Browse Submitted Surnames

Ruggero Italian
From the given name Ruggero

Gukasyan Armenian
Means "son of Gukas", the Armenian equivalent of Luke.

Pross German
Variant of "Prosser"

Shishikura Japanese
Shishi means "lion" and kura means "possess, have, storehouse, warehouse".

Rogelio Spanish
From the given name Rogelio.

Golds English

Okhrymovych Ukrainian
Variant of Okhrymenko.

Halawa Nias
Nias clan name derived from the given name Halawa referring to an ancestor.

Buchukuri Georgian (?)

Lizzi Italian
Derived from the given name Lizio, itself from Latin Litius, a variant form of Lydius (see the more common feminine form Lydia).

Aboulafia Jewish
Variant spelling of Abulafia, which was originally a Sephardi Jewish surname of Arabic etymological origin.

Baraki Ethiopian, Amharic
From the given name Baraki, meaning "one who blesses" in Amharic. It is possibly related to Arabic Barak 2 and Hebrew Baruch, also meaning "blessed".

Vagel Italian

Chomchuen Thai
Means "congratulations" from Thai ชม (chom) meaning "see, watch, praise, admire" and ชื่น (chuen) meaning "happy, joyful, delighted".

Tedison Indonesian

Learmonth Scottish

Jukes English
Either a variant of Duke, or patronymic from a short form of the Medieval Breton given name Iudicael (see Jewell).

Aldunate Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Alduate.

Ökzan Turkish

Amarós Spanish

Criss German (Americanized)
Americanized form of German Gries or Kries.

Abeysuriya Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit अभय (abhaya) meaning "fearless" and सूर्य (surya) meaning "sun".

Kuniyasu Japanese

Ichijo Japanese
Alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji 一条 (see Ichijō).

Thorogood English
Variant form of Thurgood.

Pais Estonian
Pais is an Estonian surname meaning "dam" and "dike".

Southern English
Topographic name, from an adjectival derivative of South.

Limen Filipino

Takvam Norwegian
Literally: "Thanks For"

Carmine Italian (Rare), English (Rare)
Derived from the given name Carmine, which in turn was derived from the color of a vivid form of red.

Hamrani Jewish

Truttman English (American)
Variant of Truttmann.

Mulyadi Chinese (Indonesian)
Indonesianized form of Chinese surnames such as Li 1 (李), Lin (林) or Xu 2 (許)... [more]

Van Der Walle Dutch, Flemish
Means "from the rampart" or "from the defensive wall" in Dutch.

Phanthavong Lao
From Lao ພັນທະ (phantha) meaning "connect, join, tie" or "obligation" and ວົງ (vong) meaning "lineage, family".

Pinchot American
Of unknown origin. Historically, borne most famously by Gifford Pinchot (1865 - 1946) first Chief of the United States Forest Service.

Jeter Sugg French (Modern)
alsace-lorraine, france

Württemberg German
Württemberg is an historical German territory. Together with Baden and Hohenzollern, two other historical territories, it now forms the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg.

Francomagaro Italian
I believe the first element is Franco, just don't know what the other element is.

Zurri Italian

Kagen Japanese

Van Der Hoeden Dutch
Means "from the hatmaker" in Dutch, from Dutch hoede "hat".

Eastridge English

Nazemi Persian
From the given name Nazem.

Raia Galician, Spanish
Variant of Raya.

Wetterau German

Goonesekera Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala ගුණසේකර (see Gunasekara).

Nine English (American)
Americanized spelling of German Nein or Neun, from Middle High German niun meaning "nine".

Jordi Swiss

Črnjak Croatian

Renley Jewish (Rare), English (Rare)
Possibly derived from the Old English rinc "man, warrior" or rim 'edge, circular edge' or possibly wraenna 'wren', and leah "field, clearing".

Clarendon English

Hiremath Indian, Kannada
Of uncertain meaning.

Judge Irish
Anglicized calque of Mac an Bhreitheamhan.

