WongphakdiThai From Thai วง (wong) meaning "lineage, family, dynasty" and ภักดี (phakdi) meaning "devotion, loyalty".
WoodbridgeEnglish Originated in old England and likely linked to the town of Woodbridge in Suffolk, East Anglia, United Kingdom. Well known Woodbridge's include the Australian Tennis player Todd Woodbridge. There was a famous lineage of six English John Woodbridge's in the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries, all Church ministers... [more]
WooldridgeEnglish From the medieval personal name Wolrich (from Old English Wulfric, literally "wolf-power").
WrzesińskiPolish Name for someone from a place called Września, Wrzesina or Wrzesiny, all derived from Polish wrzos meaning "heather".
WunderlichGerman A nickname for an eccentric or moody person, derived from the word wunderlich meaning "whimsical" in German.
WurzburgerJewish "The Wurzburger surname is derived from the German city of Wurzburg, Bavaria, where Jews first settled in the 11th century. The German and Yiddish ending -er means 'of', 'from'." - from https://forebears.io/surnames/wurzburger
WysokińskiPolish This indicates familial origin within the Lesser Polish village of Wysokin.
WyspiańskimPolish Derived from the Polish word wyspa meaning "island."
YefimovichRussian Grigori Yefimovich who is best known as "Rasputin" was a Russian peasant, mystic and private adviser to the Romanovs (Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Tsarina Alexandra in the early 20th century).
YoshiizumiJapanese formed with 吉 (Yoshi, Kichi, Kitsu) meaning "good luck; joy; congratulations" and 泉 (Izumi, Sen) meaning "spring; fountain". So the meaning could be interpreted as “Fountain of Good Luck” or “Lucky Fountain”
YttrefjordNorwegian, Swedish, Danish From the Swedish or Norwegian word yttre, meaning outer or external combined with Danish fjord, meaning inlet.... [more]
YushchenkoUkrainian Means "child of Yukhym". Viktor Yushchenko was the Ukrainian president from 2005 to 2010, and a major figure in the Orange Revolution.
ZdrojewskiPolish Habitational name for someone from any of several places called Zdroje or Zdrojewo, in particular in Bydgoszcz voivodeship, named with Polish zdroje meaning "springs","spa".
ZelníčkováfCzech Feminine form of Zelníček. This is the maiden name of Donald Trump's first wife, Ivana Zelníčková Trump.
ZelnickovaJewish Zelnickova is a Jewish (Eastern Ashkenazic) surname that can be found in Czechoslovakia, Poland and Slovenia. This surname is derived from the Yiddish word tselnick which in English means haberdashery... [more]
ZetterbergSwedish Combination of Swedish säter "outlying meadow" and berg "mountain, hill".
ZettergrenSwedish Combination of Swedish säter "outlying meadow" and gren "branch".
ZetterlundSwedish Combination of Swedish säter "outlying meadow" and lund "grove".
ZuckerbergJewish Means "sugar mountain" from German zucker meaning "sugar" and Old High German berg meaning "mountain".
ZugrăvescuRomanian Patronymic surname of uncertain origin. It may be derived from the verb a zugrăvi meaning "to paint, to describe figuratively" and therefore mean "The descendant of he who describes/paints".
ZvezdochkaRussian, Belarusian Means "little star" or "small star", from Russian "звезда (zvezda)" meaning "star" with the suffix "-очка (-ochka)" meaning "little, small, young". It can also be translated as "starlet". It is a surname in Russia that is also common in Belarus... [more]