GereEnglish Variant of Geer, Gehr or Geary, all related to the Old High German element gēr (Old English gār, Old Norse geirr) meaning "spear, arrow". A famous bearer is American actor Richard Gere (b... [more]
ImuraJapanese From Japanese 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".
AstburyEnglish Habitational name for a person from a village named Astbury in Cheshire, from Old English east "east" and burg "fortress, fortification, citadel".
MizuiJapanese Mizu means "water" and i means "mineshaft, pit, hole".
CaligiuriItalian Comes from the Greek words "kalos" meaning "beautiful" and "gheros" meaning "elderly," and was often given to children in the hopes that they would retain their beauty in their old age.
PecchiaItalian Means "bee" in Italian, probably a nickname for a hard-working or industrious person.
BoydstonScottish Habitational name from a place called Boydston near Glasgow. This surname is no longer found in the British Isles.
InglestonEnglish (British) Ingleston is an exceptionally rare surname and seems to be posessed by a single family who much grew larger in the 19th century. ... [more]
ZurJewish Ornamental name derived from Hebrew צור (tsur) meaning "rock".
OkaseJapanese Oka means "hill, ridge" and se means "ripple".
GranadosSpanish Occupational name for a grower or seller of pomegranates, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a pomegranate tree, from granado "pomegranate tree" (cf. GARNETT).
CoolidgeEnglish Probably an occupational name for a college servant or someone with some other association with a university college, for example a tenant farmer who farmed one of the many farms in England known as College Farm, most of which are or were owned by university colleges.
PettaiEstonian Pettai is an Estonian surname derived from "petta" meaning "to be up to mischief".
TaelEstonian Tael is an Estonian surname meaning "tinder" and "touchwood".
MelanchthonHistory Means "black earth", derived from Greek μελανός (melanos), the genitive of the adjective μέλας (melas) meaning "black, dark", and χθών (chthon) meaning "land, earth, soil"... [more]
CohenIrish Either a version of Cowan or Coyne, not related with the jewish surname.
SlackEnglish 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.
De TalleyrandFrench A French noble surname. A cadet branch of the family of sovereign counts of Périgord, they took their name from the estate of Périgord owned by these counts, and date back to Boso I, count of la Marche... [more]
KoshimizuJapanese From 小 (ko) meaning "small", 清 (shi, kiyo) meaning "pure, clean, purify, exorcise, cleanse", and 水 (mizu) means "water".
Even-shoshanHebrew Hebrew translation of the last name Rosenstein is derived from אבן (Even) "Stone" and שושן (Shoshan) meaning "Lily", but it is often mistranslated as "Rose", especially in Earlier times in Israel.
BobbittEnglish Possibly derived from the Middle English personal name Bobbe.
UdayasiriSinhalese Derived from Sanskrit उदय (udaya) meaning "going up, rising" or "sunrise, dawn" and श्री (shri) meaning "diffusing light, radiance, splendour, beauty".
CloughEnglish (British) The distinguished surname Clough is of ancient Anglo-Saxon origin. It is derived from the Old English "cloh," meaning "ravine" or "steep-sided valley," and was first used to refer to a "dweller in the hollow."
AškāpuBabylonian Means "leatherworker", deriving from the Akkadian aškāpu ("a leatherworker , a cobbler , a shoemaker").
RajaniemiFinnish Rajaniemi: The last name of a group of people who live in Finland. Some live in the United States when their ancestors immigrated to the US in the early 1900's.
HarumotoJapanese From Japanese 春 (haru) meaning "spring season" or 東 (haru) meaning "east, Orient" and 本 or 元 (moto) meaning "base, root, source, origin".
TokiyoshiJapanese From 時 (toki) meaning "time" and 吉 (yoshi) meaning "good luck".
ConcepciónSpanish Means "conception'' in Spanish, in reference to the Immaculate Conception of Virgin Mary.
FirtashUkrainian, Russian Dmytro (Dmitriy) Firtash is a Ukrainian pro-Russian oligarch politician.
ChairesSpanish (Mexican) Possibly a plural form of Galician chaira "little valley or meadow" or chairo "flat" (way, terrain). Refers to a person who lived in such a place.
AkaashiJapanese Comes from the kanji "赤" meaning "red", and "葦" meaning "reed", or alternatively, "足" that means "leg"
FrainFrench Topographic name for someone who lived near a prominent ash tree from Old French fraisnefresne "ash" from Latin fraxinus "ash".
CarosellaItalian From carosello "carousel, merry-go-round", possibly a nickname for a farmer, as a carousel was an allotment of grain collected by farmers. Also a type of jousting tournament.