Malchuk Moldovan, Russian, Ukrainian

Lakmal Sinhalese
From the given name Lakmal.

Turrillo Aragonese
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality in the Comarca of Calatayú.

Donnal Scottish
Variant of Donnel

Shatunov Russian

Peoples Irish
An attempted English translation of Ó Duibhne, based on the Irish word daoine meaning "people".

Shiozuka Japanese

Traeger German
Derived from the German word Trager which means "Someone who carries something." Traeger could also mean "gift of God."

Uchinno Italian

Rojan English

Baluch Balochi
Alternate transcription of Balochi بلۏچ (see Baloch).

Wayman English
Variant of Wyman and Waitman. Could also be the Americanized version of Wehmann or Weidmann

Monoson Jewish

Dyn Khmer

Ginebra Spanish
From the Spanish word ginebra, meaning "gin," possibly ultimately from the Latin iuniperus, meaning "juniper."

Montesquieu French
From French montagne, meaning "mountain" and possibly also from queue, meaning "line". Charles Montesquieu was a 17th-century French aristocrat, philosopher and politician.

Rääst Estonian
Rääst is an Estonian surname meaning "baldachin" (a canopy of typically placed over an altar or throne).

Basque French
Originally denoted a Basque person or someone from the Basque Country in Spain.

Mändla Estonian
Mändla is an Estonian surname meaning "pine area".

Natok Circassian
Derived from Adyghe натӏэ (nāṭă) meaning "forehead" combined with къу (q°) meaning "man, male".

De Carthuther Medieval Scottish

Chideya African

Leek Estonian
Leek is an Estonian surname meaning "blaze" and "flame".

Sturgess English (British)
popular in 1680 in England.

Narciso Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From the given name Narciso.

Ehlinger German
Habitational name for someone from Ehlingen in the Palatinate.

Tennosaar Estonian
Tennosaar is an Estonian surname meaning "Tenno's (a masculine given name) island".

Arturo Italian, Spanish
From the given name Arturo.

Tumblett Maltese

Camberwell English

Õismets Estonian
Õismets is an Estonian surname meaning "flower/blossom forest".

Raees Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Rais.

Kleinman German
Nickname meaning Small Man.

Shafiq Arabic
From the given name Shafiq

Nosaki Japanese

Khemkhaeng Thai
Means "strong" in Thai.

Rotsaert Belgian

Leonhart German, Dutch
Variant of Leonhardt.

Agler English
From one or more Middle English personal names variously written Alger, Algar, Alcher, Aucher, etc. These represent a falling together of at least three different Continental Germanic and Old English names: Adalgar "noble spear" (Old English Æ{dh}elgār), Albgar "elf spear" (Old English Ælfgār), and Aldgar "old spear" (Old English (E)aldgār)... [more]

Berinchyk Ukrainian
Possibly from Ukrainian беріть (berit'), meaning "to take".

Rota Italian
Means "wheel" in Italian, from various place names.

Tuleshova Russian, Ukrainian
Was the surname of “The Voice Kids Ukraine”, Daneliya Tuleshova.

Greggs English
Variant of Gregg.

Tallón Spanish
Either a Spanish variant of Catalan Talló (see Tallo) or a habitational name from any of the places in A Coruña, Ourense, and Pontevedra provinces called Tallón.

Mukerjee Bengali
Variant transcription of Mukherjee.

Dinagde Oromo

Sutar Indian, Marathi, Odia, Bengali
Variant of Sutradhar.

Bahaa Arabic
Derived from the given name Baha.

Alva Spanish
Variant of Alba.

Kontaratos Greek

Klarwasser German
"Clear water."

Cumberland English
Regional name for someone from Cumberland in northwestern England (now part of Cumbria).

Padley English
A habitational name from a place named Padley, which was probably named with the Old English personal name Padda and lēah meaning ‘glade, woodland clearing’. Alternatively, the first element may have been padde, meaning ‘toad’.

