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Ganzon Filipino
From Hokkien 顏 (gân) meaning "face, colour, hue" and 孫 (sun) meaning "grandchild".

Garayev Azerbaijani, Tatar, Turkmen, Bashkir

Garciya Obscure

Garg Indian, Hindi, Punjabi
From Garga, the name of an ancient Hindu sage.

Gąsior Polish
Means "gander (male goose)" in Polish. It was used as a nickname for a person who resembled a gander or as an occupational name for a keeper of geese.

Gąsiorowski Polish
Name for someone from a place called Gąsiorowo or Gąsiorów, both derived from Polish gąsior meaning "gander".

Gasnier French
From Old French gaaigner meaning "to win, to earn" or "to till, to cultivate", possibly used as an occupational name for a farmer.

Gasparian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Gasparyan.

Gasparov Armenian (Russified)
Russified form of Gasparyan.

Gasparyan Armenian
Means "son of Gaspar".

Gatchalian Filipino, Tagalog
From a Hispanicised spelling of Gat Sa Li-Han, a Chinese title meaning "lord of Li-Han". It was used by the rulers of Li-Han, an ancient Philippine state that was located in the present-day city of Malolos.

Gatmaitan Filipino, Tagalog
From a Hispanicised form of Gat Maitan, a title meaning "lord of Mait" that was used by rulers of an ancient place named Mait or Maitan.

Gatus Filipino, Tagalog
From Old Tagalog gatos meaning "million" or Cebuano gatos meaning "hundred".

Gauci Maltese
Derived from Maltese Għawdex through Arabic غودش‎ (ġawdeš) which refers to the island of Gozo in the Maltese archipelago. The name itself is of Phoenician origin (through a Greek borrowing) possibly meaning "turn around"... [more]

Gautam Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Nepali
From the given name Gautama.

Gavrilov Russian
Means "son of Gavriil".

Gaydarbekov Dagestani (Rare), Avar (Rare)
Means "son of Gaydarbek".

Gazaev Ossetian (Russified)
Russified form of an Ossetian name most likely derived from Ossetian гæзæмæ (gæzæmæ) meaning "few, little, rare".

Gazdanov Ossetian (Russified)
Russified form of Gazdanty.

Gazdanty Ossetian
Possibly derived from Arabic غَازِي (ḡāzī) meaning "hero, champion".

Gazdiev Ingush (Russified), Ossetian (Russified)
Russified form of an Ingush and Ossetian surname derived from the name of an Ingush teip (clan) of unknown meaning, possibly of Turkic origin. The name is mainly found in present-day Ingushetia and North Ossetia-Alania.

Ge Chinese
From Chinese 葛 (gé) referring to the ancient state of Ge, which existed during the Xia dynasty in what is now Henan province.

Geevarghese Indian (Christian), Malayalam
From the given name Geevarghese, used by Malayalam-speaking Saint Thomas Christians.

Geh Chinese (Hokkien)
Hokkien romanization of Ni.

Gelsomino Italian
Means "jasmine" in Italian, possibly also used as a topographic name.

Gendron French
Either a diminutive of French gendre meaning "son-in-law" or a habitational name for someone from the town of Gendron in Belgium.

Georgiades Greek (Cypriot)
Alternate transcription of Georgiadis chiefly used in Cyprus.

Georgievski Macedonian
Means "son of Georgi".

Gerasimenko Ukrainian (Russified)
Russified form of Herasymenko.

Gerasimov Russian
Means "son of Gerasim".

Ghaderi Persian
From the given name Ghader.

Ghafoor Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Ghafur.

Ghaleb Arabic
From the given name Ghalib.

Ghannouchi Arabic (Maghrebi)
Meaning unknown. A notable bearer is Mohamed Ghannouchi (1941–), the former Prime Minister of Tunisia.

