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Chikuchishin Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 築地新 (see Tsukijishin).

Chila Italian
Italian form of Cheilas.

Chilcott English
English (West Country): variant of Chilcote.

Childree English (American)
Variant of Childrey.

Childress English
Variant of Childers.

Childrey English
From the name of a village in Oxfordshire, England, derived from either the Old English given name Cilla or the element cille/cwylla "spring, well" combined with riþ "stream".

Chillingworth English (Rare)
Notable as the surname of Hester Prynne's husband Roger Chillingworth in the 1850 novel 'The Scarlet Letter'

Chilvers English
Means "son of Chilver" (probably from the Old English male personal name Cēolfrith, literally "ship-peace").

Chim Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Zhan.

Chim Khmer
Variant transcription of Choem.

Chimalhua Nahuatl
Means "has a shield, possessor of shields" in Nahuatl.

Chin Chinese (Hakka)
Hakka romanization of Chen.

Chin English
Variant of Chinn.

Chin English (American)
Variant of Chinn.

Chin English (American)
Variant of Chinn.

Chinc Polish
Variant of Hinc.

Chinchilla Spanish
Originally denoted a person from the Spanish town of Chinchilla de Monte-Aragón in the province of Albacete. The place name is possibly of Arabic origin.

Chińcz Polish
Variant of Hinc.

Chincz Polish
Variant of Hinc.

Ching Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Cheng 1.

Chini Italian
Possibly a variant of Zini.

Chinji Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 鎮寺 (Chinji), from 鎮寺門 (Chinjimon), a name of a group of several households in the Kadowari System that took place in the Edo Period in the former Japanese province of Satsuma in parts of present-day Kagoshima, Japan, as well as surrounding areas.

Chinouriri Shona
Believed to be from a local dialect, interpretations of the name could be resilience or strength.

Chionidis Greek
From the Greek word for snow, 'χιόνι'. Descendant, son of the 'snowy one.'

Chipperfield English
Derived from Hertfordshire Village of Chipperfield

Chips English (British)
Chips is a rare English (british) last name which is a nickname of Christopher and Charles

Chiravejsundornkul Thai (Sanskritized, Rare)
Sanskritized transcription of Thai จิรเวชสุนทรกุล (see Chirawetsunthonkun).

Chiriboga Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Txiriboga.

Chirico Italian
Surname of Italian surrealist artist, Giorgio de Chirico

Chirigu Italian
Variant of Cherchi.

Chirino Spanish
Variant of Quirino.

Chirivella Catalan (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Xirivella.

Chishall English
The name comes from when they lived in Chishall, two parishes in the county of Essex.

Chishiya Japanese
From Japanese 千 (chi) meaning "thousand", 地 (chi) meaning "earth, land", 智 (chi) meaning "wisdom, intellect" 散 (chi) meaning "scatter", 梓 (shi) meaning "Japanese cherry birch", 塩 (shio) meaning "salt", 沙 (shi) meaning "sand", 司 (shi) meaning "to take charge of; to control; to manage", 史 (shi) meaning "history", 四 (shi) meaning "four", 士 (shi) meaning "samurai, warrior", 子 (shi) meaning "child", 市 (shi) meaning "market", 志 (shi) meaning "purpose, will, determination, aspiration, ambition", 氏 (shi) meaning "a family; a clan", 糸 (shi) meaning "thread", 紙 (shi) meaning "paper", 紫 (shi) meaning "purple; violet", 至 (shi) meaning "to reach; to arrive", 詩 (shi) meaning "poetry, poem", 資 (shi) meaning "money; fund; wealth; capital", 汐 (shi) meaning "evening tide; night tides; ebb", 心 (shi) meaning "heart, mind, soul" or 清 (shi) meaning "clear; limpid", and 也 (ya) meaning "also" or 哉 (ya), an exclamation... [more]

Chisholm Scottish
The name of a location in Roxburghshire, Scotland, which itself comes from cisil "gravel" and holm "islet".

Chishti Urdu
From the name of the town of Chisht in present-day Herat province, Afghanistan.

