Browse Submitted Surnames

This is a list of submitted surnames in which the ending sequence is a; and the gender is unisex.
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Rathnayaka Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala රත්නායක (see Ratnayake).
Ratnapala Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit रत्न (ratna) meaning "jewel, treasure" and पाल (pala) meaning "guard, protector".
Ratnapriya Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit रत्न (ratna) meaning "jewel, treasure" and प्रिय (priya) meaning "beloved, dear".
Ratnasuriya Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit रत्न (ratna) meaning "jewel, treasure" and सूर्य (surya) meaning "sun".
Ratnaweera Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala රත්නවීර (see Rathnaweera).
Ratnayaka Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala රත්නායක (see Ratnayake).
Rattana Khmer, Thai
Derived from Thai รัตน์ (rạtn) meaning "gem jewel"
Raya Galician, Spanish
Possibly a habitational name from Raya in Galicia or in Albacete and Murcia provinces. Possibly a topographic name from Spanish raya meaning "line", denoting the boundary between two countries or provinces.
Raza Urdu, Bengali
From the given name Ridha.
Recchia Italian
Reduced or regional form of Italian orecchia "ear", a nickname for someone with notable ears or uncommonly good hearing.
Reda Arabic
From the given name Ridha.
Redka Ukrainian
Means "raddish" in Ukrainian
Regalia Italian
Means "regalia; royal rights and privileges, regality" in Italian.
Regencia Spanish (Philippines)
Derived from the Latin adjective regens meaning "ruling, governing."
Reha Estonian
Reha is an Estonian surname meaning "rake".
Rehemaa Estonian
Rehemaa is an Estonian surname meaning "threshing land".
Reina Spanish, Portuguese
Either a habitational name from any of the places called Reina. Or most likely from the female personal name Reina 1 (from Latin Regina) otherwise a nickname from reina "queen".
Reinmaa Estonian
Reinmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "Rein's land". From the masculine give name "Rein" and "maa" ("land").
Reitsma West Frisian
Derived from either the personal name Reitse or the place name Reitsum combined with the Frisian suffix -ma.
Relyea German, French (Anglicized)
Altered spelling of southern German and French Rellier, or probably a regional variant of Swiss German Reller, especially in the western provinces of Austria... [more]
Remtulla Indian, Arabic
Unknown meaning.
Remulta Filipino
It can be derived from Spanish word which means "remultar" which means "to rumble" or "to grumble". It can also come from another Spanish root word "mult-" which can be associated with the idea "many" "multiply" "multus".
Renda Italian
Derived from the short form of a variant of Latin Laurentius (compare Renza), or perhaps from a feminine variant of Germanic Rando... [more]
Renda Italian
Habitational name from Rende in Calabria, Italy.
Renna Italian
Variant of Renda.
Rentería Spanish
Castilianized variant of Basque Errenteria, the name of two towns in Gipuzkoa and Biscay provinces, Basque Country. Means "customs" in Spanish.
Requa German
Variant of Ricward, from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements ric ‘power(ful)’ + ward ‘guardian’.
Requena Spanish, Catalan
habitational name from Requena in Valencia or Requena de Campos in Palencia apparently so called from a short form of the various Visigothic compound personal names with the first element rīc "powerful" with the addition of the locative suffix -ena.
Reta Spanish
Castilianized variant of Basque Erreta, a habitational name from a town called Erreta in Navarre, Basque Country
Rexha Albanian
Meaning uncertain.
Rexha Albanian
Derived from the given name Rexhep.
Reyna Spanish, Caribbean
This could be transferred use of the first name Reyna, a variant of Reina, which means "queen".
Reza Persian, Bengali
From the given name Reza.
Riareuja Ligurian
Alternative spelling of Rivareua.
Ribadavia Galician
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.
Riba De Neira Galician
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous parish of the municipality of Baralla, Comarca of Os Ancares.
Ribera Catalan, Spanish
Habitational name from any of various locations in Spain named Ribera, derived from Catalan and Spanish ribera meaning "bank, shore".
Riccia Italian
Variant form of Ricci.
Ridala Estonian
Ridala is an Estonia surname meaning "set, line, or range" "area".
Riina Sicilian
Derived from Sicilian rijina meaning "queen".
