Submitted Surnames Ending with a

Mosa Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Sindhi, Dhivehi
From the given name Musa.

Mosca Romansh
Younger form of Muos-cha which was derived from Romansh muos-cha "fly (animal)".

Moscha Greek

Moshnyaha Ukrainian

Moskva Russian
Derived from the Russian word Москва meaning "Moscow".

Moskwa Polish
Polish form of Moskva.

Mosna Italian

Mosqueda Spanish
Mosqueda comes from the Spanish word 'Mosca' meaning house fly.

Mosquera Spanish, Catalan, Spanish (Latin American)
Spanish topographic name for someone who lived in a place that was infested with flies or mosquitos from a derivative of mosca "fly" (from Latin musca)... [more]

Mostofa Bengali
From the given name Mustafa.

Mota South American, Spanish, Portuguese
Topographic name for someone who lived by a fortified stronghold.

Motokariya Japanese

Motokura Japanese
Moto means "origin" and kura means "storehouse".

Motomasa Japanese

Motomura Japanese
Moto means "origin, source" and mura means "village, hamlet".

Motoyama Japanese
Combination of Kanji Characters 本 meaning "Book", and 山 meaning "Mountain".

Motozawa Japanese
From the Japanese 本 (moto) "base" or 元 (moto) "original" and 沢 or 澤 (zawa or sawa) "swamp."

Moua Hmong
From the Hmong clan name Muas associated with Chinese 馬 (mǎ) meaning "horse" (see Ma).

Moujtaba Arabic (Maghrebi)
Alternate transcription of Arabic المجتبى (see el-Moujtaba).

Moujteba Arabic (Maghrebi)
Alternate transcription of Arabic المجتبى (see el-Moujteba).

Moula Northern African, Arabic (Maghrebi)

Moura Portuguese
Derived from the Portuguese word "Mouro", which refers to an individual from the Moor people. This is the feminine form of the word, often used in legends of enchanted moor women, which very common in Portugal... [more]

Mousa Arabic
From the given name Musa.

Moussa Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Musa.

Moustafa Arabic (Egyptian)
From the given name Mustafa.

Moustapha Western African
From the given name Moustapha.

Movia Indonesian (Rare)

Mövsümova f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Mövsümov.

Mridha Bengali
From a title for a high-ranking commander or security guard who was employed by a zamindar (a landowner) during the Mughal era, presumably derived from Sanskrit मृध (mrdha) meaning "battle, war".

Mrtvá f Czech
Means "dead".

Msuya Swahili

Mucha Polish, Slovak, Czech, Ukrainian
Nickname for an irritating person or someone considered of no importance, from mucha "fly".

Muchová f Czech, Slovak
Feminine form of Mucha.

Mufasa Indonesian (Rare)

Múgica Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Muxika.

Mugishima Japanese
Mugi means "wheat" and shima means "island".

Muguruma Japanese

Muha English (?)

Muha Czech
Form of Mucha, from Czech "Moucha," meaning housefly.

Muhamadova f Avar
Feminine form of Muhamadov.

Muinasmaa Estonian
Muinasmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "ancient land".

Mujdža Bosnian

Mujiba African

Mujtaba Arabic
From the given name Mujtaba.

Muka Albanian

Mukawa Japanese

Mukha Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
Means "fly" in several languages.

Mukhambetova f Kazakh
Feminine form of Mukhambetov.

Mukhamedzhanova f Kazakh
Feminine form of Mukhamedzhanov.

Mukhametzyanova f Tatar, Bashkir
Feminine form of Mukhametzyanov.

Mukhitova f Kazakh
Feminine form of Mukhitov.

Mukhtarova f Kazakh
Feminine form of Mukhtarov.

Mukhtorova f Uzbek

Mukoyama Japanese
From 向 (muko) meaning "facing, yonder, toward" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Mukushina Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 無垢 (muku) meaning "spiritual purity; freedom from desire or aversion" and 品 (shina), a clipping of 九品 (kokonoshina) meaning "the 9 Stages in Life (in Buddhism)".

Mula Maltese

Müllerová f Czech, Slovak
Feminine form of Müller.

Mumuza Dungan
From the first part of the given name Muhammad and Chinese 娃子 (wázi), a dialectal term meaning "(small) child".

Munakata Japanese
From Japanese 宗 (mune) meaning "religion, doctrine, creed" and 像 (kata) meaning "figure, image, form".

