Browse Submitted Surnames

Morimiya Japanese
Mori means "forest" and miya means "temple, shrine".

Morimura Japanese (Rare)
From Kanji "森" (Mori) meaning "Forest" and "村" (Mura) meaning "Village".

Morinaga Japanese
From Japanese 森 (mori) meaning "forest" and 永 (naga) meaning "perpetual, eternal".

Morinaka Japanese
From Japanese 森 (mori) meaning "forest" and 中 (naka) meaning "middle".

Morino Japanese
Mori means "forest" and no means "field, rice paddy, wilderness".

Morio Japanese
Mori means "forest" and o means "tail."

Morioka Japanese
From Japanese 森 (mori) meaning "forest" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Morisaka Japanese
Mori means "forest" and saka means "slope, hill".

Morisaki Japanese
From Japanese 森 (mori) meaning "forest" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Morisato Japanese
Mori means "forest" and sato means "village".

Morishige Japanese
Mori means "forest" and shige means "luxury".

Morishima Japanese
Mori means "forest, grove" and shima means "island".

Morishima Japanese
From Japanese 森 (mori) meaning "forest" and 島 or 嶋 (shima) meaning "island".

Moritaka Japanese
Mori means "forest" and taka means "tall, high, expensive".

Moritake Japanese
Mori means "forest" and take needs "bamboo".

Moritani Japanese
From Japanese 森 (mori) meaning "forest" and 谷 (tani) meaning "valley".

Moriuchi Japanese
森 (Mori) means "forest" and 内 (uchi) means "inside".

Moriwaki Japanese
From Japanese 森 (mori) meaning "forest" and 脇 (waki) meaning "side".

Moriya Japanese
From the Japanese 守 (mori or kami) "guard," "protect," "defend" or 森 (mori) "forest" and 屋 (ya) "dwelling" or 谷 (ya or tani) "valley."

Moriya Japanese
From Japanese 森 (mori) meaning "forest" and 谷 (ya) meaning "valley".

Mørk Norwegian
From Old Norse mork "wood". This was the name of several farmsteads in Norway.

Moteki Japanese
From the Japanese 茂 (mote) "overgrown," "to grow thick" and 木 (ki, moku or boku) "tree."

Motoki Japanese
Moto means "root, source, origin" and ki means "tree, wood".

Murahayashi Japanese
Mura means "village, hamlet" and hayashi means "forest, grove".

Muraki Japanese
Mura means "hamlet, village" and ki means "tree, wood".

Muraki Japanese
From Japanese 村 (mura) meaning "town, village" and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".

Muramatsu Japanese
From Japanese 村 (mura) meaning "town, village" and 松 (matsu) meaning "pine tree, fir tree".

Muramori Japanese
Mura means "village, hamlet" and mori means "forest".

Naegi Japanese (Rare)
This surname is used as 苗木 with 苗 (byou, myou, nae, nawa-) meaning "sapling, seedling, shoot" and 木 (boku, moku, ki, ko-) meaning "tree, wood."... [more]

Nagamatsu Japanese
This surname is used as 永松, 長松 or 永末 with 永 (ei, naga.i) meaning "eternity, lengthy, long," 長 (chou, osa, naga.i) meaning "leader, long," 松 (shou, matsu) meaning "pine tree" and 末 (batsu, matsu, sue) meaning "close, end, posterity, powder, tip."

Nagamori Japanese
Naga means "long, chief" and mori means "forest".

Naiki Japanese
From 内 (nai) meaning "inside" and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".

Nakahayashi Japanese
Naka means "middle" and hayashi means "forest, grove".

Nakaki Japanese
Naka means "middle" and ki means "tree, wood".

Nakamatsu Japanese
This surname combines 中 (chuu, ata.ru, uchi, naka) meaning "centre, in(side), mean (not as in the way a person acts), middle" or 仲 (chuu, naka) meaning "go-between, relationship" with 松 (shou, matsu) meaning "pine tree." One bearer of this surname is inventor Yoshirō Nakamatsu (中松 義郎), also known as Dr... [more]

Nakamori Japanese
Naka means "middle" and mori means "forest".

Namiki Japanese
Nami means "wave" and ki means "tree, wood".

Namiki Japanese
From Japanese 並 (nami) meaning "row, line" and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".

Naranjo Spanish
Topographic name for someone who lived by an orange grove, from Spanish naranjo ‘orange tree’ (from naranja ‘orange’, Arabic nāránjya), or a habitational name from a place named Naranjo in A Coruña and Códoba provinces... [more]

Natsuki Japanese
Natsu means "summer" and ki means "tree, wood".

Neubaum German
topographic name meaning "new tree" or a habitational name from a place so named. Derived from the elements niuwi "new" boum "tree".

Niinemets Estonian
Niinemets is an Estonian surname meaning "linden forest".

Niinepuu Estonian
Niinepuu is an Estonian surname meaning "bast tree/wood".

Nijibayashi Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 虹 (Niji) meaning "Rainbow" and 林 (Bayashi) meaning "Forest". A notable bearer of this surname was academic author Kei Nijibayashi.

