Submitted Surnames of Length 8

Kruschel German (Silesian)
Variant of Krusch.

Krutsick Polish (Anglicized)

Krutxaga Basque
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood in the Navarrese municipality of Uztarroze.

Kruusalu Estonian
Kruusalu is an Estonian surname meaning "gravel grove".

Kruusmaa Estonian
Kruusmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "gravel land".

Kruzhkin Russian
Derived from Russian кружка (kruzhka) meaning "cup, mug, tankard". This may have been a nickname either for a drinker or a cupmaker.

Kryazhov m Russian

Krymskiy m Russian, Jewish (?)
Means "from Crimea" or "Crimean".

Krznarić Croatian
From krznar meaning ''furrier''.

Kuantaev m Kazakh
Means "son of Kuantai".

Kubilius Lithuanian

Kubinski English

Kubodera Japanese
Variant of Kubotera.

Kubotera Japanese

Kuboyama Japanese
From Japanese 久 (ku) meaning "long time ago", 保 (ho) meaning "protect" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Kudashev Bashkir, Tatar, Russian
Means "son of Kudash", from a given name of Mordvin or Turkic origin possibly meaning "woman's son" or "wife's son", referring to a boy born from one father and another mother (in relation to his half-siblings)... [more]

Kugimiya Japanese
This surname is used as 釘宮 with 釘 (chou, tei, kugi) meaning "nail, peg, tack" and 宮 (kyuu, ku, kuu, guu, miya) meaning "constellations, palace, princess, Shinto shrine."... [more]

Kugisaki Japanese
Kugi means "nail, tack, peg" and saki means "peninsula, promontory, cape".

Kuhlmann German
German (also Kühlmann) nickname from Middle High German küel ‘cool’, ‘calm’ (see Kuhl).

Kuivjõgi Estonian
Kuivjõgi is an Estonian surname meaning "dry river".

Kujawski Polish
Regional name for someone from Kujawy (see Kujawa) or from a village called Kujawy, for example in Sielce voivodeship.

Kujikawa Japanese
From Japanese 久 (ku) meaning "long time ago", 慈 (ji) meaning "mercy", and 川 (kawa) meaning "river".

Kuklowna Polish

Kukowski Polish
Habitational name for someone from a place called Kukowo in Wlolawek voivodeship or Kuków in Bielsko-Biala voivodeship, named with kuk, the cry of the cuckoo.

Kulasiri Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit कुल (kula) meaning "family" and श्री (shri) meaning "diffusing light, radiance, splendour, beauty".

Kuldkepp Estonian
Kuldkepp is an Estonian surname meaning "gold cane (or, stick)".

Kuleshov m Russian

Kulhánek Czech
Bohemian for a man who walks with a limp.

Kullamaa Estonian
Kullamaa is an Estonian surname meaning "aurous land".

Kullamäe Estonian
Kullamäe is an Estonian surname meaning "aurous hill/mountain".

Kullberg Swedish
Combination of Swedish kulle "hill" and berg "mountain".

Küllücek Turkish

Kumagaya Japanese

Kumakura Japanese

Kumakura Japanese
From Japanese 熊 (kuma) meaning "bear" and 倉 (kura) meaning "granary, storehouse".

Kumanova Albanian

Kumarage Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit कुमार (kumara) meaning "boy, prince" combined with the Sinhala suffix -ගේ (-ge) meaning "of".

Kumasaka Japanese

Kumasaka Japanese
From Japanese 熊 (kuma) meaning "bear" and 坂 (saka) meaning "slope".

Kumasawa Japanese
Kuma means "bear" and sawa means "swamp, marsh".

Kumasawa Japanese
From Japanese 熊 (kuma) meaning "bear" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Kumatani Japanese

Kumazaki Japanese
Variant of Kumasaki.

Kumazawa Japanese
Variant of Kumasawa.

Kummerer Upper German (Germanized, Rare)
Kummerer means ""bringer of sorrow""

Kummerow German
Habitational name from any of various places in Brandenburg and Mecklenburg called Kummerow.

Kungkuan Paiwan

Kunihiko Japanese
Kuni means "country, large place" and hiko means "prince".

Kunimoto Japanese
From Japanese 国 (kuni) meaning "country" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Kunimura Japanese
From Japanese 国 (kuni) meaning "country" and 村 (mura) meaning "village, hamlet".

Kuninaka Japanese
From 国 (kuni) meaning "country, land" and 仲 (naka) meaning "relations, terms".

Kuningas Estonian
Kuningas is an Estonian surname meaning "king".

Kunisaki Japanese (Rare)

Kuniyasu Japanese

Kuniyuki Japanese
Kuni means "country, large place" and yuki can mean "good" or "snow".