Verón Spanish (Latin American)

Hiemstra West Frisian, Dutch
Derived from West Frisian hiem "home" or the related Dutch Low Saxon hiem "farmstead, homestead" combined with the habitational suffix -stra.

Kavasaki Japanese (Russified)
Alternate transcription of Kawasaki more commonly used by ethnic Japanese living in parts of the former Soviet Union and Sakhalin Japanese residing on Sakhalin Island in Russia.

Habermehl German
metonymic occupational name for a producer or seller of oatmeal from Middle High German habaro "oats" and melo "flour".

McKeithen Irish
Variant of Mckeehan.

Mutter German
(also Mütter): occupational name for an official employed to measure grain, from Middle High German mutte, mütte 'bushel', 'grain measure' (Latin modius) + the agent suffix -er.

Neese English (American)

Luciano Italian
It is derived from Latin Lucianus, patronymic of Lucius ("Light"). The French form is Lucien.

Vojto Slovak

Zohil Croatian

Machen English
Occupational name for a stonemason, Anglo-Norman French machun, a Norman dialect variant of Old French masson (see Mason).

Harrel English

Dinn English
From a short form of the personal name Dinis, a variant of Dennis.

Audi Arabic (Mashriqi)
Lebanese and Palestinian surname. Believed to have originated from the Arabic word "al-'awdi," which means "the one who returns."

McClurkin English (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of the Irish surname Mac Cléireacháin, a variant of Mac Cléirich. A famous bearer of this surname is pastor and gospel singer Donnie McClurkin (1959-).

Tatarshao Abazin
Possibly from a nickname for a Tatar person.

Gamma American, Greek

Vaishali Indian

Ron Spanish, Galician
Habitational name from a town called Ron in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.

Fukamachi Japanese
From Japanese 深 (fuka) meaning "deep" and 町 (machi) meaning "town".

Khorshidian Armenian
Means "son of Khorshid" in Armenian.

Blandford English
Habitational name from Blandford Forum and other places called Blandford in Dorset (Blaneford in Domesday Book), probably named in Old English with bl?ge 'gudgeon' (genitive plural blægna) + ford 'ford'.

Bhawalkar Indian
From the town of Bhawal in the NorthWest part of India, around the state of Jaipur.

De La Parra Spanish
Means "of the vine" in Spanish.

Prophète French, Haitian Creole
Originally a nickname (possibly ironic) from French prophète "prophet", making it a cognate of Profeta.

Wijeyaratne Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala විජයරත්න (see Wijayarathna).

Šofranac Montenegrin
Derived from šafran (шафран), meaning "saffron".

Rosså Norwegian (Rare)

Sable Indian

Vincenz Romansh
Derived from the given name Vincentius.

Gianella Italian

Gally German (Swiss)
Variant of Galle.

Semančik Rusyn
Means "son of Seman".

Wetherell English
Habitational name from Wetheral (Cumberland)

Umpleby English
Originally given to people from the village of Anlaby in East Yorkshire, UK. Written as Umlouebi in the Domesday Book, the place name is from Old Norse given name Óláfr + býr, "farmstead" or "village".

Ibert English

Shinozuka Japanese

Mohrbacher German
Likely arose as a name for those living near Morbach, Germany

Bibi Urdu, Pashto, Sindhi, Indian, Bengali, Assamese, Odia, Hindi, Punjabi
From a respectful title meaning "woman, lady, miss", ultimately derived from Persian بی‌بی (bibi).

Yehubchenko Ukrainian

Wakuri Japanese (Rare)
This surname is used as 和久利, 和久理, 和久里 or 和栗 with 和 (o, ka, wa, nago.mu, nago.yaka, yawa.ragu, yawa.rageru) meaning "harmony, Japan, Japanese style, peace, soften", 久 (kyuu, ku, hisa.shii) meaning "long time, old story", 利 (ri, ki.ku) meaning "advantage, benefit, profit", 理 (ri, kotowari) meaning "arrangement, justice, logic, reason, truth", 里 (ri, sato) meaning "league, parent's home, ri (unit of distance - equal to 3.927 km), village" and 栗 (ritsu, ri, kuri, ononoku) meaning "chestnut."... [more]

Pisica Romanian
From Romanian meaning "cat".