Nock Celtic, English
Dweller at the oak tree; originally spelt as "Noake" evolved into "Nock".

Nogales Spanish
Habitational name from either of two locations in Spain named Nogales, from the plural form of Spanish nogal meaning "walnut tree".

Nõmmik Estonian
Nõmmik is an Estonian surname meaning "heath forest" or "heath stand".

Nomori Japanese (?)
From Japanese 野 (no) meaning "field" or 乃 (no), a possessive particle combined with 森 (mori) meaning "forest".

Noormets Estonian
Noormets is an Estonian surname meaning "young forest".

Nørskov Danish
Means "northern forest" from the Danish nord "north" and skov "forest".

Northey English
Habitational name from Northay in Hawkchurch Devon. The placename derives from Middle English north "north northern" and heie "fence enclosure hedge" (Old English norþ (ge)hæg)... [more]

Nõupuu Estonian
Nõupuu is an Estonian surname meaning "vessel tree/wood".

Nureki Japanese
From 濡 (nu, nure) meaning "wet" and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".

Oak English
Topographic surname for someone who lived near an oak tree or in an oak wood, from Middle English oke "oak".

Obaldia Medieval Basque (Latinized, Archaic)
Obaldia comes from the Proto-Euskera or Proto-Basque (ancient Basque languaje) that is Dovaltia (also known as Dobaldia). Its meaning is pear tree or european wild pear.

Ōbayashi Japanese
From Japanese 大 (ō) meaning "big, great" and 林 (hayashi) meaning "forest".

O'Coill Irish
Meaning, "wood, forest, or shrub hazel tree."

Ó Cuill Irish
Meaning, "wood, forest, or shrub hazel tree."

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

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

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

Ōki Japanese
From Japanese 大 (ō) meaning "big, great" and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".

Okimatsu Japanese
Matsu means "pine, fir tree" and oki means "open sea".

Okino Japanese
O could mean "big, great" and ki can mean "tree, wood", or it could be spelled as oki meaning "open sea", and no means "field, plain".

Oliveras Catalan
Catalan: variant spelling of the topographic name Oliveres, from the plural of olivera ‘olive tree’, or a habitational name from Las Oliveras in Murcia province.

Olivo Italian, Spanish
Topographic name from olivo "olive tree" or occupational name for someone who sold olives. Or from the given name Olivo given to someone born on Palm Sunday.

Olumets Estonian
Olumets is an Estonian surname meaning "existing forest".

Ōmori Japanese
From Japanese 大 (ō) meaning "big, great" and 森 (mori) meaning "forest".

Omori Japanese
From the Japanese 大 (o) "big" and 森 (mori) "forest," "woods."

Onogi Japanese
O means "large, big", no means "field", and gi is a form of ki meaning "tree, wood".

Onoki Japanese
O means "large, big", no means "field", and ki means"tree, wood".

Oosterhout Dutch
From the name of various places in the Netherlands, derived from ooster "eastern" and hout "wood, forest".

Orchard English, Scottish
English: topographic name for someone who lived by an orchard, or a metonymic occupational name for a fruit grower, from Middle English orchard.... [more]

Orgmets Estonian
Orgmets is an Estonian surname meaning "valley forest".

Orman Turkish
Means "forest, woods" in Turkish.

Orosco Spanish, Basque
Variant of Orozco. Means "place of the holly trees" from oros meaning "holly tree" and the suffix -ko signifying a place. Also believed to have been derived from Latin orosius meaning "the son of bringer of wisdom".

Orzechowski Polish
Polish from Orzech meaning "hazelnut", someone who is living by a hazelnut tree or a nickname for someone with light brown hair.

Osaragi Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 大仏 (daibutsu) meaning "great statue of Buddha" with an assigned reading of おさらぎ (osaragi), from さらぎ (saragi), sound-changed from さらき (saraki), from 更木 (saraki) meaning "new wood; unused wood", referring to a statue of Buddha that was created using fresh wood.

Oshana Assyrian
Derived from the given name Oshana, meaning "Palm Sunday, palm tree" in Assyrian.

Osis Latvian
Meaning "ash tree".

Ōtsuki Japanese
This surname combines 大 (tai, dai, oo-, -oo.ini, oo.kii) "large, big" with 月 (gatsu, getsu, tsuki) meaning "moon, month," 槻 (ki, tsuki) meaning "Zelkova tree," 築 (chiku, kizu.ku, tsuki) meaning "build, construct, fabricate," 附 (fu, tsu.ku, tsu.keru) meaning "affixed, append, attach" or 即 (soku, sunawa.chi, tsu.ku, tsu.keru) meaning "adapt, agree, as is, conform, instant, namely." It can also be used to combine 王 (ou, -nou) meaning "king, magnate, rule" and 月.... [more]

Ōtsuki Japanese
From Japanese 大 (ō) meaning "big, great" and 槻 (tsuki) referring to a type of tree (genus Zelkova).

