Browse Submitted Surnames

This is a list of submitted surnames in which the gender is unisex; and the order is random.
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Natsugawa Japanese
Variant of Natsukawa, meaning "summer river".
Baskerville English
Means "bush town", from Anglo-Norman French boschet (a little bush) and ville (town).
Tromp Dutch
Occupational name for a musician derived from trompet "trumpet, horn", or possibly Middle Dutch tromme "drum".
Urushiyama Japanese
From Japanese 漆 (urushi) meaning "lacquer" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".
Peñalver Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Manchego municipality.
Ignat Romanian
From the given name Ignat.
Spillman English
From the medieval male personal name Spileman, literally "acrobat" or "jester" (from a derivative of Middle English spillen "to play, cavort").
Soule English, French, Medieval English
English: of uncertain origin; perhaps derived from the vocabulary word soul as a term of affection.... [more]
Karlin Jewish
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) habitational name for someone from Karlin, a suburb of Pinsk in Belarus, in which the Jews formed the majority of the population until the Holocaust. A well-known Hasidic sect originated in Karlin and at one time it attracted so many followers that a (now obsolete) Russian word for ‘Hasid’ was Karliner (of Yiddish origin)... [more]
Nurme Estonian
Derived from nurm, meaning "field, meadow, lea" in Estonian.
Twining English
From the name of the village of Twyning in Gloucestershire, derived from Old English betweonan meaning "between" and eam meaning "river".
Hosey English
Typically from the name of the area of Houssaye in the Seine-Maritime region of Normandy. A more unusual derivation shows that some in some cases the name finds its roots in the word hussey, an Old English nickname female head of household.
Sison Filipino
From Min Nan 四孫 (sì-sun) or 四孙 (sì-sun) meaning "fourth grandchild".
Riggins Irish
An Anglicized form of the Irish surname Ó Riagáin ("son of Riagán") derived from the Irish personal name Riagán (Anglicized as Ryan).
Docherty Scottish
Scottish spelling of the Irish surname Doherty.
Luz Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Luz.
Vrbanić Croatian
Derived from vrba meaning ''willow''.
Fiske English, Norwegian
From the traditionally Norwegian habitational surname, from the Old Norse fiskr "fish" and vin "meadow". In England and Denmark it was a surname denoting someone who was a "fisherman" or earned their living from selling fish.
Rosi Greek, Italian
Greek: Metronymic from the female personal name Rosa 1, or alternatively a variant of Rosso.... [more]
Quinto Aragonese, Spanish, Catalan, Italian
Habitational surname for a person from a place called Quinto, for example in Zaragoza province. However, the high concentration of the surname in Alacant province suggests that, in some cases at least, it may derive from the personal name Quinto (from Latin Quintus denoting the fifth-born child or Catalan quinto "young soldier").... [more]
Kabu Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 蕪 (kabu) meaning "brassica rapa".
Dilke English
Means son of DILK.
Kumarage Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit कुमार (kumara) meaning "boy, prince" combined with the Sinhala suffix -ගේ (-ge) meaning "of".
Martes Spanish
Pet form of Marte.
Choquette French
Altered spelling of French Choquet, a Picard form of Old French soquet, which was the term for a tax on wines and foodstuffs, hence a metonymic occupational name for a collector of such taxes.
Lisiecki Polish
Habitational name for someone from Lisiec in Konin voivodeship or a place called Liszki, both named with lis meaning "fox".
Barroeta Basque
Habitational name derived from Basque berro "bramble, thicket, bush" and the toponymic suffix -eta "place of, abundance of".
Kurokawa Japanese
From Japanese 黒 (kuro) meaning "black" combined with 川 (kawa) or 河 (kawa) both meaning "river."
Leffler German, Swedish
Occupational name for a spoonmaker. Derived from German Löffel "spoon".