Osichenko Ukrainian

Gotlibe Yiddish
Yiddish form of Gottlieb.

Atef Arabic, Persian
Derived from the given name Atif.

Ntislis Greek

Borák Czech
Habitational name for someone from one of many places named with bor meaning "pine forest"; alternatively from a short form of the personal names Dalibor or Bořivoj, containing the element -bor meaning "battle".

Sulis Sardinian, Italian
Derived from Latin sol meaning "sun".

Aránguiz Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Arangiz.

Careaga Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Kareaga.

Pinkus Jewish
Derived from the given name Pinkus, which in turn comes from the Biblical Hebrew name Phinehas.

Vernetti Italian, Piedmontese
From various places called Vernetti or Vernetto in Piedmont, Italy.

Reinsalu Estonian
Reinsalu is an Estonian surname derived from "Rein" (a masculine given name) and "salu", meaning grove; "Rein's grove".

Ichitomi Japanese (Rare)
From either 市 (ichi) meaning "market, fair" or 一 (ichi) meaning "one" combined with 富/冨 (tomi) meaning "riches, wealth, fortune."... [more]

Zahid Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
From the given name Zahid.

Löffler German
Derived from German löffel, it denotes a person who produces or trades spoons.

Capucci Italian

Prinsloo Afrikaans
Prinsloo is an Afrikaans surname. The name is derived from the dutch word Prins (meaning prince), and a loo suffix meaning clearing in the forest. Variant spellings include Prinzloo and Prinslo.

Wideman Swedish (Anglicized)
Americanized form of Swedish Widman.

Vabec French (Rare), Italian, Spanish

Edmundson English
Means "son of Edmund".

Kaarmaa Estonian
Kaarmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "arc/curve land".

Sayyid Swahili, Muslim
From the Arabic honourific title سَيِّد (sayyid) which means "master, lord, prince, mister".

Ounsamai Thai

Cristol Lithuanian (Anglicized), English
Meaning unknown

Amarikwa Nigerian

Kal Korean

Hänilane Estonian
Hänilane is an Estonian surname meaning "wagtail" (bird species: Motacilla flava).

Michels English, Jewish
Variant of Michaels.

Babazoe Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 馬場添 (Babazoe) meaning "Babazoe", a name of a group of several households for the Kadowari System that took place in the Edo Period in the former Japanese province of Satsuma in parts of present-day Kagoshima, Japan.

Yonekura Japanese
From Japanese 米 (yone) meaning "rice" and 倉 (kura) meaning "granary, storehouse".

Sovern English, French, German, Dutch
Sovern is a modified spelling of Sovereign meaning a ruler or monarch.

Jawad Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
From the given name Jawad.

Fahed Arabic
Derived from the given name Fahd.

Blu Papuan

Tsunashima Japanese
From Japanese 綱 (tsuna) meaning "rope, cable, cord" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".

Tuch North Frisian

Aragon Spanish, Catalan, French
A surname and an autonomous community of Spain.

Waria Pakistani

Bylinka Polish (Rare)

Atilia Malaysian

Merendino Italian
Diminutive of Merenda.

Huitzil Aztec, Nahuatl
From Nahuatl uitsitsillin meaning "hummingbird".

Tercero Spanish
Means "third" in Spanish (see Tercero).

Hegel Assyrian

Virgil Spanish
From the given name Virgil.

Philip Papuan

Bonia Irish

Yevin Russian

Mcdonough Irish

Dalassenos Greek

Makhnev Russian

Van 't Schip Dutch
Means "from the ship", derived from Middle Dutch schip literally meaning "ship". It is borne by the Dutch-Canadian former soccer player John van 't Schip (1963-).