Kunizaki Japanese
Variant of Kunisaki.

Kunizane Japanese
From 国 (kuni) meaning "country" and 実 (zane) meaning "truth," "fruit."

Künnapuu Estonian
Künnapuu is an Estonian surname meaning "European white elm tree" (Ulmus laevis).

Kunugiza Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 椚座 (Kunugiza) meaning "Kunugiza", a former division in the former village of Kusaka in the former district of Tsuna in the former Japanese province of Awaji in parts of present-day Hyōgo, Japan.

Kuraishi Japanese

Kuramoto Japanese
From Japanese 倉, 蔵 (kura) meaning "warehouse, storehouse" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Kuramura Japanese
Kura means "storehouse" and mura means "village, hamlet".

Kurasawa Japanese
倉 (Kura) means "Owns, Storehouse, Posesses" and 沢 (Sawa) means "Marsh, Swamp".

Kurauchi Japanese
From Japanese 倉 (kura) or 蔵/藏 (kura) both meaning "granary, storehouse" and 内 (uchi) meaning "inside".

Kurbanov Uzbek, Turkmen, Tajik, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Chechen, Avar, Lak, Dargin, Kumyk, Crimean Tatar
Means "son of Kurban".

Kuribara Japanese

Kurigawa Japanese
The Surname "Kurigawa/Kurikawa" translates to "Chestnut River"

Kurihaba Japanese
栗幅 = chestnut | hanging scroll; width ... [more]

Kurihara Japanese
From Japanese 栗 (kuri) meaning "chesnut" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Kurikara Japanese (Rare)
Kuri means "chestnut" and kara means "larch."

Kurimida Japanese
Kurimi means "chestnut" and da comes from ta meaning "rice paddy, field".

Kurimita Japanese
Kurimi means "chestnut" and ta means "field, rice paddy".

Kurimoto Japanese
Kuri means "Chestnut" and Moto means "Origin, Source, Root".

Kurimoto Japanese
From Japanese 栗 (kuri) meaning "chestnut" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Kuristik Estonian
Kuristik is an Estonian surname meaning "gully".

Kuritsyn Russian
Derived from Russian курица (kuritsa) meaning "chicken".

Kuriwara Japanese

Kuriyama Japanese
Kuri means "chestnut" and yama means "mountain".

Kuriyama Japanese
From Japanese 栗 (kuri) meaning "chestnut" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Kurizuka Japanese
A variant of Kuritsuka.... [more]

Kurobiru Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 畔蒜 (see Abiru).

Kurogiri Japanese
From Japanese 黒 (kuro) meaning "black" and 霧 (giri) meaning "mist"

Kurohata Japanese

Kuroishi Japanese

Kurokawa Japanese
From Japanese 黒 (kuro) meaning "black" combined with 川 (kawa) or 河 (kawa) both meaning "river."

Kuromiya Japanese
Kuro means "Black" and Miya means "Shrine".... [more]

Kuronire Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of 畔蒜 (see Abiru).

Kuroniwa Japanese
Kuro means "black" and niwa means "garden".

Kuronuma Japanese
Kuro means "black" and numa means "swamp".

Kurosaka Japanese
Kuro means "Black" and Saka means "Hill, Slope".

Kurosaki Japanese
From Japanese 黒 (kuro) meaning "black" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Kurpjuhn German (East Prussian)
East Prussian German (and thus heavily Lithuanian influenced) name meaning "shoemaker", derived from Old Prussian kurpjuns "shoemaker", ultimately from Old Prussian kurpe, kurpi "shoe".

Kurschat German (East Prussian)
Variant of Kurscheit.

Kurtalić Croatian

Kurtoğlu Turkish
Means "son of the wolf" from Turkish kurt meaning "wolf".

Kurtović Bosnian, Croatian

Kurtuluş Turkish

Kurtzman German
Variant of Kurzmann.

Kuruvila Indian (Christian)
From the given name Kuruvila.

Kuryakin Russian (Rare)
Possibly a variant of Koryakin.

Kurzberg German, Yiddish, Jewish
From a location name meaning "short mountain" in German, from Middle High German kurz meaning "short" and berg meaning "mountain". As a Jewish surname it is ornamental.

Kurzhals German
Short Neck

Kusainov Kazakh
Means "son of Kusain" (see Husayn).

Kusakabe Japanese

Kusakari Japanese
From Japanese 草 (kusa) meaning "grass, herbs" and 刈 (kari) meaning "reap, cut, prune".

Kusanagi Japanese
From Japanese 草 (kusa) meaning "grass" and 彅 (nagi) meaning "cutter". A notable bearer of this surname is actor Tsuyoshi Kusanagi (草彅 剛, Kusanagi Tsuyoshi, 1974–).

