Browse Submitted Surnames

Fleisch German
Metonymic occupational name for a butcher. Derived from Middle High German fleisch or vleisch "flesh meat".

Fleischhacker German, Jewish
Occupational name for a butcher from German fleisch "flesh meat", and an agent derivative of hacken "to chop or cut".

Fleischhauer German
Occupational name for a butcher from Middle High German fleisch or vleisch "flesh meat" and an agent derivative of Middle High German houwen "to cut". Variant of Fleischauer.

Florêncio Portuguese
From the given name Florêncio

Florencio Spanish
From the given name Florencio

Florent French
From the given name Florent.

Florentin Romanian, French, German
From the given name Florentin.

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

Florine French
From the given name Florine.

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

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

Flyn Irish
Variant of Flynn.

Folkerts German, English
Derived from the given name Folcher. See also Fulcher

Fomenko Ukrainian
Derived from the given name Foma.

Fomin Russian
Derived from the given name Foma.

Fookes English

Forrestal English, Irish

Fotiadis Greek
Means "son of Fotis".

Fotiou Greek
Means "son of Fotios".

Fotopoulos Greek
Means "son of Fotis".

Fowell English

Fowkes English
Variant of Fawkes

Foxe English
Variant of Fox

Francisque French
From the given name Francisque.

Frangopoulos Greek
Means "descendant of a Frank" in Greek.

Fränti Finnish
Derived from Swedish frände "kinsman".

Frederico Portuguese
From the given name Frederico.

Fredo Italian
From the given name Fredo.

Fredric English
From the given name Fredric

Froehlich German
Variant of Fröhlich.

Frolova Russian
Feminine form of Frolov.

Fructuoso Spanish
From the given name Fructuoso.

Fukuchi Japanese
From Japanese 福 (fuku) meaning "happiness, good fortune, blessing" and 地 (chi) meaning "earth, soil, ground".

Fulvio Italian
From the given name Fulvio.

Furse English
Variant of Furze

Furze English
Given to someone who lived by a field of furzes, a type of flower

Gabin French
From the given name Gabin.

Gabino Spanish
From the given name Gabino.

Gabrielescu Romanian
Means "son of Gabriel".

Gaddis Scottish
Variant of Geddes

Gadolin Finnish (Rare)
Derived from the name of the homestead Magnula in Kalanti (formerly Nykyrko) parish in southwest Finland. Magnula is thought to be associated with Latin magnus "large, big, great" and the name Gadolin is derived from Hebrew gadol with the same meaning... [more]

Gaetano Italian
From the given name Gaetano

Galo Spanish
From the given name Galo.

Galvão Portuguese
From the given name Galvão.

Gandolfo Italian
From the given name Gandolfo.

Gannett Scottish

Gareginyan Armenian
Means "son of Garegin".

Gaubert French
From the given name Gaubert.

Gaudioso Italian, Spanish
From the given name Gaudioso.

Gavino Italian
From the given name Gavino.

Gebhard German
From the given name Gebhard

Gellért Hungarian
From the given name Gellért.

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

Genís Catalan
From the given name Genís.

Gennaro Italian
From the given name Gennaro

Gent English

Geoffrey English, French
From the given name Geoffrey

Geoffroy French
From the given name Geoffroy

Georgakopoulos Greek
Means "son of Georgakis".

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

Geraldo Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Geraldo.

Gerardo Italian, Spanish
From the given name Gerardo

Gerasimenko Ukrainian (Russified)
Russified form of Herasymenko.

Gergely Hungarian
From the given name Gergely.

Gergen German

Gerhart German
From the given name Gerhard

Gerlach Dutch
From the given name Gerlach.

Germanova Russian
Feminine form of Germanov.

Gerónimo Spanish
From the given name Gerónimo.

Gertner German
Variant of Gaertner

Gerz German
Variant of Gertz.

Gevorkian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Գեւորգյան (see Gevorgyan)

Gevorkyan Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Գեւորգյան (see Gevorgyan)

Geyer German
Variant of Geier.

