Submitted Surnames Ending with a

Kijura Korean (Modern)

Kikawa Japanese
From 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood" and 川 (kawa) meaning "stream, river".

Kikkawa Japanese
From 吉 (kik) meaning "good luck, fortune" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Kikubara Japanese (Rare)
Variant of Kikuhara.

Kikuda Japanese
Kiku means "chrysanthemum" and da means "field, rice paddy".

Kikugaya Japanese
Variant of Kikutani.

Kikuhara Japanese (Rare)
Kiku (菊) means "chrysanthemum", hara (原) means "plain/field/meadow"

Kikunaga Japanese

Kikuta Japanese
From Japanese 菊 (kiku) meaning "chrysanthemum" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Kikuwara Japanese (Rare)
Variant of Kikuhara.

Kikuya Japanese
"Chrysanthemum valley."

Kilba Abazin

Killilea Irish
Irish - originally MacGiolla Leith from Gallway

Kimata Japanese
From Japanese 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood" and 俣 (mata) meaning "fork, crotch".

Kimba Luba
Best known as the international given name of a certain Tezuka character.

Kimijima Japanese

Kimoshita Japanese

Kimsa Polish

Kina Okinawan

Kina Romani, Czech

Kinamura Japanese

Kinda Southern African

Kinoshita Japanese
From Japanese 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood", an unwritten possessive marker 之 (no), and 下 (shita) meaning "under, below".

Kinsella Irish
From Gaelic Uí Ceinnsealaigh meaning "descendant of Cinnsealach", a given name probably meaning "chief warrior".

Kinuda Japanese

Kinugasa Japanese
From Japanese 衣 (kinu) meaning "clothing, clothes" and 笠 (kasa) meaning "bamboo hat".

Kinugawa Japanese
From 絹 (kinu) meaning "silk" combined with 川 or 河 (gawa) meaning "stream, river".

Kinugaya Japanese (Rare)
Variant of Kinutani.

Kinukawa Japanese
From 絹 (kinu) meaning "silk" combined with 川 or 河 (kawa) meaning "stream, river".

Kinuta Japanese

Kinuya Japanese (Rare)
Variant of Kinutani.

Kiołbasa Polish (Rare)
Variant of Kiełbasa.

Kira Arabic (Egyptian)

Kira Japanese
From 吉 (ki) meaning "good luck, fortune" and 良 (ra) meaning "good".

Kiribara Japanese
A variant of Kirihara.

Kiribata Japanese
Variant of Kirihata.

Kirida Japanese
Kiri means "paulownia" and da means "field, rice paddy".

Kirieda Japanese
"Paulownia tree branch".

Kirigaya Japanese
From 桐 (kiri), referring to the tree known commonly as the empress or foxglove tree, combined with 谷 (ya) meaning "valley," sometimes with the infixation of the historical possessive particle が (ga) (written as ヶ) that is most often used in place names and surnames... [more]

Kirihara Japanese
From Japanese 桐 (kiri) meaning "paulownia" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Kirihata Japanese

Kirilova f Bulgarian
Feminine form of Kirilov.

Kirima Japanese (Rare)
Kiri (桐 or 霧) means "paulownia/foxglove tree" or "mist" respectively, ma (間), means "space".

Kirimura Japanese
Kiri means "paulownia" and mura means "hamlet, village".

Kirishima Japanese (Rare)
From 桐 (kiri), referring to the tree known commonly as the empress or foxglove tree, 霧 (kiri) meaning "fog, mist" or 切 (kiri) meaning "end, finish; bounds, limits" combined with 島/嶋 (shima) meaning "island."

Kirita Japanese
Variant of Kirida.

Kiriwara Japanese
A variant of Kirihara.

Kiriya Japanese
A variant of Kiritani.

Kiriyama Japanese
From Japanese 桐 (kiri) meaning "paulownia tree" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Kirja Estonian
Kirja is an Estonian surname meaning "epistolary" (relating to the writing of letters).

Kirovska f Macedonian
Feminine form of Kirovski.

Kirsimaa Estonian
Kirsimaa is an Estonian surname meaning "cherry land".

Kiruta Belarusian, Russian

Kirwana African

Kısa Turkish
Means "short, brief" in Turkish.