Chiswell English
Variant of Chishall.

Chitsawangdee Thai (Rare)
Variant transcription of Thai จิตต์สว่างดี (see Chitsawangdi).

Chittsawangdee Thai (Rare)
Variant transcription of Thai จิตต์สว่างดี (see Chitsawangdi).

Chiu Chinese
Alternate transcription of Qiu chiefly used in Taiwan.

Chivton English (American)
Portmanteau of Chiovaro and Cranston. First known use in 2023.

Chiwara Japanese
Variant of Chihara.

Chiya Japanese (Rare)
Means "bloody arrow; arrow of blood" in Japanese.

Chiyonofuji Japanese
It means "One thousand years of wisteria."

Chizaka Japanese
Variant of Chisaka.

Chizaki Japanese
Variant of Chisaki.

Chizhevskiy m Russian, Polish (Russified), Yiddish (Russified)
Russian form of Czyżewski.

Chizhov m Russian
Russian form of Czyżewski.

Ch'ng Chinese (Hokkien)
Hokkien romanization of Zhuang.

Cho Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Hakka), Chinese (Hokkien)
Cantonese, Hakka and Hokkien romanization of Cao.

Chockalingam Indian, Tamil
From a nickname referring to the Hindu god Shiva, composed of the Sanskrit words चोक्का (cokkā) meaning "alluring" and लिङ्गम् (liṅga) meaning "sign, symbol, mark".

Chodecki Polish
This indicates familial origin within the Kuyavian town of Chodecz.

Chohan Urdu, Indian, Hindi, Punjabi
Alternate transcription of Chauhan.

Choi Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Cai.

Chokalingam Indian, Tamil
Variant of Chockalingam. A famous bearer is American actress and comedienne Vera Mindy Chokalingam (1979-), who uses the stage name Mindy Kaling.

Chokshi Indian
From Gujarati čoksi ‘jeweler’, ‘assayer of gold and silver’, from čokəs ‘precise’, ‘circumspect’, a compound of čo- ‘four’, ‘four-way’, ‘all-round’ (Sanskrit čatus- ‘four’) + kəs ‘assaying’ (Sanskrit kạsa ‘rubbing’, ‘touchstone’).

Cholerzyński Polish
This indicates familial origin within the Lesser Polish village of Cholerzyn.

Cholmely English
The Cholmely family lived in the township of Cholmondley in the parish of Malpas in Cheshire.

Chon Korean
Alternate transcription of Korean Hangul 전 (see Jeon).

Chong Korean
Variant romanization of Jeong.

Chönz Romansh
Derived from a diminutive of the given name Conrad.

Choo Korean
Variant romanization of Chu.

Choo Chinese (Hokkien), Chinese (Teochew)
Hokkien and Teochew romanization of Zhu.

Chopin French
French and English: nickname for a heavy drinker, from Old French chopine, a large liquid measure (from Middle Low German schopen "ladle"). The derived Old French verb chopiner has the sense 'to tipple’, ‘to drink to excess’... [more]

Choppin French
Variant of Chopin.

Chopra Indian, Punjabi
Of unknown meaning.

Choquette French
Altered spelling of French Choquet, a Picard form of Old French soquet, which was the term for a tax on wines and foodstuffs, hence a metonymic occupational name for a collector of such taxes.

Choret French (Quebec)
Variant of Chauré.

Choriev Tajik, Uzbek
Masculine form of Chorieva.

Chorieva Tajik, Uzbek
Feminine form of Choriev.

Chornenkyi m Ukrainian
Variant of Chornyy.

Chornykh Ukrainian
Ukrainian form of Chernykh.

Chornyy m Ukrainian
Ukrainian cognate of Chyornyy.

Chosokabe Japanese
Variant transcription of Chousokabe.

Choudary Urdu, Indian, Telugu
Variant of Chaudhary.

Choudhry Indian, Hindi, Urdu
Alternate transcription of Chaudhary.

Choudhuri Indian, Bengali, Odia, Assamese
Variant of Chaudhary.

Choudry Urdu, Punjabi
Urdu and Punjabi form of Chaudhary.