Ghaith Arabic
From the given name Ghayth

Ghulam Arabic, Pashto, Urdu
From the given name Ghulam.

Giacinto Italian
From the given name Giacinto.

Giacomo Italian
From the given name Giacomo.

Giambattista Italian
From the given name Giambattista.

Giampaolo Italian
From the given name Giampaolo.

Giancarlo Italian
From the given name Giancarlo.

Giano Italian
From the given name Giano.

Gibbson English
Variant of Gibson

Gibs English
Variant of Gibbs

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

Gilbride Irish, Scottish
Variant of Kilbride

Gildo Italian
From the given name Gildo.

Ginés Spanish
From the given name Ginés.

Gino Italian
From the given name Gino.

Giorgio Italian
From the given name Giorgio

Giraldo Italian
From the given name Giraldo.

Giroir Italian

Girolamo Italian
From the given name Girolamo.

Gisbert German
From the given name Gisbert.

Giuliano Italian
From the given name Giuliano

Giusti Italian
Means "son of Giusto"

Giustino Italian
From the given name Giustino

Giusto Italian
From the given name Giusto

Glenday Scottish

Gloeckner German
Variant of Glöckner

Głowacz Polish

Goedel German
Variant of Gödel.

Goffredo Italian
From the given name Goffredo.

Gonçalo Portuguese
From the given name Gonçalo.

Gopalakrishna Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu
From the given name Gopalakrishna.

Gopinath Tamil, Malayalam
From the given name Gopinath.

Gorrey Scottish
Variant of Gorry

Gorrie Irish, Scottish
Variant of Gorry

Gotlieb German
Variant of Gottlieb.

Gottlob German
From the given name Gottlob.

Graciano Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Graciano.

Grammenos m Greek
Means "written" in Greek.

Greenblat German, Jewish
Variant of Greenblatt.

Grégoire French, Belgian
Derived from the given name Grégoire.

Greig Scottish
From the given name Greig

Greiner German

Grigoriadis Greek
Means "son of Grigorios".

Grigoriev Russian
Variant transcription of Grigoriyev.

Grigoriou Greek
Means "son of Grigorios".

Grigoriyev Russian
Means "son of Grigoriy".

Grimaldo Spanish, Italian
From the given name Grimaldo.

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

Guarino Italian
From the given name Guarino.

Guerino Italian
From the given name Guerino.

Guggenheim German

Guglielmo Italian
From the given name Guglielmo.

Guido Italian, German
From the given name Guido.

Guillem Catalan
From the given name Guillem

Guillermo Spanish
From the given name Guillermo

Guillet French

Gunner English
Derived from the given name Gunnvǫr

Gunner English
From Old English gunne meaning "cannon, gun" and the agent suffix "-er"

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

Gutierre Spanish
From the given name Gutierre.

Gyatso Tibetan
From the given name Gyatso.

György Hungarian
From the given name György.

Gyűjtő Hungarian
Means "gatherer, collector".

Haavisto Finnish
Means "place with aspens" or "group of aspens". This name comes from a combination of haapa, "aspen", and the suffix -sto which is used for places and groups of things.

Haberfeld German
Means "oat field". From the words habaro "oat" and feld "field

Haberfield German (Anglicized)
Partial anglicization of Haberfeld

Hacket English
Variant of Hackett

Hakeem Arabic
From the given name Hakim.

Hakopian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Հակոբյան (see Hakobyan)

Hakopyan Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Հակոբյան (see Hakobyan)

Hamamoto Japanese
From Japanese 浜, 濱 (hama) meaning "beach, seashore" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Handley English

Hannikainen Finnish
Old surname from eastern Finland, derived from the name Hannes.

Hardwicke English
Variant of Hardwick.

Harju Finnish
Means "esker", a long ridge formed by a river flowing underneath a glacier.

Härkönen Finnish
A surname derived from the Finnish word härkä, meaning 'bull', and the common surname suffix -nen.

Hartenstein German

Hartikka Finnish
Finnish surname, possibly a Finnish variant of German first name Harteke.

Hartnett Irish

Hartsfield English

Haskin English
Variant of Askin.