Masey English, Scottish, French, Norman
English and Scottish (of Norman origin) and French: habitational name from any of various places in northern France which get their names from the Gallo-Roman personal name Maccius + the locative suffix -acum.... [more]
Yagnik Indian/Gujarati/Sanskrit (Modern)
Means "one who performs sacrifices". Derived from the Sanskrit word yajña (pronounced yagna or yagya) meaning "sacrifice" or "sacraficial fire".
Tangen Norwegian
Tangen is a village in south-east Norway.
Demircan Turkish
From Turkish demir meaning "iron" and can meaning "soul".
Mitch English
From the given name Mitchell or Mitch.
Hisatomi Japanese
Hisa means "long time ago" and tomi means "wealth, abundance".
Nabatame Japanese
From 生 meaning "to live, raw", 天 meaning "heaven, sky", and 目 meaning "eyes".
Joelson English
Means "son of Joel".
Schippers Dutch
Patronymic form of Schipper.
Mims English (British)
Habitational name from Mimms (North and South Mimms) in Hertfordshire, most probably derived from an ancient British tribal name, Mimmas.
Lawford English
From any of several places in England called Lawford, derived from the personal name Lealla (cognate with Old High German Lallo), and ford "ford, river crossing".
Mohammadzai Pashto
Means "son of Muhammad" in Pashto.
Hosp German (Austrian)
Means "odd bird" or "strange man"
Niyazov Uzbek, Tajik, Turkmen, Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Derived from Persian نیاز (niyâz) meaning "desire, wish, gift".
Scamp English
Variant of Camp with a prosthetic -s.
Amusan Japanese (Rare)
The Amusan Clan (秋道一族, Amusan Ichizoku) is a prominent clan in Kanazawa. Since its disbandment, most of its known members reside in Neuilly-sur-Seine ,Britain and Washington D.C.
Tikhanchik Russian
Derived from тихо (tikho) meaning "quiet".
Fukumatsu Japanese
Fuku means "lucky, fortunate" and matsu means "pine tree".
Legaspi Spanish (Philippines)
Variant of Legazpi primarily used in the Philippines.
Newham English
Habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Northumbria and North Yorkshire, so named from Old English neowe "new" and ham "homestead".
Kuroniwa Japanese
Kuro means "black" and niwa means "garden".
Stackhouse English
habitational name from Stackhouse in Giggleswick (Yorkshire) from Old Norse stakkr "stack pile rick" and hus "house".
Arahi Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 荒 (ara) meaning "rough; harsh; intense", referring to rough land, and 樋 (hi) meaning "gutter".
Haydar Turkish
From the given name Haydar.
Van Blerk Dutch
Van Blerk is a Dutch noble surname.
Coard English, Northern Irish
Derived from Old French corde "string", a metonymic occupational name for a maker of cord or string, or a nickname for an habitual wearer of decorative ties and ribbons.
Pohjoinen Finnish
meaning "north".
Rivette French, English (American, Rare), English (Canadian, Rare)
Topographic name derived from a diminutive of Old French rive, meaning "(river) bank, shore"; see also Rivet.
Yefimovich Russian
Grigori Yefimovich who is best known as "Rasputin" was a Russian peasant, mystic and private adviser to the Romanovs (Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Tsarina Alexandra in the early 20th century).
Kitadai Japanese
From 北 (kita) meaning "north" and 代 (dai) meaning "society, world, cost, price" or 台 (dai) meaning "Taiwan, machine or vehicle counter, stand, pedestal".
Amasiri Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit अमर (amara) meaning "immortal, undying" and श्री (shri) meaning "diffusing light, radiance, splendour, beauty".
Chew Chinese (Hokkien), Chinese (Teochew)
Hokkien and Teochew romanization of Zhou.
Oms German
Some characteristic forenames: German Matthias, Otto.... [more]
Dalrymple Scottish
Habitational name from Dalrymple, a village and civil parish in East Ayrshire, Scotland, said to be named from Gaelic dail chruim puill meaning "field of the crooked stream" or "dale of the crooked pool".