Chougule Marathi
Alternate transcription of Marathi चौगुले (see Chaugule).

Chouhan Indian, Assamese, Bengali, Hindi
Alternate transcription of Chauhan.

Chouinard French (Quebec)
Nickname of a diminutive from French choucas meaning "jackdaw".

Choukri Arabic (Maghrebi)
Alternate transcription of Shukri chiefly used in Morocco.

Choules English (British, Rare)
The surname Choules is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a variant of Scholes, itself "a topographical name for someone who lived in a rough hut or shed", from the Northern Middle English 'scale, schole'... [more]

Chow Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Zhou.

Chowdary Indian, Telugu, Tamil
Variant of Chaudhary used in Southern India.

Chowdhary Indian, Bengali
Alternate transcription of Chaudhary.

Chowdhry Indian, Hindi, Bengali
Alternate transcription of Chaudhary.

Choy Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Cai.

Chrapko Belarusian
Belarusian Latin spelling of Khrapko.

Chraplewski Polish
This indicates familial origin within either of 3 Greater Polish villages named Chraplewo.

Chresta Romansh
Variant of Cresta.

Chrétien French, French (Quebec)
French form of Christian.

Chriqui Judeo-Spanish
Alternate transcription of Chouraqui.

Christ German, Dutch
Either from a short form of the personal name Christian, or from a nickname meaning "the Christian", both from Latin Christ (see Christos 1).

Christenson English
Anglicized form of Christensen

Christie Scottish
Means "son of Christian" or "son of Christopher".

Christl German
Pet form of the given name Christian.

Christmas English
Either an occupational name for someone who was responsible for arrangement of festivities for Christmas day, or it might a nickname for someone who was born on Christmas.

Christmass English
Variant of Christmas.

Christodoulopoulos Greek
Means "descendant of Christ's servant" in Greek.

Christoffersson Swedish
Means "son of Christoffer".

Christofi Greek (Cypriot)
From the given name Christofis, a short form of Christophoros.

Christoforou Greek (Cypriot)
Means "son of Christophoros".

Christopoulos Greek
Means "son of Christos 1".

Christou Greek
Means "son of Christos 1".

Christoyannopoulos Greek
Means "descendant of John and Christ" in Greek. A notable bearer of this surname is Alexandre Christoyannopoulos.

Chromczak Polish (Latinized, Rare, ?)
The meaning of the name is: Chromium approval throughput time might.

Chromy Polish
Polish form of Khromykh

Chromý Czech
Czech form of Khromykh

Chronis Greek
From a short form of Greek Polychronis. The word χρόνος (chrónos) itself means "time" in Greek.

Chronowski Polish
This indicates familial origin within either of 5 Lesser Polish villages: Chronów-Kolonia Dolna, Chronów-Kolonia Górna, Chronówek, Chronów in Gmina Orońsko, or Chronów in Gmina Nowy Wiśnicz.

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.

Chrysanthou Greek (Cypriot)
Means "son of Chrysanthos".

Chrysler German, Jewish
From a German name referring to spinning or related to a Yiddish word, krayzl meaning "spinning top." The name can refer to a potter who spun a wheel to make utensils or to a person with curly hair or someone known for being continually active... [more]

Chrysostomou Greek (Cypriot)
Means "son of Chrysostomos".

Chrysovergis Greek
The one of the "golden rod".From the Greek words for gold: chrysos (χρυσός), and rod: verga (βέργα).

Chrzanowska f Polish
Feminine form of Chrzanowski.

Chu Japanese
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 中 or 仲 (see Chū).

Chu Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Zhou, from Sino-Vietnamese 周 (chu).

Chu Chinese
From Chinese 褚 (chǔ) referring to the ancient fief of Chu, which existed in the state of Song in what is now Henan province.

Chu Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Zhu, from Sino-Vietnamese 朱 (chu).

Chū Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 中 or 仲 (see Naka).

Chua Chinese (Hokkien), Chinese (Teochew)
Hokkien and Teochew romanization of Cai.

