FerrandinFrench (Rare) This French surname can be derived from a given name (thus making it a patronymic surname) as well as from the name of a profession (thus making it an occupational surname). In the case of a patronymic surname, the surname is derived from the masculine given name Ferrandin, which was a diminutive of the medieval French given name Ferrand... [more]
BrockhausGerman Occupational hereditary surname for a person who was physically powerful, derived from Old German brock which may refer to persons with a stocky or strong build. Or derived from Old German "Brook" or "Brauk," for people near a marshy landscape, common in northern regions.
AnnoJapanese Means "of hermitage" in Japanese. A famous bearer is famous Japanese illustrator and children's educational book author Mitsumasa Anno (1926-present).
EulerGerman, Jewish Occupational name for a potter, most common in the Rhineland and Hesse, from Middle High German ul(n)ære (an agent derivative of the dialect word ul, aul "pot", from Latin olla).
SouthwickEnglish An English/Scottish locational name from a variety of places, including, Southwick in Northamptonshire, England, and Southwick in Gloucestershire, Sussex, Durham, Hampshire. ... [more]
FraireSpanish Comes from Latin frater meaning "brother".
WijesiriSinhalese Derived from Sanskrit विजय (vijaya) meaning "victory" and श्री (shri) meaning "diffusing light, radiance, splendour, beauty".
CasiellesAsturian From the town of Casielles, Asturias, Spain. From "casa" (house) and the suffix -ielles, a diminituve suffix, so this surname could mean "little houses".
KuljuntaustaFinnish (Rare) Derived from Finnish kulju "quagmire, morass" and tausta "back". A notable of this name is Finnish electronic composer Petri Kuljuntausta (1961-).
Van 't BoveneindDutch Means "from Boveneind", the name of various places in the Netherlands, itself meaning "from the top end" in Dutch. It is derived from boven meaning "upper, upstream" and eind meaning "edge, end".
AppelGerman, Dutch, Jewish, Yiddish From Low German Appel, Middle Dutch appel, or Yiddish epl "apple", an occupational name for a grower or seller of the fruit. As a Jewish surname, it is generally ornamental rather than occupational.
RuthEnglish, German (Swiss) English: from Middle English reuthe ‘pity’ (a derivative of rewen to pity, Old English hreowan) nickname for a charitable person or for a pitiable one. Not related to the given name in this case.... [more]
MongushTuvan Theorised to be derived from Tuvan moon meaning "cohesive, powerful" combined with kush "force". It is also believed to have been Mongolified and Turkified during the reign of Chinggis Khan in the 13th century.
ZurbanoBasque (Hispanicized) Castilianized form of Basque Zurbao, a toponym of uncertain etymology. Possibly related to zur "wood, timber" or zurbeltz "holm oak, kermes oak".
CabanissFrench Variant spelling of Cabanis, a habitational name from any of various places in Gard named Cabanis, from Late Latin capannis ‘at the huts’, ablative plural of capanna 'hut'... [more]
AkuzawaJapanese From Japanese 阿久沢 (Akuzawa), a variant spelling of 悪沢 (Akuzawa) meaning "Akuzawa", a division in the area of Azuma in the city of Midori in the prefecture of Gumma in Japan.... [more]
UnnikrishnanMalayalam Means "Lord Krishna" or "young Krishna", a combination of the title and given name ഉണ്ണി (uṇṇi) meaning "infant boy, young boy" and the name of Krishna, Hindu deity.
KushnirUkrainian Means "furrier, fur seller, animal skinner" in Ukrainian.
CaouetteFrench (Quebec) Altered form of French Cahouet, itself a regional form of chat-huant meaning "screech owl", hence a nickname referring to the bird.
SunadaJapanese From Japanese 砂 (suna) meaning "sand" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".
HatzisGreek Hatzis is the modern form of the Greek khatzis 'a pilgrim to Jerusalem' (either Christian or Muslim), considered a high social distinction. The Greek term is Semitic in origin and is cognate with Arabic hajj 'pilgrimage (to Mecca).'
