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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Scafata Italian
Possibly denoting someone from the Italian town Scafati, from Latin scapha "skiff, light boat". Alternately, may be from Italian scafare "to husk peas", either literally referring to someone's occupation, or from the figurative meaning of "to make more confident; alert, shrewd".
Tostado Spanish
Means "toasted; tanned" or "brown, dark" in Spanish, a nickname for someone with dark skin, or who tanned easily.
Zsolnay Hungarian
Hungarian form of the surname Zilinsky.
Takahara Japanese
From Japanese 高 (taka) meaning "tall, high" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".
Kolowrat Polish
Polish cognate of Kolovrat.
Yanagimoto Japanese
Yanagi means "Willow" and Moto means "Source, Root, Origin."
Barua Bengali
From the name of the Barua people of Bangladesh and Myanmar, perhaps meaning "great noble rulers" or of Assamese origin.
al-Habash Arabic
Alternate transcription of Arabic حبش (see Habash).
Grensky Russian
Russian cognate of Gronski.
Miyasaka Japanese
From Japanese 宮 (miya) meaning "temple, shrine, palace" and 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope, hill".
Stonefield English
Meaning "stone field".
Grace English
From the given name Grace
Basilio Italian, Spanish
From the given name Basilio.
Lim Korean
12th most common surname in Korea. ... [more]
Shipley English (Rare)
English: habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Derbyshire, County Durham, Northumberland, Shropshire, Sussex, and West Yorkshire, so called from Old English sceap, scip ‘sheep’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
Bubien Polish
The name came originally from France. An officer of Napoleon Bonaparte during the French Russian war, in 1812 stayed in Poland and married. One of his sons, became a regional Judge and large land owner in the Belarus area of Poland... [more]
Warrington English
habitational name from Warrington in Lancashire. The placename probably derives from Old English wering, wæring "dam" (a derivative of wer, wær "weir") and tun "farmstead, estate"... [more]
Khumpiraphan Thai
From Thai คัมภีร (khampira) meaning "deep; profound" and พันธุ์ (phan) meaning "breed; species; lineage".
Guadagnino Italian
It came from Italian word guadagno which means "earnings" and has a diminutive suffix ino which is also an occupation suffix.
Abo Japanese (Rare)
From 安 (a) meaning "peaceful, relax, cheap, inexpensive, low" or 阿 (a) meaning "corner, nook" and 保 (bo) meaning for "guard, protect".
Gatus Filipino, Tagalog
From Old Tagalog gatos meaning "million" or Cebuano gatos meaning "hundred".
Kiyoura Japanese
Combination of the Kanji 清 (kiyo, "clear, pure, refreshing, clean") and 浦 (ura, "bay, inlet"). A famous bearer of this surname was Japanese Prime Minister Kiyoura Keigo (清浦 奎吾; 1850–1942).
Matlock English
From the name of a town in Derbyshire, England, meaning "moot oak, oak where meetings were held", derived from Old English mæðel "meeting, gathering, council" (see mahal) and ac "oak (tree)".
Tykhonovych Ukrainian
Means "child of Tykhon".
Goodfriend English
Nickname for a reliable friend or neighbor, from Middle English gode meaning "good", and frend meaning "friend". It is an English translation and cognate of German Gutfreund, from Middle High German guot meaning "good" and vriunt meaning "friend".
Jean-baptiste Haitian Creole, French
From the French given name Jean-Baptiste.
Dragão Portuguese
Portuguese cognate of Drago.
Espartza Basque (Rare)
Proper, non-Castilianized form of Esparza.
Cardenete Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Manchego municipality.
Vendel Hungarian
From the given name Vendel.
Ackary English
Possibly derived from the Middle English given name Achary or Acharias, a variant of Zacharias.
Götze German
From the given name Götz.
Touati Arabic (Maghrebi), Judeo-Spanish
Habitational name denoting someone who originally came from the region of Touat (or Tuat) in Algeria.
Koot Estonian
Koot is an Estonian surname meaning both "flail" and "leg/shank".
Sandblom Swedish
Combination of Swedish sand "sand" and blomma "flower".
