SaikiaIndian, 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".
SaimuJapanese (Rare) From Japanese 宰 (sai) meaning "superintend" and 務 (mu) meaning "task; duty", referring to someone who would supervise or administer others.
SäinasEstonian Säinas is an Estonian surname meaning "ide/orfe" (a freshwater species of fish; genus Leuciscus).
SaineiKorean (Japanized, Rare) From Japanese 載寧 (Sainei), the Japanese reading of Korean Hanja 載寧 (Chaeryŏng/Jaeyeong) meaning "Chaeryŏng", a clan or a county in province of South Hwanghae in North Korea where the clan originated.
SainiIndian Indian (Panjab): Hindu (Arora) and Sikh name derived from the name of an Arora clan.
SainsburyEnglish habitational name from Saintbury (Gloucestershire) from the Old English personal name Sæwine (genitive Sæwines from Old English sæ "sea" and wine ‘friend’) plus burg "fortified place".
SaintEnglish, French Nickname for a particularly pious individual, from Middle English, Old French saint, seint "holy" (Latin sanctus "blameless, holy"). The vocabulary word was occasionally used in the Middle Ages as a personal name, especially on the Continent, and this may have given rise to some instances of the surname.
Saint-JustFrench From Saint Justus of Beauvais, a Catholic Saint. A famous bearer of this name is Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, a figure of the French Revolution who was guillotined.
Saint-saënsFrench From any place named Saint-Saens by honor to the saint Sidonius.
Saint-SimonFrench A French surname meaning "Saint Simon". Two famous bearers were Duc de Saint-Simon Louis de Rouvroy(1675-1755), a French memoirist, and his younger relative, Henri de Saint-Simon(1760-1825), the founder of French Socialism and modern theoretical Socialism in general.
SajinFrench 1 French: metonymic occupational name for a satin merchant or specialist satin weaver, from Middle French satin ‘satin’, a word of Arabic and (ultimately) Chinese origin, a derivative of the Chinese place name Tsinkiang, whence satin silk was brought to the Middle East and Europe in the Middle Ages.... [more]
SajuyigbeYoruba (Americanized, Rare) The Sajuyigbe family, with its roots in the Yoruba tribe, carries a rich and complex history. The family is believed to descend from a line of royals that held significant influence in Yorubaland around the time of the Nok culture... [more]
SakTurkish Means "conscious, awake" or "stalk, stem" in Turkish.
SakaJapanese Saka means "slope, hill", often found in other surnames and place names such as Osaka.
SakaTurkish Either an occupational name for a seller or deliverer of water or a nickname meaning "goldfinch".
SakagamiJapanese From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope" and 上 (kami) meaning "high place, top".
SakagashiraJapanese (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]
SakagawaJapanese From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".
SakatokuJapanese From Japanese 酒 (saka), the combining form of 酒 (sake) meaning "alcoholic beverage, rice wine" and 徳 (toku) meaning "benevolence, virtue", referring to a wine server.
SakerEnglish Occupational name for a maker of sacks or bags, derived from an agent derivative of Old English sacc meaning "sack, bag".
SaketArabic (Maghrebi) An Algerian title meaning "silent" or "quiet", and it is among the titles granted to the Algerians by the French occupation in 1882.
SakhalinskyRussian Refers to an island in Eastern Russia named "Sakhalin."
SakhnoUkrainian Sakhno could be a derivative of the Russian surname Sakhalinsky (Сахалинский), the Polish surname Saczkowski, the Serbian surname Šakota (Схакота), or the German surnames Sachs and/or Sackhoff... [more]
SakiJapanese Saki means "peninsula, cape, promontory".
SakigakeJapanese 魁 (Sakigake) can be translated to (pioneer; leader; taking the initiative; forerunner; harbinger; herald; / leading an attack; charging ahead of others (towards the enemy)) It could be interpreted as a nickname for who's a leader
SakuncharoensukThai (Rare) From Thai สกุล (sakun) meaning "birth; ancestry; family", เจริญ (charoen) meaning to "grow; to increase; to develop", and สุข (suk) meaning "joy; happiness".
SakuraJapanese From Japanese 佐 (sa) meaning "help, aid" and 倉 (kura) meaning "warehouse, storehouse".
SakurabaJapanese From Japanese 桜 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom" and 庭 (ba) meaning "garden".
SakuragiJapanese, Popular Culture From Japanese 桜, 櫻 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom" combined with 木 (gi) meaning "tree, wood" or 樹 (gi) meaning "tree". Chloe Cerise and Professor Cerise (also known as Koharu Sakuragi and Dr... [more]
SakuraiJapanese From the Japanese 桜 or 櫻 (sakura) "cherry blossom" or 桃 (sakura or momo) "peach" and 井 (i) "well."
SakuraiJapanese From Japanese 桜, 櫻 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom" combined with 井 (i) meaning "well." A notable bearer of this surname is Takahiro Sakurai (櫻井 孝宏), a Japanese voice-actor who is best known for voicing Izuru Kira from Bleach, Kiyomaro Takamine from Zatch Bell, and Ja'far from the Magi series.
SakuraiJapanese From Japanese 桜 or 櫻 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".
SakurajimaJapanese 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]
SakurakabaJapanese (Rare) From Japanese 桜 (sakura) meaning "prunus serrulata" and 椛 (kaba) meaning "betula".