EirisOld Irish (Latinized) Its meaning That is fruitfulness or fertility. It comes from the Irish name Eire Or Eriu (Erin, Eirinn). Another ancient name is Ivernia (Hibernia or Iverni) and its meaning is the green and fertile lands.
PanaroItalian From old Italian panaro meaning "bread basket" or "wooden basket, hamper", an occupational name for a baker, or perhaps a basket maker. Alternatively, could be a habitational name from the Panaro river.
DoğruTurkish Means "true, right, correct" in Turkish.
ShevelevRussian Derived by means of suffix "-ev" from Old Slavic verb sheveliti (se) meaning to make noise, to whirr, to rustle, to whistle, to wander. Initially it designated someone bold, daring, hardy, spirited.
BankokuJapanese (Rare) From Japanese 万国 meaning "all nations; the whole world; universal". The fact that it is homophonous as Japanese バンコク (Bankoku) meaning "Bangkok", the city in Thailand, is coincidental.
LahiriBengali Habitational name from either the village of Lohori in present-day Bangladesh or the village of Laheria in India.
FahnLow German Topographic name for someone who lived by a bog, from a Westphalian field name van "marsh", or a habitational name from a place named with this word.
HillaryEnglish From the given name Hillary. A famous bearer is explorer Edmund Hillary (1919-2008)
IwaeJapanese Iwa means "stone, rock" and e means "bay, creek, inlet".
AkisadaJapanese From 秋 (aki) meaning "autumn" combined with 定 (sada) meaning "determine, fix, settle, decide, establish" or 貞 (sada) meaning "fidelity, loyalty, chastity".
UtagawaJapanese Uta means "song" and Gawa comes from Kawa, meaning "river".
KwiecińskiPolish, Jewish Habitational surname for someone from a place named Kwiecin, named after the Polish word kwiat, which means "flower".
RaskolnikovLiterature The surname of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, protagonist of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It derives from the Russian word raskolnik, meaning "schismatic" or a member of the Old Believer sect.
DadPunjabi A name found in the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. The meaning of this name is 'the one who gives'. Similar to Ditta or Dutt.
DoughtyEnglish Doughty. This interesting surname of English origin is a nickname for a powerful or brave man, especially a champion jouster, deriving from the Middle English "doughty", Olde English pre 7th Century dohtigdyhtig meaning "valiant" or "strong"... [more]
UmabeJapanese From Japanese 馬部 (umabe), a shortened word for 馬飼部 (umakaibe) meaning "horse feeding department".
PajusaluEstonian Pajusalu is an Estonian name meaning "willow grove".
SealyEnglish Derived from Old English sælig "blessed, fortunate, prosperous, happy" and was used as a term to describe someone with a cheerful, happy disposition.
LoopDutch Habitational name from de Loop, meaning "the watercourse", in the province of Antwerp.
RöntgenGerman Meaning uncertain. This was the name of German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923) who discovered and studied x-rays. Röntgen called the radiation "X" because it was an unknown type of radiation.
OffenbachGerman, Jewish From the name of the city of Offenbach am Main in Hesse, Germany. A famous bearer was the German-born French composer Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880).
TruettEnglish English habitational name from Trewhitt in Northumbria, named from Old Norse tyri ‘dry resinous wood’ + possibly an Old English wiht ‘river bend’.
TimmonsIrish Reduced anglicisation of Gaelic Mac Toimín meaning "son of Toimín" (a pet form of Tomás, itself a Gaelic form of Thomas)... [more]
DissabandaraSinhalese From Sanskrit दिशा (diśā) meaning "region, quarter, direction" combined with the Sinhala title බණ්ඩාර (baṇḍāra) meaning "chief's son, prince".
KishchukUkrainian From Ukrainian кіт (kit) or кішка (kishka), both meaning "cat".
DaintyEnglish From a medieval nickname meaning "handsome, pleasant" (from Middle English deinte, from Old French deint(i)é). This was borne by Billy Dainty (1927-1986), a British comedian.
BilginTurkish Means "scholar, learned, pundit" in Turkish.