Riola Italian
Regional variant of Riolo.
Ristoja Estonian
Ristoja is an Estonian surname meaning "across (abeam) creek".
Rita Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan
From the female personal name Rita, a reduced form of MargharitaMargaret’, chosen in particular in honor of a 15th-century Italian saint who bore the name in this form.
Ritonga Batak
From Batak ri meaning "reed, grass" and tonga meaning "middle, centre".
Rivabella Italian
Derived from the Italian word riva meaning "bank (shore, riverbank, lakebank)" (from Latin ripa) and bella meaning "beautiful"... [more]
Rivadeneira Spanish
habitational name from a parish named Riba de Neira in Lugo province meaning 'bank of the river Neira' Neira being a tributary of the Miño.
Rivareua Ligurian
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous frazione of the commune of Carasco.
Riza Arabic
From the given name Ridha.
Rizza Italian
Variant of Rizzo.
Roa Spanish
Habitational name from the town of Roa (de Duero) in Burgos province, Spain.
Roberta English
One of the n middle name
Robleda Spanish
From Spanish meaning "oak grove".
Rocă Romanian
Romanian cognate of Roach.
Rodela Galician
Possibly habitational name from a place called Rodel (in A Coruña province, Galicia), derived from a diminutive of roda "wheel".
Rodia Italian
Habitational name from Rodia, a locality in Messina, Sicily.
Rodina Russian
Means motherland or homeland in Russian.
Rodionova Russian
Feminine form of Rodionov.
Roelofsema Frisian
Possibly meaning "son of Roelof". Variant of Roelofsma.
Roelofsma Frisian
Possibly means "son of Roelof".
Rohemaa Estonian
Rohemaa is an Estonian surname meaning "green land".
Rohtla Estonian
Rohtla is an Estonian surname meaning "veld", "prairie" and "steppe".
Rohumaa Estonian
Rohumaa is an Estonian surname meaning "grassland" and "meadow".
Roka Japanese
Japanese name meaning "White crest of the wave".
Rokuyama Japanese (Rare)
Means "6 mountains" in Japanese.
Romaña Spanish
Habitational name from the Italian city of Romagna.
Romana Catalan, French, Italian, Polish, English (Rare), German, Hungarian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
From the feminine form of the Latin personal name Romanus, which originally meant "Roman".
Romeka Lithuanian (Latinized)
From the Latin for "of Rome"
Rooba Estonian
Rooba is an Estonian surname, derived from "roobas", meaning "ditch" or "rut".
Roosta Persian
Alternate transcription of Persian روستا‎ (see Rousta).
Rootsmaa Estonian
Rootsmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "leaf stalk/stem land".
Rosema Frisian
Variant spelling of Rozema.
Roshchepa Russian
Means "grove".
Rossiya Russian
Means "Russia" in Russian.
Rostova Russian
Feminine form of Rostov.
Rosya Ukrainian (Modern), Russian (Modern)
Either a shortened version of "Rossiya", which is Russian for "Russia", or the Russian and Ukrainian version of Rose 1.
Rota Italian
Means "wheel" in Italian, from various place names.
Rousta Persian
Means "village" in Persian.
Rovira Catalan
Topographic name for someone who lived by an oak wood, from Catalan rovira meaning "oak wood, oak grove".
Royama Japanese
蝋 means wax. 山 means mountain.
Rozema Frisian
Possibly a contraction of Roelfsema meaning "son of Roelf" or derived from Roos. Also spelled Rosema, Roosma, Rozeman.
Rua Jewish (Rare)
Israel, Spain
Rubalcava Spanish
Habitational name for someone originally from the town of Rubalcaba in Cantabria, Spain. The name itself is derived from Arabic الربع الخالي (ar-rubʿ al-ḵālī) meaning "the Empty Quarter", referring to the Rub' al Khali desert in the Arabian Peninsula.
Rudzutaka Latvian (Rare)
Rudzutaka is compound from two words first rudzu meaning "rye" and second taka meaning "path". Rudzutaka is femenine form of surname, the masculine form of surname is Rudzutaks. Most famous person with this surname is Jānis Rudzutaks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jānis_Rudzutaks... [more]
Rüga Estonian
Rüga is an Estonian surname derived from "rügama" meaning to "toil" and "rügaja" meaning "toiler".