Haskins English
Variant of Askin.

Hasting English
Variant of Askin.

Hatzopoulos Greek
Alternate transcription of Greek Χατζόπουλος (see Chatzopoulos).

Hautala Finnish
Finnish. Topographical, (haute) meaning, “graves, tomb” combined with (la) meaning “abode, home, or land of….”

Hautamäki Finnish
Finnish for "GRAVESHILL;" possibly cemetery or simply a person who lived near graves on a hill. From hauta ("grave") & mäki ("hill")

Hawke English
Variant of Hawk

Hawkin English
Variant of Hawkins

Hawkings English
Variant of Hawking

Haydar Turkish
From the given name Haydar.

Haydaroğlu Turkish
Means "son of Haydar".

Häyhä Finnish

Hayhurst English
Topographic name for a dweller ‘(by the) high wood or grove’, from Middle English heigh, high(e) + hirst(e).

Hearne Irish
Anglicized form of Ó hEachthighearna.

Heintz German
Variant of Heinz.

Heinze German
Variant of Heintze.

Heldt German
Variant of Held.

Hendryckx Dutch, Flemish
From the given name Hendrick

Henneberg German

Herasymenko Ukrainian
Derived from the given name Herasym.

Hermenegildo Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Hermenegildo.

Herron English

Herst English
Variant of Hurst

Hertzberg German
From Hertz "heart" and berg "mountain"

Heskin English
Variant of Askin.

Hewit English
Variant of Hewitt

Hickel English
Variant of Huck

Hietala Finnish
Finnish. (hieta) meaning, “fine-sand” combined with (la) meaning, “abode, house, place, or land of….”

Hietamaa Finnish
Finnish. (hieta) meaning, “fine-sand” combined with (maa) meaning, “country.”

Hietamäki Finnish
Derived from hieta ("fine-sand") & mäki ("hill").

Higgin English
From the given name Higgin

Hildebrant German
Variant of Hildebrand

Hinch English, Scottish

Hinchliffe English

Hinck English

Hirabayashi Japanese
From Japanese 平 (hira 2) meaning "level, even, peaceful" and 林 (hayashi) meaning "forest".

Hirokawa Japanese
From Japanese 広 or 廣 (hiro) meaning "broad, wide, spacious" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Hirschl German, Jewish
Variant of Hirschel

Hirst English
Variant of Hurst

Hitch English
Variant form of Hick, from the medieval given name Hitch.

Hittler German
Variant of Hitler.

Hoelzer German
German cognate of Holt

Hohenstaufen German

Hokkanen Finnish
From the Karelian given name Hokka (a derivative of Russian Foka) combined with the Finnish surname suffix -nen.

Holappa Finnish
The name Holappa has its origin in a Russian word holop which means “slave” or “soul” (see “Dead Souls” by Nikolai Gogol).

Holbrooke English
Variant of Holbrook.

Holgate English

Holkeri Finnish
Finnish surname, derived from Scandinavian given name Holger.

Hölttä Finnish
Means "unreliable" or "untrustworthy". A nickname for a deceitful person.

Honan Irish

Honesto Spanish
From the given name Honesto.

Honeycott English
Variant of Honeycutt

Honorato Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Honorato

Honorio Spanish
From the given name Honorio

Hopkinson English
Means "son of Hopkin"

Hoshiyasu Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 星 (hoshi) meaning "star" and 安 (yasu) meaning "peaceful, tranquil, safe, simple, ammonium".

Hovell Welsh (?)
Variant of Howell

Howcroft English
Means "enclosed field on a hill". Derived from the words haugr "hill", of Norse origin, and croft "enclosed field"

Hubertus German, Dutch
From the given name Hubertus.

Hucke English
Variant of Huck

Huckeby English
Variant of Huckaby and Huckabee

Hudgell English
Variant of Yewdale

Hudkins English
Means "son of Hudkin"

Hugenberg German

Hugues French
From the given name Hugues.

Huhtamäki Finnish
Derived from huhta (“woodland cleared for slash-and-burn cultivation”) +‎ mäki (“hill”).