Matsen English
Variant of Matson, Mattsen, etc.
Krauledat German (East Prussian)
East Prussian German (and thus heavily Lithuanian influenced) name referring to a barber-surgeon well versed in bloodletting, derived from Lithuanian kraujaleidys.
Brandão Portuguese
From the given name Brandão (see Brendan).
Hennayaka Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala හෙන්නායක (see Hennayake).
Yoneyama Japanese
From Japanese 米 (yone) meaning "rice" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".
Hargrove English
English: variant of Hargrave.
Koirala Nepali
From the name of the village of Koirali in Nepal.
Klayn Jewish
Variant of Klein
Aiki Japanese
From Japanese 相 (ai) meaning "together, mutually" and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".
Boomgaarden East Frisian, Dutch
From Dutch boomgaard "orchard", literally "tree garden", an occupational name for an orchard worker or a topographic name for someone who lived in or by an orchard.
Weston Dutch
Diminutive of Westenberg
Kocur Ukrainian
means "tom cat" or "male cat"
Seino Japanese
From Japanese 清 (sei) meaning "clear, pure, clean" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".
Khalidi Arabic
From the given name Khalid.
Mizoroge Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Mizoroke.
Depietri Italian
The distinguished surname Depietri can be traced back to the ancient and beautiful region of Piedmont. Although people were originally known only by a single name, it became necessary for people to adopt a second name to identify themselves as populations grew and travel became more frequent... [more]
Sigera Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Siqueira.
Khiev Khmer
From Khmer ខៀវ (khiev) meaning "blue".
Pitsenbarger German
Probably an altered spelling of Bezzenberger, which is derived from Boizenburg, a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
Gebhardt German
From a Germanic given name composed of the elements geb "gift" and hard "hardy", "brave", "strong".
Kessler German, Jewish
Means "kettle-maker, tinker", denoting a maker of copper or tin cooking vessels, derived from Middle High German kezzel meaning "kettle, cauldron". In some instances, it could have referred to the shape of a landform.
Kennethson English
Means “Son Of Kenneth.”
Nigmatullin Tatar, Bashkir
From the given name Nigmatullah.
Sabag Hebrew
Israeli modern form of Sabbagh.
Indychenko Ukrainian
From Ukrainian індик (indyk), meaning "turkey".
Anakin English (British, Rare)
Meaning unknown. Perhaps a medieval English diminutive of an unknown given name, possibly Ana or Andrew (compare Wilkin, Larkin, and Hopkin).
Locks English
Variant of Lock.
Molnar Dutch
Variant of Molenaar.
Smithe English (Rare)
Rare spelling of Smith.
Falotico Italian
From southern Italian falotico ‘eccentric’, ‘strange’, Greek kephalōtikos, a derivative of Greek kephalē ‘head’.
Aratai Japanese
"Wild well".
Cathomas Romansh
Derived from Romansh casa "house" and, by extension, "household, family" and the given name Thomas.
Dovzhyk Ukrainian
From Ukrainian довгий (dovhyy), meaning "long".
Learned English
Means "educated" from Middle English lerned (Old English ġelǣred) meaning "educated".
Anzalone Italian
The surname Anzalone was first found in Bolgna (Latin: Bononia).
Wren English
Nickname from the bird, derived from Middle English wrenne, possibly denoting a person of small stature. A famous bearer of the name was English architect Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723).
Disharoon French (Americanized)
Americanized form of an unidentified French name, possibly de Charente. This name was established in MD by the end of the 17th century.
Erasmus Dutch, South African
From the given name Erasmus, meaning "beloved, desired".
Baviera Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan
Means "Bavaria" in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Catalan. Indicating for someone from Bavaria a state in Germany.
Kawakame Japanese (Rare)
Kawa means "river" and kame means "turtoise, turtle".
Wyler English
English: variant of Wheeler or a respelling of Jewish Weiler.