Kisara Japanese

Kiseleva Russian

Kiselyova Russian

Kishida Japanese
From Japanese 岸 (kishi) meaning "beach, shore, bank" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Kishikawa Japanese
From Japanese 岸 (kishi) meaning "beach, shore, bank" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Kishima Japanese

Kishimura Japanese

Kishioka Japanese
formed with 岸 (Kishi, Gan) meaning "Beach" and 岡 (Oka, Kō) meaning "Mount; hill; knoll”. So the mean it could be interpreted as “Hill of the Beach” or “Beach Hill”

Kishiyama Japanese
From Japanese 岸 (kishi) meaning "beach, shore, bank" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

Kishka Ukrainian
Means "cat" in Ukrainian.

Kisida Japanese

Kiska Belarusian

Kisla Belarusian

Kissa Eastern African

Kiswana Indonesian

Kitada Japanese

Kitahara Japanese
From Japanese 北 (kita) meaning "north" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Kitajima Japanese
From Japanese 北 (kita) meaning "north" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".

Kitakawa Japanese
Kita means "north" and kawa means "river, stream".

Kitamura Japanese
From Japanese 北 (kita) meaning "north" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Kitaoka Japanese
From Japanese 北 (kita) meaning "north" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Kitasawa Japanese
Kita means "north" and shima means "island".

Kitashima Japanese
Kita means "north" and shima means "island".

Kitashirakawa Japanese
From Japanese 北 (kita) meaning "north", 白 (shira) meaning "white" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Kitaura Japanese
Kita means "north" and ura means "bay, seacoast".

Kitaya Japanese
From 北 (kita) meaning "north" and 谷 (ya) meaning "valley".

Kitayama Japanese
From Japanese 北 (kita) meaning "north" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

Kitazawa Japanese
Kita (北) means "North", zawa/sawa (沢 or 澤) means "swamp". Sawa changes to zawa because of rendaku.

Kitazawa Japanese
From Japanese 北 (kita) meaning "north" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Kithara Greek

Kitowska Polish

Kivelä Finnish

Kivisilla Estonian
Kivisilla is an Estonian surname meaning "stone bridges".

Kiwara Japanese
Variant of Kihara.

Kiya Japanese
Means "tree valley" in Japanese, from 木 (ki) "tree" and 谷 (ya) "valley".

Kiyama Japanese

Kiyoda Japanese

Kiyomigawa Japanese
A notable user of this surname is Kiyomigawa Umeyuki, a sumo wrestler from Yokota, Akita Prefecture.

Kiyooka Japanese

Kiyosaka Japanese
Kiyo means "pure, clean" and saka means "slope, hill".

Kiyota Japanese
From the Japanese 清 (kiyo) "clearly," "brightly," "cleanly" and 田 (ta or da) "rice paddy."

Kiyoura Japanese
Combination of the Kanji 清 (kiyo, "clear, pure, refreshing, clean") and 浦 (ura, "bay, inlet"). A famous bearer of this surname was Japanese Prime Minister Kiyoura Keigo (清浦 奎吾; 1850–1942).

Kizara Japanese (Rare, ?)

Kızılkaya Turkish
Means "red rock" in Turkish.

Kjella Norwegian (?)
Meaning unknown, but it might be related to the given name Kjell.

Kjuka Macedonian
Kjuka has its highest incidence in North Macedonia.

Kłoda Polish (Rare)

Kloda Polish, English
Maybe an anglicized form or a variant of Kłoda.

Klora German

Klouda Czech
From Kloud, a vernacular short form of the Latin personal name Claudius (see Claud).

Klučka Slovak

Kluczewska f Polish
Feminine form of Kluczewski.

Kluczyńska f Polish
Feminine form of Kluczyński.

Klyuchka Ukrainian
From Ukrainian ключ (klyuch), meaning "key".

Knigga German (Rare)
Possible variant of Knigge

Koala Western African

Kobara Japanese
Variant of Kohara.

Kobashigawa Japanese
Variant of Kobashikawa.

Kobasigawa Japanese (Anglicized)
The more common form of Kobashigawa in the Western world.

Kobata Japanese
Variant of Kohata.

Kobata Japanese (Rare)
Variant of Hatta, added Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small, little".

Kobayakawa Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small", 早 (baya) meaning "fast" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river".

Kobela Hungarian
May come from the slavic word kobila, meaning mare.

Kobiyama Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small", 檜 (hi) meaning "Japanese cypress" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Kobokawa Japanese

Kobylytsya Ukrainian
Means "mare" in Ukrainian.

Kobylytzia Ukrainian (Germanized)
Germanised form of Kobylytsya.

Koca Turkish
Means "large, great" or "husband" in Turkish.

Kochiya Okinawan (Japanized, Rare)
Japanese reading of Japanese Kanji 古知屋 (see Kucha).

