flower stem, for the most part", 喜 (ki, yoroko.basu, yoroko.bu) meaning "rejoice, take pleasure in", 木 (boku, moku, ki, ko-) meaning "tree, wood", 鬼 (ki, oni, oni-) meaning "devil, ghost" and 京 (kyou, kin, kei, miyako) meaning "capital."... [more]

Kōka Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 紅花 (kōka) meaning "red- or crimson-colored flower", referring to an occupation that involves flowers and rouge powder.

Kul Pakistani, Pashto, Punjabi, Bengali, Assamese, Sindhi, Balochi, Urdu, Persian, Kurdish, Odia, Thai, Khmer, Lao
Derived from Persian گل (gol) meaning "flower" or "rose".

Kwiat Polish
Means "flower" in Polish, from the Old Slavic root květŭ.

Kwieciński Polish, Jewish
Habitational surname for someone from a place named Kwiecin, named after the Polish word kwiat, which means "flower".

Lafleur French, French (Caribbean)
from la fleur "the flower" used as a soldier's name and also as a servant's name; it was one of the most common nicknames (noms de guerre) among French soldiers.

Laviolette French, French (Quebec), French (Acadian)
A secondary surname, associated with some forty family names in Canada and also used independently since 1698, a nickname from the flower violette ‘violet’, with the definite article la. In feudal France it was a name given to soldiers and domestic servants.

Lill Estonian
Means "flower" in Estonian.

Lille Estonian
From the Estonian word lill "flower".

Lilleallik Estonian
Lilleallik is an Estonian surname meaning "floral/flower source".

Lilleleht Estonian
Lilleleht isan Estonian surname meaning "flower leaf".

Lillemägi Estonian
Lillemägi is an Estonian surname meaning "flowery mountain".

Lillemets Estonian
Lillemets is an Estonian surname meaning "flower forest".

Lilleorg Estonian
Lilleorg is an Estonian surname meaning "flower(y) valley".

Lilleväli Estonian
Lilleväli is an Estonian surname meaning "flower field".

Lillevälja Estonian
Lillevälja is an Estonian surname meaning "floral/flowery outside".

Lillevere Estonian
Lillevere is an Estonian surname meaning "flower/floral blood".

Lilly English
Derived from Lilly, a pet name for Elizabeth. It was also used as a nickname for someone with fair skin or hair, and is derived from Old English lilie meaning "lily (the flower)"... [more]

Lily English
Derived from Lily, a pet name for Elizabeth. It was also used as a nickname for someone with fair skin or hair, and is derived from Old English lilie meaning "lily (the flower)"... [more]

Malakar Indian, Bengali, Assamese
Means "florist, maker of flower garlands" in Bengali and "gardener" in Assamese.

Manolas Greek
Derived from the word "magnolia" denoting a flower named after French botanist Pierre Magnol.

Montefiore Italian, Jewish
Derived from Montefiore, which is the name of several places in Italy. For example, there is Castle Montefiore in the town of Recanati (province of Macerata), the municipality of Montefiore Conca (province of Rimini) and the municipality of Montefiore dell'Aso (province of Ascoli Piceno)... [more]

Nectaria Romanian
Feminine version of Nectarie, Greek saint-St.Nectarie from Egina. In Romanian this means "the juice of flowers". Nectaire is probably of the same derivation as the English word "nectar". This is the etymology of nectar (from http://www.etymonline.com/) from negtar > nogalon... [more]

Nic Mayan
From Mayan ‘nik’ meaning “flower”.

Õiemets Estonian
Õiemets is an Estonian surname meaning "floral/flower forest".

Õis Estonian
Õis is an Estonian surname meaning "flower" and "blossom".

Õismets Estonian
Õismets is an Estonian surname meaning "flower/blossom forest".

Õisnurm Estonian
Õisnurm is an Estonian surname meaning "flower meadow".

Õispuu Estonian
Õispuu is an Estonian surname meaning "blossom/flower tree".

Ojalill Estonian
Ojalill is an Estonian surname meaning "stream flower".

Ōkano Japanese
Surname of Japanese origin meaning "cherry blossom flower field".

Paradiso Italian
from paradiso "Paradise" applied as a topographic name for someone living in a verdant place where flowers grew in abundance or near a pleasure garden or from the same word used as a personal name recorded in the form Paradisus in Lazio in 108

Peñaflorida Spanish (Philippines)
"flowery cliff" in Spanish

Plantz English (American)
Deriving from England. "Men known as a Planter was an English term for people who were "planted" abroad in order to promote a political, religious cause or for colonization purposes." ... [more]

Potot Filipino, Cebuano
From Cebuano putot meaning "short person", "flower bud" or "young coconut fruit".

Provencher French
From the French word for the flower periwinkle. (pervenche) Brought to Canada from France in 1660 by Sebastien Provencher.

Puķe Latvian
Derived from Latvian puķe "flower". Occupational surname for a person who sells flowers.

Pushpakumara Sinhalese
From Sanskrit पुष्प (pushpa) meaning "flower" and कुमार (kumara) meaning "boy, prince".

Rosenblum Jewish
From rosen meaning "rose" and blume meaning "flower".

Rozelle French
Beautiful flower from France brought over by an immigrant named Page Rozelle. People said when she said something nice or touched you, good luck would come to you.

Sandblom Swedish
Combination of Swedish sand "sand" and blomma "flower".

Söderblom Swedish
Combination of Swedish söder "south" and blom "bloom, flower".

Strauss German, Jewish
From the German word strauß, meaning "ostrich." In its use as a Jewish surname, it comes from the symbol of the building or family that the bearer occupied or worked for in the Frankfurter Judengasse... [more]

Tsubaki Japanese
The surname “Tsubaki” means flower.

Tsvetkov m Russian
Derived from Russian word "цветка (tsvetka)" meaning little flower.

Umehana Japanese
From 梅 (ume) meaning "plum" combined with 花 (hana, ka) meaning "flower, blossom".

Valverde Spanish
Refers to a place name which suggests a landscape, agreeable with herbs, flowers and water.

Vayseblum Yiddish
It literally means "white flower"

Violette French
Perhaps a topographic name from a diminutive of viol "path", itself a derivative of vie "way". It is more likely, however, that this name is from the secondary surname Laviolette "the violet (flower)", which was common among soldiers in French Canada.

Xotlanihua Nahuatl
Means "owner of flowering" or "there will be growing" in Nahuatl, probably originating as a personal name.

Zahrani Arabic
From the Arabic زهراني (zahran) meaning "flowering, blossoming"; ultimately from زَهْرَة (zahra) meaning "flower, blossom" (see Zahrah)... [more]

Zinn German
From the German for word for tin "tin." The name indicated someone who worked with the metal. A famous bearer is Johann Gottfried Zinn, a German botanist. Carl Linnaeus named the flower Zinnia in his honor.