Chuah Chinese (Hokkien), Chinese (Teochew)
Hokkien and Teochew romanization of Cai.

Chuba Hungarian
A name that deserves better knowledge of for how it may soon disappear in my family.

Chubb English
English (mainly West Country): nickname from Middle English chubbe ‘chub’ a common freshwater fish Leuciscus cephalus. The fish is notable for its short fat shape and sluggish habits and the word was used in early Modern English for a lazy spiritless person a rustic or a simpleton... [more]

Chubbs English
Variant of Chubb.

Chuckler Indian, Telugu
Telugu occupational name for a leather worker, a job historically considered spiritually polluting and impure in India, where the surname belongs to Dalit, or "Untouchables" - members of the lowest caste.

Chughtai Urdu
From the name of 13th-century Mongol ruler Chagatai Khan, borne by his present-day descendants in South Asia.

Chugunova Russian
Feminine transcription of Russian Чугунов (see Chugunov).

Chui Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Xu 1.

Chuibekov Slavic (Rare)
The name Chuibekov means "son of Chuib". It originates from Eastern Europe/Russia, and is very rare today. It is most prevalent in Central Asia, especially Kyrgyzstan, where the majority of the population is descended from early Siberians, and first found in Mongolia... [more]

Chulanont Thai
From Thai จุลา (chula) of unknown meaning and นนท์ (non) meaning "fun; joy".

Chumbley English
Variant of Chumley.

Chumlee English
Variant of Chumley.

Chumley English
Variant of Cholmondeley.

Chung Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Zhang.

Chung Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Zhong, from Sino-Vietnamese 鍾 (chung).

Chương Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Zhang, from Sino-Vietnamese 章 (chương).

Churchward English
Occupational name for a churchwarden, someone who handled the secular affairs of a parish.

Churchyard English
It comes from when the family lived in or near the precincts of a church. Churchyard belongs to the large class of Anglo-Saxon topographic surnames, which were given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as "a hill", "stream", "church", or "type of tree".

Churlson English
Means “son of Charles”.

Churriguera Catalan (Castilianized)
Castilianized form of Xoriguera.

Chūtō Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Nukutō.

Chuto Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Chūtō.

Chuu Japanese
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 中 or 仲 (see Chū).

Chviedarovič Belarusian (Rare)
Means "son of Chviedar". A notable bearer is Mikalaj Čarnuševič (1904-1981), the Belarusian poet, prose writer and translator better known by his nickname Mikola Chviedarovič.

Chydenius Finland Swedish
From the name of the Kytyniemi estate in Nykyrko (now Uusikaupunki), Finland.

Chyornykh Russian
Variant of Chernykh.

Chytil Czech
Nickname from the past participle of chytit ‘have caught’.

Ciahlo Belarusian (Rare)
Belarusian form of Tyahlo.

Cianci Italian
The surname Cianci is a name for a person of small financial means. The surname Cianfari is derived from the Italian words cianfrone and cianferone, which referred to a type of medieval coin.

Ciani Italian
From the given name Ciano, a diminutive of Luciano, Feliciano, Marciano, or other names with similar endings... [more]

Ćibarić Croatian
Son of Ćibar

Cicco Italian
From a diminutive of Francesco.

Ciccone English
A diminutive of Francesco. A famous bearer is American singer Madonna Ciccone (1958-), better known as simply Madonna.

Ciccu Sardinian
Variant of Cicco.

Cicerone Italian
Derived from the given name Cicerone. In some cases, it could instead be an augmentative form of Cicero.

Cichela English
Variant of Cicchella.

Cichella Italian
Variant of Cicchella.

Cicvara Serbian
Derived from cicvara (цицвара), meaning "gruel", a type of food.

Cidron Spanish (Philippines)
Variant of Cidro.

Ciechanover Polish, Jewish
Variant of Ciechanower. It is borne by the Israeli biologist Aaron Ciechanover (1947-), who is known for characterising the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using ubiquitin.

Ciechanower Polish, Jewish
Denoted a person who came from one of the places in Poland called Ciechanów, for example the city in the Mazovia province.