Gülden German
Variant of Gulden, a metonymic occupational name for a craftsman who gilded objects, or a habitational name referring to a house name such as In den silvren Gulden ("In the Silver Guilder"), De Gulden Hoeve ("The Gilded Farmhouse") or De Gulden Zwaan ("The Gilded Swan").

Dimora Italian

Ayutthaya Thai
From Ayutthaya, the name of a kingdom that reigned from 1350 to 1767 that is considered the precursor of modern Thailand.

Sandy English (African)

Dufau French
The name DUFAU come from two French words DU which means « of the » and FAU which is old French for a beech tree. Surnames in France were given later so the person with this name meant he/she had a beech tree in his property... [more]

Bongers Dutch
Variant of Boomgaarden.

Denoth Romansh
Derived from the preposition de "of" and the given name Not.

De Oliveira Portuguese
Variant of Oliveira.... [more]

Kipiani Georgian

Kicza American (Rare)

Fogg English

Akçay Turkish
From Turkish ak meaning "white" and çay meaning "stream, brook".

Kanamori Japanese
From Japanese 金 (kana) meaning "gold, money" and 森 (mori) meaning "forest".

Hinkson English

Molotov Russian
From Russian молот (molot) meaning "hammer", indicating someone who worked with hammers.

Jha Indian, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Odia, Nepali
Derived from Sanskrit अध्यापक (adhyapaka) meaning "teacher".

Petropoulou Greek

Vratzas Greek

En-Nourhi Arabic (Maghrebi)

Di Serio Italian

Pirvelashvili Georgian

Eun Korean (Rare)
From Sino-Korean 慇 (eun) meaning "to be kind, to be wealthy".

Franchi Italian
Variant spelling of Franco.

Siel African

Zedewarfft Norwegian (Rare, Archaic)

Čelik Croatian, Serbian
Derived from Serbo-Croatian "čelik", ultimately from Turkish çelik, meaning "steel".

Dhar Indian, Bengali
Derived from Sanskrit उद्धार (uddhara) meaning "credit, deliverance, redemption".

Machita Japanese
Variant of Machida.

Schrubb German

Haliburton Scottish
Means "town fortified in stone". It comes from a combination of the Old Norse element hallr meaning rock (as in Halle 1) and of the Old English place name Burton, denoting a fortified town... [more]

Bonacci Italian
"Bona" comes from the Italian for good, "Buona" and "cci" is ancient Latin form for "man." Thus, "the good man." A derivation of FiBonacci, or "son of Bonacci." Was the name of the famous mathematician, Leondardo de Pisa: Leonardo of Pisa is now known as Fibonacci short for filius Bonacci... [more]

Terenya Russian, Belarusian

Sigler Middle High German (Americanized)
Occupational name, derived from the Middle High German sigel, meaning "seal." It refers to a maker of seals and signet rings or an official keeper of a seal.... [more]

McGillis Scottish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Íosa ‘son of the servant of Jesus’. Compare Mcleish.

Botelho Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian)
From the Portuguese word botelho, which can denote a measure of grain, a grain sack, or seaweed, and was probably applied as an occupational name for a grain dealer or a gatherer of kelp or seaweed.

Papasymeon Greek

Brynn Welsh
Variant of Bryn

Loboda Ukrainian

Stratt English

Nesse Norwegian

Verrall English
An uncommon Anglo-Saxon surname.

Nissim Jewish
From the given name Nissim.

Ramsbottom English
Habitational name from a market town called Ramsbottom in Greater Manchester, England (historically in Lancashire), derived from Old English hramsa meaning "wild garlic" or ramm "ram", and bothm meaning "bottom, bottom valley".

Huin French

Mole English
Mole is (in some but not all cases) the English form of the German Möhl meaning mill.

Hulse German
derived from Holtz, means "a wood"

Jakupi Albanian
From the given name Jakup.