Ōtsutsuki Popular Culture
This surname is used as 大筒木 with 大 (tai, dai, oo-, -oo.ini, oo.kii) "large, big," 筒 (tou, tsutsu) meaning "cylinder, gun barrel, pipe, sleeve, tube" and 木 (boku, moku, ki, ko-) meaning "tree, wood."... [more]

Ottoway English
From the Norman male personal names Otoïs, of Germanic origin and meaning literally "wealth-wide" or "wealth-wood", and Otewi, of Germanic origin and meaning literally "wealth-war".

Õuemets Estonian
Õuemets is an Estonian surname meaning "open forest".

Õunapuu Estonian
Õunapuu is an Estonian surname meaning "apple tree".

Õunloo Estonian
Õunloo is an Estonian surname meaning "apple swathe/wood row".

Owsley English
Habitational name form a now lost place name in Southern England. Possibly derived from the name of the river name Ouse and Old English -leah meaning "wood".

Oyaski English (American)
A surname created by Michael Oyaski (formally Michael O'Yaski). The surname is currently known to only be used by one particular branch of the O'Yaski family tree. The surname means "Dragon Rider of the West" according to members of the Oyaski family.

Pacana Spanish
From pacana meaning "pecan", "pecan tree", a word of Algonquin origin. This surname is also found in the Philippines.

Packwood English
Habitational name from a place in Warwickshire, so named from the Old English personal name Pac(c)a + wudu ‘wood’.

Paddock English
Derived from Middle English parrock meaning "paddock, small enclosure", hence a topographic name for a dweller by a paddock or an enclosed meadow. It could also be a nickname for a person who resembled a toad or frog in some way (derived from Middle English paddock meaning "toad, frog"), or denote a person hailing from one of the many places in England that bear this name, for example the town and civil parish of Paddock Wood in Kent.

Pădureanu Romanian
Derived from Romanian pădurean "forester".

Paimets Estonian
Paimets is an Estonian surname meaning "good forest".

Pajumets Estonian
Pajumets is an Estonian surname meaning "willow forest".

Pajupuu Estonian
Pajupuu is an Estonian surname meaning "willow tree".

Palamets Estonian
Palamets is an Estonian surname meaning "piece (of) forest". It is derived from the compound words "pala", meaning "piece" and "mets", meaning "forest".

Palm Swedish
Means "palm tree" in Swedish.

Palmberg Swedish
Combination of Swedish palm "palm tree" and berg "mountain".

Palmiste Estonian
Palmiste is an Estonian surname relating to "palm (tree)".

Palmqvist Swedish
Combination of Swedish palm meaning "palm tree", and kvist meaning "twig"

Palumaa Estonian
Palumaa is an Estonian surname meaning "sandy heath/heathy wood land".

Palumets Estonian
Palumets is an Estonian surname meaning "sandy heath/heathy woodland forest".

Pärnamets Estonian
Pärnamets is an Estonian surname meaning "linden forest".

Pärnpuu Estonian
Pärnpuu is an Estonian surname meaning "linden tree".

Pashley English
From the an Old English personal name Pæcca, and with the Old English word "le-ah," meaning "clearing in the wood. ''

Peachy English (Anglicized)
Means “lived near a peach tree, sold peaches, or was associated with the fruit in some other way”. Originally arrived with the in England after the Norman conquest of 1066.

Peartree English
Means "pear tree".

Peele English
This surname was given topographically to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree. A famous bearer of this surname is actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director Jordan Peele.

Penhaligon Cornish
Originally meant "person from Penhaligon", Cornwall ("willow-tree hill"). It is borne by Susan Penhaligon (1950-), a British actress.

Penley English
habitational name from Penleigh in Dilton Wiltshire. The place name probably derives from Old English penn "fold enclosure" or perhaps Celtic penn "head" and Old English leah "wood woodland clearing"... [more]

Perales Spanish
Habitational name for someone from any of various locations named Perales, from Spanish perales meaning "pear trees" (the plural of peral meaning "pear tree").

Pereire Breton (Latinized, Archaic)
This surname is the Gallic (Gaulish) origin and it means wild pear tree. There are also similar spellig in the Iberian Peninsula such as Pereiro, Pereyro, Pereiros, Perero and Pereros. These surnames (last names) correspond to families of the Celtiberian culture.

Pereiris Medieval Portuguese (Latinized, Rare, Archaic), Galician (Latinized, Rare, Archaic)
Pereiris (also known as Pereirus) is a last name of the Celtic roots (it's Galician and Portuguese). It meaning is will pear tree or pear tree and also european will pear tree. Pereiris comes from the translation of Welsh name and Cornish name Gellygen or Gellyg.

Pereiros Celtic (Latinized, Modern)
It is a last name that belongs to Celtic families. Its meaning is the will pear tree.

Perero Medieval Spanish (Latinized, Archaic)
It appeared in Extremadura and it means pear tree. It's a family name belonging to the Celtiberian culture (Celtic families).

Peres Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Gascon, Breton, Central African
Means "son of Pedro" in Spanish and Portuguese. Means "son of Pere" in Catalan... [more]

Perese Gascon
Meaning the pear tree. It have a second meaning that is Son of Peter and it's a surname of the Christian inspiration. In Catalonia there is a derivative that is Parés (Variations: Pares, Parès, Parè and Pare).