Gharbi Arabic (Maghrebi)
Means "westerner, one from the west" from Arabic غرب (gharb) meaning "west, occident". In Tunisia it is typically used as a name for someone originally from Algeria or Morocco (being the two westernmost countries in North Africa).

Gharibashvili Georgian

Ghassemi Persian
Alternate transcription of Ghasemi.

Ghazarian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Ghazaryan.

Ghazaryan Armenian
Means "son of Lazar".

Ghosh Indian, Bengali, Assamese, Odia
Derived from Sanskrit घोष (ghosha) meaning "milkman" or "cowherd", ultimately from गो (go) meaning "cow".

Ghoshal Indian, Bengali
Possibly derived from the surname Ghosh.

Gill Indian, Punjabi
Derived from Punjabi ਗਿੱਲਾ (gila) meaning "wet, damp, moist".

Giorgashvili Georgian
Means "son of Giorgi".

Gipson English (American)
Variant of Gibson more commonly used in the United States.

Giray Turkish
From a form of the Mongolian title khan meaning "king, ruler". This was the name of the dynasty that ruled Crimea from 1427 to 1783.

Gitelman Jewish
Eastern Ashkenazic variant of Gittelman.

Gitsba Abkhaz
Abkhaz name of unknown meaning.

Gizatullin Tatar, Bashkir
Variant of Gizzatullin.

Gizzatullin Bashkir
From the given name Izzatullah.

Glebov Russian
Means "son of Gleb".

Go Korean
Variant romanization of Ko.

Goat Indonesian

Gochadze Georgian
Means "son of Gocha".

Gochev Bulgarian

Goel Indian, Hindi, Punjabi
Variant of Goyal.

Gogoi Indian, Ahom
Means "younger brother" or "king" in Ahom.

Gogula Indian, Telugu
Possibly from Telugu గోగు (gōgu) "hemp plant".

Goh Chinese (Hokkien)
Hokkien romanization of Wu 1.

Gökçe Turkish
Means "celestial, heavenly, sky" in Turkish.

Gokhale Indian, Marathi
Derived from Sanskrit गवाक्ष (gavaksha) meaning "round window" (literally "cow eye"), from गो (go) meaning "cow" and अक्षि (akshi) meaning "eye"... [more]

Goldstein Jewish
Means "gold stone" in German.

Goldthwaite English
Possibly derived from Guilthwaite in South Yorkshire, which is named from Old Norse gil meaning "ravine" and þveit meaning "clearing". However, the modern surname is associated with Essex, suggesting some other source, now lost.

Golovin m Russian
From Russian голова (golova) meaning "head, chief", probably used as a nickname for the head of a household or village.

Golubev Russian
From Russian голубь (golub) meaning "dove, pigeon".

Goncharov Russian
Derived from Russian гончар (gonchar) meaning "potter".

Gonzaga Spanish, Portuguese, Italian (Archaic)
Habitational name for someone from a location called Gonzaga in Mantua, Italy. This was the name of an Italian family that ruled Mantua from 1328 to 1708.

Goot English
Variant of Good.

Gopal Indian, Hindi, Odia, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, Punjabi
From the given name Gopal.

Gopalakrishnan Indian, Tamil, Malayalam
Combination of Gopala and Krishna.

Gorbachev Russian
From Russian горбач (gorbach) meaning "hunchback, humpback". A notable bearer is Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-), a former Soviet politician.

Gorbachyov Russian
Alternate transcription of Gorbachev.

Gorbunov Russian
From Russian горбун (gorbun) meaning "humpback".

Gospodinov Bulgarian
Means "son of Gospodin".

Goswami Indian, Bengali, Hindi, Assamese
Derived from Sanskrit गोस्वामिन् (gosvamin) meaning "religious mendicant" (literally "owner of cows" or "lord of cows"), from गो (go) meaning "cow" and स्वामिन् (svamin) meaning "owner, lord, master".

Goto Japanese
Alternate transcription of Gotō.

