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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Nouda Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 納田 (see Nōda).
Köhn German
From the given name Köhn.
Otsalt Estonian
Otsalt is an Estonian surname meaning "end(s) under/below".
Rebassoo Estonian
Rebassoo is an Estonian surname meaning "vulpine (fox) swamp".
Acmad Filipino, Maranao
From the given name Acmad.
Ranaraja Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit रण (rana) meaning "delight, pleasure, joy" or "battle, war" combined with राज (raja) meaning "king".
De Michele Italian, French
An Italian and French patronymic surname, meaning "son of Michele 1".
Bloomstrand Swedish (Anglicized)
Possibly an anglicized form of Swedish Blomstrand.
Reznor German
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.
Justice English
Simply form the abstract noun "Justice"
Miyao Japanese
From 宮 (miya) meaning "palace, shrine" and 尾 (o) meaning "tail".
Duvall French
Variant spelling of Duval.
Char Arabic
French-influenced spelling of Shaar. Borne by both Muslims and Christians.
Tremonti Italian
Pluralised form of Tremonte, a habitational name meaning "over the mountain".
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".
Jayamaha Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit जय (jaya) meaning "victory, conquest" and महा (maha) meaning "great".
Kallemaa Estonian
Kallemaa is an Estonian surname meaning "sloping land".
Guðfriðsson Icelandic
Means "son of Guðfriðr" in Icelandic.
Reinert German
North German: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements ragin ‘counsel’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’, for example Reinhard ( see Reinhardt ).
Wei Chinese
From Chinese 卫 (wèi) meaning "guard, protect".
Haskell English
From the Norman personal name Aschetil.
Osaragi Japanese (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.
Kaasik Estonian
Kaasik is an Estonian surname meaning "birch".
Meza Spanish
Older variant of Mesa.
Antonovich Belarusian, Russian
Derived from given name Anton (Антон) meaning "son of Anton"
Haimawari Japanese
From Japanese 灰 (hai) meaning "ashes, puckery juice, cremate" and 廻 (mawari) meaning "round, revolve, go around, circumference"
Sarangapani Hindi
From the sanskrit words Sarangan "bow of Vishnu" and pani "hand".
Wepner German
Variant of Wepener.
Polyak Ukrainian
Alternate transcription of Poliak.
Kalita Indian, 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.
Milchik Yiddish
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]
Knös Swedish (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.
al-Husseini Arabic
Derived from the given name Hussein.
Puusild Estonian
Puusild is an Estonian surname meaning "wood bridge".
Sonehara Japanese
From 曽 (so) meaning "once, formerly, before, ever", 根 (ne) meaning "root", and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain, wilderness".
Ramkissoon Trinidadian Creole, Mauritian Creole, South African, South American
Altered form of Ramakrishnan used mainly in Trinidad and Tobago, Mauritius, South Africa and Guyana. This surname is not used in India.
Hews Medieval English
Means son of hewer (to chop away at; to shape).
Kingsbury English
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).
Bacatan Filipino, Cebuano
Derived from Cebuano bakat meaning "billow, large wave of water".
Pind Estonian
Pind is an Estonian surname meaning "surface" and "area".
Scornavacche Italian
Possibly deriving from Italian words scorno meaning shame, and vacca meaning cow. Sicilian variant of Scornavacca.
Mautz German
Meaning "to gripe", or "to complain" in Swabian German.
Imagyuhre Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 今給黎 (see Imagyūre).
Govern English, Irish
Reduced form of McGovern.
Jayasekera Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala ජයසේකර (see Jayasekara).
Onofrio Italian
From the given name Onofrio.
Zonneveld Dutch
Means "sun field" in Dutch, a habitation always name.
Zakhaev Russian
Russian surname, likely a derivative of the given name Zakhey combined with the Russian suffix "-ev" ("of"), therefore meaning "of Zakhey."... [more]
Maslov Russian, 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.
Ghengat Urdu, Persian
Ghengat is clan of mewati muslim rajpoot Pakistan ... [more]
Farquhar Scottish (Anglicized)
Scottish (Aberdeenshire) reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhearchair ‘son of Fearchar’, a personal name composed of the elements fear ‘man’ + car ‘loving’, ‘beloved’.
Lazarev Russian
Means "son of Lazar".
Senesie Western African
Kissi surname of unknown meaning.
Grow English
Likely from the English word "grow".
Maejima Japanese
From Japanese 前 (mae) meaning "front, forward" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".
Suursalu Estonian
Suursalu is an Estonian surname meaning "big copse" or "big grove".
Bolloqui Basque
Means "mill place."
Grass Scottish
Occupational name, reduced from Gaelic greusaiche "shoemaker". A certain John Grasse alias Cordonar (Middle English cordewaner "shoemaker") is recorded in Scotland in 1539.