Imbimbo Neapolitan
From Italian bimbo meaning "a child, a male baby" (which is a variant of bambino "child") combined with in-, a prefix indicating "belonging to the family of".
Zayas Spanish, Caribbean
Derives from the Basque word 'zai', meaning watchman or guard.
Burlingame English
means "Burling's homestead".
Barakzay Pashto
Alternate transcription of Pashto بارکزی (see Barakzai).
Cimorelli Italian
Variant of Cimarelli, a diminutive form of either the topographic surname Cima or the medieval given name Cima.
Gendika Basque
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous district of the municipality of Ibarrangelu.
Safaei Persian
From the given name Safa.
Shreve English
Altered English variant of Sheriff. In some cases, this surname may have arisen from a nickname.
Kutsch German
Topographic name of Slavic origin, from Sorbian kut ‘corner’, ‘nook’. Variant of Kutsche, metonymic occupational name for a coachman or coachbuilder, from the Hungarian loanword kocsi (see Kocsis).
Becher German
Shortened form of Becherer as well as a surname given to for someone who distilled or worked with pitch, in which case it is derived from Middle High German bech / pech "pitch".
Aleixandre Aragonese
From the given name Aleixandre.
Miao Chinese
From Chinese 缪 (miào), another name for Duke Mu of Lu, an ancient official whose name (穆) had the same pronunciation as the character 缪. After his death, his descendants adopted 缪 as their surname.
Kjellberg Swedish, Norwegian (Rare)
Combination of Old Norse kelda or Swedish källa both meaning "spring, source (of water)", and berg "mountain".
Naifeh Arabic
From a personal name based on Arabic nāfi meaning‘beneficial’, ‘profitable’.This surname is commonly found in America than Arabic speaking countries.
Frollo Literature
Meaning unknown. This was the surname of Claude Frollo, the antagonist of Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Savath Lao
Means "sincere, open, beautiful" in Lao.
Melendez Spanish (Americanized), Filipino
Unaccented form of Meléndez primarily used in America and the Philippines.
Shioe Japanese
From 潮 (shio) meaning "salt" and 江 (e) meaning "inlet, river".
Hohensee German
Habitational name from any of several places so named in Pomerania and East Prussia, or perhaps from Hohenseeden near Magdeburg.
Carmazzi Italian
Uncertain etymology. Possibly a diminutive form of a given name such as Carmelo.
Mac Giolla Bháin Irish
It means, "white" or "fair".
Roeschlaub German (Rare, Archaic)
Comes from the Bavarian meaning 'Rustling Leaves'
Tass Estonian
Tass is an Estonian surname meaning "cup" and "dish".
Hokka Finnish
Possibly deriving from the Karelian given name Hokka.
Lipschutz Jewish
Habitational surname for someone in Liebschütz, Germany, or Liebeschitz, Poland, both derived from Proto-Slavic *lipa "lime tree".
Śmigielski Polish
This indicates familial origin within the Greater Polish town of Śmigiel.
Gerald English
Derived from the given name Gerald.
Balji Indian, Telugu
Another form of Balija.
Saejung Thai
From the Chinese surname Zhang.
Pogonowski Polish
This indicates familial origin within either of 2 Lesser Polish villages.
Eddy American
A common surname used among people whose ancestry originates from the United Kingdom (England, Ireland and Scottland etc.) Shelia Eddy is an American who was convicted in 2014 for the murder of Skylar Neese in the state of West Virginia.
Smullen Irish
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Smolláin, according to Patrick Woulfe, a variant of Ó Spealáin (see Spillane).
Palacol Filipino, Tagalog
Means "ax" in Tagalog.
Jeon Korean
From Sino-Korean 全 (jeon) meaning "whole, entire".
Trachang Thai (Rare)
Means "elephant seal" in Thai.
Zahniser German
Alteration of German Zahneisen and/or Zahnhäuser and/or Zahneiser... [more]
Kappelin Swedish
Swedish cognate of Kappel.
Tu Chinese
From the ancient city of Zoutu.
