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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Fayaz Arabic, Urdu, Dhivehi
Derived from the given name Fayaz.
Anouar Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Anwar.
Tòmas Scottish
From the given name Tòmas.
Damian French, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Slovak, Polish
From the medieval personal name Damian, Greek Damianos (from damazein "to subdue"). St. Damian was an early Christian saint martyred in Cilicia in ad 303 under the emperor Domitian, together with his brother Cosmas... [more]
Farissol Judeo-Provençal
Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol was a Jewish-Italian geographer, cosmographer, scribe, and polemicist. He was the first Hebrew writer to deal in detail with the newly-discovered Americas, born in Avignon in 1451.
Dawud Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Dawud.
Diasamidze Georgian
Means "son of Diasami", from a Georgian given name of unknown meaning, perhaps meaning "master" or derived from Abkhaz дәаӡа (dwaʒa) meaning "uncultivated land, virgin soil" (thus used to refer to someone who plowed land)... [more]
Vliegen Dutch
Means "to fly" in Dutch.
Kalander German
Status name for the chairman or a member fraternity that held meetings on the first of each month, from Latin ad calendas.
Nakasone Japanese
Combination of the kanji 中 (naka, "middle"), 曽 (so, of uncertain meaning) and 根 (ne, "root"). A famous bearer of this surname was Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone (中曽根 康弘; 1918–2019).
Sarrikolea Basque
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Larrabetzu.
Purdum English
Variant spelling of English Purdom.
Buenafe Spanish (Philippines)
Means "good faith" in Spanish, from buena meaning "good" and fe meaning "faith".
Tsujimura Japanese
From Japanese 辻 (tsuji) meaning "crossroad" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".
Moulton English
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".
Are Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 荒 (see Ara).
Gadot Hebrew
Means "riverbanks" in Hebrew.
Abeywardena Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala අබේවර්ධන (see Abeywardana).
Lacombe French
French (western and southwestern): topographic name for someone living in or near a ravine, from la combe ‘the ravine’ (a word of Gaulish origin, related to English Combe).... [more]
Viengxay Lao
From Lao ວຽງ (vieng) meaning "town, city" and ໄຊ (xay) meaning "victory".
Nicholas English
From the given name Nicholas.
Münt Estonian
Münt is an Estonian surname meaning "coin".
Klug German (Austrian)
First recorded in the early 14th century in present-day Austria (southeastern region of the Holy Roman Empire at that time). The surname was derived from the ancient Germanic word kluoc meaning "noble" or "refined".... [more]
Schreiner German
Occupational surname for a joiner (maker of wooden furniture), ultimately from Middle High German schrīnære.
Eker Turkish
Means "planter, sower" in Turkish.
Barcroft English
English habitational name from for example Barcroft in Haworth, West Yorkshire, so named with Old English bere (barley) and croft (smallholding).
Taghlyan Armenian
From Turkish dağlı meaning "mountaineer, highlander" or "rude, uneducated".
Mestizo Spanish (Latin American)
Derived from Spanish mezclado "mixed". Likely denoting a person with mixed Spanish and Amerindian descent.
Merriman English, Irish
1. English: nickname, an elaborated form of Merry.... [more]
Orkan Polish
From Goral, a topolect/language closely related to mainline Polish.
Van der Kuip Dutch
Means "from the cooper's vat", from Dutch kuip meaning "tub, vat, barrel".
Templer English
Templer is an Old English surname denoting either a servant of one of the Knights Templar, or a person living near or serving at a church. The meaning is “church attendant”.
Finchem English
This surname came from the Norman’s who had invaded England. The surname Finchem means homestead.
Wollmann German
Occupational name for a wool worker or wool trader Middle High German Middle Low German wollman derived from German wolle "wool" and man "man".
Mizusaki Japanese
From Japanese 水 (mizu) meaning "water" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".
Faddeyev Russian
Means "son of Faddey".
Seno Japanese
From Japanese 瀬 (se) meaning "rapids, current" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".