Ciechi Italian
Means "blind (people)" in Italian, from Latin caecus "devoid of light, blind; invisible; aimless".

Cienfuegos Asturian (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Cinfuegos.

Ciepliński Polish
This indicates familial origin within either of 3 Kuyavian villages: Ciepliny-Budy, Cieplinki, or Ciepliny.

Čiernjak Belarusian
Łacinka spelling of Chernyak.

Čiernyšievič Belarusian
Belarusian Latin form of Chernyshevich.

Ciesla Polish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Cieśla.

Cieslak Polish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Cieślak.

Cieszyński Polish
Habitational name for a person from the town Cieszyn in southern Poland, derived from a diminutive of the given name Ciechosław.

Cifrino Italian (Rare)
Possibly from an inflection of Italian cifrare, meaning "to monogram, to abbreviate (a name) to initials; to encode, to cypher", or perhaps a derived term meaning "little nothing". Ultimately from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr) "empty, zero".

Cifuentes Spanish
Habitational Name Probably From Cifuentes In Guadalajara Named From Spanish Cien ‘Hundred’ (From Latin Centum) + Fuentes ‘Springs’ (From Latin Fontes; See Font ) Because Of The Abundance Of Natural Springs In The Area.

Ciganskis Latvian
Latvian form of Cygański.

Cigarroa Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Zigarroa.

Cihangiroğlu Turkish
Means "son of Cihangir".

Cilliërs Afrikaans
Brought to South Africa by settlers of French decent some time in the past 300 years. Sometimes also a given name for boys.

Ciminelli Italian
Diminutive of Cimino

Ciminello Italian
Diminutive of Cimino

Ciminera Italian
from a dialect variant of ciminiera "chimney" hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who built chimneys or worked a furnace oven or kiln with a chimney or a nickname for a tall thin person.

Cimino Italian
Possibly derived from Italian cimino or Sicilian ciminu "cumin" as a metonymic occupational name for a spice merchant. Alternatively, it could be a diminutive of a shortened form of names such as Decimius or Ecimius.

Cimorelli Italian
Variant of Cimarelli, a diminutive form of either the topographic surname Cima or the medieval given name Cima.

Cimpoieru Romanian
Occupation surname originating from bagpipe players; Romanian version of Piper

Cinco Filipino
From a Hispanicised form of the Hokkien surname Go.

Cinfuegos Asturian
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous parish of the municipality of Quirós.

Ciotola Italian
Possibly a diminutive of Ciotta.

Cisneros Spanish
Habitational name from Cisneros, a place in the province of Palencia, named with a derivative of Spanish cisne 'swan' (via Old French and Latin from Greek kyknos).

Cissé Western African, Manding (Gallicized)
Variant of Ceesay used in parts of French-influenced western Africa.

Citarelli Neapolitan
Variant of Citarella

Citovič Belarusian
Belarusian Latin spelling of Tsitovich.

Citroën French
Either a variant of Citron or a cognate of Citroen.

Ciubotaru Romanian
Variant of Ciobotaru.

Ciuffi Italian
Probably from Italian ciuffo "tuft (of hair)".

Civilla Italian
Possibly derived from the Roman cognomen Civilis, taken from Latin civilis meaning "civic, civil (of or pertaining to civilians)" or "courteous, polite".

Claassen German
The name Claassen means "son of Klaus." It's primarily German, but it's also Dutch and Danish.

Claeson English
Means "Son of Claes". Possibly an English phonetic elaboration of Clayton, but also a Swedish variant of Claesson.

Claessens Flemish, Belgian
Means "son of Claes".

Claggett English
Variant of Clagett

Clague Manx
Shortened Anglicization of either Gaelic Mac Luathóg "son of Luathóg", itself derived from a diminutive of Gaelic luath, Manx leah "swift", or from Gaelic Mac Laoghóg "son of Laoghóg", which is derived from a diminutive of Gaelic laogh and Manx lheiy "calf".

Claine Scottish, Irish
Anglicized form of the Gaelic Mac Gille Eathain, a patronymic name meaning "son of the servant of Saint John."