Munasingha Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala මුණසිංහ (see Munasinghe).

Mundaca Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Mundaka.

Mundaka Basque (Rare)
From the name of a town and municipality in Biscay, Spain, of uncertain etymology. A popular theory is that it derives from Latin munda aqua "clean water", but there is no evidence to support this origin... [more]

Munekawa Japanese
From 宗 (mune) meaning "origin, religion, sect" and 川 (kawa) means "stream, river".

Muneta Japanese

Munga Southern African

Mungia Basque
From the name of a town and municipality in Biscay, Basque Country, possibly derived from the personal name Munio combined with the locative suffix -(t)egi.

Munguía Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Mungia.

Munna Bengali

Munua Medieval Spanish (Latinized, Archaic)
Its meaning is Son of Muno.

Mura Japanese
From 村 (mura) meaning "village".

Murada Japanese
From Japanese 村 (mura) meaning "town, village" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Muradova f Azerbaijani, Avar, Lezgin, Chechen, Ingush
Feminine form of Muradov.

Muragawa Japanese
Variant of Murakawa.

Murahama Japanese
Mura means "hamlet, village" and hama means "seashore, veach".

Muraira Portuguese

Muraiwa Japanese (Rare)
Mura means "town, hamlet" and iwa means "stone".

Murakata Japanese

Murakawa Japanese
From Japanese 村 (mura) meaning "town, village" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

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

Muranaka Japanese
From Japanese 村 (mura) meaning "village" combined with 中 (naka) meaning "inside, middle".

Muraoka Japanese
From 村 (mura) meaning "village, hamlet" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Murasawa Japanese
From Japanese 村 (mura) meaning "town, village" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "swamp, wetland, marsh".

Murashima Japanese
Shima means "island" and mura means "hamlet, village".

Murata Japanese
From Japanese 村 (mura) meaning "town, village" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Muratalla Spanish (Mexican)

Murataya Japanese (Rare, ?)

Murav'ya Russian
Means ant in Russian.

Murayama Japanese
From Japanese 村 (mura) meaning "town, village" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

Murchinskaya Russian

Murcia Spanish
Habitational name from the city Murcia.

Murdmaa Estonian
Murdmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "off-road" (literally, "fraction(al) land").

Murea Romanian

Murieta Basque

Muroya Japanese
From Japanese 室 (muro) meaning "room" and 屋 (ya) meaning "shop".

Mürsəlova f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Mürsəlov.

Murtaza Arabic, Urdu
Derived from the given name Murtada.

Murtazalieva f Avar, Chechen
Feminine form of Murtazaliev.

Murtha Irish
Variant of Murtagh.

Murtuzova f Azerbaijani, Dagestani
Feminine form of Murtuzov.

Murumaa Estonian
Murumaa is an Estonian surname meaning "lawn/sod land".

Murza Ukrainian

Musa Albanian

Musa Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
Derived from the given name Musa.

Musabekova f Kazakh
Feminine form of Musabekov.

Musabyemariya Rwandan

Musaeva Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Chechen, Avar, Dargin, Lezgin, Kumyk
Feminine transcription of Kyrgyz/Chechen/Avar/Dargin/Lezgin/Kumyk Мусаева and Kazakh Мұсаева (see Musaev).

Musayeva Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Chechen, Avar, Dargin, Lezgin, Kumyk
Feminine transcription of Kyrgyz/Chechen/Avar/Dargin/Lezgin/Kumyk Мусаева and Kazakh Мұсаева (see Musayev).

Musazadə Azerbaijani
Means "born of Musa".

Musca Italian, Romanian

Muscarà Sicilian

Musiała Polish
Variant of Musiał.

Musila Rwandan

Musiyaka Ukrainian

Muskoka English (Canadian)

Muslimova f Uzbek

Müslümova f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Müslümov.

Mustafayeva f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Mustafayev.

Mustafazadə Azerbaijani
Means "child of Mustafa", using the Persian suffix زاده (zade) meaning "offspring".

Mustafina Tatar, Kazakh, Uzbek, Bashkir
Feminine form of Mustafin.

Mustafoska f Macedonian
Feminine form of Mustafoski.

Mustafova f Bulgarian, Macedonian
Feminine form of Mustafov.

Mustafovska f Macedonian
Feminine form of Mustafovski.

