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Aamisepp Estonian
Variant of Aamissepp

Abdelhamid Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Abd al-Hamid.

Abdelkader Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Abd al-Qadir.

Abdelmajid Arabic
From the given name Abd al-Majid.

Abduljalil Arabic
From the given name Abd al-Jalil

Abdulmajeed Arabic
From the given name Abd al-Majid.

Abdulrahman Arabic
From the given name Abd al-Rahman

Abdurrahman Arabic
From the given name Abd al-Rahman

Abelson English
Means "son of Abel."

Abimbola Yoruba
From the given name Abimbola

Ablett English
Possibly a variant of Abbott

Abner English
From the given name Abner.

Abramoff Russian (Anglicized), Jewish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Abramov.

Abrar Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Abrar.

Abston English (British)
The surname Abston is of an uncertain origin. Perhaps from an English place name, but not now recorded in England as a surname. One possibility is Abson near Bristol, earlier Abston; another is Adstone in Northamptonshire, which is named from an Old English personal name Ættīn + Old English tun ‘settlement’.

Abundio Spanish, Galician
From the given name Abundio.

Acacio Italian
From the given name Acacio.

Acheamphong Western African (?)
Could mean "destined for greatness"

Acheampong Western African (?)
Variant of Acheamphong

Achille French, Italian
From the given name Achille

Ackroyd English
Topographic name from northern Middle English ake "oak" and rod "clearing".

Adão Portuguese
From the given name Adão.

Adauto Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Adauto.

Adebowale Yoruba
From the given name Adebowale

Adegoke Yoruba
From the given name Adegoke

Adelakun Yoruba
From the given name Adelakun

Ademola Yoruba
From the given name Ademola

Adesina Yoruba
From the given name Adesina

Adewale Yoruba
From the given name Adewale.

Adisa Yoruba
From the given name Adisa

Adorján Hungarian
From the given name Adorján.

Aghili Persian
From the given name Aghil.

Agostino Italian
From the given name Agostino.

Ágoston Hungarian
From the given name Ágoston.

Ahonen Finnish
A combination of Finnish aho "meadow" and the common surname suffix -nen.

Akroyd English
Variant of Ackroyd.

Alberico Italian
From the given name Alberico

Albino Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
From the given name Albino

Alburquerque Portuguese (?), Spanish (?)
Variant of Albuquerque

Aleixandre Aragonese
From the given name Aleixandre.

Aleixo Portuguese
From the given name Aleixo.

Alejo Spanish
From the given name Alejo.

Alessandro Italian
From the given name Alessandro.

Alessio Italian
From the given name Alessio.

Alexandropoulos Greek
Means "son of Alexandros."

Alexandrou Greek
Means "son of Alexandros".

Alexis German, French, English, Greek
From the given name Alexis.

Alfeo Italian
From the given name Alfeo.

Alfredo Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Alfredo.

Allston English
Derived from the given name Alstan

Álmos Hungarian
From the given name Álmos.

Alpers Scottish
Derived from the given name Albert

Altmaier German
Variant of Altmeyer.

Altmayer German
Variant of Altmeyer.

Altmyer English (American)
Variant of Altmeyer.

Amadeo Italian
From the given name Amadeo.

Amado Spanish
From the given name Amado.

Amâncio Portuguese
From the given name Amâncio.

Amarante French
From the given name Amarante

Ambrocio Spanish
From the given name Ambrocio.

Ambrogio Italian
From the given name Ambrogio.

Ambrosio Spanish, Italian (?), Portuguese (?)
From the given name Ambrosio

Ambrosishvili Georgian
Means "son of Ambrosi".

Ambrus Hungarian
From the given name Ambrus.

Américo Portuguese, Spanish
From the given name Américo.

Amiano Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Amiano

Aminzadeh Persian
From the given name Amin combined with Persian زاده (zadeh) meaning "offspring".

Amosova Russian
Feminine form of Amosov.

Ampère French

Anacleto Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Anacleto.

Anastacio Spanish
From the given name Anastacio.

Anastas Russian, Bulgarian
From the given name Anastas.