Pereyro Galician
It's a Galician surname and it means apple tree.

Pessegueiro Portuguese
Means "peach tree" in Portuguese, ultimately from Latin persicum. It indicated a person who lived near or worked with peach trees.

Pihlapuu Estonian
Pihlapuu is an Estonian surname meaning "rowan/mountain ash tree".

Pijnenburg Dutch
From the name of an estate or hamlet called Pijnenburg in the town of Soest in Utrecht, the Netherlands, composed of Middle Dutch pijn meaning "pine tree" and burg meaning "fortress, manor, mansion".

Pin French
A topographic name for someone living by a pine tree or in a pine forest, or a habitational name from a place named with the Old French word pin, meaning "pine, pine tree".

Pinchot American
Of unknown origin. Historically, borne most famously by Gifford Pinchot (1865 - 1946) first Chief of the United States Forest Service.

Pine English
Originally denoted a person who lived near a pine forest or who sold pine firs for a living.

Pineda Spanish, Catalan
Habitational name from any of the places in the provinces of Barcelona, Cuenca, and Burgos named Pineda, from Spanish and Catalan pineda "pine forest".

Piñero Spanish
Castilianized from the Portuguese surname Pinheiro, meaning "pine-tree"

Pink English, German
Nickname, possibly for a small person, from Middle English pink penkg ‘minnow’ (Old English pinc).English (southeastern): variant of Pinch .Variant spelling of German Pinck, an indirect occupational name for a blacksmith, an onomatopoeic word imitating the sound of hammering which was perceived as pink(e)pank... [more]

Pino Spanish, Galician, Italian
Spanish and Galician habitational name from any of the places in Galicia (Spain) named Pino from pino "pine" or a topographic name for someone who lived by a remarkable pine tree. Italian habitational name from Pino d'Asti in Asti province Pino Torinese in Torino or Pino Solitario in Taranto all named with pino "pine’... [more]

Pirnipuu Estonian
Pirnipuu is an Estonian surname meaning "pear tree".

Pláňsker Czech (Rare, Archaic), Slovak (Rare, Archaic), German (Rare, Archaic)
Originating from Bohemia, a region between The Czech Republic and Germany. The name means "forest clearing", Pláň: forest, sker: clearing. It is a very rare last name with only about 20 holders of it.

Planta Romansh
Derived from Romansh planta "tree; plant".

Platter Scottish
Habitational name from the Forest of Plater in Angus.

Ploomipuu Estonian
Ploomipuu is an Estonian surname meaning "plum tree" (Prunus).

Plum English, German
From Old Germanic *plūmā "plum", used as a topographic name for someone who lived by a plum tree, a metonymic occupational name for someone who grew or sold plums, or perhaps a nickname referring to a plum-coloured birthmark.

Plūme Latvian
Meaning "plum, plum tree".

Plumley English
Meaning "plum-tree wood or clearing" from the Old English words plume and leah.

Plumtree English
From any of the locations called Plumtree for anyone who lived near a plum tree derived from Old English plume "plum" and treow "tree".

Pohon Indonesian
Means "tree" in Indonesian.

Polombo Italian
Derived from Palombo literally meaning "Ring Dove" or Palombella meaning "Wood Pigeon" in the dialects of Southern Italy.

Pomante Italian
An occupational name for someone who farms or sells fruit, from Italian pomo "apple", descended from Latin pomum "fruit, fruit tree".

Poolamets Estonian
Poolamets is an Estonian surname meaning "half forest(ed)".

Poopuu Estonian
Poopuu is an Estonian surname, possibly derived from "poom" ("beam") "puu" ("wood" or "tree").

Poplar English
Nickname for someone living by a poplar tree.

Prestwood English
habitational name from any of several places called from Middle English prest priest "priest" and wode "wood" (Old English preost wudu) meaning "dweller by the priest's wood"

Primrose Scottish
From the name of Primrose in Fife, Scotland, a place originally named Prenrhos, literally "tree-moor" in Welsh. This is the family name of the Earls of Rosebery.

Prinsloo Afrikaans
Prinsloo is an Afrikaans surname. The name is derived from the dutch word Prins (meaning prince), and a loo suffix meaning clearing in the forest. Variant spellings include Prinzloo and Prinslo.

Puschat German (East Prussian)
East Prussian German (and thus heavily Lithuanian influenced) surname derived from Lithuanian pušaite "(young) pine tree", which - allegedly - used to be a term of endearment for a young girl.

Puu Estonian
Puu is an Estonian surname meaning "tree" and "wood".

Puurand Estonian
Puurand is an Estonian surname meaning "tree beach/shore".

Puusaag Estonian
Puusaag is an Estoian surname meaning "wood saw".

Puusik Estonian
Puusik is an Estonian surname meaning "tree stand".

Puusild Estonian
Puusild is an Estonian surname meaning "wood bridge".

Puust Estonian
Puust is an Estonian surname meaning "treen" (small handmade functional household objects made of wood) or "wooden".