Mustapha Arabic, Filipino, Maguindanao, Maranao
From the given name Mustafa.

Mustmaa Estonian
Mustmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "black land".

Muta Japanese
From Japanese 牟 (mu) meaning "pupil (of the eye)" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Mütəllibova f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Mütəllibov.

Mutema Southern African

Mutembwa Shona
From the Shona elements Mu-: a common Shona prefix for people or agents, meaning "one who..." and -tembwa: derived from the verb “kutemba” or related forms meaning “to cut,” “to sever,”... [more]

Mutia Eastern African, Maasai
A Kenyan Maasai surname known mostly in the West as the name of a certain fictitious escarpment, which appears infrequently in old Tarzan Films.

Mutsuya Japanese
Variant of Mutsutani.

Mutsuyama Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Rokuyama.

Mutuyimana Rwandan

Muvaza Dungan
From the first part of the given name Muhammad and Chinese 娃子 (wázi), a dialectal term meaning "(small) child".

Muxika Basque
From the name of a town and municipality in Biscay, Spain, of uncertain etymology. Coincides with, or possibly derives from, the Basque word muxika meaning "peach".

Muxtarova f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Muxtarov.

Muyama Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Rokuyama.

Muzaferija Bosnian

Müzəffərova f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Müzəffərov.

Muzorewa Shona
Meaning unknown.

Muzyka Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian
Derived either from Belarusian музыка (muzyka) or Ukrainian музика (muzyka), both possibly derived from German Musiker meaning "musician".

Mwamba Bemba

Mwila Lozi

Mychka Ukrainian (Germanized)

Mykhaylyuta Ukrainian
From the given name Mykhaylo.

Mylrea English, Manx
Cognate of Mulroy.

Myradova Turkmen
Alternate transcription of Turkmen Мырадова (see Myradowa).

Myradowa Turkmen
Feminine transcription of Turkmen Мырадов (see Myradow).

Myrzabaeva f Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Feminine form of Myrzabaev.

Myrzabekova f Kyrgyz, Kazakh
Feminine form of Myrzabekov.

Myrzakhanova f Kazakh
Feminine form of Myrzakhanov.

Myszka Polish
Means 'mouse' in Polish.

Na Korean
There is only one Chinese character for the Na surname. Some sources indicate that there are 46 different Na clans, but only two of them can be documented, and it is believed that these two sprang from a common founding ancestor... [more]

Na Hui
From the Arabic name Nasr.

Na Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 納 (see Osame).

Naakka Finnish
Means "jackdaw" in Finnish.

Nabata Japanese

Nabeshima Japanese
From 鍋 (nabe) meaning "pot, kettle, cauldron" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".

Nabeta Japanese
From 鍋 (nabe) meaning "pot, pan, kettle", combined with 田 (ta) meaning "rice field, rice paddy".

Nabeya Japanese
From 鍋 (nabe) meaning "pot, kettle, cauldron" and 谷 (tani, ya, gaya, gai) meaning "valley".

Nəbiyeva f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Nəbiyev.

Nabizada Dari Persian
Dari form of Nabizadeh.

Naboka Russian

Nəcəfova f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Nəcəfov.

Nada Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 納田 (see Nōda).

Nadezhkina Russian
Feminine transcription of Russian Надежкин (see Nadezhkin).

Nadita Pakistani

Naďová f Slovak, Czech
Feminine form of Naď.

Nadyozhkina Russian
Feminine transcription of Russian Надёжкин (see Nadyozhkin).

Naga Japanese

Naga Japanese, Okinawan
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 奈賀 or 名嘉 (see Naka).

Nagabara Japanese
Variant of Nagahara.

Nagada Japanese

Nagagawa Japanese
Variant of Nagakawa.

Nagagaya Japanese (Rare)
A form of Nagatani.

Nagahama Japanese
From Japanese 長 (naga) meaning "long" and 浜 or 濱 (hama) meaning "beach, seashore".

Nagahara Japanese

Nagajima Japanese
Variant of Nagashima.

Nagakawa Japanese
Naga means "long, chief" and kawa means "river, stream".

Naganawa Japanese
From 長 (naga) meaning "long, chief", 名 (na) meaning "name, reputation" and 和 (wa) meaning "peace, harmony".

Naganuma Japanese
From Japanese 長 (naga) meaning "long" and 沼 (numa) meaning "swamp, marsh".