Schimmelpfennig German
From Middle High German schimel "mildew, mould" and pfennic "penny", a nickname for someone who was miserly or stingy with their money, hence it growing mouldy in its purse.
Zaporozhchenko Ukrainian
Means "from Zaporizhzhya".
Then Malaysian
Possibly a form of Chen or Shen used by Chinese Malaysians.
Hisaeda Japanese
From Japanese 久枝 (Hisaeda) meaning "Hisaeda", a former area in the former district of Wake in the former Japanese province of Iyo in parts of present-day Ehime, Japan.
Masamoto Japanese (Rare)
Masa means "proper, right" and moto meabs "source, root, origin".
Volanschi Romanian
Romanian form of Wolanski.
Margarian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Մարգարյան (see Margaryan).
Cimarosa Italian
Possibly derived from Italian cima "top, peak, summit" combined with either rossa "red" or rosa "rose (flower); pink (colour)". If the former, it may be a habitational name derived from Cima Rossa, a mountain in the Alps... [more]
Ploumas Greek
From the Latin word for ornament, 'pluma'.
Tzviad Hebrew (Modern)
Combination of the name Tzvi and the word עַד (ʿaḏ) "an eternity". The illustration of the gazelle, along with the value of eternity, creates a meaning that represents the beauty and existence of the Land of Israel.
Klose German, Silesian
From a Silesian short form of the given name Nikolaus. A notable bearer is the German former soccer player Miroslav Klose (1978-).
Liška Czech
Liška means "fox" in Czech. A famous bearer is actor Pavel Liška.
Tilk Estonian
Tilk is an Estonian surname meaning "drop" or "droplet".
Pogossian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Պողոսյան (see Poghosyan).
Gatton English
Habitational name for someone from the village of Gatton, Surrey, derived from Old English gat "goat" and tun "enclosure, yard, town".
Ya Japanese
From Japanese ya meaning "night". Note that other kanji interpretations and meanings could be possible.
Albrizze Italian
Variant of Albrizzi
Həsənli Azerbaijani
From the given name Həsən and the Turkic suffix -li which forms adjectives from nouns.
Troiano Italian
From the given name Troiano
Loodus Estonian
Loodus is an Estonian surname meaning "nature/natural".
Barrenetxe Basque (Rare)
From the name of a neighborhood in the municipality of Larrabetzu, Spain, derived from Basque barren "inside, interior; deep; lower part" and etxe "house, building".
Wickramasekera Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala වික්‍රමසේකර (see Wickramasekara).
Audrin French
Derived from the Breton given name Aodren.
Na Hui
From the Arabic name Nasr.
Baiamonte Italian
Derived from the given name Baiamonte, itself a form of Boiamund.
Halili Tagalog
Means "successor, substitute, replacement" in Tagalog, originally used to denote a vice-chief or a chief's successor.
Hoxhaj Albanian
Variant of Hoxha.
Bracha Hebrew
From the given name Bracha, means "blessing" in Hebrew.
D'abbadie French, English, Occitan
Means "of the Abbey" from the Occitan abadia. Variants Abadia, Abbadie, Abadie, Abada, and Badia mean "Abbey".
Saksakulm Estonian
Saksakulm is an Estonian surname meaning "German brow".
Heinbokel German
(Hein) is a short form of the name Heinrich, (the German form of the name Henry) & Bokel is a place name in Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein & North Rhine-Westphalia.
Lahiffe Irish (Rare)
From Irish Ó Laochdha meaning "descendant of the hero" or "descendant of the heroic", ultimately from laoch "warrior, hero".
Falcón Spanish, South American
Originally a nickname from falcón, an archaic variant of Spanish halcón "falcon" (from Latin falco). It is a cognate of Falco.
Demarmels Romansh
Derived from the preposition de "of" and the place name Marmels.
Yoichien Japanese (Rare)
与 (Yo) meaning "give, award, participate", 市 (ichi) means "in the city, market" or "town" and 園 (en) means "garden".