Kusaynov m Kazakh
Alternate transcription of Kazakh Құсайынов (see Kusainov).

Kushieda Japanese (Rare)
Kushi means "Comb" and Eda means "Branch, Twig".

Kushwaha Indian
Kushwaha (sometimes, Kushvaha) is a community of the Indo-Gangetic plain which has traditionally been involved in agriculture. The term has been used to represent at least four subcastes, being those of the Kachhis, Kachwahas, Koeris and Muraos... [more]

Kuslapuu Estonian
Kuslapuu is an Estonian surname meaning "honeysuckle tree".

Kusunoki Japanese
"Camphor Tree"

Kusunoki Japanese
From Japanese 楠 (kusunoki) meaning "camphor tree".

Kusunoki Japanese
From Japanese 楠 (kusunoki) meaning "camphor tree". This name can also be formed from 楠 (kusu) meaning "camphor" and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".

Kutsunis Lithuanian

Kutyavin m Russian

Kuulmata Estonian
Kullmata is an Estonian surname derived from "kuulmatu" meaning "unheard".

Kuusepuu Estonian
Kuusepuu is an Estonian surname meaning "fir tree".

Kuusinen Finnish
A surname originating from Eastern Finland, comprised of the elements “kuusi” meaning “six” or “moon”, and the suffix “-nen” which is typical of Eastern Finnish surnames. A notable bearer of this name is the Finnish-Soviet politician and writer Otto V. Kuusinen, one of the original founders of the Finnish Communist Party.

Kuuskmaa Estonian
Kuuskmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "fir/spruce land".

Kuuspalu Estonian
Kuuspalu is an Estonian surname meaning "fir (kuusk) heathy woodland (palu)".

Kuwabara Japanese
Variant of Kuwahara.

Kuwagaya Japanese

Kuwahara Japanese
From Japanese 桑 (kuwa) meaning "mulberry" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Kuwajima Japanese (Rare)
Kuwa (桑) means "mulberry", shima/jima (島) means "island". Shima changes to jima because of rendaku. It is also possible to be spelled as Kuwashima

Kuwamoto Japanese
Kuwamoto/桑元 = Mulberry Origin/Book

Kuwatani Japanese
From Japanese 桑 (kuwa) meaning "mulberry" combined with 谷 (tani) meaning "valley". A notable bearer of this surname is Natsuko Kuwatani (桑谷 夏子), a Japanese voice-actress who is best known for voicing Ryōko Asakura from the Haruhi Suzumiya series and Alph from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha.

Kuwawara Japanese

Kuwayama Japanese

Kuwayama Japanese
From Japanese 桑 (kuwa) meaning "mulberry" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Kuz'menko Ukrainian
Alternate transcription of Kuzmenko.

Kvavadze Russian, Georgian, Ukrainian
Not known.

Kwiecień Polish
Derived from Polish kwiecień "April (month)".

Kyagumbo Shona
Meaning unknown.

Kyekyeku Akan
Meaning unknown.

Kyoguchi Japanese
From Japanese 京 (kyo) meaning "capital" and 口 (guchi) meaning "mouth, entrance".

Kyousaku Japanese

Kyrgyzov Kyrgyz
Means "son of a Kyrgyz".

Kyriacou Greek (Cypriot)
Alternate transcription of Kyriakou chiefly used in Cyprus.

Kyriakos Greek
From the given name Kyriakos.

Kyriakou Greek (Cypriot)
Means "son of Kyriakos".

Laanemaa Estonian
Laanemaa is an Estonian surname meaning "wintergreen land".

Laanemäe Estonian
Laanemäe is an Estonian surname meaning "wintergreen hill/mountain".

Laaneots Estonian
Laaneots is an Estonian surname meaning "wintergreen tip" or "edge".

Laansalu Estonian
Laansalu is an Estonian surname meaning "wintergreen grove".

Laasmägi Estonian
Laasmägi is an Estonian surname meaning "forest/woodland mountain".

Laasonen Finnish
Variant of Laaksonen

Laaspere Estonian
Laaspere is an Estonian surname meaning "forest/woodland folk".

Laayouni Arabic (Maghrebi)
From Laayoune, the name of a city in the Western Sahara (chiefly Moroccan).

Labakhua Abkhaz
Abkhaz name derived from Arabic لَاحَظَ (lāḥaẓa) meaning "to notice, to look" combined with بَهِيجَة (bahīja) meaning "delightful, joyous" (see Bahija)... [more]

Labovich Yiddish
Variant of Leibowitz.