Nagaoka Japanese
From Japanese 長 (naga) meaning "long" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Nagara Japanese

Nagasaka Japanese
From Japanese 長 (naga) meaning "long" and 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope".

Nagashima Japanese
From Japanese 長 (naga) meaning "long" and 島/嶋 (shima) meaning "island".

Nagata Japanese
From Japanese 長 (naga) meaning "long" or 永 (naga) meaning "eternity" and 田 (ta) meaning "field".

Nagatsuka Japanese

Nagawa Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 奈河 (see Naka).

Nagawara Japanese
Variant of Nagahara.

Nagaya Japanese
From Japanese 長 (naga) meaning "long" and 屋 (ya) meaning "roof, dwelling".

Nagayama Japanese
From Japanese 永 (nagai) meaning "eternity, long, lengthy" or 長 (nagai) meaning "chief, head, leader" combined with 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Nagazawa Japanese
Variant of Nagasawa.

Nagda Gujarati

Nagira Japanese

Nağıyeva f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Nağıyev.

Naglowa Polish

Nagura Japanese

Nailsea English
From a town called Nailsea in North Somerset, England. Derived from Old English elements nægel meaning "nail," and sæ meaning "sea."

Naimova f Uzbek

Naitana Italian, Sardinian
Probably from the name of a disappeared village, itself derived from Latin navita "sailor, navigator".

Naiya Japanese

Naiza Spanish (Latin American)

Najada Arabic
Najd, location in KSA

Nájera Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Riojan municipality.

Najima Japanese

Najwa Arabic

Naka Japanese, Okinawan
From Japanese 中 (naka) meaning "middle; center". It is a reference to an event in the Northern and Southern Courts Period, of 3 sons of Takase who became heroes for the south. The emperor of Japan awarded each of the sons a new surname; Oku for the eldest son, Naka for the middle son, and Kuchi for the youngest son.... [more]

Naka Japanese
From Japanese 那珂 (Naka) meaning "Naka", a district in the former Japanese province of Hitachi in parts of present-day Ibaraki, Japan.

Nakaba Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 中 or 仲 (see Naka).

Nakada Japanese
From Japanese 中 (naka) meaning "middle" and 田 (ta) meaning "field".

Nakaga Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 仲嘉 (see Naka).

Nakagata Japanese
Variant of Nakakata.

Nakagawara Japanese

Nakagaya Japanese
Variant of Nakatani.

Nakahama Japanese
Naka means "middle" and hama means "beach, seashore".

Nakahata Japanese

Nakaima Japanese
Naka means "middle" and ima means "now, present".

Nakama Japanese
Naka means "middle" and ma can mean "pause" or "genuine, true real".

Nakaniwa Japanese

Nakaoka Japanese
From Japanese 中 (naka) meaning "middle" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Nakarada Norwegian
From the Norwegian composer Alexander Nakarada, who is the founder of SerpentSound Studios. His main focus is to make it easier for all creative people around the globe to get good music for their work.

Nakasa Japanese

Nakasawa Japanese

Nakata Japanese
From Japanese 中 (naka) meaning "middle" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Nakathila Southern African, Ovambo

Nakatsuka Japanese
From Japanese 中 (naka) meaning "middle" and 塚 (tsuka) meaning "hillock, mound".

Nakaura Japanese
Naka means "Middle" and Ura means "Gulf, Bay, Inlet, Beach, Seacoast, Creek."

Nakawa Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 奈河 (see Naka).

Nakaya Japanese
Variant of Nakatani.

Nakaya Japanese
From Japanese 中 (naka) meaning "middle" and 谷 (ya) meaning "valley".

Nakaya Japanese
From Japanese 仲 (naka) meaning "relation, relationship" and 谷 (ya) meaning "valley".

Nakayama Japanese
From the Japanese 中 (naka) meaning "middle" or 仲 (naka) "relationship, relations" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

Nakazawa Japanese
From Japanese 中 (naka) meaning "middle" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "wetland, swamp, marsh".

Nakova Bulgarian

Nakovska f Macedonian

Nala South African

Namazova f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Namazov.

Namba Japanese
From 難 (nan, nam) meaning "difficulties, flame, shortage, poorly" and 波 (ba, nami) meaning "wave, surf".

Nambala Southern African

Nambara Japanese

Nameda Japanese

Namigata Japanese
Variant of Namikata.