SakurakōjiJapanese From Japanese 桜 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom", 小 (kō) meaning "small" and 路 (ji) meaning "road, path, journey" or 寺 (ji) meaning "Buddhist temple". A famous bearer is Kanoko Sakurakōji (surname written 桜小路), a Japanese manga artist.
SakuramiJapanese Sakura means "Cherry Blossom (tree)" and Mi means "View, See, Mindset."
SakuramiJapanese From Japanese 桜, 櫻 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom" combined with 見 (mi) meaning "to see" or 実 (mi) meaning "berry, fruit, nut, real".
SakuramiyaJapanese From Japanese 桜, 櫻 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom" combined with 宮 (miya) meaning "temple, shrine, palace".
SakuramotoJapanese Sakura means "cherry blossom" and moto means "origin, root, source".
SakuranoJapanese Means "cherry blossom field" in Japanese, from 桜 (sakura) "cherry blossom" and 野 (no) "field".
SakurasakaJapanese Sakura means "cherry blossom" and saka means "cape, peninsula".
SakurasakiJapanese Sakura means "cherry blossom" and saki means "peninsula".
SakurayashikiJapanese (Rare) From Japanese 桜 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom" and 屋敷 (yashiki) meaning "estate; grounds; mansion; compound; residence".... [more]
SakurazakaJapanese (Rare) Sakura means "cherry blossom" and zaka is a form of saka that means means "peninsula, cape". ... [more]
SakurazakiJapanese Variant of Sakurasaki. Sakura means "cherry blossom" and zaki is a form of saki means "peninsula".
SaładajczykPolish A Polish surname consisting of 3 elements: sała or сала a word of East Slavic origin meaning "salo" or "slanina", daj meaning "give" and czyk meaning "son of". The name means "the son of the one who gives the salo".
SaladinFrench nickname for a blustering or tyrannical individual from the name of the medieval Egyptian sultan who because of his success in combating the Crusaders became demonized in French and Italian folklore as a monster second only to Herod.
SalakayaAbkhaz 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".
SalalilaFilipino, Tagalog Derived from Sanskrit शरीर (śarīra) meaning "body". This was the name of a rajah of the historical region of Maynila (modern-day Manila).
SalanderSwedish Meaning uncertain. Possibly a variant of Selander or a combination of an unexplained first element and the common surname suffix -ander.
SaldañaSpanish 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.
SaldívarSpanish Castilianized variant of Basque Zaldibar, a habitational name from a place so named in Biscay province. The place name is of uncertain derivation: it may be from zaldu ‘wood’, ‘copse’ or from zaldi ‘horse’ + ibar ‘water meadow’, ‘fertile plain’.
SaleEnglish, French English: from Middle English sale ‘hall’, a topographic name for someone living at a hall or manor house, or a metonymic occupational name for someone employed at a hall or manor house. ... [more]
SaleSardinian Derived from Sardinian sale "salt", this name denoted a producer or seller of salt.
SalgueroSpanish Means "willow tree" in Spanish, ultimately from Latin salix. It was either a topographic name for someone who lived near willow trees or a habitational name for someone from the city of Salguero in Burgos, Spain (also derived from this word).
SalisburyEnglish Habitational name from the city in Wiltshire, the Roman name of which was Sorviodunum (of British origin). In the Old English period the second element (from Celtic dun ‘fortress’) was dropped and Sorvio- (of unexplained meaning) became Searo- in Old English as the result of folk etymological association with Old English searu ‘armor’; to this an explanatory burh ‘fortress’, ‘manor’, ‘town’ was added... [more]
SalisteEstonian Saliste is an Estonian surname derived from "salu", meaning "grove".
SallisEnglish A name for someone who lives where sallows grow - sallows being a type of willow, from the Middle English 'salwe'.
SalloEstonian Sallo is an Estonian surname. It is a corruption of "salu", meaning "grove" or "copse".
SallowEnglish (Rare) Sallow comes from the medieval word for willow tree. It is a location surname.
SallwasserGerman It is derived from the German words (Salz) meaning "salt", & (Salweide) meaning "water".
SalmDutch Denoted a person from any of various places called Salm. It could also derive from Dutch zalm meaning "salmon", referring to someone who lived near a sign depicting them, or to someone who fished for salmon.
SalterEnglish Occupational name for an extractor or seller of salt (a precious commodity in medieval times), from Middle English salt 'salt' + the agent suffix -er.
SalthouseEnglish Salthouse and other variants come from the place name in Northumberland.
SalulahtEstonian Salulaht is an Estonian surname meaning "grove bay".
SalumäeEstonian Salumäe is an Estonian surname meaning "grove ridge".
SalumetsEstonian Salumets is an Estonian surname meaning "grove/coppice forest", derived from the compounds "salu" (grove/coppice) and "mets" (forest).
SaluorgEstonian Saluorg is an Estonian surname meaning "grove valley".
SalupaluEstonian Salupalu is an Estonian surname meaning "meadow heathy woodland".
SalurandEstonian Salurand is an Estonian surname meaning "grove beach".
SalusooEstonian Salusoo is an Estonian surname meaning "grove swamp".
SalussoliaItalian, Piedmontese Originally denoted a person from Salussola, a comune (municipality) in the province of Biella in Piedmont, Italy.
SalusteEstonian Saluste is an Estonian surname, relating to "grove".