ReznorGerman May be a variant of the German surname Reisner, a habitational name for someone from a place called Reisen (for example in Bavaria), Reissen in Thuringia, or Reussen on the Saale river.
GoodfriendEnglish 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".
JayamahaSinhalese Derived from Sanskrit जय (jaya) meaning "victory, conquest" and महा (maha) meaning "great".
ReinertGerman North German: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements ragin ‘counsel’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’, for example Reinhard ( see Reinhardt ).
WeiChinese From Chinese 卫 (wèi) meaning "guard, protect".
OsaragiJapanese (Rare) From Japanese 大仏 (osaragi), from Old Japanese オホソレキ (ohosoreki), from オホ (oho) meaning "great; large", ソレ (sore) meaning "slash-and-burn cultivation" , and キ (ki) meaning "place", referring to a place in the mountains that had been slash-and-burn cultivated.
KalitaIndian, Assamese Meaning uncertain. One theory suggests that the name is derived from Sanskrit कुल (kula) meaning "family, caste" and लुप्त (lupta) meaning "lost, gone", though this has been criticised as a false etymology.
MilchikYiddish From the Yiddish milch, meaning “milk”derived from Old High German. Refers to food containing and/or prepared with dairy products in Ashkenazi Judaism.... [more]
KnösSwedish (Rare) Derived from the name of a farm named Knorren or Knörren in Sweden whose name is unexplained but possibly taken from Swedish knusa "to crush, to crumble". Knös coincides with the Swedish word knös meaning "rich person", but the surname existed before the vocabulary word appeared in the Swedish language.
KingsburyEnglish Habitational surname derived from several places in England with the same name, for example in northwest London (formerly Middlesex), Somerset, and Warwickshire. These are mostly named in Old English as cyninges burh meaning "the king’s stronghold", but the last mentioned is cynesburh meaning "stronghold of Cyne" (cyne is a short form of any of various compound names with cyne- meaning "royal" as the first element).
ZakhaevRussian Russian surname, likely a derivative of the given name Zakhey combined with the Russian suffix "-ev" ("of"), therefore meaning "of Zakhey."... [more]
MaslovRussian, Jewish Derived from Russian масло (maslo) meaning "butter", originally used as an occupational name for someone who worked as a dairyman or sold dairy products.
GrassScottish Occupational name, reduced from Gaelic greusaiche "shoemaker". A certain John Grasse alias Cordonar (Middle English cordewaner "shoemaker") is recorded in Scotland in 1539.
HatsunePopular Culture A fictional bearer is the Yamaha engineered Vocaloid and fictional character, Hatsune Miku. It combines the kanji 初 (hatsu) meaning "first time" and 音 (ne) meaning "sound".
PiovascoItalian, Literature Means "shower, brief fall of rain" in Italian, from Italian piovere or piova, both meaning "rain" with an added suffix. Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò is the protagonist in the Italian novel The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino, who inherited this surname from his father, Arminio Piovasco.
De BieDutch Means "the bee" in Dutch, a nickname for a beekeeper or a for a busy person, or perhaps a habitational name for someone who lived near a sign depicting a bee.
MetslaEstonian Metsla is an Estonian surname meaning "forest area".
ChalaireAmerican (South, Rare, ?) Chalaire is a very rare surname, few people in the United States have the family name and might be raised in the United States. Around 99 people have been found who wears Chalaire as their family name... [more]
SaelimThai Form of Lin used by Chinese Thais (based on the Hokkien romanization of the name).
MaciejewskiPolish Name for someone from any of various places called Maciejowa, Maciejów or Maciejowice, all derived from the given name Maciej.
KunugizaJapanese (Rare) From Japanese 椚座 (Kunugiza) meaning "Kunugiza", a former division in the former village of Kusaka in the former district of Tsuna in the former Japanese province of Awaji in parts of present-day Hyōgo, Japan.
LearEnglish Means (i) "person from Leire", Leicestershire ("place on the river Leire", a river-name that may also be the ancestor of Leicestershire); or (ii) "person from Lear", any of several variously spelled places in northern France with a name based on Germanic lār "clearing"... [more]
KrzyżewskiPolish Derived from the name of any of the villages called Krzyżewo in Poland. A notable bearer is American basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski (b. 1947).
LuiaondoBasque (Rare) From the name of a village in Álava, Spain, composed of the Basque suffix -ondo "near, adjacent" and an uncertain first element; possibly related to lur "earth, soil, land".
VetranoItalian The name originates from Italy, mainly Sicily. It means "old man veteran", other times it means "faithful, loyal".
BrechtGerman, Dutch From a short form of any of various personal names formed with the Germanic element berhtaz " bright, famous".
SnelliusDutch (Latinized) Latinized form of Snel. A notable bearer was the Dutch astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius (1580-1626; real name Willebrord Snel van Royen), commonly called Snell, for whom the formula Snell's law is named.
BeachEnglish Name for someone living near a beach, stream, or beech tree.
IwamuraJapanese Iwa means "stone " and mura can mean "village, hamlet" or "town".
MalteseItalian habitational or ethnic name for someone from the island of Malta.
NestorIrish Derived from the surname Mac Girr an Adhastair (sometimes shortened to Mac an Aghastair), meaning "Short man of the halter." The Mac Girr an Adhastair were associated with the local lords, the Ó Lochlainn family.
RosenblumJewish From rosen meaning "rose" and blume meaning "flower".
ĀboltiņšLatvian Derived from the word āboliņš meaning "clover".
ZamoraSpanish Habitational name from Zamora, a city in northwestern Spain, of uncertain etymology. Possibly derived from Berber azemur "wild olive tree".
KatambaBemba A surname of the Bemba tribe meaning "small wave". To the Lozi tribe, it means "fishing net".
ModiglianiItalian Used by Sepharditic Jews, this surname comes from the Italian town of Modigliana, in Romagna. Famous bearers of this surname include painter Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920) and Nobel Prize in Economics recipient Franco Modigliani (1918–2003).
KuroitaJapanese Kuro means "black" and ita mean "board, plank".
MorriconeItalian Possibly derived from the medieval given name Moricius or Moricus, derived from Latin murex meaning "shellfish (kind used in making purple dye)" as well as "sharp stone, pointed rock".
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.
RavenswaaijDutch From the name of a village in Gelderland, Netherlands, meaning "Raven’s ford", derived from the personal name Raven combined with Old Dutch wade "ford, shallows", later reinterpreted as Middle Dutch way "pool, kolk lake".
DallowayEnglish Meant "person from Dallaway", West Midlands (perhaps from a Norman personal name, "person from (de) Alluyes", northern France). A fictional bearer of the surname is Mrs Dalloway, central figure of the eponymous novel (1925) by Virginia Woolf.
VardyEnglish Variant of Verity. A name given to actors who played the part in the medieval travelling theatres.
ÜlgerTurkish Means "villus, fine hair" in Turkish.
LafayetteFrench The name of Marquis de Lafayette; a famous French man during the revolutionary war.
BagongahasaFilipino From Tagalog bagong hasa meaning "something newly sharpened".
VaronFrench From the old high german name Waro short form of given names with the element war "aware,cautious".
YongChinese From Chinese 雍 (yōng) either referring the ancient state of Yong, located in what is now Henan province, or the ancient fief of Yong, which existed during the Shang dynasty in what is now Shaanxi province.
ZolotarevRussian Means "son of the goldsmith" derived from Russian золотарь (zolotar) meaning "goldsmith".