Clancy Irish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Mac Fhlannchaidh.

Clanschutti Romansh (Archaic)
Corruption of Ganschutti.

Clapp German
Variant of Klapp.

Claremont French
Means "clear hill" in French, from the Latin clarus "clear" and French mont "mountain", A cognate of Clairmont.

Claret Catalan
Diminutive of clar meaning "clear, bright". This is the name of various towns in Catalonia. A famous bearer of this surname is Catalan saint and missionary Antonio María Claret (1807-1870).

Clarey Irish
Anglicized form of Ó Cléirigh and variant of O'Clery and Cleary.

Clarks English
Variant of Clark.

Clary Irish, French
Variant of Cleary

Clason English (American)
Americanized spelling of Dutch Claasen.

Clavel Spanish
Metonymic occupational name for a spice trader or a nail maker, derived from Spanish clavel or Catalan clavell meaning "nail", later also "clove", itself a derivative of Latin clavellus "nail".

Clavel French
Metonymic occupational name for a nail maker, ultimately from Latin clavellus "nail", but in some cases possibly from the same word in the sense "smallpox, rash". A fictional bearer is Miss Clavel, a nun and teacher in Ludwig Bemelmans's 'Madeline' series of children's books (introduced in 1939).

Clavell French, Catalan
The first documented records of the surname Clavell appear in Catalunya between 1291 and 1327. The word clavell traces back to the Indo-European words "kleu", later "klawo" meaning a metal tool. In Latin "clavus", it eventually became a surname "Clavell".

Claver English, Catalan
occupational name from Old French clavier Catalan claver "keeper of the keys doorkeeper" (from Latin clavarius from clavis "key").

Clavero English, Catalan
1 English: occupational name from Old French clavier ‘doorkeeper’ (from Latin clavis ‘key’).... [more]

Clawson English
Means "son of Claus"

Claxon English
Variant of Claxton.

Claxton English
From the names of any of several settlements in England, derived from either the personal name Clacc (from Old Norse Klakkr "bump, hillock") or the Old English word clacc "hill, peak" combined with tun "town, settlement".

Claypool English
Derived from Claypole, a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, named from Old English cl?g meaning "clay" and pol meaning "pool".

Clayson English
Patronymic from the personal name Classe, a short form of Nicholas.

Cleamons English (British, ?)
Possibly a variant of Clemons.

Cleaveland English
Spelling variant of Cleveland.

Cleaves English
Variant of Cleave with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.

Cleburne English
Cleburne is a surname of Northern English and Southern Scottish Anglo-Saxon origin.

Cleese Scottish, Irish, English
Variant spelling of McCleese. A famous bearer is English actor and comedian John Cleese (1939-).

Clef Italian
At the end of the 10th century, Gregorian musical scribes increased the precision of early notation by introducing a horizontal line to indicate a base pitch. The pitch of this line was indicated by a letter at its start... [more]

Clein German
Variant of Klein.

Cleland Belgian, Scottish, Irish
Scottish and Irish reduced form of McClelland. ... [more]

Clemenceau French
Derived from the French given name Clément. A notable bearer was the French prime minister Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929), who successfully lead France through the end of World War I.

Clements English
Means "son of Clement".

Clemo English
From a Cornish form of the personal name Clement.

Clemons English
Means "son of Clement". Variant of Clement.

Clemont English
Variant of Clement.

Clemson English
Means "son of Clem".

Clendenning Scottish
Variant of Glendenning.

Clerc French
Occupational or status name for a member of a minor religious order or for a scholar Old French clerc from Late Latin clericus from Greek klerikos a derivative of kleros "inheritance legacy" with reference to the priestly tribe of Levites (see Levy ) "whose inheritance was the Lord"... [more]

Clerico Italian
Occupational or status name for a member of a minor religious order or for a scholar from Late Latin clericus (see Clerc ). Italian cognitive of Clark.