Gotō Japanese
From Japanese 後 (go) meaning "behind, back" and 藤 (tō) meaning "wisteria".

Goulet French (Quebec), French
Of uncertain origin and meaning. Theories include a derivation from Old French goule "mouth" (combined with a diminutive suffix), in which case this name would have been a nickname for a glutton.

Goyal Indian, Hindi, Punjabi
Meaning uncertain, possibly a form of Agarwal.

Gozon Filipino
From Min Nan 五孫 (gō͘-sun) or 五孙 (gō͘-sun) meaning "fifth grandchild".

Gr Indonesian

Grabarek Polish
Occupational name from a diminutive of Polish grabarz meaning "gravedigger".

Grande Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Means "tall, large" in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, used as a nickname for a person of large stature.

Grayson Scottish, Irish
Means "son of Gray".

Graziano Italian
From the given name Graziano.

Grecki Polish
Polish form of Gretzky.

Greeley English, Norman
English (of Norman origin): nickname for someone with a pock-marked face, from Old Northern French greslé ‘pitted’, ‘scarred’ (from gresle ‘hailstone’, of Germanic origin).

Gregorič Slovene
Means "son of Gregor".

Gretzky Russian, Belarusian
Originally derived from an old Russian word that meant "Greek", though in modern times, the word means "Greek nut" (walnut). A notable bearer is Wayne Gretzky, a former Canadian ice hockey player.

Gridley English
Variant of Greeley.

Grigahcine Berber (Rare, ?)
Meaning unknown, perhaps of Kabyle origin. A known bearer is DJ Snake, who was born William Grigahcine (1986-), an Algerian-French musician.

Grigorian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Grigoryan.

Grigoryev Russian
Means "son of Grigoriy".

Grimké German (Americanized)
Americanised form of the German surname Grimk or Grimke with French inspiration. This was the name of a prominent American family of abolitionists.

Grishin Russian
From the given name Grisha.

Gruzinsky Russian, Georgian
Means "Georgian" in Russian.

Grzegorczyk Polish
Derived from the given name Grzegorz.

Guchetl Adyghe (Russified)
From Circassian гъукӏэ (ġ°č̣̍ă) meaning "blacksmith" and лӏы (ḷə) meaning "man".

Guevarra Spanish (Philippines)
Variant of Guevara primarily used in the Philippines.

Gugushvili Georgian

Guillén Spanish
From the given name Guillén.

Guillen Spanish
Unaccented form of Guillén.

Guimarães Portuguese
Habitational name for someone originally from the city of Guimarães in northern Portugal.

Guinto Filipino, Tagalog
Derived from Tagalog ginto meaning "gold".

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

Gunasekara Sinhalese
From Sanskrit गुण (guna) meaning "talent, virtue, quality, merit" and शेखर (shekhara) meaning "crest, peak, top".

Gunasekera Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Gunasekara.

Gündüz Turkish
Means "daytime, day" in Turkish.

Güneş Turkish
Means "sun" or "sunny" in Turkish.

Güney Turkish
Means "south, southern" in Turkish.

Gupit Filipino, Tagalog
Means "haircut" in Tagalog.

Guramishvili Georgian
Means "son of Guram".

Gürbüz Turkish
Means "robust, healthy" in Turkish.

Gurgenidze Georgian
Means "son of Gurgen".

Gusev Russian
Derived from Russian гусь (gus) meaning "goose".

Gushiken Okinawan, Japanese
Means "strong-willed" from Japanese 具 (gu) meaning "tool, utensil, means", 志 (shi) meaning "intention, will", and 堅 (ken) meaning "hard, resolute, unyielding".

Gusmão Portuguese
Portuguese cognate of Guzmán.

Guth Jewish
Variant of Gut.

Guðmundsdóttir Icelandic
Means "daughter of Guðmund"; not strictly used as a surname, and is also used as a patronymic.

Guðmundsson Icelandic
Means "son of Guðmund" in Icelandic.