Kochiyama Japanese
From 河 (ko) meaning "river, stream", 内 (chi) meaning "inside" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Koda Japanese
From Japanese 香 (kō) meaning "fragrance, incense", 神 (kō) meaning "god", or 行 (kō) meaning "journey, travel" and 田 (ta) meaning "field".

Kodaira Japanese
Ko means "small" and daira is a form of taira meaning "peace, level". ... [more]

Kodajima Japanese
From Japanese 古 (Ko) meaning "Old" and 田 (Ta, Da) meaning "Rice Field" and 島 (Shima) meaning "Island"

Kodama Japanese

Kodama Japanese
From Japanese 児 or 兒 (ko) meaning "child, young" and 玉 (tama) meaning "jewel, ball".

Kodama Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small" and 玉 (tama) meaning "jewel, ball".

Kodera Japanese
"Little temple".

Kodikara Sinhalese
Derived from Sinhala කොඩිය (kodiya) meaning "flag, banner" and Sanskrit कार (kara) meaning "maker, doer", possibly an occupational name for a person who made flags.

Kodra Albanian

Koga Japanese
From Japanese 古 (ko) meaning "old, past" and 賀 (ka) meaning "congratulate, greet, celebrate".

Koganesawa Japanese

Koganezawa Japanese

Kogawa Japanese
Variant of Kokawa.

Kogawara Japanese
Variant reading of Ogasawara.

Koha Estonian
Koha is an Estonian surname meaning "pike-perch (fish)".

Kohara Japanese

Kohata Japanese

Kohchiyama Japanese
Variant of Kochiyama.

Kohinata Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small", 日 (hi) meaning "day, sun" and 向 (na, ta) meaning "approach".

Kohira Japanese
A variant of Kodaira.... [more]

Kohsaka Japanese
Variant transcription of Kosaka.

Kohvakka Finnish
from the Finnish root word Kohva - meaning ice crust, frozen slush, or something hard... [more]

Kohyama Japanese
Variant transcription of Koyama.

Koida Japanese

Koinuma Japanese
From 鯉 (koi) meaning "carp fish" and 沼 (numa) meaning "swamp, marsh".

Koirala Nepali
From the name of the village of Koirali in Nepal.

Koishibayeva Kazakh

Koitla Estonian
Koitla is an Estonian surname derived from "koit" meaning "dawn".

Koiuda Ukrainian, Romanian

Koivula Finnish
From Finnish koivu meaning "birch" and the suffix -la signifying a place.

Kōja Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 紅 (kō) meaning "crimson; vivid red" and 蛇 (ja) meaning "snake; serpent".

Koja Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 紅蛇 (see Kōja).

Kojika Japanese

Kojima Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small" or 児 (ko) meaning "young" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".

Kōjiya Japanese
From Japanese 麹 (kōji) meaning a substance made from plant molds to make fermented products and 屋 (ya) meaning "seller; shop".

Kojiya Japanese
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 麹屋, 麹家, 麹谷, 糀屋, 糀谷, 糀矢, 粷谷, or 小路谷 (see Kojiya) or a variant reading of Japanese Kanji 小路谷 (see Kōjiya).

Kōka Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 紅花 (kōka) meaning "red- or crimson-colored flower", referring to an occupation that involves flowers and rouge powder.

Kokawa Japanese
Ko means "small" and kawa means "river".

Kokëdhima Albanian

Kokoba Japanese
From Japanese 木 (ko) meaning "tree" or 小 (ko) meaning "small, little" combined with 々, which duplicates the first syllable and 葉 (ba) meaning "leaf". Other kanji combinations are possible.

Kokorska Bulgarian

Kokoszka Polish
Nickname for a fussy or broody person, from kokoszka "laying hen".

Kokuda Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 小管 (see Kosuge).

Kola Finnish
From vernacular forms of Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (See Nikolaos). It could also be from Swedish kol "coal", possibly denoting a coal miner, or kota, a type of conical tent.

Kołakowska f Polish
Feminine form of Kołakowski.

Kolesnikova f Russian
Feminine form of Kolesnikov.

Koleva f Bulgarian
Feminine form of Kolev.

Kolga Estonian
Kolga is an Estonian surname derived from "kolgas" meaning "back country", "province", and "hinterland".

Kolinka Polish

Kolosha Ukrainian

Kolyada Russian, Ukrainian
From Коляда (Kolyada), a name for Slavic Christmas celebrations (or formerly, Slavic pagan traditional winter solstice celebrations).

Komaba Japanese
From 駒 (koma) meaning "young horse, foal" and 場 (ba) meaning "place".