Gennaro Italian
From the given name Gennaro
Cordett Romansh
Derived from the given name Conrad.
Achmatowicz Polish (Rare)
Means "son of Achmat", from a Polish form of the given name Ahmad. This name is primarily used among Lipka Tatar Muslims in Poland.
O'Maher Irish (Rare)
This name comes from the Irish surname 'Meachair' which means hospitality. ... [more]
Panuwat Thai (Rare)
Variant transcription of Thai ภาณุวัฒน์ (see Phanuwat).
Kaseda Japanese
If kase is spelled like 加 (ka) meaning "add, increase, join, include, Canada" and 世 (se, yo) meaning "generation, world, society, public", then it can also be read as kayo... [more]
Boynton English
Variant of Boyton, from a place in Lancashire, England.
Idris Arabic
From the given name Idris 1.
Brion Irish
Variant of Brian or O'Brien.
Schram German, English, Yiddish
Derived from German Schramme (Middle High German schram(me)) and Yiddish shram, all of which mean "scar".
Ikeno Japanese
Ike means "pool, pond" and no means "field, plain, wilderness".
Lauper German (Swiss)
From the short form of a Germanic personal name composed of the elements liut 'people', 'tribe' + berht 'famous'. topographic name for someone who lived at a Lauben, a row of houses and stores with an arcade in front, from Middle High German loube 'arbor', 'bower', 'gallery'.
Ahsan Arabic, Bengali, Urdu
From the given name Ahsan.
Bomman Telugu
Dravidian Tribal name
Mibb Most likely German
Is an Americanized for of GIbb, or Gibbs. Could be derived from the name Gilbert.
Dancy French, English
Denoted a person from Annecy, France.
Mustafaj Albanian
Means "descendant of Mustafa" in Albanian.
Prats Catalan
Habitational name from any of the numerous places in Catalonia called Prats, from the plural of prat ‘meadow’
Gurusinghe Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit गुरु (guru) meaning "teacher, sage" and सिंह (sinha) meaning "lion".
Steinwender German (Austrian)
From the German words stein "stone" and wender "turner"
Crenshaw English
The derivation of this surname is from the Old English pre 7th Century "Crawa", a crow, with "sceaga" a grove, thus "Crowswood". The earliest recording of this placename is in the Lancashire Inquests of 1324 and appears as "Croweshagh".
Manassyan Armenian
Means "son of Manas".
Orlyk Ukrainian
From Ukrainian орлик (orlyk), meaning "little eagle".
Stormare Swedish
Swedish variant of Storm 1 meaning "stormer". This surname was adopted by the Swedish actor Peter Stormare (1953-), whose birth surname was Storm.
Ordwald English
English name meaning "spear strength".
Larman English, French, Jewish (Ashkenazi)
Either a variant of Lehrman (English), Lehrmann (Ashkenazi), Larmande, Larmann, or a short form of compound surnames like L'Armand (French)... [more]
Szydło Polish
Means "awl" in Polish, used as an occupational name for a cobbler.
Jlassi Arabic (Maghrebi), Berber
From the name of an Tamazight (Berber) tribal confederation in Tunisia; the name could be from Arabic إِخْلَاص (ʾiḵlāṣ) meaning "sincerity, devotion, loyalty" or of unknown Berber meaning.
Kodzuchi Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 小 (ko) meaning "small; little" and 土 (dzuchi), the joining form of 土 (tsuchi) meaning "earth; soil; mud, ground".
Azabu Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 麻布 (Azabu), a clipping of 元麻布 (Motoazabu) meaning "Motoazabu", an area in the ward of Minato in the city of Tokyo in Japan.
De La Calle Spanish
Means "of the street" in Spanish.
Kulasekere Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala කුලසේකර (see Kulasekara).
Dziuba Polish, Russian, Ukrainian
Derived from Polish dziub or Ukrainian dzyuba. It is a nickname for a person with pock-marks on his or her face.
Elestial English (British, Modern, Rare)
First used as a surname in September 2000, first appearing on a birth certificate in July 2009. Meaning "protected by angels"; the origin is an adopted surname from a type of quartz crystal, often referred to as a new millennium crystal... [more]
Aisek Micronesian
Derived from the given name Isaac.