AragónSpanish, South American Habitational name from Aragon Spain which was an independent kingdom from 1035 to 1479. It took its name from the river Aragón which arises in its northwestern corner... [more]
LaasmaaEstonian Laasmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "forest/woodland land".
TizzoniItalian From Italian tizzone "embers, live coal; firebrand", probably a nickname for a troublemaker or revolutionary.
RuncieEnglish, Scottish Derived from Latin runcinus, and related to the Old French "roncin", for a horse of little value. Middle English, Rouncy, as in Chaucer's Cantebury Tales.... [more]
SvobodinRussian Patronymic surname derived from Russian свобода (svoboda) meaning "freedom, liberty".
BakešCzech From a derivative of the personal name Bak.
HollisterEnglish An occupational name for a female brothel-keeper, a feminine form of Hollier.
FleytouxFrench Surname of Léa Fleytoux, French-born dancer with the American Ballet Theater
BadamiIndian The town of Badami is situated in the northern part of Karnataka. It was formerly known as Vatapi and was the capital of the Chalukya kingdom from the 6th to the 8th century ad.
OvechkinRussian Patronymic derived from Russian овечка (ovechka) meaning "lamb". A famous bearer is the Russian hockey player Alexander Ovechkin (1985-).
CarononganTagalog From Tagalog karunungan meaning "wisdom, knowledge".
PearlEnglish Metonymic occupational name for a trader in pearls, which in the Middle Ages were fashionable among the rich for the ornamentation of clothes, from Middle English, Old French perle (Late Latin perla).
MarmolejoSpanish This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Andalusian municipality.
İşbaşaranTurkish From Turkish iş "work" and başaran "one who is successful".
GorbachevRussian From Russian горбач (gorbach) meaning "hunchback, humpback". A notable bearer is Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-), a former Soviet politician.
AminovUzbek (Russified) Derived from the mid-Eastern name "Amin" (son of Amin). It is typically used by Bukharan people (also called "Bukharians"), an ethno-religious Jewish sub-group of Central Asia that historically spoke Bukharian, a Judeo-Tajik dialect of the Tajik language, in turn a variety of the Persian language; Bukharan Jews emerged from the Central Asian Emirate of Bukhara (now primarily Uzbekistan), which at the time, was a part of the Soviet Union and its mostly-Russian leaders.
BongiornoItalian Italian from the medieval personal name Bongiorno (composed of bono ‘good’ + giorno ‘day’), bestowed on a child as an expression of the parents’ satisfaction at the birth (‘it was a good day when you were born’).
SeilerGerman German and Jewish occupational surname for a rope maker.
KolyadaRussian, Ukrainian From Коляда (Kolyada), a name for Slavic Christmas celebrations (or formerly, Slavic pagan traditional winter solstice celebrations).
RokutamboJapanese (Rare) From Japanese 六 (roku) meaning "6" and 反穂 (tambo), from 田圃 (tambo) meaning "rice paddy field", referring to a rice paddy field with an area of 6 tans (around 5950 m²) in Japanese measurement.
KuwajimaJapanese From 桑 (kuwa) meaning "mulberry" and 島 (shima) meaning "island". Shima changes to jima because of rendaku.
WeishuhnGerman Derived from Middle High German wiz meaning "white" and huon meaning "hen, fowl", hence a metonymic occupational name for a poultry farmer or dealer, or perhaps in some instances a nickname.
UsluTurkish Means "well-behaved, obedient" in Turkish.
KashaniPersian Indicated a person from the city of Kashan in Isfahan province, Iran. The name may be derived from the Kasian, the original inhabitants of the area.
BirchallEnglish Probably a habitational name from Birchill in Derbyshire or Birchills in Staffordshire, both named in Old English with birce "birch" + hyll "hill".
FairEnglish, Irish English: nickname meaning ‘handsome’, ‘beautiful’, ‘fair’, from Middle English fair, fayr, Old English fæger. The word was also occasionally used as a personal name in Middle English, applied to both men and women.... [more]