Rumbia Indonesian
Named after the rumbia fruit in Indonesia.
Ruotina Italian
Means "wheel" in Italian. This meant that a bearer of this surname was a wheel maker.
Rupasingha Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala රූපසිංහ (see Rupasinghe).
Rurikawa Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 瑠璃 (ruri) meaning "lapis lazuli" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river".
Rusakova Russian
Julia Rusakova-Harper was a Russian astronaut for NASA and former wife to Jack Harper in the movie Oblivion (2013). She was played by Olga Kurylenko alongside Jack Harper’s character played by Tom Cruise... [more]
Ruscica Croatian (Americanized, Modern)
From a Croatian settlement Rušćica
Ruwanpathirana Sinhalese
From Sinhala රුවන (ruvana) meaning "gem" combined with Sanskrit पति (pati) meaning "husband, lord" and राणा (rana) meaning "king".
Ruwanpura Sinhalese
From Sinhala රුවන (ruvana) meaning "gem" combined with Sanskrit पुर (pura) meaning "city".
Rybalka Ukrainian
Ukrainian surname meaning "fisherman". Derived from ryba "fish".
Rzasa Polish
Topographic name for someone who lived near a pond where duckweed grew, from Polish rzasa ‘duckweed’.
Rzazadə Azerbaijani
Azerbaijani form of Rezazadeh.
Rzepka Polish
from rzepka, diminutive of rzepa ‘turnip’, either a nickname or a metonymic occupational name for a peasant who grew root vegetables.
Rzonca Polish
Nickname from Polish dialect rzonca, standard Polish rzodca ‘land steward’.
Sa Korean
There are three Chinese characters associated with this surname. Two of these are extremely rare and are not treated here. The remaining Sa surname is also quite unusual. There are two distinct clans, one of Kyŏngsang South Province’s Kŏch’ang County and the other originating with a refugee from Ming China who came to Korea near the end of the Koryŏ period (ad 918–1392).
Portuguese, Galician
Variant spelling of Saa, a habitational name from any of the numerous places named Saa, mainly in northern Portugal and Galicia.
Saa Portuguese, Galician
Habitational name from any of the numerous places named Saa, mainly in northern Portugal and Galicia.
Saara Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 茶新 (see Chashin).
Saarela Estonian
Saarela is an Estonian surname meaning "island area".
Saaremaa Estonian
Toponymic surname from an island in the West Estonian archipelago, derived from saar "island" and maa "land, earth".
Saarepera Estonian
Saarepera is an Estonian surname meaning "island folk".
Saarma Estonian
Saarma is an Estonian surname derived from "saarmas", meaning "otter".
Saarmaa Estonian
Saarmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "island land".
Saaroja Estonian
Saaroja is an Estonian surname meaning "island stream".
Saavedra Spanish, Mexican
Derived from the place-name Saavedra and therefore signifies "descendant or son of one from Saavedra". The place-name Saavedra is located in the north western province of Lugo in Galicia, Spain and is believed to be derived from the elements "Saa" meaning "Hall" and "Vedra" (feminine) meaning "Old".
Saba French, Occitan
Nickname from a variant of Occitan sabe meaning "tasty, flavorsome". Compare Sabourin.
Saba Arabic
From the given name Saba or Sabah.
Sabba Russian (Anglicized)
From the given name Sabba.
Sabella Sicilian, Italian
Possibly derived from the Latin cognomen Sabellus, or in some cases from a diminutive of the feminine given name Isabella... [more]
Sabusawa Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 寒風沢 (Sabusawa), a clipping of 寒風沢浜 (Sabusawahama) meaning "Sabusawahama", a former village in the district of Miyagi in the former Japanese province of Rikuzen in parts of present-day Miyagi and Iwate in Japan, or a clipping of 浦戸寒風沢 (Uratosabusawa) meaning "Uratosabusawa", an area in the city of Shiogama in the prefecture of Miyagi in Japan.... [more]
Saccà Italian
From Arabic سقى (saqa) "to give water", a nickname for a water carrier.
Sachdeva Indian, Hindi, Punjabi
Variant transcription of Sachdev.
Sada Japanese
From 佐 (sa) meaning "assist" and 田 (ta) meaning "rice paddy, field".