Gutnik Ukrainian, Russian, Yiddish
Yiddish surname meaning "glassworker" from Yiddish hute meaning "glassworks".

Güven Turkish
Means "trust, confidence" in Turkish, perhaps designating a trustworthy person or one who trusts in others readily.

Guzman Spanish (Americanized), Filipino, South American
Unaccented form of Guzmán used mainly in America and the Philippines.

Hà Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of He, from Sino-Vietnamese 何 (hà).

Habagat Filipino, Cebuano
Means "southwest monsoon, southwest wind" in Cebuano.

Habeeb Arabic, Dhivehi
From the given name Habib.

Habib Arabic, Bengali, Urdu
From the given name Habib.

Habibi Persian, Arabic
From the given name Habib.

Həbibov Azerbaijani
Means "son of Həbib".

Habibović Bosnian
Means "son of Habib".

Habibzai Pashto
Means "son of Habib" in Pashto. The Habibzai are a Pashtun sub-tribe of the Popalzai.

Hachemi Arabic (Maghrebi)
Maghrebi transcription of Hashmi (chiefly Algerian).

Hachimi Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Hashim (chiefly Moroccan).

Hachiya Japanese
From Japanese 蜂 (hachi) meaning "bee, wasp" and 谷 (ya) meaning "valley".

Hachmi Arabic (Maghrebi)
Maghrebi variant of Hashmi (chiefly Moroccan and Algerian).

Hacıyev Azerbaijani
Means "son of the pilgrim", from Arabic حَاجِيّ (ḥājiyy) denoting a Muslim who has successfully made the hajj to Mecca.

Hacızadə Azerbaijani
Azerbaijani form of Hajizadeh.

Hadad Arabic, Jewish
Alternate transcription of Arabic حداد (see Haddad), also used by Jews.

Haddad Arabic, Persian
Means "blacksmith, ironsmith" in Arabic.

Hadia Arabic
From the given name Hadia.

Hadj Arabic (Maghrebi)
From Arabic حاج (ḥājj) meaning "pilgrim", referring to the Islamic hajj to Mecca, Saudi Arabia (chiefly Maghrebi).

Hafidi Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Hafiz.

Hagelberg German
From German hagel meaning "hail" and berg meaning "mountain".

Hagiwara Japanese
From Japanese 萩 (hagi) meaning "bush clover" and 原 (wara) meaning "field, plain".

Haidar Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Haidar.

Haider Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
From the given name Haider.

Hailemariam Amharic, Ethiopian
Combination of Haile and Mariam.

Haïm Jewish (Gallicized)
French form of Haim.

Haim Jewish
From the given name Haim.

Hajizadeh Persian
Means "son of the pilgrim" from Arabic حَاجِيّ‎ (ḥājiyy) meaning "pilgrim" and the Persian suffix -زاده (-zâde) meaning "offspring".

Hajjar Arabic
Means "stonemason" from Arabic حَجَر (ḥajar) "stone, weight".

Halabi Arabic
Means "Aleppine" in Arabic, referring to someone from the city of Aleppo in Syria.

Halaby Arabic
Variant transcription of Halabi.

Halawa Arabic
Means "sweetness" in Arabic.

Haldar Indian, Bengali
Probably from Sanskrit हलधर (haladhara) meaning "one who holds a plough", an epithet of the Hindu god Balarama.

Halder Bengali
Alternate transcription of Haldar.

Haleem Arabic, Urdu, Dhivehi
From the given name Halim.

Haliche Berber, Northern African
Variant transcription of Halliche.

Halili Tagalog
Means "successor, substitute, replacement" in Tagalog, originally used to denote a vice-chief or a chief's successor.

Halili Albanian
From the given name Halil.

Halilović Bosnian
Means "son of Halil".

Halimović Bosnian
Means "son of Halim".

Halivar Kannada (Rare)

Halliche Berber, Northern African
Kabyle surname of unknown meaning.