Tetrault French
French, Franko-American
Willingham English
Habitational name from a place named Willingham, notably one in Cambridgeshire and one in Suffolk. The first is recorded in Domesday Book as Wivelingham "homestead (Old English hām) of the people of a man called Wifel".
Kasmi Arabic (Maghrebi)
Variant of Kissami, used more frequently in modern times.
Tatlock English
Probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place in Lancashire or Cheshire, where the surname occurs most frequently.
Dragomirović Serbian
Means "son of Dragomir" in Serbian.
Westrop English (British)
Viking name local to Somerset and several counties in the North East of England. Approximate meaning "place to the west of the village with the church".
Ranathunga Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit रण (rana) meaning "delight, pleasure, joy" or "battle, war" and तुङ्ग (tunga) meaning "high, lofty, tall".
Killilea Irish
Irish - originally MacGiolla Leith from Gallway
Lasiewicki Polish
I don't know meaning history.Please tell me the meaning and history of my name
Pajusoo Estonian
Pajusoo is an Estonian surname meaning "willow (osier) swamp".
Brunner German (Austrian), Upper German, Jewish
Derived from one of various places named Brunn or Brunnen as well as a habitational name denoting someone from the Czech city of Brno (Brünn in German).
Guðmundsdóttir Icelandic
Means "daughter of Guðmund"; not strictly used as a surname, and is also used as a patronymic.
Rafeeq Arabic, Urdu, Dhivehi
From the given name Rafiq.
Osanai Japanese
From Japanese 小 (o) meaning "small", 山 (san) meaning "mountain" and 内 (nai) meaning "inside".
Panaro Italian
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.
Killmonger African
The name (last name) of the villain in Black Panther, played by Michael B. Jordan.
Blauman German, Jewish
From German Blau meaning "blue" and Mann meaning "man". It can be a nickname for a person who wears blue clothes.
Pai Hui
From the Persian name Baiderluden.
Yoshimura Japanese
From Japanese 吉 (yoshi) meaning "lucky, good" or 佳 (yoshi) meaning "beautiful, good, excellent" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".
Roose English, Dutch, German
Variant spelling of Rose 1, Rose 2, Roos or Ross.
Sarapuu Estonian
Sarapuu is an Estonian surname meaning "hazel tree".
Luis Spanish
From the given name Luis. Cognate to Louis and Lewis 1.
Shoji Japanese
From the Japanese 庄 (sho) "level" and 司 (shi or ji) "director," "official."
Granarolo Italian (Rare)
Possibly a habitational name related to Italian granaio "granary, barn; region that produces grain", ultimately from Latin granum "grain, seed".
Ivans English
Meaning "son of Ivan
Batchelor English, Scottish
Occupational name for an unmarried man, a young knight or a novice, ultimately from medieval Latin baccalarius "unenfeoffed vassal, knight with no retainers".
Idriya Hebrew
A feminine name of Hebrew origin, meaning "female duck."
Cocker English, German (Anglicized)
Originally a nickname for a bellicose person, from Middle English cock "to fight". Also an anglicized form of Köcher.
Kamalani Hawaiian
From the given name Kamalani.
Gioè Italian
This is a short form of given name Gioele used as surname.
Daquila Tagalog
From Tagalog dakila meaning "great".
Yaqub Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Yaqub.
Solokov Russian
Derived from the Russian word 'Sokol', meaning 'falcon'. It is one of the most common Russian surnames, appearing in the top ten.
Cambier French (Belgian)
Occupational name for a brewer.
Bahamonde Spanish, Galician
Derived from Baamonde (officially called Santiago de Baamonde), a town and parish in the province of Lugo, in Galicia, Spain. This surname was borne by the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco Bahamonde (1892-1975).
Tsuruga Japanese
From Japanese 敦 (tsuru) meaning "kindness, honesty" and 賀 (ga) meaning "congratulations". Other combinations of kanji characters can also form this name.
Tillakaratne Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala තිලකරත්න (see Thilakaratne).
Farley Irish
anglicized form of the Gaelic surname O'Faircheallaigh.
Vis Dutch
Means "fish" in Dutch, a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or fishmonger.