Sadiwa Tagalog
From Tagalog sariwa meaning "fresh, crisp, new" in Tagalog.
Sadpara Urdu
Originally denoted a person from Sadpara (also Satpara) which is the name of a village and lake near Skardu in Gilgit-Baltistan. The place name Sadpara means "seven gates".
Saechua Thai
Form of Cai (via the Teochew romanization) used by Thais of Chinese descent, formed with Thai แซ่ (sae) denoting Chinese family names.
Saetia Thai
Form of Zhang (via the Teochew romanization) used by Thais of Chinese descent, formed with Thai แซ่ (sae) denoting Chinese family names.
Saetta Italian
Possibly an Italianized form of Sicilian Saitta, or else taken directly from the Italian word saetta meaning "arrow, bolt" or "thunderbolt, lightning"... [more]
Safa Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Urdu
From the given names Safaa or Safaa'.
Safeya Muslim
• Safeya is derived from the SAD-F-A root which is used in many places in the Quran, This name derives from the Arabic “Ṣafi”, meaning “pure, confidante, best friend”. Safiyya bint Huyayy was a Jewish woman captured from the Banu Nadir tribe at age 17, who became Muhammad's wife... [more]
Sagara Japanese
From Japanese 相 (saga) meaning "nature, custom, fate, destiny" and 良 (ra) meaning "good, virtuous, respectable" or 楽 (ra) meaning "comfort, ease".
Sagawa Japanese
From Japanese 佐 (sa) meaning "help, aid" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".
Sagrika Gujarati
Sagarika patel
Saha Indian, Bengali, Assamese, Odia, Nepali
Derived from Sanskrit साधु (sadhu) meaning "merchant, money-lender, banker".
Sahara Japanese
From Japanese 佐 (sa) meaning "aid, assist, help" and 原 (hara) meaning "meadow, plain, field". This is the name of areas in the city of Yokosuka and the city of Katori in Japan.
Sahara Japanese
From Japanese 左 (sa), a clipping of 左衛門尉 (saemon-no-jō) meaning "judge of senior gate guards" and 原 (hara) meaning "meadow; plain; field".
Sahara Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 砂原 (see Sunahara).
Sahara Arabic, Persian
Alternate transcription of Sahra.
Sahata Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 茶畑 (see Chabata 2).
Sahota Indian (Sikh)
A sikh surname meaning ‘hare’, derived from the name of a Jat clan.
Sahota Indian, Punjabi
Derived from Punjabi ਸਹਿਆ (sahia) meaning "hare".
Sahra Arabic, Persian, Somali, Turkish (Rare)
Derived from Arabic meaning "desert".
Saihara Japanese
Prime field, Conspicuous wilderness... [more]
Saika Japanese
From 雑 (sai) meaning "miscellaneous" and 賀 (ka) meaning "congratulations, joy".
Saikia Indian, Assamese
From a military title used during the Ahom Kingdom that indicated an official who commanded 100 soldiers. The title itself is derived from Assamese শ (xo) meaning "hundred".
Saitama Japanese
Japanese surname meaning "precious stone peninsula".
Saitta Sicilian, Italian
Means "arrow" or "lightning bolt" in Sicilian, from Latin sagitta via sajitta. Probably a nickname for a quick or fast-footed person, though it may have also been a metonymic occupational name for a fletcher.
Saka Japanese
Saka means "slope, hill", often found in other surnames and place names such as Osaka.
Saka Turkish
Either an occupational name for a seller or deliverer of water or a nickname meaning "goldfinch".
Saka Japanese
From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope".
Sakagashira Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 坂 (saka) meaning "slope; hill" and 頭 (gashira), the joining form of 頭 (kashira) meaning "head", referring to the top of a hill.... [more]
Sakagawa Japanese
From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".
Sakahara Japanese
From Japanese 阪 (saka) meaning "slope" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".
Sakakawa Japanese
Saka means "slope, hill" and kawa means "river, stream".
Sakakibara Japanese
From Japanese 榊 (sakaki) meaning "sakaki" (a type of tree) and 原 (hara) meaning "meadow, plain, field".