Komada Japanese
Ko could mean "small, little" or "old", ma could mean "real, genuine" and da comes from ta meaning "rice paddy, field".

Komaeda Japanese (Rare)
From 小 (ko) meaning "small, little" or 古 (ko) meaning "old" combined with Maeda.... [more]

Komagata Japanese
Ko could mean "little, small" or "old". Ma could mean "genuine, real" or "horse". Gata could come from kata meaning "shape, form".

Komarova Russian

Komata Japanese

Komatsubara Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small", 松 (matsu) meaning "pine tree, fir tree" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Komissarova Russian
Exact origin is unknown but is likely to mean something along the lines of "commissioner" from its Russian translation. The masculine version is "Komissarov" and is used for males. Komissarov

Komiya Japanese
小 (Ko) means "small" and 宮 (miya) means "shrine".

Komiya Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small" and 宮 (miya) meaning "temple, shrine, palace".

Komiyama Japanese

Komiyama Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small", 宮 (miya) meaning "temple, shrine, palace" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Kōmura Japanese
From Japanese 高 (kō) meaning "tall, high" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Komura Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small, Little" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, hamlet, village".

Komura Japanese
Alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji 高村 (see Kōmura).

Komuta Japanese
From 小 (ko) meaning "small, little", 無 (mu) meaning "naught, nothing" or 牟 (mu) meaning "pupil (of the eye)", and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Konagawa Japanese
The Japanese surname "Konagawa" (小長川) consists of three kanji characters: "小" meaning "small," "長" meaning "long," and "川" meaning "river." So, "Konagawa" could be interpreted as "small long river." However, as with many Japanese surnames, there may be variations in meaning and interpretation depending on the family's history and region.

Konaka Japanese
小 (Ko) means "small" and 中 (naka) means "middle".

Konca Turkish

Konda Japanese
Written with characters meaning ‘now’ and ‘rice paddy’, this version of the name is found mostly in eastern Japan. In western Japan it is pronounced Imata.

Konda Telugu
Hindu name meaning ‘hill’ in Telugu.

Konda Slovene
Pet form of the personal name Kondrad

Kongkanantha Thai
It is a surname bestowed upon the reign of King Rama VI.

Konieczna f Polish
Feminine form of Konieczny.

Konvalinka Czech
Means "lily-of-the-valley" in Czech.

Kon'yashima Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 紺屋嶋 or 紺屋島 (see Koyajima).

Konyashima Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 紺屋嶋 or 紺屋島 (see Kon'yashima).

Kooistra West Frisian, Dutch
Variant form of Kooij, using the Frisian habitational suffix -stra.

Kookmaa Estonian
Kookmaa is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "koks" meaning "coke" and "charred coal" and "maa" meaning "land": "coke/charred coal land".

Kööpikkä Finnish

Kopřiva Czech
Means "nettle".

Kopriva Slovak
Means "nettle".

Koprivica Serbian, Croatian
A diminutive of kopriva meaning ''nettle''.

Korada Polish
Polish: nickname from porada ‘advice’, ‘counsel’.

Korea ?

Kore-eda Japanese (Rare)
Derived from the medieval given name Kore-Eda(是枝) means 'correct branch'. Hirokazu Kore-Eda is a famous movie director.

Kõrgemaa Estonian
Kõrgemaa is an Estonian surname meaning "highland".

Koriyama Japanese
Possibly from 氷 (kori, hyou) meaning "ice" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

Korobeynikova f Russian
Feminine form of Korobeynikov.

Korolyova f Russian
Feminine form of Korolyov.

Korpela Finnish
From korpi, a marsh type, and -la, a suffix used for places. This surname was found in Lapua, Vassa, Finland, circa 1900 and before.

Kortava Abkhaz
Mingrelian form of the Abkhaz surname Кәартаа (Kuartaa) of unknown meaning. During the reign of Stalin, the Abkhaz began adopting the Mingrelian spelling.

Korzhowa Ukrainian (Germanized)

Kosaka Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small" and 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope".

Kosaka Japanese
From 香 (kou) meaning "fragrance" and 坂 (saka) meaning "slope."

Koshiba Japanese
From 小 (ko) meaning "small, little" and 柴 (shiba) meaning "firewood".

Koshigaya Japanese

Koshikawa Japanese

Koshima Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small" or 児 (ko) meaning "young" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".

Koshiya Japanese

Koshkina f Russian
Feminine form of Koshkin.

Koška Belarusian
Derived from Belarusian кошка (koška) meaning "cat".