Waleed Arabic, Dhivehi
From the given name Walid.
Muccio Italian
Short form of pet names ending in -muccio such as Anselmuccio or Giacomuccio... [more]
Hatsune Popular 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".
Sto. Tomas Spanish (Philippines)
Means "Saint Thomas" in Spanish.
Iwatachi Japanese
Variant reading of Iwatate.
Barriera Italian
Means "barrier" in Italian.
Lindfors Swedish
Combination of Swedish lind "lime tree, linden" and fors "rapid, waterfall".
Schippers Dutch
Patronymic form of Schipper.
Piovasco Italian, 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 Bie Dutch
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.
Metsla Estonian
Metsla is an Estonian surname meaning "forest area".
Guccione Italian, Sicilian
Derived from the given name Guccio, a diminutive of Arriguccio, Uguccio and other names ending in guccio.
von Stauffenberg German
From the name of the former castle Burg Stauffenberg in Swabia, southwestern Germany.
Chalaire American (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]
Abdulcader Maranao
From the given name Abdulcader.
Youngberg Swedish (Americanized), Jewish (Americanized)
Americanized form of Jewish Jungberg, composed of German jung "young" and berg "mountain, hill", or of Swedish Ljungberg.
Barseghyan Armenian
Means "son of Barsegh".
Severson Norwegian (Americanized)
Alternate spelling of Syverson, son of Syver
Zagórowski Polish
This indicates familial origin within either the Lesser Polish village of Zagórowa or the Greater Polish town of Zagórów.
Librado Spanish
From the given name Librado.
Ronden Dutch
Possibly derived from Dutch rond meaning "round, circular".
Floris Dutch
From the given name Floris.
Tilakaratne Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala තිලකරත්න (see Thilakaratne).
Benkowski Polish
Polish Origin
Saelim Thai
Form of Lin used by Chinese Thais (based on the Hokkien romanization of the name).
Maciejewski Polish
Name for someone from any of various places called Maciejowa, Maciejów or Maciejowice, all derived from the given name Maciej.
Kunugiza Japanese (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.
Azizian Persian
From the given name Aziz.
Agata Japanese (Rare)
From 県 or 縣 (agata) meaning "prefecture, county, countryside, subdivision, district".
Mogasen German
meaning unknown
Pomeroy English
From an English surname meaning "dweller by the apple orchard".
Boutros Arabic
From the given name Boutros.
Mahto Indian, Hindi, Nepali
Variant transcription of Mahato.
Mastin English
Variant of Maston.
Lear English
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]
Krzyżewski Polish
Derived from the name of any of the villages called Krzyżewo in Poland. A notable bearer is American basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski (b. 1947).
Emreev Kazakh (Rare)
Means "son of Emre".
Villein French
"Used in medieval England and France. Villein is another term used for the serfs in the lowest classes of the feudal system."
Hallquist Swedish
Composed of the elements hall "stone, rock" and quist, an old spelling of kvist "twig".
Khúc Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Qu, from Sino-Vietnamese 曲 (khúc).
Caldeira Portuguese
Name given to a maker of kettles or other cooking vessels.
Saluste Estonian
Saluste is an Estonian surname, relating to "grove".
Tennohjiya Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjiya).
Cawicaan Tagalog
From Tagalog kawikaan meaning "proverb, saying".
Kuroshima Japanese
From Japanese 黒 (kuro) meaning "black" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".
Ishi Japanese
Ishi means "stone".
Grinder English
Occupational name for a grinder.
Mazzamauro Italian
Italian cognate of Matamoros. A famous bearer of the name is Italian actress Anna Mazzamauro (1938-).
Konkyuhryoh Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 今給黎 (see Konkyūryō).
Mattioli Italian
From the given name Mattia.
Gatton English
Habitational name for someone from the village of Gatton, Surrey, derived from Old English gat "goat" and tun "enclosure, yard, town".
Luiaondo Basque (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".
Vetrano Italian
The name originates from Italy, mainly Sicily. It means "old man veteran", other times it means "faithful, loyal".
Brecht German, Dutch
From a short form of any of various personal names formed with the Germanic element berhtaz " bright, famous".
Nanahoshi Japanese
Nana means "seven" and hoshi means "stars".
Duschek German
German cognate of Dušek.
Fors Swedish
Means "rapid, small waterfall" in Swedish.
Feroze Urdu
Derived from the given name Feroz.
Favri French (Huguenot), Medieval French
The medieval French word for Blacksmith.
Shteynfeld Yiddish
It means "stone field".
Azeri Japanese (Rare)
Means "acharya" in Japanese.
Skrzyszewski Polish
This indicates familial origin within the Lesser Polish village of Skrzyszew.
St Fleur Haitian Creole
From the French place name St Fleur.