Anastasiadis Greek
Means "son of Anastasios".

Anastasio Italian, Spanish
From the given name Anastasio.

András Hungarian
From the given name András.

Andreadis Greek
Means "son of Andreas".

Andrew English
From the given name Andrew

Andriashvili Georgian
Means "son of Andria".

Andrieu French
Variant of Andrieux

Andronicescu Romanian
Means "son of Andronic".

Angelino Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Angelino.

Angelopoulos Greek
From the personal name Angelos or a shortened form of the personal name Evangelos + the patronymic ending -poulos.

Aniceto Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Aniceto.

Anisimova Russian
Feminine form of Anisimov.

Annunziato Italian
From the given name Annunziato.

Ansaldo Italian
From the given name Ansaldo.

Anschuetz German
Variant of Anschütz.

Anselm German
From the given name Anselm.

Anselme French
From the given name Anselme.

Antonello Italian
From the given name Antonello.

Antoniades Greek
Variant of Antoniadis.

Antoniadis Greek
Means "son of Antonios".

Antonides Greek
Means "son of Antonios".

Antonios Greek
From the given name Antonios.

Antonoff Russian (Anglicized), Ukrainian (Anglicized), Bulgarian (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Antonov.

Antonopoulos Greek
Means "son of Antonios".

Apfel German
Means "apple" in German.

Apfelbaum German, Jewish
Means "apple tree" in German.

Apolinar Spanish
From the given name Apolinar

Apollonio Italian
From the given name Apollonio

Apostolides Greek
Variant of Apostolidis.

Apostolidis Greek
Means "son of Apostolos".

Appeley English
Variant of Apperley

Apperley English
From the settlements in England called Apperley.

Apperly English
Variant of Apperley.

Appley English
Variant of Apperley

Apprecht German (Rare)
Derived from the given name Albrecht.

Aprahamian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Աբրահամյան (see Abrahamyan)

Aquilino Italian, Spanish, Galician
From the given name Aquilino

Aravind Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil
From the given name Aravind.

Arcangelo Italian
From the given name Arcangelo.

Archambeau French
Variant of Archambault

Archambeault French
Variant of Archambault

Archambo French
Variant of Archambault

Ardern English
Means "eagle valley" or "gravel valley". From Old English ear "gravel" or eran "eagle" and denu "valley". Also a variant of Arden.

Ardito Italian
From the given name Ardito.

Arduino Italian
From the given name Arduino.

Aref Persian
From the given name Aref

Arendt German
From the given name Arnold

Aristarkhov Russian
Means "son of Aristarkh".

Aristarkhova Russian
Feminine form of Aristarkhov.

Aristodimou Greek
Means "son of Aristodimos".

Arkadiou Greek
Means "son of Arkadios".

Arkhipova Russian
Feminine form of Arkhipov.

Arnt Norwegian
From the given name Arnt.

Arscott English
From the the words ars, of unexplained origin, and cot "cottage, small house"

Arsenadze Georgian
Means "son of Arsen".

Arturo Italian, Spanish
From the given name Arturo.

Artyomov Russian
Means "son of Artyom”.

Ascanio Italian
From the given name Ascanio.

Asghar Arabic, Urdu, Persian
From the given name Asghar.

Asghari Persian
From the given name Asghar.

Ashok Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Nepali
From the given name Ashok.

Asikkala Finnish
Indicates familial origin from Asikkala, a municipality in southern Finland.

Askin English
From the given name Ásketill.

Askins English
Variant of Askin.

Asteriou Greek
Means "son of Asterios".

Atamian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Ադամյան (see Adamyan)

Atcheson Scots
Scots form of Atkinson

Athanasopoulos Greek
Means "son of Athanasios".

Atherton English
Habitational name from a place near Manchester named Atherton, from the Old English personal name Æðelhere + Old English tun meaning "settlement".

Atkin English
From the given name Atkin

Attilio Italian
From the given name Attilio.

Audisho Assyrian
Variant of Odisho

Augusto Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
From the given name Augusto

Ault English
Variant of Old.