Pyne English
Means "pine" from the Old French pin. This was originally given as a topographical name for someone who lived by a conspicuous pine tree or in a pine forest.

Quattrociocchi Italian
From quattro ciocchi, "four logs of wood" in Italian.

Quill Irish
Quill or Quille is an anglicised version of the Irish surnames Ó Cuill, Coll, Coill, and O'Coill (Ó Coill), all of which mean wood, forest or shrub Hazel Tree... [more]

Racine French
Means "(tree) root" in French, used as an occupational name for a grower or seller of root vegetables or as a nickname for a stubborn person.

Raie Estonian
Raie is an Estonian surname meaning "cutting", "hewing" and "(tree) lumbering".

Raiste Estonian
Raiste is an Estonian surname derived from "raie" meaning meaning "cutting", "hewing" and "(tree) lumbering".

Randmets Estonian
Randmets is an Estonian surname meaning "beach/seashore forest".

Rasila Finnish
A variant of the finnish word (rasi) for a forest that has been cleared for slash and burn but has not yet been burnt for agricultural means. The suffix "-la" is usually added to the stem of the word to indicate a location... [more]

Reemets Estonian
Reemets is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "rehi" meaning "barn" and "mets" meaning "forest".

Reimets Estonian
Reimets is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "raie" ("cutting" and "felling trees") and "mets", meaning forest. Possibly a corruption of "reid" ("road" and "roadstead") and ""mets" ("forest").

Reston English
Location name from northern England meaning "brush wood settlement" or place where brush wood, also known as rispe, grew.

Riesen German
It is a name for a wood carver.

Rilo English
Transferred use of the surname derived from the Old English elements ryge (rye) and lēah (wood, clearing, meadow). See also Riley 1.

Rin Japanese
From Japanese 林 (rin) meaning "forest".

Rinbayashi Japanese (Rare)
It's written like this: 林林. Both rin and hayashi mean "forest". This is because rin is the Chinese reading called onyomi, and hayashi is the Japanese reading called kunyomi.

Rix German
given to a person who resided near a hill, stream, church, or tree

Robertshaw English
habitational name from a lost place Robertshaw in Heptonstall (Yorkshire) from the Middle English Old French personal name Robert and Middle English shaue shaghe "wood grove thicket" (Old English sceaga) meaning "Robert's wood".

Rockwell English
Means "person from Rockwell", Buckinghamshire and Somerset (respectively "wood frequented by rooks" and "well frequented by rooks"). Famous bearers include American illustrator Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) and Utah pioneer Porter Rockwell (1813-1878).

Rodham English
From Roddam in Northumberland. The name is thought to have derived from Germanic *rodum, meaning 'forest clearing'.

Roosipuu Estonian
Roosipuu is an Estonian surname meaning "rose wood".

Roppongi Japanese
From 六 (ro) meaning "seven", 本 (pon) meaning "origin", and 木 (gi) meaning "wood, tree".

Rosenboom Dutch
Comes from Dutch "rosenboom" meaning "rose tree"

Rosenwald German, Jewish
Means "rose forest" in German. As a Jewish surname it is ornamental.

Rosewood English
Denoting someone who came from a rose wood or grove.

Rosholt Norwegian
Norwegian: habitational name from either of two farms called Røsholt in southeastern Norway, named with Old Norse, either ross ‘mare’ or ruð ‘clearing’ + holt ‘grove’, ‘wood’.

Rosier French
French for "rose tree" or "rose bush". A common surname in Francophone areas. It is also the name of a fallen angel who was considered the patron demon of tainted love and seduction.

Rottscheit German
Modernization of Rotscheidt, also a city in Germany (Rottscheidt) bearing another modern alternate spelling. When broken down it ultimately means "red" and "piece of wood", implying that the families of today descends from woodwrokers.

Rouen French
From the other broad category of surnames that was given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree. ... Ruen is a place-name from in Rouen, the capital of Normandy... [more]

Rovira Catalan
Topographic name for someone who lived by an oak wood, from Catalan rovira meaning "oak wood, oak grove".

Rowley English
Anglo Saxon Name- locational, comes from several places in England such as in Devonshire, Yorkshire, County Durham and Staffordshire. It means ' rough wood or clearing', from the Old English 'run' meaning rough and 'leah', meaning clearing in a wood.

Rusconi Italian
From Italian rusca, "splinter, sliver of wood".

Rush Irish
Reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ruis "descendant of Ros", a personal name perhaps derived from ros "wood". In Connacht it has also been used as a translation of Ó Luachra (see Loughrey).

Rüster German
Means "elm (tree)" in German. Could alternatively derive from rüsten to "to equip, to arm", an occupational name for someone who provided weapons to an army.

Saarepuu Estonian
Saarepuu is an Estonian surname meaning "ash tree" (Fraxinus).

Saarik Estonian
Saarik is an Estonian surname meaning "ash tree stand".

Saarpuu Estonian
Saarpuu is an Estonian surname meaning "ash tree".