Clerihew Scottish
A Scottish surname of unknown origin and meaning. A clerihew is a humorous or satirical verse consisting of two rhyming couplets in lines of irregular metre about someone who is named in the poem. It was invented by the British author Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956; Clerihew was his mother's maiden name)... [more]

Clerk English
Variant spelling of Clark.

Clerval m Literature
The name of Victor Frankenstein's best friend in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Clester English (American)
Probably an Americanized form of Dutch Klooster .

Cleveland English
English regional name from the district around Middlesbrough named Cleveland ‘the land of the cliffs’, from the genitive plural (clifa) of Old English clif ‘bank’, ‘slope’ + land ‘land’... [more]

Cleveland Norwegian (Anglicized)
Americanized spelling of Norwegian Kleiveland or Kleveland, habitational names from any of five farmsteads in Agder and Vestlandet named with Old Norse kleif "rocky ascent" or klefi "closet" (an allusion to a hollow land formation) and land "land".

Cliff English
habitational name from any of numerous places called Cliff(e), Cle(e)ve, or Clive, from Old English clif "slope, bank, cliff", or a topographic name from the same word... [more]

Cliffe English (British)
After the village of Cliffe, Kent in England.

Cliffton English
Variant of Clifton.

Cliford Nigerian
Variant of Clifford.

Clift English
Topographic name for someone who lived by a crevice in rock, derived from Middle English clift meaning "cleft". The American actor Montgomery Clift (1920-1966) was a famous bearer of this name.

Clingan Scottish, Northern Irish
Short form of Mac Clingan.

Clingane Scottish, Scottish Gaelic
Variant of Clingan.

Clingen Scottish, Scottish Gaelic
Variant of Clingan.

Clinger English (American)
Americanized spelling of German Klinger.Possibly a variant of Clinker. an English occupational name for a maker or fixer of bolts and rivets.

Clinkenbeard Low German
Possibly an Americanized form of North German Klingebiel, a variant of Klingbeil.

Clinker English (British, ?)
Possibly a varient of Clinger.

Clisby English
Surname originating in the village of Cleasby in North Yorkshire's Richmondshire district.

Cloney Irish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cluanaigh, meaning "descendant of Cluanach".

Clooney English, Irish (Anglicized)
From Gaelic Ó Cluanaigh meaning "descendant of Cluanach". Cluanach was a given name derived from Irish clauna "deceitful, flattering, rogue".

Clopat Romansh
Variant of Clopath.

Clopath Romansh
Derived from a diminutive form of the given name Clo.

Clopton English
Habitational name from any of various places, for example in Essex, Suffolk, and Warwickshire, named Clopton from Old English clopp(a) meaning "rock", "hill" + tūn meaning "settlement".

Clore English (American)
Americanized spelling of German Klor (from a short form of the medieval personal name Hilarius (see Hillary) or Klar).

Clores Spanish, Portuguese
Portuguese form of Flores

Closs German
Variant of Kloss and, in North America, also an altered form of this. It is also found in Lorraine, France.

Closson Scottish
this name is of the noble family in Orkney islands known as the closson whom came to Orkney with the viking raiders in the early 900's and they founded the noble house of closson there of

Clotts English
Found in the United States, most likely either an English spelling of Klutz, meaning "awkward, clumsy," or as a plural form of the English surname Clot, meaning "cloth ."

Cloud French
From the Germanic personal name Hlodald, composed of the elements hlod "famous, clear" and wald "rule", which was borne by a saint and bishop of the 6th century.

Cloude English
Variant of Cloud 1.

Clough English (British)
The distinguished surname Clough is of ancient Anglo-Saxon origin. It is derived from the Old English "cloh," meaning "ravine" or "steep-sided valley," and was first used to refer to a "dweller in the hollow."

Clow English, Scottish
Variant of Clough.

Clowney Scottish
Probably a variant of Cluny or Clunie.

Cloyd Welsh (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Clwyd.

Clucas Manx
Contracted anglicised form of "Mac Lucas" meaning "Son of Lucas

Clue English
Variant of Clough, traditionally found in Devonshire.

Clunie Scottish
Scottish form of Irish Cloney.

Clute Dutch
Variant form of Dutch Cloet or Kluit. Alternatively, could be from German Kluth.