Zender Romansh
Romansh form of Zehnder.
Nakawa Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 奈河 (see Naka).
Seymer English
Variant of Seymour, or from the village of Semer in Suffolk.
Codreanu Romanian, Moldovan
A common surname in Romania and Moldova.... [more]
Berfield English
possibly a habitational name from Burghfield in Berkshire named from Old English beorg "hill" and feld "field"... [more]
Munguía Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Mungia.
Haueis German
Derived from Middle High German houwen "to beat" and isen "iron". This surname denoted a smith.
Holmsten Swedish
Combination of Swedish holm "islet" and sten "stone".
Kuma Japanese
Kuma could mean "bear", or it could be written with ku meaning "long lasting, long time ago" and ma meaning "horse" or "flax".
Tsuryuu Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 釣流 or 鉤流 (see Tsuryū).
Działoszyński Polish
Habitational name for a person from a town named Działoszyn.
Panteli Greek
From the given name Pantelis.
van der Kloet Dutch
Means "from the clump, lump (?)" from either Dutch cloet meaning "lump, ball" or kluit (From Middle Dutch clute meaning "patch") meaning "clod, clump" (?).
Farahani Persian
Indicated a person from the county of Farahan in Markazi province, Iran, of unknown meaning.
Redford English
Variant of Radford. A famous bearer is American actor Robert Redford (1936-).
Magaling Tagalog
Means "skilled, great, excellent" in Tagalog.
Mizukuchi Japanese
Mizu means "water" and kuchi means "mouth, opening".
Jänicke German
From a pet form of the personal name Johann.
Clebsch Germanic
Means "baker" in Old Prussian.
Sototou Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 外当 or 外當 (see Sototō).
Christina English, Various
Derived from the name Christina
Southworth English
Means "southern enclosure".
Feliz Spanish
Means “happy” or “fortunate” in Spanish.
Boutin French
Diminutive from the Germnic given name Bodo.
Morabito Italian
Ultimately from Arabic مُرَابِط (murabit) "holy man, one who preaches in the street; soldier stationed in an outpost", from which comes Sicilian murabitu "moderate, sober" and murabbiu "teetotal".
Vercetti Italian
Is a Italian surname that is derived from the Italian surname "Verratti".
Collinsworth English
Variant spelling of Collingsworth, itself a variant of Collingwood.
Strilets Ukrainian
Means "shooter, marksman" in Ukrainian.
Figgis English
From a medieval nickname for a trustworthy person (from the Anglo-Norman form of Old French fichais "loyal").
Pilarski Polish
Occupational name for a sawyer, Polish pilarz + -ski, common ending of surnames.
Palomares Spanish
Derived from Spanish "palomar," meaning "dovecote" or "columbarium". An occupational name for someone who was known for raising or caring for carrier pigeons or doves.
Vazquez Spanish (Americanized), Filipino
Unaccented form of Vázquez primarily used in America and the Philippines.
Maksymenko Ukrainian
Means "child of Maksym".
Kozakov Ukrainian
From Ukrainian козак (kozak) meaning "cossack".
Jumaýew Turkmen
Means "son of Juma".
Arkaia Basque
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous council of the municipality of Gasteiz.
Grandison English
A habitational name from Grandson on Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland.... [more]
Gresham English
From a place name meaning "grazing homestead" in Old English.
Duhon French
Gascon variant of Dufon or Dufond, which is a topographic name from fond meaning “bottom,” with fused preposition and definite article du meaning “from the.” The surname Duhon is very rare in France.
Flenot American (South, ?)
I think this could be a French Indian name however, it may be misspelled, and I don't know the correct spelling.
Gall Scottish, Irish, English
Nickname, of Celtic origin, meaning "foreigner" or "stranger". In the Scottish Highlands the Gaelic term gall was applied to people from the English-speaking lowlands and to Scandinavians; in Ireland the same term was applied to settlers who arrived from Wales and England in the wake of the Anglo-Norman invasion of the 12th century... [more]
Wake English, Scottish
From the Old Norse byname Vakr meaning "wakeful", "vigilant" (from vaka meaning "to remain awake"), or perhaps from a cognate Old English Waca (attested in place names such as Wakeford, Wakeham, and Wakeley).