Saeki Japanese
This surname is used as 佐伯, 三枝木 or 佐柄木 with 佐 (sa) meaning "assistant, help", 伯 (haku, eki) meaning "chief, count, earl, uncle, Brazil", 三 (san, zou, mi, mi'.tsu, mi.tsu) meaning "three", 枝 (shi, eda, e) meaning "bough, branch, twig, limb", 柄 (hei, gara, e, tsuka) meaning "design, pattern, build, nature, character, handle, crank, grip, knob, shaft" and 木 (boku, moku, ki, ko-) meaning "tree, wood."... [more]

Saeki Japanese
From Japanese 冴 (sae) meaning "clear, serene" and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".

Saengmai Thai (Rare)
From Thai แสง (saeng) meaning "light, ray, beam" and ไม้ (mai) meaning "wood, tree".

Sagastume Basque
Topographic name from Basque sagasta meaning "apple tree" + -ume meaning "young plant".

Sakakibara Japanese
From Japanese 榊 (sakaki) meaning "sakaki" (a type of tree) and 原 (hara) meaning "meadow, plain, field".

Sakakida Japanese (Rare)
Sakaki (榊) means "sakaki tree", da (田) means "ricefield". Ta changes to da because of rendaku. This surname is extremely rare

Sakakihara Japanese
Sakaki refers to the "sakaki tree" and hara means "field plain".

Sakuragi Japanese, Popular Culture
From Japanese 桜, 櫻 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom" combined with 木 (gi) meaning "tree, wood" or 樹 (gi) meaning "tree". Chloe Cerise and Professor Cerise (also known as Koharu Sakuragi and Dr... [more]

Sakurami Japanese
Sakura means "Cherry Blossom (tree)" and Mi means "View, See, Mindset."

Saldívar Spanish
Castilianized variant of Basque Zaldibar, a habitational name from a place so named in Biscay province. The place name is of uncertain derivation: it may be from zaldu ‘wood’, ‘copse’ or from zaldi ‘horse’ + ibar ‘water meadow’, ‘fertile plain’.

Sale English, French
English: from Middle English sale ‘hall’, a topographic name for someone living at a hall or manor house, or a metonymic occupational name for someone employed at a hall or manor house. ... [more]

Salguero Spanish
Means "willow tree" in Spanish, ultimately from Latin salix. It was either a topographic name for someone who lived near willow trees or a habitational name for someone from the city of Salguero in Burgos, Spain (also derived from this word).

Salk English (American)
Likely the English form of Schalk, which means "dweller near a willow tree".

Sallow English (Rare)
Sallow comes from the medieval word for willow tree. It is a location surname.

Salumets Estonian
Salumets is an Estonian surname meaning "grove/coppice forest", derived from the compounds "salu" (grove/coppice) and "mets" (forest).

Santee English
A topographic surname, which was given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree.

Sarapik Estonian
Sarapik is an Estonian surname meaning "hazel wood".

Sarapuu Estonian
Sarapuu is an Estonian surname meaning "hazel tree".

Satoki Japanese
Sato means "village, city" and ki means "wood, tree".

Sawaragi Japanese (Rare)
Sawaragi (椹木) literally means "Sawara tree".

Schottler German
Occupational name for a wood turner, Middle Low German scoteler (an agent derivative of scotel ‘wooden bowl’).

Schou Danish
Topographic name for someone who lived by a small wood, from a Germanized form of Danish skov 'wood', 'forest', 'copse'.

Schwandt German
Topographic name for someone who lived in a forest clearing, from Middle High German swant (from swenden "to thin out", "make disappear", causative from swinden "to disappear" modern German schwinden.

Seinfeld German, Jewish
From the German word sein "to be" and the word of German Jewish origin feld which means "field". It was a name given to areas of land that had been cleared of forest.

Selva Catalan, Italian
From any of various places in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, or northern Italy named Selva, as for instance the Catalan district La Selva, from selva "wood", Latin silva.

Selwyn English
from the Middle English personal name Selewin (Old English Selewine perhaps from sele "manor" or sǣl "happiness prosperity" and wine "friend")... [more]

Shainwald German
German for "beautiful forest", probably (?) related to Sheinfeld

Shan Chinese
From the place name Shan. Cheng Wang, the second king (1115–1079 bc) of the Zhou dynasty, granted to a son the area of Shan, and the son’s descendants adopted the place name as their surname. It comes from the Chinese word meaning "mountain"... [more]

Sherwood English
From a place name meaning "bright forest", derived from Old English scir meaning "bright" and wudu meaning "tree, wood".

Shibuki Japanese
Shibu means "astringent, rough" and ki means "tree, wood".

Shigaraki Japanese
From Japanese 死 (shi) meaning "death", 柄 (gara) meaning "handle, grip", and 木 (ki) meaning "tree"

Shigematsu Japanese
From Japanese 重 (shige) meaning "layers, folds" and 松 (matsu) meaning "pine tree, fir tree".

Shimamori Japanese
Shima (島) means "island", mori (森) means "forest"

Shipley English (Rare)
English: habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Derbyshire, County Durham, Northumberland, Shropshire, Sussex, and West Yorkshire, so called from Old English sceap, scip ‘sheep’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.