Namigawa Japanese
Variant of Namikawa.

Namikawa Japanese
From Japanese 波 (nami) meaning "wave" and 川 (kawa) or 河 (kawa) both meaning "river, stream".

Namiyama Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 波 (nami) meaning "wave" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Namura Japanese

Nananana South African

Nanashima Japanese (Rare)
Japanese surname meaning "seven island".

Nanayakkara Sinhalese

Nanba Japanese
From 難 (nan, nam) meaning "difficulties, flame, shortage, poorly" and 波 (ba, nami) meaning "wave, surf".

Nanda Indian, Odia, Hindi, Punjabi
From the given name Nanda.

Nandasena Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit नन्द (nanda) meaning "joy, delight" and सेना (sena) meaning "army".

Nannenga Frisian, Dutch, German
Variant of Nanninga.

Nanninga Frisian, Dutch, German
Derived from the given name Nanne, a short form of Germanic names containing the element nand meaning "daring, brave, courage"... [more]

Naola Spanish (Latin American)

Napierala Polish
Nickname for an insistent person, from a derivative of napierac ‘advance’, ‘press’, ‘urge’.

Napora Polish
Nickname for an interfering person, Polish napora, derivative of napierać meaning ‘to insist on somebody doing something’.

Nara Japanese
This surname is used as 楢, 奈良 or 那良 with 楢 (shuu, yuu, nara) meaning "oak", 奈 (dai, na, nai, ikan, karanashi) meaning "Nara, what?", 那 (na, da, nani, nanzo, ikan) meaning "what?" and 良 (ryou, i.i, -i.i, yo.i, -yo.i, ra) meaning "good, pleasing, skilled."... [more]

Narangpuria Indian

Naraoka Japanese

Narendra Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Gujarati
From the given name Narendra.

Narida Japanese

Nərimanova f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Nərimanov.

Narisawa Japanese
From the Japanese 成 (nari) "turn into," "become" and 澤 or 沢 (sawa or zawa) "swamp."

Narita Japanese
From 成 (nari) meaning "become", and 田 (ta) meaning "rice paddy".

Narita Japanese
From Japanese 成 (nari) meaning "become" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Nariyama Japanese
Nari means "thunder" and yama means "mountain, hill".

Narizaka Japanese
Variant of Narisaka.

Narra Indian

Narumiya Japanese
From Japanese 成 (naru) meaning "become" and 宮 (miya) meaning "palace, constellation".

Narva Estonian
Narva is an Estonian surname taken from the city of the same name in Ida-Viru County.

Nasea Fijian

Nashara Pakistani

Nashima Japanese

Nashua South African

Nəsibova f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Nəsibov.

Nəsirova f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Nəsirov.

Naska Albanian (Rare)
Present in Albania before 1900'.

na Songkhla Thai
From Thai สงขลา (Songkhla) meaning "Singora", a former Thai sultanate in present-day Songkhla, Songkhla, Songkhla, Thailand.

Nəsrullayeva f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Nəsrullayev.

Nastaca Romanian

Nasukawa Japanese
From 那 (na) meaning "what", 須 (su) meaning "mandatory, necessary, moment", and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Nata Russian
From the given name Nata.

Natsugawa Japanese
Variant of Natsukawa, meaning "summer river".

Natsukawa Japanese
This name means Summer River. From natsu "summer" and kawa "river".

Naumoska f Macedonian
Feminine form of Naumoski.

Naumovska f Macedonian
Feminine form of Naumovski.

Nauryzbaeva f Kazakh
Feminine form of Nauryzbaev.

Nausėda Lithuanian

Nauta Dutch
Humanistic Latinization of Schipper, from nauta "sailor, seaman, mariner".

Navara Czech

Navarra Spanish

Navarra Italian, Spanish
Means Navarre in Italian and Spanish; which was also the female equivalent to Navarro.

Navia Spanish

Navida Galician
Galician and Asturian-Leonese: habitational name from either of two places named Navia, in Galicia and Asturies.

Navta Slovak

Nawa Japanese

Nawa Japanese
From Japanese 名 (na) meaning "name, reputation" and 和 (wa) meaning "harmony, peace".

Nawada Japanese

Nawarathna Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala නවරත්න (see Nawaratne).

Nawaratna Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala නවරත්න (see Nawaratne).