Boje Dutch
Variant of Boye.
Kinpoh Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 金宝 (see Kimpō).
Ang Chinese (Hokkien)
Hokkien romanization of Hong.
Sriboonrueang Thai
Alternate transcription of Thai สีบุญเรือง (see Sibunrueang).
Angela Italian
Derived from the given name Angelus (see Angel).
Charlo Spanish
From the personal name Carlos
Andriyenko Ukrainian
Means "child of Andriy".
Gíslason Icelandic
Means son of Gísla.
Pezda Polish
Probably old polish word for "Orzech Ziemny" (Peanut)
Læstadius Swedish
From the name of the village Lästa in Ångermanland, Sweden, whose name possibly means "Leiðulfr's home". Lars Levi Læstadius (1800-1861) was a Swedish priest who founded a Lutheran revival movement known as Laestadianism.
Slack English
Means "small valley, shallow dell", derived from Old Norse slakki "a slope", a topographic name for someone who lived by such a landform, or a habitational name from one of the places named with this word, for example near Stainland and near Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire.
Hooiveld Dutch
Means "hay field" in Dutch.
Jongok Gayonese, Acehnese
Meaning unavailable.
Ariyadasa Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit आर्य (arya) meaning "noble" and दास (dasa) meaning "servant, slave".
Shinn English
Metonymic occupational name for a Skinner, from Old English scinn, Middle English shin ‘hide’, ‘pelt’. In Middle English this word was replaced by the Norse equivalent, skinn.
Rabinovich Yiddish, Russian
Means "son of the rabbi" (through the name Rabin), referring to a scholar or teacher of the Torah in Judaism.
Mac Gille Mhearnoch Irish
Means "son of the servant of Mernoch".
Bruckheimer German (Rare)
Bruckheimer is a German surname and is for someone who lived near a bridge.... [more]
July English (African)
Derived from the given name Julius.
Slimi Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Slim.
Gesshel Jewish
Possibly derived from Heshel, a Yiddish diminutive of the given name Yehoshua... [more]
Galland French
Nickname for a cheerful or high-spirited or bold person from Old French galant "lively vivacious" also "bold valiant" (the meanings "gallant" and "attentive to women" developed only in the 16th century) the present participle of Old French galer "to be in good humor to enjoy oneself" a word of ancient Germanic origin... [more]
Gaguliya Abkhaz
Variant transcription of Gagulia.
Ybanez Spanish (Philippines)
Unaccented variant of Ybañez.
Shaked Hebrew
Means Almond in Hebrew
Akey English
Possibly an Americanized form of German Eiche "oak".
Ritonga Batak
From Batak ri meaning "reed, grass" and tonga meaning "middle, centre".
Scaggs English
Variant of Skaggs both of English origin and unknown meaning. Famous bearer is singer Boz Scaggs (1944-) of the Steve Miller Band and the band Toto.
Kami Nepali
From the name of a caste of blacksmiths derived from Nepali काम (kam) meaning "work, act", ultimately from Sanskrit कर्मन् (karman).
Uncastiello Aragonese
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.
Rinbayashi Japanese (Rare)
It's written like this: 林林. Both rin and hayashi mean "forest". This is because rin is the Chinese reading called onyomi, and hayashi is the Japanese reading called kunyomi.
Desiderato Piedmontese
From the given name Desiderato
Stocking English
Topographic name from Middle English stocking 'ground cleared of stumps'.
Chaumont French
Habitational name from any of numerous places called Chaumont "bald mountain" from the elements chals caux "bald" and mont "mountain" (ultimately from Latin calvus mons) for example in Cher Orne Jura Haute-Savoie.
Ogushi Japanese
Alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji 大串 (see Ōgushi).
Zhenisov Kazakh
Means "son of Zhenis".
Rossbach Jewish
Jewish or Eastern European