Halpern Jewish
Habitational name for someone originally from the city of Heilbronn in Germany, derived from Old High German heil meaning "whole" or "holy" combined with brunno meaning "well".

Hamada Arabic
From the given name Hamada.

Hamada Japanese
From Japanese 浜 (hama) meaning "beach, seashore" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Hamadache Berber, Northern African
Kabyle surname derived from the Arabic given name Hamada.

Hamamura Japanese
From Japanese 浜, 濱 (hama) meaning "beach, seashore" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Hamano Japanese
From Japanese 浜 or 濱 (hama) meaning "beach, seashore" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Hamazaki Japanese
Variant of Hamasaki.

Hamdan Arabic
From the given name Hamdan.

Hamdani Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Hamdan.

Hamdaoui Arabic (Maghrebi)
Means "relating to Hamid 1" or "relating to Hamad" in Arabic (chiefly Maghrebi).

Hamdy Arabic (Egyptian)
Egyptian transcription of Hamdi.

Hamedani Persian
Indicated a person from the city of Hamedan (or Hamadan) in Iran, from the Old Persian name Hagmatāna meaning "(place of) gathering".

Hameed Arabic, Urdu, Dhivehi
From the given name Hamid 1.

Hamid Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Filipino, Tausug
From the given name Hamid 1 or Hamid 2.

Hamidi Persian, Arabic
From the given name Hamid 1.

Hamidov Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tajik
Means "son of Hamid 1".

Hamidović Bosnian
Means "son of Hamid 1".

Hammami Arabic (Maghrebi)
Derived from the given name Hammam (see Hamam). A bearer is Hamma Hammami (1952–), a Tunisian communist speaker... [more]

Hammoudi Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Hammoud (chiefly Algerian).

Hamza Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Hamza.

Hamzaoui Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Hamza.

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

Hanae Arabic (Maghrebi)
From a Moroccan transcription of the Arabic name Hana 1 or Hanaa.

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

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

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

Handa Japanese
From Japanese 半 (han) meaning "half" and 田 (ta) meaning "field".

Haneda Japanese
From Japanese 羽 (hane) meaning "feather, plume" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy". It can also be formed from 羽 (ha) meaning "feather, plume" combined with 根 (ne) meaning "root" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Haneef Arabic, Urdu, Dhivehi
From the given name Hanif.

Hannachi Arabic (Maghrebi)
Refers to Hanencha, a tribe inhabiting eastern Algeria and western Tunisia.

Haq Urdu, Bengali
Derived from Arabic حقّ (ḥaqq) meaning "truth".

Haque Bengali
Alternate transcription of Bengali হক (see Haq).

Harada Japanese
From Japanese 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain" and 田 (ta) meaning "field".

Harahap Batak

Harasimowicz Polish
Derived from the given name Harasim.

Harb Arabic
Means "war" in Arabic.

Harbachoŭ Belarusian
Variant transcription of Harbachow.

Harbachow Belarusian
Belarusian form and equivalent of Gorbachev.

Haroon Urdu, Arabic, Dhivehi
From the given name Harun.

Haruna Japanese
From Japanese 春 (haru) meaning "spring" and 名 (na) meaning "name, fame, renown".

Haruna Hausa, Fula
From the given name Haruna 2.

Haruta Japanese
From Japanese 春 (haru) meaning "spring" and 田 (ta) meaning "field".

Hasan Arabic, Bengali, Urdu, Persian
From the given name Hasan.

Hasani Persian, Albanian, Kosovar
From the given name Hasan.

Hasanović Bosnian
Means "son of Hasan".

Həsənzadə Azerbaijani
Azerbaijani form of Hasanzadeh.

Hasanzai Pashto
Variant transcription of Hassanzai.

Hashem Arabic, Bengali
From the given name Hashim.

Hashim Arabic, Urdu, Filipino, Tausug
From the given name Hashim.