Aurélio Portuguese
From the given name Aurélio

Aurelio Italian, Spanish
From the given name Aurelio

Ausley English (Modern)
Rare surname which was from an English place name in which the second element is Old English leah "wood, clearing". The first element may be hors "horse" (in which case the name likely referred to a place where horses were put out to pasture) or the river name Ouse (ultimately from the ancient British root ud- "water").

Avakyan Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Ավագյան (see Avagyan)

Avanesian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Ավանեսյան (see Avanesyan)

Avgoustidis Greek
Means "son of Avgoustos".

Avidan Hebrew
From the given name Avidan

Avramidis Greek
Means "son of Avram".

Avramopoulos Greek
Means "son of Avram".

Aydemir Turkish
From the given name Aydemir.

Aylen English
Either derived from the given name Alan or from the Old English word ætheling which were princes eligible to be king. The word ætheling was sometimes used as a given name

Aynesworth English
Variant of Ainsworth.

Ayoob Arabic
From the given name Ayyub

Azahara Japanese
From Japanese 字 (aza) meaning "a section of a village" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Azubuike Igbo
From the given name Azubuike.

Babineau French
Variant of Babineaux.

Bachmayer German
Variant of Bachmeier

Bachmeyer German
Variant of Bachmeier

Badr Arabic
From the given name Badr.

Baghdasarian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Բաղդասարյան (see Baghdasaryan).

Bagnal English
Variant of Bagnall.

Bagnall English
From a place in England, derived from the Old English name "Badeca", a short form of any name beginning from beadu "battle", and halh "nook, recess".

Bagnell English
Variant of Bagnall.

Bagryanov Bulgarian
Means "son of Bagryan".

Bagshaw English
Derived from the village in Derbyshire called Bagshaw

Bahadır Turkish
From the given name Bahadır.

Bails English
Indicated that the bearer lived outside the walls of a feudal castle, from the Old French baile, refering to the structure

Bakhtiar Persian, Urdu
From the given name Bakhtiar.

Bakoyannis Greek

Balaji Tamil, Telugu
From the given name Balaji.

Balbino Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
From the given name Balbino.

Baldassare Italian
Frokm the given name Baldassare.

Baldo Italian, Spanish
From the given name Baldo.

Baldomero Spanish
From the given name Baldomero.

Baldovino Italian
From the given name Baldovino.

Balestrieri Sicilian
Variant of Balistreri

Baltasar Spanish
From the given name Baltasar.

Bantis Greek

Barack Arabic
From the given name Barack

Baranova f Russian
Feminine form of Baranov.

Barford English

Barlowe English
Variant of Barlow.

Barnier French

Barsby English
Derived from the Old Norse word barn, which occured as a byname and meant "child", and Old Norse býr "farm, settlement"

Bartal Hungarian
From the given name Bartal.

Barthélémy French
From the given name Barthélémy.

Bartholomäus German
From the given name Bartholomäus.

Bartolo Italian
From the given name Bartolo

Basely German

Basileo Galician, Italian, Spanish
From the given name Basileo.

Basilio Italian, Spanish
From the given name Basilio.

Bason English

Batley English

Baudoin French
From the given name Baudoin.

Baudouin French
From the given name Baudouin.

Baughan Welsh
Variant of Vaughan.

Baughn Welsh
Variant of Vaughan.

Bayliss English
Variant of Baylis.

Beardslee English
Variant of Bardsley.

Beardsley English
Variant of Bardsley.

Beazley English
Variant of Beasley.

Bedrossian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Պետրոսյան (see Petrosyan)

Bedürftig German
Means "poor, needy" in German.

Behrman German
Variant of Behrmann

Behrmann German
Variant of Biermann

Behzadi Persian
From the given name Behzad.

Beier German
Variant of Bayer.

Belchior Portuguese
From the given name Belchior.

Belisario Italian, Spanish
From the given name Belisario.

Bellett English

Benckiser German

Benedek Hungarian
From the given name Benedek.

Benedetto Italian
From the given name Benedetto.

Benedikt German
From the given name Benedikt.