Nöör Estonian
Nöör is an Estonian surname meaning "twine" or "cord".
Brazil English, Irish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Irish Ó Breasail "descendant of Breasal", a byname meaning "strife".
Snellius Dutch (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.
Beach English
Name for someone living near a beach, stream, or beech tree.
Iwamura Japanese
Iwa means "stone " and mura can mean "village, hamlet" or "town".
Stollerman German
A man from Stoll, a province of Germany.
Inukai Japanese
From Japanese 犬 (inu) meaning "dog" and 飼 (kai) meaning "domesticate, raise".
Sabouri Persian
Derived from Persian صبور (sabour) meaning "patient, tolerant".
Knott English
Either from the Middle English personal name Knut, or denoting a person who lived "at the knot", which is the summit of a rocky hill.
Kauppi Finnish
From the medieval variant of the given name Jaakob. In some cases from the Finnish archaic term meaning "merchant, trader".
Matejka Slovak
Derived from the given name Matej.
Sovern English, French, German, Dutch
Sovern is a modified spelling of Sovereign meaning a ruler or monarch.
Ricciardi Italian
From the given name Riccardo.
De Leon Spanish (Philippines)
Unaccented form of De León primarily used in the Philippines.
Agiashvili Georgian
Meaning unknown.
Maltese Italian
habitational or ethnic name for someone from the island of Malta.
Nestor Irish
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.
Rosenblum Jewish
From rosen meaning "rose" and blume meaning "flower".
Āboltiņš Latvian
Derived from the word āboliņš meaning "clover".
Lehtmets Estonian
Lehtmets is an Estonian surname meaning "leaf(y) forest".
Lehtpere Estonian
Lehtpere is an Estonian surname meaning "leaf/foliage family".
Siamak Belarusian
Belarusian Latin spelling of Syamak.
Foust German
Foust is a name for a person who was strong and pugnacious and was derived from the Old German word "fust," which meant "fist."
Ivanc Slovene
Means "son of Ivan".
Torre Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian cognitive and, Spanish and Portuguese variant of Torres. From torre "tower" (from Latin turris).
Demiri Albanian
It means "young bull".
Zamora Spanish
Habitational name from Zamora, a city in northwestern Spain, of uncertain etymology. Possibly derived from Berber azemur "wild olive tree".
Katamba Bemba
A surname of the Bemba tribe meaning "small wave". To the Lozi tribe, it means "fishing net".
Naseer Arabic, Urdu, Dhivehi
From the given name Nasir.
Oortwijn Dutch
Possibly derived from the given name Ortwin.
Vahedi Persian
From the given name Vahed.
Dohle German
From German meaning "Jackdaw".
Holovchak Rusyn, Lemko
Lemko Rusyn version of Holovko.
Modigliani Italian
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).
Kuroita Japanese
Kuro means "black" and ita mean "board, plank".
Morricone Italian
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".
Kannus Estonian
Kannus is an Estonian surname meaning "spur" and "rowel".
Babayan Armenian
Derived from Turkish baba meaning "father".
Sto. Domingo Spanish (Philippines)
Means "Saint Dominic" in Spanish.
Rokutambo Japanese (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.
Ravenswaaij Dutch
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".
Dalloway English
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.
Vardy English
Variant of Verity. A name given to actors who played the part in the medieval travelling theatres.
Ülger Turkish
Means "villus, fine hair" in Turkish.
Theissen German
North German: patronymic from Theiss.
Krijnen Dutch
Patronymic from the given name Krijn, a diminutive of Quirijn, the Dutch form of Quirinus.
Lafayette French
The name of Marquis de Lafayette; a famous French man during the revolutionary war.
Bagongahasa Filipino
From Tagalog bagong hasa meaning "something newly sharpened".
Varon French
From the old high german name Waro short form of given names with the element war "aware,cautious".
Yong Chinese
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.
Zolotarev Russian
Means "son of the goldsmith" derived from Russian золотарь (zolotar) meaning "goldsmith".
Taghlian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Տաղլյան (see Taghlyan).
Pyatkov Russian
Possibly from "pyat", meaning "five".
Iribarren Basque
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous district of the municipality of Otsagabia.
Getachew Ethiopian, Amharic
From the given name Getachew.
Catello Italian
From the given name Catello
McCawell Irish
Anglicanized version of Mac Cathmhaoil.
Rogan Irish
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ruadhagáin ‘son of Ruadhagán’, a personal name from a diminutive of ruadh ‘red’.
Akçam Turkish
A surname of Turkish origin, ultimate from the words ak meaning "white" and çam meaning "pine tree".
Gijsen Dutch
This surname is a Dutch patronymic surname meaning "Gijs' son".
Ahmet Turkish, Uyghur
From the given name Ahmet.