IwaizumiJapanese (Rare) Iwa (岩) means "rock, boulder", izumi (泉) means "spring, water source", it is also a town in Iwate prefecture. Hajime Iwaizumi (岩泉 一) from Haikyuu!! manga and anime is a notable bearer of this surname.
JaanimaaEstonian Jaanimaa is an Estonian surname meaning "Jaan's land"; Jaan is a masculine given name, an Estonian variant of "John".
JaaniorgEstonian Jaaniorg is an Estonian surname meaning "Jaan's valley".
JaanisteEstonian Jaaniste is an Estonian name derived from the masculine given name "Jaan".
JaansaluEstonian Jaansalu is an Estonian surname meaning "Jaan's (a masculine given name) grove".
JacarusoItalian An Italian surname from a compound of Ia- (from the personal name Ianni) and the southern Italian word caruso, which means ‘lad’ or ‘boy’.
JadallahArabic Means "the generosity of Allah" in Arabic.
JaunzemeLatvian Feminine form of Jaunzems, a Latvian occupational surname meaning "new farmer", composed of jauns meaning "new" and zeme meaning "land" (compare zemlja).
JaworskiPolish, Jewish Habitational name for someone from any of numerous places named Jawory or Jaworze, named with Polish jawor meaning "maple", "sycamore".
JayakodySinhalese Derived from Sanskrit जय (jaya) meaning "victory, conquest" combined with Sinhala කොඩිය (kodiya) meaning "flag, banner" (ultimately from Tamil கொடி (koti)).
JendoubiArabic (Maghrebi) From Jendouba, the name of a large city in northwestern Tunisia. The name itself is derived from Berber (Tamazight) jen meaning "market" and douba meaning "wheat".
KafetzisGreek Means "coffee shop owner" in Greek, derived from the Ottoman Turkish word قهوهجی (kahveci), equivalent to Greek καφές (kafés) both meaning “coffee” and the Greek suffix -τζής (-tzís), from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) and Ottoman Turkish ـجی (-ci) respectively... [more]
KagewariJapanese (Rare) From Japanese 蔭 (kage) meaning "shade" and 割 (wari), from 割り (wari), the continuative form of 割る (waru) meaning "to divide; to separate, to crack", referring to a shady land with cracks.
KageyamaJapanese From Japanese 影 or 景 (kage) meaning "shadow" or 蔭 (kage) meaning "shade, shelter" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".
KahramanTurkish Means "hero" in Turkish, ultimately from Persian قهرمان (qahraman).
KaihatsuJapanese From Japanese 開発 (Kaihatsu) meaning "Kaihatsu", a former village in the former district of Imizu in the former Japanese province of Etchū in present-day Toyama, Japan.
KakiharaJapanese From Japanese 柿 (kaki) meaning "persimmon" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain". A notable bearer of this surname is voice actor Tetsuya Kakihara (柿原 徹也, 1982–).
KakimuraJapanese Kaki means "persimmon" and mura means "village, hamlet".
KallemaaEstonian Kallemaa is an Estonian surname meaning "sloping land".
KallweitGerman (East Prussian) East Prussian German (and thus heavily Lithuanian influenced) name meaning "smith; blacksmith; farrier", derived from Old Prussian kalt "to forge; to hammer" and Old Prussian kalweitis "the village smith".
KalthoffGerman German (Westphalian): habitational name from a place named as 'the cold farm', from Middle High German kalt "cold" + hof "farmstead", "manor farm’, "court".
KaltmannGerman From a nickname for a cool, unfriendly person from middle high German kalt "cold" and mann "man".
KalvisteEstonian Kalviste is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "Kalvi", a village in Lääne-Viru County.
KämmererGerman from Middle High German kamerære "chamberlain" (from kamere "chamber") a status name for the treasurer of a court monastery a great household or a city and in Switzerland for the manager of a church property a so-called Widem.
KamosawaJapanese Kamo means "duck" and sawa means "swamp, marsh".
KanayamaJapanese From Japanese 金 (kana) meaning "metal, money" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".
KanazawaJapanese From Japanese 金 (kana) meaning "metal, money, gold" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".
KandemirTurkish From Turkish kan meaning "blood" and demir meaning "iron".
KandimaaEstonian Kandimaa is an Estonian surname derived from "kandis" ("neck of the woods") and "land".
KaneharaJapanese From Japanese 金 (kane) meaning "gold, metal, money" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".
KanehiraJapanese From Japanese 金 (kane) meaning "gold, metal, money" and 平 (hira) meaning "level, even, peaceful".
KanemotoJapanese Topographic name meaning ‘(one who lives) near where gold (or any metal) is found’. Found in the island of Okinawa, where it is variously written. ... [more]
KanemotoJapanese From Japanese 金 (kane) meaning "gold, metal, money" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".
KarelušaSerbian Famous bearer of this surname is Serbian singer Jelena Kareluša (1978-)
KareninaLiterature In Leo Tolstoy's novel 'Anna Karenina' (1877), this is the title character's surname, the feminine form of her husband's surname, Karenin.