Shiromori Japanese
From Japanese 白 (shiro) combined with 森 (mori) meaning forest. Other kanji combinations are possible.

Shrout German
This surname is related to the German surname Schroder which means cut as in a wood cutter etc.

Siimets Estonian
Siimets is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "Siim" (a masculine given name) and "mets" meaning "forest".

Silverthorne English (Rare)
Silverthorne, Silverthorn comes from the Old English seolfor "silver" and þorn "thorn bush" and means the family that lived by the "silver or white thorn tree".

Silvestrini Italian
Means "Little Tree" or "Little Woods." Derived from the given name SILVESTER.

Silvia Portuguese (Americanized)
SILVIA is an Americanized version of the Portuguese surname Silva, which is derived from the Latin silvae and Portuguese silva words meaning “forest,” “woodland,” or “jungle.” This variation of the surname SILVA was often adopted by Portuguese immigrants upon arrival to the United States.

Silvio Italian
From the personal name Silvio (Latin Silvius, a derivative of silva "wood").

Sin Khmer
Derived from Chinese 森 (sēn) meaning "forest".

Sirelpuu Estonian
Sirelpuu is an Estonian name meaning "lilac tree".

Skalaban Polish French Spanish (?)
Polish word Skal meaning "Justice" and French word Aban meaning someone who lives near a forest.

Skau Norwegian, Danish
Ultimately derived from Old Norse skógr "forest".

Skog Norwegian, Swedish
Means "forest" in Norwegian and Swedish.

Skogheim Norwegian
Combination of Swedish and Norwegian skog "forest" and German heim ''home''.

Skoglund Swedish, Norwegian
Combination of Swedish and Norwegian skog "forest" and lund "grove".

Skoubye Danish (Americanized, Rare)
from the Danish Skovby (also pronounced SKO-bee), meaning "city by a forest" or "forest town"

Smalley English, Cornish (?)
Locational surname from places in Derbyshire and Lancashire, so called from Old English smæl ‘narrow’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. This may also be a Cornish name with an entirely separate meaning.

Sone Japanese
From Japanese 曽 (so) meaning "great" as in great-grandmother, and 根 (ne) meaning "root" as in tree root or plant root.... [more]

Soomets Estonian
Soomets is an Estonian surname meaning "swamp forest".

Sorbo Italian, Norwegian
the surname of Kevin Sorbo (from Hercules, from God's Not Dead movie or two) comes from the word for the "sorb apple" the fruit of the true service tree Sorbus domestica, or from the location-name made up of saurr "mire mud" + bœ´r ‘farm settlement’.

Stampone Italian
Meaning uncertain. Possibly from Italian stampare "to print, to stamp", or from Tuscan stampo "tree stump".

Stoakley English
This is an English locational name of Anglo-Saxon origin. The meaning is either the wood from which stocks, that is to say tree stumps or logs were obtained and derived from the Old English pre 7th Century word stocc, meaning a stump and leah, "a wood or glade"... [more]

Stock Medieval English
English: A topographic name for someone who lived near the trunk or stump of a large tree, Middle English Stocke (Old English Stocc)... [more]

Stockdale English
Habitational name from a place in Cumbria and North Yorkshire, England. Derived from Old English stocc "tree trunk" and dæl "valley".

Stocke English
English: A topographic name for someone who lived near the trunk or stump of a large tree, Middle English Stocke (Old English Stocc)... [more]

Stockley English
Derived from Old english stocc (tree bark) and leah (clearing), indicating that the original bearer of this name lived in a wooded clearing.

Stockton English
Habitational surname for a person from any of the places (e.g. Cheshire, County Durham, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, and North and West Yorkshire) so called from Old English stocc "tree trunk" or stoc "dependent settlement" + tun "enclosure", "settlement".

Stockwell English
An English boy's name meaning "From the tree stump spring"

Storr German
Nickname for a crude man, from Middle High German storr 'tree stump', 'clod'.

Stukeley English
From a surname meaning "woodland clearing with tree stumps" in Old English.

Stump German
From Middle Low German stump ‘tree stump’ (borrowed into Middle English), hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a prominent tree stump, or else a nickname for a short, stocky person.... [more]

Subelza Medieval Basque (Latinized, Archaic)
It means bushes weed or shrub tree. Subelza is also Oak or Carrasca tree.

Sugiki Japanese
Sugi means "pine, fir tree" and ki means "tree, wood".

Sugimiya Japanese
"Pine tree shrine."

Sugimori Japanese
杉 (Sugi) means "cedar tree" and 森 (mori) means "forest".

Sugio Japanese
"Pine tree tail."

Sumeragi Japanese
From Japanese 皇 (sumeragi), script-changed from 皇木 (sumeragi), from 皇 (sumera), a sound-changed clipping of 皇華山 (Kōkasan) meaning "Kōka Mountain", a mountain in the area of Kitahanazawa in the city of Higashiōmi in the prefecture of Shiga in Japan, and 木 (gi), the joining form of 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood"... [more]

Suurmets Estonian
Suurmets is an Estonian surname meaning "big woods/forest".

Swartwood English (American, Anglicized)
Variant of Swarthout, a Dutch locational name for a dweller in or near a black wood.

