AmelinafRussian Feminine form of Amelin. This was borne by Ukrainian novelist Victoria Amelina (1986-2023), who died at age 37 from injuries sustained during the Russian attack on Kramatorsk.
ApelsinovmRussian From Russian aпельсин (apel'sin) meaning "orange (fruit)". Probably denoted to someone who worked with oranges or lived by orange trees.
ArbuzovmRussian From Russian арбуза (arbuza), meaning "watermelon".
ArchakiGreek (Rare) Possibly means "lord" or "ruler" from Greek derivative archos.
ArifovmCrimean Tatar, Uzbek Means "son of Arif". Saide Arifova was a Crimean Tatar woman who saved roughly 75 children among others from the Nazis and the NKVD.
BabrauskasmLithuanian Ultimately from the Balto-Slavic element *bébrus meaning "beaver". It is possibly an adaptation of Polish Bobrowski, or a related Slavic surname.
BabushkinmRussian, Jewish Derived from Russian бабушка (babushka) meaning "grandmother".
BadriyevychGeorgian (Ukrainianized) Means "son of Badri". Notable bearer was Bihvava Telman Badriyevych (1995-2022), Georgian-Ukrainian military captain who fought in the Siege of Mariupol with Azov Battalion.
BeriaGeorgian, Mingrelian (?) Beria is a form of Beridze. It was the last name of Lavrentiy Beria, a notable Soviet secret police officer.
BerinchykUkrainian Possibly from Ukrainian беріть (berit'), meaning "to take".
BeriyaGeorgian (Russified) Russified form of Beria. This is the way the last name of Lavrentiy Beria, the head of the NKVD from 1938-1946, last name was spelled in the official Soviet language (Russian).
BezdenezhnykhRussian Means "without money", from Russian денежных (denezhnykh) meaning money and prefix без (bez) meaning without. Denoted to a very very poor person.
BezhenarRussian Means "refugee". Though this is a Russian last name, it is more common in Ukraine.
BezshtankoUkrainian From Ukrainian без (bez), meaning "without" and a diminutive form of штанів (shtaniv), meaning "pants". Compare the surname Shtanko.
BezuglyymRussian From Russian без (bez), meaning "without" and угол (ugol), meaning either "angle, corner" or "coal". The surname can mean "cornerless, angleless" or "coalless, without coal".
BlyshchykUkrainian Means "one who shines", from Ukrainian блищить (blyshchyt'), meaning "to shine".
BlyznyukUkrainian From Ukrainian близнюк (blyznyuk), meaning "twin".
BlyzynskyimUkrainian Derived from Ukrainian близнюки (blyznyuky) meaning "twins".
BobrowskiPolish Habitational name for someone from a place called Bobrowa, Bobrowo, Bobrowce, or Bobrowiec, all deriving from Polish bóbr, meaning "beaver".
BocharovmRussian Derived from Russian word "бочка (bochka)" meaning barrel.... [more]
BochkarovmRussian Derived from Russian word "бочка (bochka)" meaning barrel.... [more]
BolkonskiymRussian, Literature Bolkonsky is the last name of Princess Marya Bolkonskaya from "War and Peace" by Lev Tolstoy. It is a real last name outside of literature as well.
BombaPortuguese, Spanish, Polish, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak From bomba "bomb", (Latin bombus), hence probably a nickname for someone with an explosive temperament, or a metonymic occupational name for an artilleryman.