Benedito Portuguese
From the given name Benedito.

Benigno Spanish, Italian
From the given name Benigno.

Benvenuto Italian
From the given name Benvenuto.

Berardo Italian
From the given name Berardo.

Berend Dutch
From the given name Berend.

Bereza Ukrainian
Means "birch tree" in Ukrainian.

Berkeley English
From any of the locations called Berkeley derived the elements beorc "birch" and leah "clearing, wood" meaning "birch clearing"... [more]

Bermudo Spanish
From the given name Bermudo.

Bernhardt German
Variant of Bernhard

Bertalan Hungarian
From the given name Bertalan.

Berthold German
From the given name Berthold.

Berto Italian, Spanish
From the given name Berto.

Bertók Hungarian
From the given name Bertók.

Bertoldo Italian
From the given name Bertoldo.

Bettino Italian
From the given name Bettino.

Beveridge English
Derived from the town of Beverege or from the Old French beivre "drink", a nickname for a person who sealed contracts with a drink

Bibiano Spanish
From the given name Bibiano.

Bierman German
Variant of Biermann

Bilal Arabic, Turkish, Urdu
From the given name Bilal

Billingsley English

Birmingham English
Indicates familial origin from Birmingham, England

Birtles English

Bismark German
Variant of Bismarck

Bissett English
Variant of Bisset

Blachford English
Variant of Blackford

Blackbourn English
Variant of Blackbourne.

Blackburne English
Variant of Blackburn.

Blackford English
Derived from the words blæc "black" or blac "pale, shining, white" and ford "river crossing"

Blacklock English
Variant of Blakelock.

Blacklocke English
Variant of Blacklock.

Blakelock English
A nickname derived from blæc "black" and locc "lock of hair".

Blakelocke English
Variant of Blakelock.

Blalock English
Variant of Blakelock

Blatchford English
Variant of Blachford

Blumer English

Blyth English
Variant of Blythe

Boecker German
Variant of Böcker

Boehme German
Variant of Böhm

Boehmer German
Variant of Böhm

Bogdanoff Russian (Anglicized), Bulgarian (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Bogdanov.

Boghossian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Պողոսեան (see Boghosian)

Bogusław Polish
From the given name Bogusław.

Bohlen German

Bohuslav Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian
From the given name Bohuslav.

Boldizsár Hungarian
From the given name Boldizsár.

Boley English

Bonifaz German
From the given name Bonifaz.

Bonito Italian, Spanish
From the given name Bonito.

Boothe English
Variant of Booth

Boran Turkish
From the given name Boran

Borger English (?), German (?), Swedish

Boseley English
Variant of Bosley

Bourg French

Boycott English, Irish

Božidarević Croatian
Means "son of Božidar".

Bradham English
Means "broad home". From brad "broad", and ham "home"

Bradlee English
Variant of Bradley

Bradly English
Variant of Bradley.

Braithwait English
Variant of Braithwaite

Bramah English
From a place called either Bramall, or Bramhall formerly Bromale. From old english brom "broom" and halh, "nook, recess"

Bramley English
Variant of Bromley.

Branagan Irish
Anglicized form of Ó Branagáin.

Brangan Irish
Variant of Branagan.

Branigan Irish
Variant of Branagan.

Brankin Irish
Variant of Branagan.

Brann English

Brannagan Irish
Variant of Branagan.

Brannen Irish

Brecon English

Bregiannis Greek

Breitbart German
Variant of Breitbarth.

Brierly English
Variant of Brierley.

Brinker German, Dutch
Derived from brink "edge, slope" or "village green", indicating that the bearer of the surname lived near a prominent slope of land or next to the centre of a village.

Brodkin English

Bromley English
Habitational name from any of the many places so called in England. Most of them derived from Old English brom "broom" and leah "woodland clearing".

Bronikowska f Polish
Feminine form of Bronikowski.

Brooksby English
Means "farm by a brook". From Old English broc "brook, small stream" and Old Norse býr "farm, settlement"

Brownrigg English

Brunello Italian
From the given name Brunello.

Buchwald German