AbeygunasekaraSinhalese Derived from Sanskrit अभय (abhaya) meaning "fearless" combined with गुण (guna) meaning "quality, property, attribute" and शेखर (shekhara) meaning "crest, peak, top".
BlennerhassettEnglish The Blennerhassett surname comes from someone having lived in Cumberland, on the Borderlands between Scotland and England. ... [more]
ChalkokondylisGreek Chalkokondylis (or Chalkokondyles) was a Greek noble family of Athens which was elected during the Florentine possession of the city. The family can be traced back to the 11th century.
ChandrathilakaSinhalese Derived from Sanskrit चन्द्र (chandra) meaning "moon" and तिलक (tilaka) meaning "mark, dot, ornament".
ChanthaphasoukLao From Lao ຈັນທະ (chantha) meaning "moon" and ພະສຸກ (phasuk) meaning "Venus" or "Friday".
ChatzigeorgiouGreek Means "son of Georgios the pilgrim" from Greek χατζη (chatzi) meaning "pilgrim", ultimately from Arabic حاجي (haji), combined with the given name Georgios.
Di PietrantonioItalian The surname Di Pietrantonio literally means "son of Pietro" and indicates in a reinforcing way the descent from the progenitor named Pietro.
DouangphachanhLao From the Lao classifier ດວງ (douang) for spherical objects and ພະຈັນ (phachanh) meaning "moon".
GyljárlaugssonIcelandic The name Gyljárlaugsson combines two Icelandic words, "gylja" meaning "to roar" and "laug" meaning "hot spring". Therefore, the name Gyljárlaugsson could be interpreted as "son of the roaring hot spring".
KhatchadourianArmenian Variant of Khachaturian. This was the surname of Eva Khatchadourian, the mother of Kevin Khatchadourian, a school shooter in the 2003 fictional novel We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver.
LiyanaarachchiSinhalese From Sinhala ලියන (liyana) meaning "writing" combined with the colonial-era title ආරච්චි (arachchi) used to denote a village headman or leader.
Mac Giolla ChudaIrish Meaning ‘son of the servant of (Saint) Chuda’, a personal name of unexplained origin. This was the name of a 7th-century abbot-bishop of Rathin in County Westmeath.... [more]
MiroshnichenkoUkrainian Means "son of the miller" in Ukrainian, from Ukrainian мірошник (miroshnyk) meaning "miller". A famous bearer of the name is Ukrainian chess grandmaster Evgenij Miroshnichenko (1978-).
NawaqanitawaseFijian A surname of Fijian heritage. A famous person with this surname is Mark Nawaqanitawase, an Australian rugby player.
NeshchadymenkoUkrainian (Rare) Cossack surname meaning "no mercy", from Ukrainian не (ne) "not, none, no" and щадити (shchadyty) "to spare, to show mercy".
PreobrazhenskymRussian Derived from Russian преображение (preobrazenije) meaning "transformation, transfiguration", referring to the Transfiguration of Jesus. A famous bearer of the name was Russian revolutionary Yevgeni Preobrazhensky (1886-1937).
RuwanpathiranaSinhalese From Sinhala රුවන (ruvana) meaning "gem" combined with Sanskrit पति (pati) meaning "husband, lord" and राणा (rana) meaning "king".
SamarawickramaSinhalese Means "conqueror of battles" from Sanskrit समर (samara) meaning "conflict, struggle" and विक्रम (vikrama) meaning "valour, power, strength".
SchweinsteigerGerman Occupational name for a pig farmer, an overseer of pigs or a nickname for someone who rode a pig, derived from Middle High German swīn meaning "hog, swine" and stīger meaning "foreman, mine inspector"... [more]
SouphanthavongLao From Lao ສຸ (sou) meaning "good, beautiful", ພັນທະ (phantha) meaning "connect, join, tie, obligation" and ວົງ (vong) meaning "lineage family".
SuriyaarachchiSinhalese From Sanskrit सूर्य (sūrya) meaning "sun" combined with the Sinhala title ආරච්චි (ārachchi) meaning "village leader, sergeant".
ThilakawardanaSinhalese Derived from Sanskrit तिलक (tilaka) meaning "mark, dot, ornament" and वर्धन (vardhana) meaning "increasing, strengthening, growing".
ThistlethwaiteEnglish Habitational name for a person from Thistlewood in Castle Sowerby, or from a lost place named Thistelthuait in Lancashire. The placenames derive from Old English þistel "thistle" and Old Norse þveit "clearing" (cf... [more]
Van BlankenbergGerman, Belgian, Dutch Means "from Blankenberg", a toponym from any of various places so called, in particular in Hennef and Gelderland, or from Blankenberge in West Flanders, Belgium. Probably derived from blanken "white, pale, bright" or "bare, blank" and berg "mountain, hill".
Van BronckhorstDutch Means "from Bronckhorst", a town in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands, itself derived from Dutch brink meaning "village green, edge, slope" and horst meaning "overgrown elevated place" or "higher located brushwood"... [more]
Van MerrienboerDutch Occupational name for a mare farmer, derived from Middle Dutch merrie meaning "mare (female horse)" and boer meaning "peasant, farmer".
Van NistelrooijDutch Means "from Nistelrode", a small village in the province of Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands. It is derived from Middle Dutch nest meaning "nest, burrow, resting place" and lo meaning "light forest", combined with rode meaning "land cleared of trees"... [more]
Van WijngaardenDutch Means "from Wijngaarden", a village in South Holland, Netherlands, meaning "vineyards" in Dutch. It’s uncertain if there was ever actually a vineyard in or near the village.
Vogt Von SumerauMedieval German Toponymic variant of Vogt. Members of this baronial family also use the surnames Vogt zu Sumerau, Vogt von Sumerau zu Leupolz, Vogt von Altensumerau und Prasberg, and Vogt von Alten-Summerau zu Prasberg.
Von HammersmarkPopular Culture, German (?) Means "from Hammersmark" in German. Bridget von Hammersmark is a fictional character in Quentin Tarantino's film 'Inglourious Basterds' from 2009.
XudoyberdiyevafUzbek Feminine form of Xudayberdiyev. Halima Xudoyberdiyeva (1947-2018) was an Uzbek poet whose themes at different times of her career have dealt with Uzbek nationhood and history, liberation movements, and feminism.
ZapheiropoulosGreek Meaning descendant of Zapheiris, the name Zapheiris is translated to sapphire.