AaskiviEstonian Aaskivi is an Estonian surname meaning "meadow/lea stone".
AaslaidEstonian Aaslaid is an Estonian surname meaning "meadow/lea islet".
AasmetsEstonian Aasmets is an Estonian surname meaning "meadow forest".
AassaluEstonian Aassalu is an Estonian surname meaning "lea (open grassy area) grove".
AastaluEstonian Aastalu is an Estonian surname meaning "lea/meadow farm".
AavisteEstonian Aaviste is an Estonian surname relating to "aspen".
AbabnehArabic From the name of a town in Jordan, indicating someone originally from this town.
AbajianArmenian The surname Abjian is a patronymic from Turkish abacι ‘maker or seller of coarse woolen cloth or garments’, from aba ‘coarse woolen cloth’.
AbajyanArmenian From Turkish abacı referring to a maker or seller of woollen homespun cloth or garments, ultimately from aba meaning "coarse woollen cloth".
AbitbolJudeo-Spanish Means "father of drums" (figuratively referring to a drum maker) from Arabic أَبُو (abū) meaning "father" and طَبْل (ṭabl) meaning "drum".
AbkhaziGeorgian Means "Abkhaz person" in Georgian, referring to a member of the Abkhaz ethnic group inhabiting the Black Sea coast. This was the name of a Georgian family of princely status descended from the Shervashidze ruling family of Abkhazia.
AbundisSpanish (Mexican) The surname Abundis is patronymic from the Old Spanish personal name Abundio, ultimately from Latin abundus ‘abundant’, ‘plentiful’.
AburadaJapanese From 油 (abura) meaning "oil" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".
AburataJapanese Abura means "oil" and ta means "field, rice paddy".
AccettaItalian From the female form of southern Italian Accetto, a medieval personal name from the Latin name Acceptus (from acceptus 'welcome', 'well-liked').
AdleibaAbkhaz Most likely from the given name Adlei, itself derived from Arabic عَادِل (ʿādil) meaning "fair, just", combined with Abkhaz аҧа (āpā) meaning "son"... [more]
AffleckGalician, Scottish Variation of Auchinleck, a town near Dundee, Scotland... Ben & Casey Affleck are famous bearers of the name. Auchinleck appears to have been one of those places where the ancient Celts and Druids held conventions, celebrated their festivals, and performed acts of worship... [more]
AhearnaIrish (Anglicized, Rare) Either from an Irish surname which was derived from Ó Eachthighearna meaning "descendant of Eachthighearna", or else an anglicized form of Eachthighearna.
AhumadaSpanish topographic or habitational name from a place named with ahumar "to smoke", possibly denoting a place where ham and other meats were smoked or alternatively a place that had been cleared for settlement by burning... [more]
AkhavanPersian Derived from Arabic إخوان (ikhwan) meaning "brothers, brethren", the plural of أخ (akh) meaning "brother".
AkibaraJapanese This surname combines 昭 (shou, aki) meaning "shining, bright", 秋 (shuu, aki, toki) meaning "autumn" or 穐 with the same sounds and meaning with 原 (gen, hara) meaning "field, meadow, original, plain, prairie, primitive, tundra, wilderness."
AkpınarTurkish From Turkish ak meaning "white" and pınar meaning "spring, fountain".
AkridgeEnglish Possibly English, a habitational name from a place with a name meaning ‘oak ridge’, as for example Aikrigg in Cumbria (from Old Norse eik ‘oak’ + hryggr ‘ridge’), or any of the many places called Oakridge (from Old English āc + hrycg)... [more]
AkuzawaJapanese (Rare) From Japanese 愛久沢 (Akuzawa) meaning "Akuzawa", a former large village in the former Japanese province of Kaga in parts of present-day Ishikawa, Japan.... [more]
AkuzawaJapanese From Japanese 阿久沢 (Akuzawa), a variant spelling of 悪沢 (Akuzawa) meaning "Akuzawa", a division in the area of Azuma in the city of Midori in the prefecture of Gumma in Japan.... [more]
AlakiviEstonian Alakivi is an Estonian surname meaning "area/region stone".
AlakülaEstonian Alaküla is an Estonian surname meaning "village area".
AlamedaSpanish Topographic name from alameda meaning ‘poplar grove’, a collective form of álamo meaning ‘poplar’, or a habitational name from any of the many places named with this word.
AlarcónSpanish Alarcón was a fort owned by the arabs in the Iberian Peninsula (Alarcón literally meaning 'the fort' in arabic), and the spaniards had the goal of owning it during the spanish reconquista. After 9 months of siege, Fernán Martínez de Ceballos climbed the walls of the fort using only two daggers and opened the gates from the inside allowing the castillan army to come in and conquer Alarcón... [more]
AlasaluEstonian Alasalu is an Estonian surname meaning "area/region grove".
AlataluEstonian Alatalu is an Estonian surname meaning "area farm/farmstead".
Al-attarArabic Means "the perfumer, the druggist" from Arabic عَطَّار (ʿaṭṭār) "perfumer, druggist, pharmacist".
AlaväliEstonian Alaväli is an Estonian surname meaning "area/region field".
AlbalatCatalan Means "white winged" from medieval Catalan alb ("white") and alat ("winged"), originally from Latin albalatus ("of white wings") and used by the Visigoths before the Umayyad conquest of Hispania to name the cotton thistle because of its whitish spiny-winged stems.
AlbinetFrench Derived from the medieval French masculine given name Albinet, which was a diminutive (as the -et suffix indicates) of the given name Albin.... [more]
AlcalayJudeo-Spanish Derived from Arabic القلعة (al-qal'ah) meaning "the citadel, the fortress".
AlcaldeSpanish Spanish: from alcalde 'mayor' from Arabic al-qāḍī 'the judge' a title dating from the days of Moorish rule in Spain.
AlcarazSpanish This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Manchego municipality.
AlcázarSpanish Habitational name from any of various places for example in the provinces of Ciudad Real Cuenca and Granada named with the word alcázar "citadel" or "palace" (from Arabic al "the" and qaṣr "fortress" a borrowing of Latin castrum; see Castro).