ZweigGerman, Jewish Derived from Middle High German zwīg "branch bough twig graft" German zweig applied perhaps as a nickname for a new member in a family offspring or as an occupational name for a horticultural expert... [more]
MardellEnglish Of debated origin and meaning. Theories include a variant of Marden.
PearsallEnglish a British surname of French origin derived from the pre-9th-century word "pourcel", which described a breeder of animals or a farmer
KusayanagiJapanese From Japanese 草 (kusayanagi) meaning "grass" or 日 (kusayanagi) meaning "sun, day". Other kanji combinations are possible.
AndersonScottish, Irish Anglicized form of the Gaelic Mac Ghille Andrais meaning 'Son of the devotee of St. Andrew'. ... [more]
ScriblerusLiterature The Scriblerus Club was an informal association of authors, based in London, that came together in the early 18th century. The nucleus of the club included the satirists Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope... [more]
MaranEstonian Maran is an Estonian surname meaning "cinquefoil" and "common tormentil" (species: "Potentilla erecta").
LagrangeFrench Means "the granary" in French, a topographic name for someone who lived by a granary or a habitational name for someone who lived in Lagrange or similar in France, all derived from Old French grange "granary, barn" (see Grange) combined with the definite article la... [more]
Van ArkDutch Habitational name from a place called Ark in Gelderland.
BalajczaPolish, Hungarian May be related to the Hungarian place name Balaj or it may be a derivation of a personal name. The -cza suffix can suggest "of" or "from", indicating origin or descent.
NobunagaJapanese Nobu means "trust, believe" and naga means "long, cheif".... [more]
RedmanEnglish, Irish Variant of Raymond. Also a nickname for a person with red hair or a ruddy complexion, from Middle English rudde "red" and man "man".
JuniperEnglish From the tree name juniper which comes from Latin iūniperus meaning "juniper-tree". This surnames denotes someone who lived near junipers.
CespedesSpanish From the plural of cesped "peat", "turf" (Latin caespes, genitive caespitis), applied as a habitational name from a place named Céspedes (for example in Burgos province) or named with this word, or a topographic name for someone who lived by an area of peat, or possibly as a metonymic occupational name for someone who cut and sold turf.
PangestuChinese (Indonesian) Indonesianized form of Chinese surnames such as Peng (彭) or Feng 1 (馮). Surnames like these were instituted during the New Order era (1966–1998) in Indonesia due to social and political pressure toward Chinese Indonesians.
LajoieFrench From a nickname for a happy cheerful person from joie "joy" with fused feminine definite article la.
RapaceSwedish (Modern, Rare) From French and Italian rapace meaning "predatory, bird of prey, raptor". A notable bearer is Swedish actress Noomi Rapace.
BirčaninSerbian Possibly derived from the village of Birač, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
HeerkensDutch Derived from a diminutive form of a given name containing the element heri "army". Alternatively, a variant form of Eerkens.
KaakaMaori Originated from Northland New Zealand town, Te Kao. Te Kao is a district on the Aupouri Peninsula of Northland, New Zealand. State Highway 1 passes through the district. Cape Reinga is 46 km to the north, and Houhora is 24 km to the south... [more]
HofstedeDutch Means "farmstead, property; farmhouse with land" in Dutch, a compound of Old Dutch hof "yard, court" and stat "place, location, abode, town".
PhanouvongLao From Lao ພານຸ (phanou) meaning "light, sun" and ວົງ (vong) meaning "lineage, family".
VoracMedieval Latin Derived from the Latin word “vorax,” which means ravenous or greedy.
OrrellEnglish Habitational name from either of two minor places in Lancashire called Orell. The placename derives from Old English ora "bank, slope, hill, edge" or ora "ore" and hyll "hill".
CrnkovićCroatian Derived from crn "black". The name refers to a person who was dark-skinned, or a person from the region Crna Gora "Black Mountain" (modern-day Montenegro).
PaluchowskiPolish This indicates familial origin within the Lesser Polish village of Paluchów.
MimanaJapanese (Rare) From Japanese 任那 (Mimana) meaning "Mimana", an ancient hypothesized region in parts of present-day South Korea, mentioned in the Nihon Shoki.