Tenz Romansh
Derived from the given name Antonius.
Lyé French
A habitational name from places named Lié located in Deux-Sèvres and Vendée.
Real Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician
Either a habitational name from any of numerous places called Real; those in Galicia (Spain) and Portugal being named from real "royal" or as variant of Rial while those in southern Spain and Catalonia are named in part from real meaning "encampment rural property" (Arabic raḥāl "farmhouse cabin")... [more]
Nanthavong Lao
From Lao ນັນທະ (nantha) meaning "pleasure, delight" and ວົງ (vong) meaning "lineage, family".
Mändsoo Estonian
Mändsoo is an Estonian surname meaning "pine swamp".
Tareque Bengali
Derived from the given name Tariq.
Kilroy Irish, Irish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Ruaidh "son of Giolla Rua or Gilroy".
Artell English (American)
Artell is a name that was brought to England by the ancestors of the Artell family when they emigrated following the Norman Conquest of 1066. The name Artell comes from the Dutch surname Van Arkel. The name Van Arkel may spring from the Anglo-Saxon form of Hercules, which is Ercol.
Giugno Italian
Derived from Italian giugno meaning "June", perhaps indicating a person who was baptized in that month.
Dhulgale Somali
Dhulgale – "Land Holder" (referring to someone who owns or works a large piece of land)
Thiessen German, Danish
Reduced form of the personal name Matthias or Mathies.
Paternostro Italian
Italianized form of Paternoster.
Er Turkish
Means "man, hero, brave" in Turkish.
Saadaoui Arabic (Maghrebi)
Means "relating to Sa'd" in Arabic (chiefly Maghrebi).
Undirmare Indian
Marathi name meaning "mice killer"
Katoh Japanese
Variant transcription of Kato.
Den Besten Dutch
Means "the best" in Dutch, from Middle Dutch beste.
Saihara Japanese
Prime field, Conspicuous wilderness... [more]
Asaf Hebrew
From the given name Asaf.
Wijayathunge Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala විජයතුංග (see Wijayathunga).
Yunbe Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 弓部 (see Yumbe).
Maliqi Albanian
Derived from the given name Maliq.
Boyne English, Irish, Scottish
English: variant of Boon.... [more]
Putxeta Basque (Rare)
From the name of a neighborhood of the municipality of Abanto, Biscay, possibly derived from Basque putzu "well, hole, puddle" and -eta "place of, abundance of".
Ouriaghli Arabic (Maghrebi)
Moroccan (Rifian): tribal name from the Rifian tribe of Ait Wayagher.
Brando Italian, Portuguese
from the ancient Germanic (Langobardic) personal name Brando a short form of various compound personal names formed with brand "sword" particularly Aldobrando and Ildebrando... [more]
Jandusay Tagalog
From Tagalog handusay meaning "to prostrate, to lie face down".
Kodajima Japanese
From Japanese 古 (Ko) meaning "Old" and 田 (Ta, Da) meaning "Rice Field" and 島 (Shima) meaning "Island"
Raig Estonian
Raig is an Estonian surname meaning "slough" (a swamplike area)".
Natsume Japanese
From Japanese 棗 (natsume) meaning "jujube". Natsume was a large village in the former district of Sakai, but the surname could also be from the former name for the area of Ishishimbo.
Ju Korean
Korean form of Zhu, from Sino-Korean 朱 (ju).
Kracík Czech
The origin is not known.
Solmaz Turkish
Means "colourfast, unfading" in Turkish.
Barroga Ilocano
From Ilocano barruga meaning "to throw a piece of wood or stick", also the name of a type of game played with sticks.
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]
Konts Estonian
Konts is an Estonian surname meaning "heel" and "stubb".
Baatirov Kyrgyz
Means "son of Baatir" in Kyrgyz.
Hajizadeh Persian
Means "son of the pilgrim" from Arabic حَاجِيّ‎ (ḥājiyy) meaning "pilgrim" and the Persian suffix -زاده (-zâde) meaning "offspring".