Kosmina Ukrainian (Germanized)

Kosora Japanese

Kosova Albanian, Kosovar

Kostadinova f Bulgarian, Macedonian
Feminine form of Kostadinov.

Kostka Polish
From Polish kostka meaning "small bone" or from a form of the name Konstanty.

Kostoska f Macedonian
Feminine form of Kostoski.

Kostovska f Macedonian
Feminine form of Kostovski.

Kostra Czech, 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.

Koštunica Serbian

Kosuga Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 小菅 or 小管 (see Kosuge).

Kota Japanese

Kotaira Japanese
Ko means "small" and taira means "peace, level".

Kotaja Finnish

Kotaka Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small" and 高 (taka) meaning "tall, high".

Koteda Japanese

Kotomura Japanese
Koto means "flute" and mura means "village".

Kotooka Japanese

Kotova f Russian
Feminine form of Kotov.

Kotsyuba Ukrainian

Kotwica Polish
Comes from the Polish word kotwica meaning 'anchor'.

Koupilová f Czech

Koura Japanese
Ko means "small" and ura means "bay, seacoast".

Kousaka Japanese

Koussa Arabic
Probably comes from Moroccan Darija, when Koussa mean "homosexuality", people with this name were seen as homosexual and had no choice.

Kõva Estonian
Kõva is an Estonian surname meaning "hard", "solid" and "tough".

Kovalíková f Czech, Slovak
Feminine form of Kovalík.

Kovaľová f Slovak
Feminine form of Kovaľ.

Kovalová f Czech, Slovak
Feminine from of Koval.

Kõvamaa Estonian
Kõvamaa is an Estonian surname meaning "solid ground".

Kowaka Japanese

Kowara Japanese
Variant of Kohara.

Koyajima Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 紺屋島 (Koyajima) meaning "Koyajima", a division in the area of Gomajima in the city of Oyabe in the prefecture of Toyama in Japan.... [more]

Koyama Japanese
From the Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain."

Kozaka Japanese
Variant of Kosaka.

Kozakura Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small" and 桜 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom".

Kozhara Ukrainian
From Ukrainian кожа (kozha), meaning "skin, leather".

Koziara Polish

Kozuka Japanese
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "little, small" and 塚 (tsuka) meaning "hillock, mound".

Kozyna Ukrainian

Kozyreva Russian
Feminine form of Kozyrev.

Kraina Czech, South Slavic, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian
From Old Slavic крайина (krajina) "country" or from крайь (krajĭ) "border", ultimately from кройити (krojiti) "to cut".

Krajca Czech
Means "tailor".

Krajčíková f Slovak
Feminine form of Krajčík.

Krajčiová f Slovak
Feminine form of Krajči.

Krajčírová f Slovak
Feminine form of Krajčír.

Krajčová f Slovak
Feminine form of Krajči or Krajčí.

Krajčovičová f Slovak
Feminine form of Krajčovič.

Krapiva Russian
Means "bush".

Krasa Thai (Rare)
Means "heron, stork" in Thai.

Krassavtseva Kazakh

Krastanova f Bulgarian
Feminine form of Krastanov.

Krasulya Russian
Means "beauty".

Krejčíková f Czech
Feminine form of Krejčík.

Krekora Polish

Kriisa Estonian
Kriisa is an Estonian surname derived from "kriise" meaning "screech".

Kriiska Estonian
Kriiska is an Estonian surname derived from "kriiskama" meaning "screech" and "shriek".

Krishna Indian, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada
From the given name Krishna.

Kroma English (American)
Surname of popular YouTuber Justin Kroma (LankyBox).

Krsteva f Macedonian
Feminine form of Krstev.

Kruchina Russian
Derived from Russian кручина (kruchina) meaning "sorrow, sadness".

Kruglova f Russian
Feminine form of Kruglov.

Krupskaya f Russian, Yiddish (Russified)
Derived from Russian крупа (krupa), meaning "grains". This was the last name of Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lenin's wife.

Krusa Polish

Krutxaga Basque
Habitational name, probably derived from a variant of Basque gurutze "cross; intersection, crossing" and -aga "place of, abundance of".

Kruusmaa Estonian
Kruusmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "gravel land".

Krykora Polish (Ukrainianized)
Probably a Ukrainianised variant of Krekora.

Krysa Polish

Krzaklewska f Polish
Feminine form of Krzaklewski.

Krzemienska Polish

Krzoska Polish
Altered spelling of Polish Brzózka, from a diminutive of Brzoza

Ksyonda Ukrainian (?)

Ktila Arabic (Maghrebi)