VioletteFrench Perhaps a topographic name from a diminutive of viol "path", itself a derivative of vie "way". It is more likely, however, that this name is from the secondary surname Laviolette "the violet (flower)", which was common among soldiers in French Canada.
UngváriHungarian Originally denoted a person from the city of Uzhhorod in Ukraine (formerly part of Hungary), meaning "castle on the River Uzh". In Hungarian it is called Ungvár.
MoultonEnglish Derived from various places with the same name, for example in the counties of Cheshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Suffolk and North Yorkshire in England. It is either derived from the Old English given name Mūla, the Old Norse name Múli or Old English mūl meaning "mule" and tun meaning "enclosure, yard, town".
ThainScots, English Occupational surname meaning a nobleman who served as an attendant to royals or who was awarded land by a king.
RundgrenSwedish Swedish surname with somewhat unclear etymology. The first element is possibly taken from a place named with either of the elements rund and/or run. Rund coincides with the Swedish word for "round", but it is not clear if the element used in this name is derived from that word... [more]
RohtEstonian Roht is an Estonian surname meaning "veld".
SorensonJewish Means "son of the son of Sore", a Yiddish female personal name (from Hebrew Sara, literally "princess"), with the addition of the Slavic possessive suffix -in and German Sohn "son".
JoyEnglish Either derived directly from the word, indicating a nickname for a joyous person, or a variant of Joyce.
KolkmannGerman Kolk is an old German word that means '' man who lives by the river'' and Mann is German for 'man'. The name Kolkmann comes from a man who lived by the North Rhine.
SpieglerGerman, Jewish Occupational name for a maker or seller of mirrors, from Middle High German spiegel, German Spiegel "mirror" and the agent suffix -er.
QuestelFrench, Medieval French (?) The surname Questel was first found in Normandy. Currently, Questel is the most commonly occurring last name in Saint-Barthélemy, a French island in the Caribbean Sea.... [more]
ValsecchiItalian Denoting someone from the former municipality of Valsecca in Lombardy.
HippGerman From the middle high German word hippe meaning "waffle". Perhaps an occupational name for someone who cooks waffles.
OstwaldGerman from the ancient Germanic personal name Ostold composed of the elements ōst "east" (see Oest ) and Old High German walt(an) "to rule". Variant of Oswald.
KavkaSlovak, Ukrainian, Czech Yet another variant of Kafka and its pop culture equivalents Kefka and Cefca. Also like Kaffka, it simply means ‘Jackdaw’ in Slovak.
BaruaBengali From the name of the Barua people of Bangladesh and Myanmar, perhaps meaning "great noble rulers" or of Assamese origin.
SalzerGerman For someone who worked with salt from Middle High German salz "salt" (from Latin sal).
SoulEnglish Literally from the English word "soul"
HosonishiJapanese Hoso means "slender, narrow, thin, fine" and nishi means "west".
LascellesFrench French location name from Lacelle in Orne, northern France and referring to "small rooms or cells inhabited by monks".
MemonUrdu From the name of the Memon people who inhabit parts of India and Pakistan. The name itself is derived from Arabic مؤمن (mu'min) meaning "believer".
PõldsaarEstonian Põldsaar is an Estonian surname meaning "field island".
EllinghamEnglish Habitational name from places so named in Hampshire, Northumbria, and Norfolk. The first of these is named from Old English Edlingaham ‘homestead (Old English ham) of the people of Edla’, a personal name derived from a short form of the various compound names with a first element ead ‘prosperity’, ‘fortune’; the others may have the same origin or incorporate the personal name Ella 1 (see Ellington).
CherrymanEnglish It is topographical or perhaps occupational and describes a person who lived or worked at a cherry orchard, or who lived by a house known by the sign of the cherry. In the days before house numbering, it was the tradition in almost all western countries to give the house a sign... [more]
DesaiIndian, Marathi, Gujarati From a feudal title derived from Sanskrit देश (desha) meaning "country, kingdom" and स्वामिन् (svamin) meaning "owner, master, lord".