AkçamTurkish A surname of Turkish origin, ultimate from the words ak meaning "white" and çam meaning "pine tree".
AkdağTurkish Habitational name for someone who lived near any of the various mountains named Akdağ in Turkey, from Turkish ak meaning "white" and dağ meaning "mountain".
AllendeBasque, Spanish Basque surname possibly linked to the Spanish word allende of Latin origin meaning "beyond" or "besides".
ÅngströmSwedish Combination of Swedish ånga "steam" and ström "river, current, stream". A notable bearer was Swedish physicist Anders Ångström (1814-1874), one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy... [more]
BianChinese Romanization of a Chinese surname, which in Pinyin may be respectively Biàn, Biān or Biǎn. The former, written with the character 卞 means "to be impatient", "to be in a hurry" or "excitable" and is by far the most common... [more]
CaoVietnamese Vietnamese form of Gao from Sino-Vietnamese 高 (cao).
ChouraquiJudeo-Spanish Means "the one who comes from the east" from Arabic شَرْقِيّ (šarqiyy) meaning "eastern".
CudaSlovak Derives from the word name derives from cuda meaning "miracle".
GüvenTurkish Means "trust, confidence" in Turkish, perhaps designating a trustworthy person or one who trusts in others readily.
HàVietnamese Vietnamese form of He, from Sino-Vietnamese 何 (hà).
HạVietnamese Derived from the Han character 夏 meaning "summer".
KhúcVietnamese Vietnamese form of Qu, from Sino-Vietnamese 曲 (khúc).
KostraCzech, Slovak Unusual surname found in Slovakia and the Czech Republic meaning "skeleton" from the word kostra, ultimately from the word kost meaning "bone". In Czech in particular, kostra refers only to the biological meaning of "skeleton" - a skeleton as an independent entity is known as a kostlivec.
KriváňSlovak Taken from the name of the mountain Kriváň, ultimately from kriv- meaning "bent, crooked".
LâmVietnamese Vietnamese form of Lin from Sino-Vietnamese 林 (lâm).
LemercierFrench French surname designating a vendor of sewing materials, from the word mercier.
LưuVietnamese Vietnamese form of Liu, from Sino-Vietnamese 劉 (lưu).
MạcVietnamese Vietnamese form of Mo from Sino-Vietnamese 幕 (mạc). This was the name of a Vietnamese dynasty that ruled over northern Vietnam between the 16th and 17th centuries.
MadeEstonian Patronymic surname taken either from the female name Magdaleena or the male name Matteus.
NalciTurkish Occupational surname denoting a horse-shoe maker, from the Turkish word nal meaning "horse-shoe" and the particle -cı a suffix appended to words to create a noun denoting a profession or occupation.
PääsukeEstonian Means "swallow", taken from the Estonian word.
RăceanuRomanian Designates someone from Răciu, a commune in Mureş County, Romania.
SaionjiJapanese Japanese surname derived from the kanji for "west", "park, garden" and "Buddhist temple".
SakalauskasLithuanian Ultimately derived from Sokol. Varient forms are Sakalauskienė (married woman or widow) and Sakalauskaitė (unmarried woman).
SegărceanuRomanian A topographical surname designating someone from Segarcea, a small town in Dolj County, Romania.
SerrallongaCatalan Taken from the name of a town in the Vallespir district, in Northern Catalonia.
ZaldívarBasque, Spanish Derived from Basque zaldi meaning "horse" combined with ibar meaning "valley". This is also the name of a town in Biscay, Spain.
ZeitounArabic Derived from the Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn) meaning "olive", a cognate of the Maghrebi Zitouni. It could also be linked to the famous El-Zeitoun district in Cairo, Egypt.
ZelayaBasque Basque surname related to the Euskara word for "field".
ZhuangChinese From Chinese 莊 (zhuāng), the posthumous name of Xiong Lü, a king of the state of Chu that existed during the Zhou dynasty.
ZhugeChinese One of the rare Chinese double character surnames. It is ranked 314th in the Hundred Family Surnames. The first character 諸 can be read as "all, these, various" and the second character 葛 as meaning "vine, vines"... [more]
ZugrăvescuRomanian Patronymic surname of uncertain origin. It may be derived from the verb a zugrăvi meaning "to paint, to describe figuratively" and therefore mean "The descendant of he who describes/paints".