Hashioka Japanese
From Japanese 橋 (hashi) meaning "bridge" and 岡 (oka) meaning "ridge, hill".

Hashley American
Variant of Ashley (?).

Hashmi Arabic, Urdu
Alternate transcription of Hashimi.

Hasibuan Batak
From the name of Batak king Raja Hasibuan.

Haşımov Azerbaijani
Means "son of Haşım".

Hassan Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Dhivehi, Filipino, Tausug, Maranao, Somali (Arabized)
From the given name Hassan.

Hassani Persian, Arabic, Swahili
From the given name Hassan.

Hassanzadeh Persian
From the given name Hasan combined with Persian زاده (zadeh) meaning "offspring".

Hassanzai Pashto
Means "son of Hassan" in Pashto. The Hassanzai are a Pashtun sub-tribe of the Yousafzai.

Hatano Japanese
From Japanese 波 (ha) meaning "waves, billows", 羽 (ha) meaning "feather, wing", 秦 (hata), a place name, or 畑 (hata) meaning "farm, field, garden" combined with 多 (ta) meaning "many, frequent" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Hataya Japanese
From Japanese 幡 (hata) meaning "flag, banner" and 谷 (ya) meaning "valley".

Hattori Japanese
From Japanese 服 (hatsu) meaning "clothing" and 部 (tori) meaning "part, section".

Hatzidakis Greek
Diminutive of Hatzis.

Hauata Polynesian, Tahitian

Havard Welsh
Meaning uncertain. It may be derived from the name of the city of Hereford in England or the port city of Le Havre in France.

Hawayek Arabic
Variant of Howayek.

Hayakawa Japanese
From Japanese 早 (haya) meaning "early, fast" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Hayama Japanese
From Japanese 葉 (ha) meaning "leaf" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Hayashida Japanese
From Japanese 林 (hayashi) meaning "forest" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Haydarov Uzbek, Tajik
Means "son of Haydar".

Hayek Arabic
Means "weaver" in Arabic.

Hayrapetyan Armenian
Means "son of Hayrapet".

Hazarika Indian, Assamese
From a military title used during the Ahom Kingdom that indicated an official who commanded over 1,000 soldiers. The title itself is derived from Assamese হাজাৰ (hazar) meaning "thousand".

Hazhimuradov Avar, Lezgin, Lak
Means "son of Hazhimurad".

Hazra Indian, Bengali
Possibly from the name of a location near Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Heafy Irish
Variant of Heaphy.

Heaphy Irish
From Irish Gaelic Ó hÉamhthaigh meaning "descendant of Éamhthach", the given name Éamhthach meaning "swift" in Gaelic.

Hegazy Arabic (Egyptian)
Alternate transcription of Arabic حجازي (see Hijazi). This corresponds more closely with the Egyptian Arabic pronunciation of the name.

Heidari Persian
Alternate transcription of Heydari.

Hejazi Persian
Persian form of Hijazi.

Heng Chinese (Teochew)
Teochew romanization of Wang 1.

Herasymenko Ukrainian
Derived from the given name Herasym.

Herath Sinhalese
Possibly from Sanskrit हीर (hira 1) meaning "diamond" and रत्न (ratna) meaning "jewel, treasure".

Heredia Spanish
Habitational name from any of various places in Basque Country called Heredia, probably derived from Latin heredium meaning "hereditary estate".

Heung Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Xiang.

Heywood English
From a place name derived from Old English heah meaning "high" and wudu meaning "tree, wood".

Hichem Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Hichem, a variant of Hisham; mainly found in Algeria.

Hidayat Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Hidayat.

Higa Okinawan, Japanese
Japanese borrowing of Okinawan 比嘉 (Fija), which is of uncertain meaning.

Higashida Japanese
From Japanese 東 (higashi) meaning "east" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Higuchi Japanese
From Japanese 樋 (hi) meaning "gutter, trough" and 口 (kuchi) meaning "mouth, entrance".