Sycamore English
Probably comes from the tree Sycamore

Tagamets Estonian
Tagamets is an Estonian surname meaning "behind/back of forest".

Taiminen Finnish
Derived from Finnish taimi meaning "sapling, young tree, plant".

Takagi Japanese
From Japanese 高 (taka) meaning "tall, high" and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".

Takagiri Japanese
高 (Taka) means "high, tall, expensive" and giri is a variant of 桐 (Kiri) meaning "foxglove, paulownia tree".... [more]

Takaki Japanese
Taka means "high" and ki means "wood, tree".

Takakuwa Japanese
From the Japanese 高 (taka) "high," "tall," "expensive" and 桑 (kuwa) "mulberry tree."

Takamatsu Japanese
From Japanese 高 (taka) meaning "tall, high" and 松 (matsu) meaning "pine tree, fir tree".

Takamori Japanese
From Japanese 高 (taka) meaning "tall, high" and 森 (mori) meaning "forest".

Takatsuki Japanese
From Japanese 高 (taka) meaning "tall, expensive" combined with 月 (tsuki) meaning "moon, month" or 槻 (tsuki) meaning "Zelkova tree".

Takemori Japanese
Take means "bamboo" and mori means "forest".

Talumets Estonian
Talumets is an Estonian surname literally meaning "farm (talu) forest (mets)"; a farmstead in or near a forest.

Tamaki Japanese
From Japanese 玉 (tama) meaning "jewel, ball, sphere" combined with 城 (ki) meaning "castle", 置 (ki) meaning "put, place, set", or 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".

Tamatsuki Japanese (Rare)
This surname is used as 玉槻 with 玉 (gyoku, tama, tama-, -dama) meaning "ball, jewel" and 槻 (ki, tsuki) meaning "Zelkova tree."

Tammepuu Estonian
Tammepuu is an Estonian surname meaning "oak tree".

Tammets Estonian
Tammets is an Estonian surname meaning "oak forest".

Tammik Estonian
Tammik is an Estonian surname meaning "oak wood" and "oak forest".

Tammiksaar Estonian
Tammiksaar is an Estonian surname meaning "oak wood island".

Tammiku Estonian
Tammiku is an Estonian surname meaning "oak wood" and "oak forest".

Tamminen Finnish
From "tammi" meaning "oak tree". A place with lot of oaks.

Tannenbaum Jewish, German
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) topographic name or Jewish ornamental name from German Tannenbaum ‘fir tree’, ‘pine tree’.

Tassoni Italian
Probably derived from Italian tasso meaning "badger (animal)", though it can also mean "yew (tree)".

Tatematsu Japanese
From Japanese 立 (tateru) meaning "stand, rise" and 松 (matsu) meaning "pine tree, fir tree".

Tatsuki Japanese
Tatsu can mean "dragon" and ki means "tree, wood".

Teach English
This surname is derived from the Middle English phrase "at asche," meaning at,or near the ash tree.

Tejada Spanish
Meaning "roof" or "lime tree."

Ten Boom Dutch
Means "at the tree" in Dutch. A notable bearer of this surname was Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983), a German woman who helped Jewish people take refuge into her home during the Second World War.

Teneyck Dutch (Americanized)
From Dutch ten eik meaning "at the oak tree", a topographic name for someone who lived by a prominent oak tree. This has been a prominent family name in Albany, NY, area since the 1630s.

Tetley English
habitational name from Tetlow in Manchester. The placename derives from the Old English male personal name Tetta or female Tette annd Old English hlaw "mound hill"... [more]

Tetsuki Japanese
Tetsu means "iron" and ki means "tree, wood".

Teytlboym Yiddish
It literally means "date tree".

Thirring Upper German (Rare)
The name Thirring has many different forms/variant spellings. These include Thiering, Thiring, Thuring,Thuringer, Turinger, Duringer, Diringer, Diring and During. One of the reasons for all the variant spellings is that the church scribes in Hungary originally all recorded the name differently... [more]

Thornley English
Derived from Thornley, which is the name of three villages in England (two are located in the county of Durham, the third in Lancashire). All three villages derive their name from Old English þorn "thorn" and Old English leah "clearing (in a wood), glade", which gives their name the meaning of "the thorny glade"... [more]

Timberley American, English (Rare)
Means "timber clearing" in English. From the Middle English words tymber, meaning wood trees, and leah, meaning clearing. The name's origin be related to tree farming.... [more]

Toht Estonian
Toht is an Estonian surname meaning "(tree) bark".

Tokarev Russian
Patronymic name derived from Russian токарь (tokar) meaning "turner". A turner was a person who used a lathe to create small objects from wood or bone. A notable bearer of this name was the Russian-American singer and songwriter Willi Tokarev (1934-2019).

Tokimori Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 時 (toki) meaning "time; moment" (referring to the time of purification of oneself, rituals, and praying for the advent of God) and 森 (mori) meaning "forest; woods".

Tomatsu Japanese
From the Japanese 戸 (to or do) "door," "shutter" and 松 (matsu) "pine tree."