D'aurevilly French
Variant form of D'aureville. A known bearer of this name was the French novelist Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808-1889).
Moghaddam Persian
Alternate transcription of Persian مقدم (see Moghadam).
Gouda Indian, Hindi, Odia
Alternate transcription of Gauda.
Varshavski Russian, Soviet, Jewish
Denotes someone from Varshav which is the genitive plural form of Varshava, which is the Russian name for Warsaw.
Metslang Estonian
Metslang is an Estonian surname meaning "forest cutting area"; derived from the compounds "mets "forest" and "lank" (cutting area).
Khim Khmer
Means "zither, harp" in Khmer, referring to a type of traditional stringed instrument.
Figarella Corsican
It indicates familial origin near the eponymous river.
Zale English (American), Polish (Anglicized)
Possibly a habitational name derived from the Polish toponym Żale meaning "on the other side of the wood", from za "beyond" and las "forest".
Erwin English, German, Irish, Scottish
From the given name Erwin. From the Middle English personal name Everwin Erwin perhaps from Old English Eoforwine (eofor "boar" and wine "friend") but mostly from an Old French form of the cognate ancient Germanic name Everwin or from a different ancient Germanic name Herewin with loss of initial H- (first element hari heri "army")... [more]
Esterhuizen Afrikaans
Habitational name of French origin, denoting a person from Estreux, a commune in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France.
Wurnig German
German origin from the place name am Virgen originally meaning a person from the town of Virgen in Tyrol. Construed as a family name in 1501.
Hallén Swedish
Combination of Swedish hall "hall" or häll "rock, stone" and the common surname -én.
Holtzmann Upper German, German
Derived from the Upper German word "holz," which means "forest." Thus many of the names that evolved from this root work have to do with living in the woods
Sugihara Japanese
From Japanese 杉 (sugi) meaning "cedar" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".
Wijayasinghe Sinhalese
From Sanskrit विजय (vijaya) meaning "victory" and सिंह (sinha) meaning "lion".
Pin French
A topographic name for someone living by a pine tree or in a pine forest, or a habitational name from a place named with the Old French word pin, meaning "pine, pine tree".
Tsuchida Japanese
From the Japanese 土 (tsuchi) "earth," "soil," 槌 (tsuchi) "mallet" or 津 (tsu) "harbour" and 知 (chi) "wisdom," "intellect" and 田 (da or ta) "rice paddy" or 多 (da or ta) "many."
Nebot Catalan
It literally means "nephew".
Hososaki Japanese
Hoso means "thin, fine, narrow, slender" "cape, peninsula, promontory".
Sumanapala Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit सुमन (sumana) meaning "good-minded, benevolent" and पाल (pala) meaning "guard, protector".
Clores Spanish, Portuguese
Portuguese form of Flores
Ivanian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Իվանյան (see Ivanyan).
Flyn Irish
Variant of Flynn.
Lay Khmer
Means "marbled, patterned, striped" in Khmer.
Savaş Turkish
From the given name Savaş.
Ōkuma Japanese
Combination of the kanji 大 (ō, "big, great") or 逢 (ō, "meeting") and 熊 (kuma, "bear") or 隈 (kuma, "recess, corner, shade")
Bridgeford English, Scottish
Habitational name from any of the various places called Bridgford or Bridgeford in England or from a lost or unidentified place in Scotland, all possibly derived from Old English brycg "bridge" and ford "ford".
Ebihara Japanese
From a combination of 海 (e) meaning "vastly, gathered, sea, ocean, wide, vast" and 老 (bi) meaning "old age, elderly" or 蛯 (ebi) meaning "pawn, shrimp, lobster", that is then combined with 原 (hara) meaning "plain, field".
Yeti Hebrew (Rare), English (American)
Most common during the 1800s to 1900s. It has seen a large drop off since, but is not extinct as a last name.... [more]
Nanninga Frisian, Dutch, German
Derived from the given name Nanne, a short form of Germanic names containing the element nand meaning "daring, brave, courage"... [more]
Bomman Telugu
Dravidian Tribal name