Eich German
German from Middle High German eich(e) ‘oak’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived near an oak tree. In some cases, it may be a habitational name for someone from any of several places named with this word, for example Eiche or Eichen, or for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of an oak.
Bito Japanese
From 美 (bi) meaning "beauty" or 尾 (bi) meaning "end, tail, foot of a mountain" combined with 藤 (to) meaning "wisteria".
Levonyuk Ukrainian
Means "son of Levon".
Karunathilake Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කරුණාතිලක (see Karunathilaka).
Ensign English
From the military rank.
Burkhart German, Germanic
From the given name Burkhart.
Donk Dutch
Means "sandy hill" in Dutch, specifically referring to a hill above a marsh or silty area. Element found in several place names.
Nagaya Japanese
From Japanese 長 (naga) meaning "long" and 屋 (ya) meaning "roof, dwelling".
Malka Hebrew
Means "queen" in Hebrew.
Ramp German (Swiss)
German and Swiss German: variant of Rampf, from Middle High German ramft, ranft ‘edge’, ‘wall’, ‘crust (of bread)’; applied as a topographic name for someone who lived at the limit or outer edge of some feature, for example a field, or possibly, in the sense ‘crust’, a nickname for a poor person.
Kurtsen Danish (Rare)
Means "son of Kurt".
Broadhead English
From Old English brad "wide, broad" and heafod "head", a topographic name for someone who lived by a broad headland.
Pickenpaugh German
The surname Pickenpaugh is an Americanized version of the German name Beckenbach, meaning "from the river basin"... [more]
Hipp German
From the middle high German word hippe meaning "waffle". Perhaps an occupational name for someone who cooks waffles.
Dedual Romansh
Derived from the preposition de "of" and the surname Dual.
Foulds English (British)
Mr. Fould-Dupont supplied the steel for the Eiffel tower. Later on, he fled to England and changed his last name from Fould-Dupont to Foulds.
Mathíasson Icelandic
Means "son of Mathías" in Icelandic.
Toht Estonian
Toht is an Estonian surname meaning "(tree) bark".
Maligalig Tagalog
Means "ill-tempered, distressed" in Tagalog.
Barkus English
Probably a reduced form of Barkhouse, a topographic name for someone who lived by a tannery, Middle English barkhous, or an occupational name for someone who worked in one.
Kanamoto Japanese
Kana means "gold, metal, money" and moto means "origin, root, source".
Ikegaya Japanese
From Japanese 池 (ike) meaning "pool, pond", a place name possessive marker ヶ (ga), and 谷 (ya) meaning "valley".
Cotner Medieval Low German (Americanized)
Likely originating from an Americanized spelling of Kötner or Köthner, status names for a cotter. Derived from Middle Low German kote ‘shelter’, ‘cottage’.
Raam Estonian
Raam is an Estonian surname meaning "frame" or "carriage".
Isogai Japanese
From Japanese 磯 (iso) meaning "seashore, beach" and 貝 (kai) meaning "shellfish".
Toots Estonian
Toots is an Estonian name derived from "tootja", meaning "manufacturer".
Orujärv Estonian
Orujärv is an Estonian surname meaning "valley lake".
Sawatdi Thai
From Thai สวัสดี (sawatdi) meaning "welfare, prosperity, security, goodness, virtue, moral excellence".
Malfatto Italian
Means "badly made, shoddy; deformed" in Italian, possibly originating with the nickname Malefactus "ugly, injured". Cognate to French Malfait.
Markham English
English name from a place in Nottinghamshire, named in Old English as 'homestead at a (district) boundary', from mearc 'boundary' + ham 'homestead'. English surname used as an equivalent of Gaelic Ó Marcacháin 'descendant of Marcachán', a diminutive of Marcach (see Markey).
Camargo Spanish
Habitational name for someone from a place in Andalusia called Camargo.
Rundle English
Cornish surname of unknown origin, possibly related to Arundel.