BranchEnglish topographic name or nickname from Middle English braunch "branch" (Old French branchebraunche) of uncertain application (compare German Zweig)... [more]
NoonEnglish Either (i) from a medieval nickname for someone of a sunny disposition (noon being the sunniest part of the day); or (ii) from Irish Gaelic Ó Nuadháin "descendant of Nuadhán", a personal name based on Nuadha, the name of various Celtic gods (cf... [more]
RyeoKorean The surname traces its roots from China. It is commonly found in Korea among its Chinese community and is a transliteration of Chinese surname meaning pitch-pipe
AsunciónSpanish Means "assumption" in Spanish, referring to the bodily taking up of Mary, the mother of Jesus, into Heaven at the end of her earthly life. The unaccented form, Asuncion, is much more common.
Mac An FhailghighIrish Means "son of the poor man". From the word failgheach meaning "poor man" in Irish
RasorEnglish Probably from Old French rasor, meaning "razor".
WinfordEnglish English location name meaning "from a white ford or water crossing" or "from a meadow ford".
ChionasGreek Likely derived from modern Greek χιόνι (chioni) meaning "snow".
ÇifliguAlbanian (Rare) This surname derives from the Albanian city Çiflig. The word Çiflig comes from the Turkish term for land management in the Ottoman Empire. Albania was under Ottoman rule for almost 500 years and has many cities and surnames that derive from Turkish terms.
MambelliItalian Possibly from Italian mano "hand" and bello "beautiful".
PickersgillEnglish This famous Yorkshire name is of early medieval English origin, and is a locational surname deriving from the place in West Yorkshire called Pickersgill, or "Robber's Ravine". The placename is derived from the Middle English "pyker", thief, robber, and "gill", gully, ravine, deep glen.
KitcherEnglish (British) This name derives from the Old English word "Cyta", and describes 'the cat' or perhaps more specifically a wild cat. This name may also refer to someone who worked in a Kitchen.
PenryWelsh, Cornish, English Derived from Welsh ap Henry meaning "son of Henry". It is also a variant of Pendray, which is derived from a place name in Cornwall meaning "top of the village" in Middle Cornish... [more]
BaguindaFilipino, Maguindanao, Maranao From the Minangkabau title bagindo denoting a prince or member of royalty. It was probably adopted in honour of Rajah Baguinda Ali (Raja Bagindo Ali in Indonesian sources), a Minangkabau prince who became a ruler of the Sulu Archipelago.
BacchusEnglish (i) Variant of Backus (meaning "one who lives in or works in a bakery", from Old English bǣchūs "bakehouse, bakery"), the spelling influenced by Bacchus (name of the Greek and Roman god of wine).... [more]
GascoigneEnglish Originally denoted a person from the province of Gascony in France. A famous bearer is the English former soccer player Paul Gascoigne (1967-). Another was the television host and author Bamber Gascoigne (1935-2022).
HunKhmer Means "capital, investment" in Khmer, also referring to a unit of weight for precious metals.
GucciItalian Patronymic or plural form of the given name Guccio, a late medieval Italian diminutive of various names ending in go, such as Arrigo (via Arriguccio) or Ugo (via Uguccio)... [more]
LümelinLombard It indicates familial origin within the comune of Lümé.
JaunzemeLatvian Feminine form of Jaunzems, a Latvian occupational surname meaning "new farmer", composed of jauns meaning "new" and zeme meaning "land" (compare zemlja).
KooritsEstonian Koorits is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "koor" meaning both "(tree) bark" and "choir". It may also be a corruption of "kõrvits" meaning "pumpkin".
CaverlyEnglish English surname, a variant of the English surname Calverley, itself derived from the Old English calf "calf" and leag "field, clearing".
EisensteinGerman, Jewish topographic name for someone who lived by a place where iron ore was extracted or perhaps a habitational name from a place called for its iron works. Jewish artificial compound of German isarn "iron" and stein "stone".
GhatakIndian, Bengali Derived from Sanskrit घटक (ghataka) meaning "striving for, bringing about, accomplishing".
BakunPolish Possibly from bak "screaming" or bakać "to scold", from bakun "low-quality tobacco", or from the Hebrew personal name Bakum, possibly related to Habakkuk.
BlandfordEnglish 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'.
JupinFrench from a diminutive of Old French jupe a term denoting a long woolen garment hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller (or a nickname for a wearer) of such garments. This word ultimately derives from Arabic.
ChiereFrench (Rare) Possibly derived from the Old French chiere, from chier, meaning "dear, dearest".
SquiresEnglish Surname is plural of Squire. A young person that tends to his knight, also someone that is a member of a landowner class that ranks below a knight.
UnamuntzagaBasque It indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Etxebarria.
VenablesEnglish Derives from Latin venabulum "long hunting spear".
LöfvénSwedish (Rare) Combination of Swedish löv "leaf" and the common surname suffix -én, a derivative of Latin -enius "descendant of". Stefan Löfven (b. 1957) is a Swedish politician and the prime minister of Sweden since 2014.