Clutterbuck English
English surname of unknown origin, possibly a corrupted form of a Dutch surname derived from Dutch klateren "to clatter" and beek "brook", or from klateren and bok "buck, billy goat", or from an older form of kladboek meaning "account book, minute book".

Cluxton English
Altered form of English Claxton.

Clyde Scottish
A river in the south-west of Scotland, running through Inverclyde, Ayrshire, Dunbartonshire, Lanarkshire, and the city of Glasgow. The second longest in Scotland; and the eighth longest in the United Kingdom... [more]

Clydesdale English, Scottish
From the name of a location in Lanarkshire, Scotland, meaning "Clyde’s valley", derived from the name of the river Clyde.

Coach Irish
Origin uncertain. Most probably a reduced form of Irish McCoach, which is of uncertain derivation, perhaps a variant of McCaig.

Coach French
Possibly an altered spelling of French Coache, from the Norman and Picard term for a damson, probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of plums.

Coady Irish
Coady or Cody originated in the Southern Counties of Ireland. The Norman family Odo le Ercedekne acquired land in Kilkenny, Ireland in early 1300's. In medieval records it was spelled Lerceddkne and then Archdeken and then Archdeacon... [more]

Coakley Irish
From Irish Gaelic Mac Caochlaoich "son of Caochlaoch", a personal name meaning literally "blind warrior".

Coalla Asturian (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Cuaya.

Coard English, Northern Irish
Derived from Old French corde "string", a metonymic occupational name for a maker of cord or string, or a nickname for an habitual wearer of decorative ties and ribbons.

Coates English
Name for a cottager or a person who lived in a humble dwelling, derived from Old English cote meaning "cottage, hut". It could also be used as a habitational name for someone from any of numerous locations with this name.

Coatney English
The initial bearer of this surname lived in a little cottage.

Cobain Scottish
This unusual surname is of Old Norse origin and is found particularly in Scotland. It derives from an Old Norse personal name Kobbi, itself from an element meaning large, and the Gaelic bain, denoting a fair person, with the diminutive ('little' or 'son of') form Cobbie.

Čoban Croatian, Serbian
From čoban meaning ''shepherd''. Cognate of Turkish Çoban.

Çobanov m Azerbaijani
Means "son of the shepherd", from Azerbaijani çoban meaning "shepherd".

Çobanova f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Çobanov.

Çoban-zade Crimean Tatar
Means "son of a sheperd" from Crimean Tatar сопан (çopan) meaning "sheperd" and Persian زاده (zade) meaning "born, offsping, child".

Cobbs English
Variant of Cobb.

Cobello Medieval Galician (Hispanicized, Archaic)
Ancient family of Celtic or Suebi origin who settled in Monteveloso Galicia.

Coccia Italian
Meaning uncertain, possibly from Sicilian cocciu "grain, berry", denoting a kind of gruel; an occupational name for a farmer from Greek κόκκος (kokkos) "grain, seed"; or from Italian coccia "head, shell", referring to someone with a large head, or who was stubborn.

Coccimiglio Italian
From Sicilian cuccumeli, the name of several fruit-bearing deciduous trees or of the hackberry plant, itself borrowed from an Ancient Greek word; possibly κοκκύμηλον (kokkymelon) "plum", literally "cuckoo apple", or from κόκκος (kókkos) "grain, seed, kernel" and‎ μῆλον (mêlon) "apple, any fruit from a tree".

Coceres Spanish
Variant of Caceres.

Cochet French
Either from cochet a diminutive of coq "rooster" used as a nickname for a vain conceited or womanizing individual... [more]

Cocicova Russian
Feminine form of Cocicov.

Cocke English
nickname from Middle English cok ‘cock’, ‘male bird or fowl’ (Old English cocc), given for a variety of possible reasons. Applied to a young lad who strutted proudly like a cock, it soon became a generic term for a youth and was attached with hypocoristic force to the short forms of many medieval personal names (e.g. Alcock, Hancock, Hiscock, Mycock)... [more]