Dalogdog Filipino, Cebuano
From Cebuano dalugdog meaning "thunder".
Van Schijndel Dutch
Means "from Schijndel" in Dutch, the name of a village in North Brabant, Netherlands, derived from lo "forest clearing, light forest" and an uncertain first element.
Kozakov Ukrainian
From Ukrainian козак (kozak) meaning "cossack".
Shankar Indian, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada
From the given name Shankar.
Greco Portuguese
Portuguese for Greco.
Morell Romansh
Derived from Latin maurus "Moorish, North African" as well as a derivation from a diminutive of the given name Maurus.
Sakuraba Japanese
From Japanese 桜 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom" and 庭 (ba) meaning "garden".
Biscotti Italian
An occupational surname for someone who sells or bakes biscotti.
Parsaie Persian
Alternate transcription of Persian پارسایی (see Parsaei).
Winfrey English
From the Old English personal name Winfrith, literally "friend-peace". A famous bearer of this surname is Oprah Winfrey (1954-), a US television talk-show presenter.
Picó Catalan
Probably a nickname from Catalan picó "having a thick upper lip".
Raidla Estonian
Raidla is an Estonian surname meaning "sculptural/hewed area".
Stonor English
Locational name from a village in Oxfordshire, England. The name comes from Old English stán "stony" and the place was named for a stone circle on the land.
Gorter Dutch
Occupational name for someone who brewed beer or supplied ingredients for doing so, derived from either Dutch gruit, an herbal mixture used to flavour beer, or from the related word gort (also grut) "groat, grit, husked barley, pearl barley".
Nađ Serbian, Croatian
Serbian and Croatian variant of Nagy.
El-Sayed Arabic (Egyptian)
Means "the master", from Arabic سَيِّد (sayyid) meaning "master, lord, prince" (see Sayyid).
Bogdanowicz Polish
Habitational name for someone from a place called Bogdanowo or Bogdanów, both derived from the given name Bogdan.
Ovanessian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Հովհաննիսյան (see Hovhannisyan).
Mckiernan Irish
Anglicized form of Mac Thighearnáin, a patronymic from a diminutive of the personal name Tighearna.
Binotti Italian
From Latin albus, "white", derivative of Albino.
Perrie Scottish
Scottish form of Perry 1 and Perry 2.
Sassano Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 颯々 (sassa), sound- and script-changed from 颯爽 (sassō) meaning "gallant; jaunty" and 野 (no) meaning "field; plain", referring to a stately person who traveled to the fields.
Zaychik Russian, Jewish
Means "bunny" in Russian.
Yanagisawa Japanese
From Japanese 柳 (yanagi) meaning "willow" and 沢 (sawa) meaning "marsh".
Boccadamo Italian
Meaning uncertain, first element probably comes from bocca "mouth".
Kirida Japanese
Kiri means "paulownia" and da means "field, rice paddy".
Karakaş Turkish
Means "black eyebrow" from Turkish kara meaning "black, dark" and kaş meaning "eyebrow".
Cinardo Italian
Derived from the Germanic name Chenardus or Chinardus, or perhaps a variant of the Catalan surname Ginard.
Vtorak Ukrainian, Russian
Derived either from Russian второй (vtoroy) meaning "second, other" or directly from dialectal Ukrainian вторак (vtorak) meaning "secondborn".
Paler Jewish, Yiddish (Ukrainianized), English (Rare)
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): occupational name for a distiller, a Yiddishized form of Ukrainian palyar 'distiller'. English: variant of Paylor.
Wykes English
Variant of Weeks.
Opel German
Derived from the given name Albert.
Cazacu Romanian
From the name of the Cazacu River which flows through Romania.
Ratnapala Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit रत्न (ratna) meaning "jewel, treasure" and पाल (pala) meaning "guard, protector".
Wessels Dutch, South African
Patronymic from the given name Wessel.
Yasir Arabic, Urdu, Dhivehi
From the given name Yasir.