Sakakida Japanese (Rare)
Sakaki (榊) means "sakaki tree", da (田) means "ricefield". Ta changes to da because of rendaku. This surname is extremely rare
Sakakihara Japanese
Sakaki refers to the "sakaki tree" and hara means "field plain".
Sakamata Japanese
Perhaps from surname of Naoya Sakamata, who was a composer of dark music.
Sakashita Japanese
From Japanese 坂 (saka) meaning "slope" and 下 (shita) meaning "under, below".
Sakata Japanese
From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".
Sakiyama Japanese
From Japanese 崎 (saki) "small peninsula, cape" and 山 (yama) "mountain".
Sakka Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 属 (see Sakan).
Sakoda Japanese
Derived from the Japanese kanji 迫 (sako) meaning "a small valley on the mountain side" and 田 (da) meaning "paddy, field".
Šakota Serbian
From šaka, meaning "hand"
Sakota Japanese
From Japanese 迫 (sako) meaning "mountainside valley" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".
Saksena Indian, Hindi
Alternate transcription of Hindi सक्सेना (see Saxena).
Sakuma Japanese
From Japanese 佐 (sa) meaning "help, aid" combined with 久 (ku) meaning "long time ago" and 間 (ma) meaning "among, between".
Sakura Japanese
From Japanese 佐 (sa) meaning "help, aid" and 倉 (kura) meaning "warehouse, storehouse".
Sakuraba Japanese
From Japanese 桜 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom" and 庭 (ba) meaning "garden".
Sakurajima Japanese
From Japanese 桜 or 櫻 (sakura) both meaning "cherry blossom" combined with 島 (jima) meaning "island". This surname comes from 桜島 (Sakurajima), an active stratovolcano located in Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan... [more]
Sakurakaba Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 桜 (sakura) meaning "prunus serrulata" and 椛 (kaba) meaning "betula".
Sakuramiya Japanese
From Japanese 桜, 櫻 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom" combined with 宮 (miya) meaning "temple, shrine, palace".
Sakurasaka Japanese
Sakura means "cherry blossom" and saka means "cape, peninsula".
Sakurashima Japanese
Sakura means "cherry blossom" and shima means "island".
Sakurazaka Japanese (Rare)
Sakura means "cherry blossom" and zaka is a form of saka that means means "peninsula, cape". ... [more]
Sala Latvian
From Latvian sala meaning "island".
Salakaya Abkhaz
Mingrelian form of the Abkhaz surname Шакар-ипа (Shakar-ipa) meaning "son of Shakar". The name itself may be derived from Persian شکر (šakar) meaning "sugar" or from Arabic شَكَرَ (šakara) meaning "to be thankful, to be grateful".
Salalila Filipino, Tagalog
Derived from Sanskrit शरीर (śarīra) meaning "body". This was the name of a rajah of the historical region of Maynila (modern-day Manila).
Salama Arabic
Derived from the given name Salama.
Saldaña Spanish
Habitual surname for a person from any of the locations in Spain named Saldaña. The name itself comes from the older name Gili-Zalan, which is of uncertain meaning.
Saldanha Portuguese
Portuguese cognate of Saldaña.
Saliba Arabic, Maltese
Means "crucifix, cross" in Arabic, a reference to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in Christianity... [more]
Salipada Filipino, Maguindanao
Maguindanao cognate of Saripada.
Salmona Judeo-Spanish
From a variant of the given name Shelomoh.
Salonga Filipino, Tagalog
From the name of a chief of Polo (presently the city of Valenzuela in Manila) who was later baptised as Pedro Salonga.
Salussolia Italian, Piedmontese
Originally denoted a person from Salussola, a comune (municipality) in the province of Biella in Piedmont, Italy.
Salvatierra Spanish
Spanish: habitational name from any of the places called Salvatierra (literally ‘save land’ denoting a place of strategic importance).... [more]
Samaha Arabic
Derived from Arabic سَمْح (samḥ) meaning "magnanimous, generous".
Samara Greek
Variant of Samaras.
Samarajeewa Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit समर (samara) meaning "coming together, meeting" or "conflict, struggle" and जीव (jiva) meaning "alive, living, life, existence".
Samaranayaka Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala සමරනායක (see Samaranayake).
Samararathna Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala සමරරත්න (see Samararatne).
Samararatna Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala සමරරත්න (see Samararatne).