Caimbeul Scottish Gaelic
Proper form of Campbell.

Stoppard English

Bretonneau French

Plimsoll French (Acadian)
I don't know the meaning, but it is my maiden name, and I understand it to be French. Samuel Plimsoll is my ancestor. He was born in Bristol, UK. He was an MP who spoke up in parliament and subsequently the Plimsoll or loading line was introduced on ships... [more]

Honma Japanese
From Japanese 本 (hon) meaning "root, origin, source" and 間 (ma) meaning "among, between".

Behrandt German, Jewish

Hokuseihō Japanese

Stoenescu Romanian

Kamaliazad Pakistani, Persian
It's derived from the words Kamali meaning "Ascetic's blanket" & aazaad meaning "free or independent", or even kamaal-i-aazaad meaning "perfection of the free, or independent".

Zisidis Greek

Zvonok Russian
Means "call, buzz, bell" in Russian.

Pilot English
Means a person who operates the flying controls of an aircraft.

Carpus English (Rare, ?)
Possibly from the given name Carpus.

Powter English

Hoby English

Shiohata Japanese

Sakallı Turkish
Means "bearded" in Turkish.

Xayaseng Lao
From Lao ໄຊ (xay) meaning "victory" and ແສງ (seng) meaning "light".

Möbus German
Variant of Möbius.

Beaudoin French (Quebec), French
From Beaudoin, a variant of Baudoin.

Makhmutov Bashkir, Tatar, Kazakh
Means "son of Makhmut".

Dumpe Latvian

Marinaro Italian
Occupational name for a sailor from marinaro (from Late Latin marinus derived from mare "sea").

Culbert English, Scottish, Irish
Meaning and origin are uncertain. Possibly derived from an unattested given name composed of beorht "bright" and an uncertain first element, or an altered form of Cuthbert... [more]

Kübler German, German (Swiss)
Derived from Middle High German kübel "tub vat barrel", this is an occupational surname referring to a cooper.

Lavrentiev Russian
Variant transcription of Lavrentyev.

Ivček Croatian
Derived from the forename Ivan.

Whiting English
Derived from a patronymic surname, created from the Old English personal name Hwit, meaning "the white one."

Dimitrenko Russian, Ukrainian
From the given name Dimitry.

Thoj Hmong
Original Hmong form of Thao.

Baik Korean
Alternate transcription of Korean Hangul 백 (see Baek).

Nittala Telugu

Razavi Persian
From the given name Reza.

Tsuryu Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 釣流 or 鉤流 (see Tsuryū).

Chanu Manipuri

Yapp English
From a nickname for a clever or cunning person, derived from Middle English yap "deceitful, shrewd", from Old English geap "crooked, bent, curved".

Ludwell English
From the Old English elements hlud meaning "famous, loud" and well meaning "well, spring, water hole"

Ó Cluanaigh Irish
Means "descendant of Cluanach"

Giannelli Italian
Derived from a pet form of Gianni.

Hiromasa Japanese
Hito means "wide, broad, large" and masa means "".

Townley English
Habitational name for a person from Towneley near Burnley in Lancashire, itself from the Old English elements tun "enclosure, settlement" and leah "wood, clearing"... [more]

Hilliker German
The last name of Dance Moms star, Kalani Hilliker.

Bowles English
Variant of Bowell with post-medieval excrescent -s.

Bacha Pashto
Means "king" in Pashto, ultimately from Persian پادشاه (padeshah).

Peixoto Portuguese
Occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a fish, derived from Portuguese peixe meaning "fish".

Bratić Serbian
Means ''little brother''.

Mooketsi South African

Zelimkhanov Chechen
Means "son of Zelimkhan".

Nichol English

Goldmann German

Maillard French, French (Swiss)

Ben Brahim Arabic (Maghrebi)
Means "son of Brahim" in Arabic (chiefly Maghrebi).

Franquez Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese for "son of Franco."