Hijazi Arabic
Denotes someone who was originally from the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia.

Hilaire Haitian Creole, French
From the given name Hilaire.

Hills English
Variant of Hill.

Himalaya Indian

Hirai Japanese
From Japanese 平 (hira 2) meaning "level, even, peaceful" and 井 (i) meaning "well".

Hirakawa Japanese
From Japanese 平 (hira 2) meaning "level, even, peaceful" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Hiranchai Thai
From Thai หิรัญ (hiran) meaning "money, silver, gold" and ชัย (chai) meaning "victory".

Hiranwong Thai
From Thai หิรัญ (hiran) meaning "money, silver, gold" and วงศ์ (wong) meaning "lineage, family, dynasty"

Hirasawa Japanese
From Japanese 平 (hira 2) meaning "level, even, peaceful" and 沢, 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Hirayama Japanese
From Japanese 平 (hira 2) meaning "level, even, peaceful" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Hiremath Indian, Kannada
Of uncertain meaning.

Hirono Japanese
From Japanese 広 (hiro) meaning "wide, broad, spacious" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Hirose Japanese
From Japanese 広 or 廣 (hiro) meaning "broad, wide, spacious" and 瀬 (se) meaning "rapids, current".

Hirota Japanese
From Japanese 廣, 広 or 弘 (hiro) meaning "broad, wide, spacious" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Hisamoto Japanese
From Japanese 久 (hisa) meaning "long time ago" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Hồ Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Hu, from Sino-Vietnamese 胡 (hồ).

Hoang Vietnamese
Simplified variant of Hoàng.

Hoceimi Arabic (Maghrebi, Rare)
Habitational name for someone originally from Al Hoceima, a town and province in Algeria.

Hočevar Slovene
Originally indicated a person from Kočevje (Gottschee County), a city and municipality in southern Slovenia.

Holodov Russian
Variant transcription of Kholodov.

Honma Japanese
From Japanese 本 (hon) meaning "root, origin, source" and 間 (ma) meaning "among, between".

Hooley English

Hoque Bengali
Alternate transcription of Bengali হক (see Haq).

Horbanenko Ukrainian
Ukrainian equivalent of Gorbachev.

Hori Japanese
From Japanese 堀 (hori) meaning "ditch, moat, canal".

Horikoshi Japanese
From Japanese 堀 (hori) meaning "moat" and 越 (koshi) meaning "across".

Horoz Turkish
Means "rooster" in Turkish.

Horse Arabic (?)

Hosaka Japanese
From Japanese 保 (ho) meaning "protect" and 坂 (saka) meaning "slope".

Hoshi Japanese
From Japanese 星 (hoshi) meaning "star".

Hoshur Uyghur
From the given name Hoshur of unknown meaning.

Hosni Arabic
From the given name Husni.

Hosokawa Japanese
From Japanese 細 (hoso) meaning "thin, fine, slender" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Hossain Bengali
From the given name Husayn.

Hosseinzadeh Persian
From the given name Hossein combined with Persian زاده (zadeh) meaning "offspring".

Hovakimyan Armenian
Means "son of Hovakim".

Hovhannisian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Hovhannisyan.

Hovsepian Armenian (Expatriate)
Variant transcription of Hovsepyan used by Armenians living outside Armenia.

Hovsepyan Armenian
Means "son of Hovsep".

Howells Welsh, English
Variant of Howell.

Hoxhaj Albanian
Variant of Hoxha.

Hsin Taiwanese
Alternate romanization of Xin chiefly used in Taiwan.

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

Huamán Quechua (Hispanicized)
Hispanicized form of Quechua waman meaning "falcon, hawk".

Huertas Spanish
Plural form of Spanish huerta meaning "garden, orchard".

Hui Chinese
From Chinese 惠 (huì) meaning "favour, benefit".

Hui Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Xu 2.