Humaloja Finnish

Humberto Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Humberto.

Humbolt German
Variant of Humboldt

Huotari Finnish
From the Karelian vernacular form of Fyodor.

Hüseyinoğlu Turkish
Means "son of Hüseyin".

Hutchen English
Variant of Hutchin

Hutchens English
Variant of Hutchins

Hutchenson English
Variant of Hutchinson

Hutcheon Scottish
Variant of MacCutcheon

Hutcheson English, Scottish
Variant of Hutchison

Hutchin English
From the given name Hutchin

Hutching English
Variant of Hutchings

Iacovenco Romanian
Romanian form of Yakovenko.

Iakovidis Greek
Means "son of Iakovos".

Iakovou Greek (Cypriot)
Means "son of Iakovos".

Ichiyama Japanese
From Japanese 一 (ichi) meaning "one" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Ignatius English
From the given name Ignatius

Ignatz German
From the given name Ignatz.

Ilario Italian
From the given name Ilario.

Ildefonso Spanish
From the given name Ildefonso.

İlhan Turkish
From the given name İlhan

Iliopoulos Greek
Means "son of Ilias".

Imre Hungarian
From the given name Imre.

Indalecio Spanish
From the given name Indalecio.

Íñigo Spanish
From the given name Íñigo.

Iordan Romanian
From the given name Iordan (User submitted).

Ippolitov Russian
Means "son of Ippolit".

Iraklidis Greek (Rare)
Means "son of Herakles", it is also a modern form of the first name Herakleides.

Isacco Italian
From the given name Isacco.

Isaiah English
From the given name Isaiah

Ishmael English
From the given name Ishmael

Isidor German, Russian
From the given name Isidor.

İskenderoğlu Turkish
Means "son of İskender".

István Hungarian
From the given name István.

Ivanenko Ukrainian
Ukrainian variant of Ivanov.

Izsák Hungarian
From the given name Izsák.

Jabr Arabic
From the given name Jabr

Jacó Portuguese
From the given name Jacó.

Jacobo Spanish
From the given name Jacobo.

Jafar Arabic, Persian
From the given name Jafar

Jaffar Arabic
From the given name Jaffar

Jagodzińska f Polish
Feminine form of Jagodziński.

Jahangiri Persian
From the given name Jahangir.

Jakub Polish, Czech, Slovak
From the given name Jakub.

Jakubowicz Polish
Means "son of Jakub".

Jalil Arabic, Persian
From the given name Jalil

Jamshed Persian, Tajik
From the given name Jamshed.

János Hungarian
From the given name János.

Jarret English
Variant of Jarrett

Jarrette English
Variant of Jarrett

Javaid Urdu
From the given name Javaid.

Javed Persian, Urdu
From the given name Javed.

Javier Spanish
Indicates familial origin from the town and municipality of Javier in Navarre, Spain.

Jeff English
From the given name Jeff

Jencks English
Variant of Jenks

Jenkin English
From the given name Jenkin

Jenő Hungarian
From the given name Jenő.

Jeremiah English
From the given name Jeremiah

Jermain French
Variant of Germain.

Jerningham English
Variant of Jernigan

Jerônimo Portuguese (Brazilian)
From the given name Jerônimo.

Jethro English
From the given name Jethro.

Joachim German, French, Polish
From the given name Joachim

Jochen German
From the given name Jochen

Joe English
From the given name Joe

Johann German
From the given name Johann

Jordão Portuguese
From the given name Jordão.

Joséantonio Spanish
From the given name José Antonio.

Josiah English
From the given name Josiah

Josias English
From the given name Josias

Jourdain French
From the given name Jourdain.

Joutsen Finnish
Means “swan” in Finnish.

Juancarlos Spanish
From the given name Juan Carlos.

Judah English
From the given name Judah

Judith English, Jewish, German, Dutch, French, Spanish
From the given name Judith.

Julião Portuguese
From the given name Julião.

Julius English, German, Finnish, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Czech
From the given name Julius.

Junio Spanish
From the given name Junio

Justiniano Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Justiniano

Justino Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Justino