Labrador Spanish, Portuguese, Filipino
From the root word "labora" meaning labor or work. This means laborer or worker but often associated to farmers as in San Isidro Labrador

Labuguen Filipino

Lachtrup German
Probably from a place name using the suffix -trup, related to dorf meaning "village". The first element could be lach "laugh, smile", or a corruption of loch "hole, pit".

Lacković Croatian, Serbian
Means "son of Lacko".

Lackwood English

Lackyard French (Anglicized)
Anglicized version of French surname, Lacaillade.

Laclaire French

La Cotera Spanish
Spanish variant for Hill and/or someone living in a slope, A "cota" in Spanish.

Lacourse French

Lacrosse French

Ladislao Filipino

Laflamme French (Quebec)
Means "The Flame" in French.

Laflèche French (Quebec)
A French-Canadian secondary surname from "Richer dit Laflèche," used independently since 1746. Laflèche is derived from the French town of La Flèche, in the former province of Anjou.

Lafrance French

Lafuente Spanish
Means "the fountain" in Spanish derived from fons "fountain" with fused definite article la. Variant of Fuentes and cognate to Lafontaine.

Lagemann German

Lagerlöf Swedish
A notable bearer was Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature (1909).

Lagójskì Belarusian
This indicates familial origin within the city of Lagójsk.

Lagrange French
French: topographic name for someone who lived by a granary, a variant of Grange, with the definite article la.

Laguerre French
Nickname for a belligerent person or a valiant soldier from old French guerre "war" (from Latin werra) with fused article la.

Lahesalu Estonian
Lahesalu is an Estonian surname meaning "spacious grove".

Lahilote Gorontalo

Lahovary Romanian
Meaning unknown.

Lainevee Estonian
Lainevee is an Estonian surname meaning "wave water".

Lakeland English (Rare)
Taken from the Place name Lakeland.... [more]

Lakewood English (American)

Lakinski m Polish

Lakshman Indian, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi
From the given name Lakshman.

Lakuntza Basque
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Navarrese municipality.

Lalaurie French (Cajun)
A French surname meaning "the laurel".

Lalicata Italian

Lalouche Judeo-Spanish
Variant of Lellouche.

Lamantia Italian
Italian:vail, the last name of a general in Palrmo, Sicily, Italy.

Lamarche French
French: topographic name or habitational name, a variant of LaMarque.

Lámbarri Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Lanbarri.

Lamberto Italian
From the given name Lamberto.

Lamberty German

Lamovsky Russian

Lanbarri Basque
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Gueñes.

Lancelot French, English
From the given name Lancelot.

Lanciego Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Lantziego.

Landauer German
Possibly a variant of Landau. American professional stock car racing driver and motivational speaker Julia Landauer bears this surname.

Landecho Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Landetxo.

Landetxo Basque
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Mungia.

Landfair English

Landford English

Landibar Basque
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the Navarrese municipality of Urdazubi.

Landicho Filipino
Either from a nickname derived from Spanish le han dicho meaning "he has been told" or a variant of the name Landecho.

Landívar Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Landibar.

Landrich German, French

Landrieu French

Landrith American (Modern, Rare)

Langakis Greek

Langerak Dutch
A habitational name from any of several places called Langerak, derived from lang "long" and rak "straight section of a waterway".

Langevin French
From French l'Angevin meaning "the Angevin", denoting a person from the French province of Anjou.

Langhans German
German and Dutch: distinguishing nickname for a tall man (see Lang) called Hans.

Langhoor Dutch, Belgian
Means "long ear", from lang "long, tall" and oor "ear", a nickname for someone with large ears, or perhaps good hearing.

Langhorn English
Variant of Langhorne.

Langhorn Danish
Habitational name from Langenhorn (Danish Langhorn), a settlement in the north of Germany that was at one point under Danish rule.

Langiano Italian

Langkous Literature
Dutch and Afrikaans form of Långstrump

Langland Norwegian
Variant of Langeland.

Langwade English
From an English village Langmead, in the county of Devon. It was used to refer to those individuals who lived at the lang-mead, which literally means "the long meadow".

Lankford English
Variant of Langford

Lankston English

Lansbury English

Lansdale English

Lansdown English

Lansford English

Lantaron Basque
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.

Lanthier French
From the given name Lantier, derived from German elements land "land" and hari "army".

Lanzuela Aragonese
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.

La Paloma Spanish

Lapčević Serbian
Serbo-Croatian surname meaning "river" or "white". Likely from the river Elbe in Germany, which is called Labe and Laba in Slavic languages. Lab also having the meaning "white" in archaic Slavic (like the bird labud - swan).

Lapetina South American, Italian (?)
Possibly from Italian La Petina, the meaning of which is uncertain.

LaPierre French

Laramore English, Scottish
Variant of Lorimer.

Larbaoui Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Larbi.

Larcella Italian
Variation of Lauricella, from a pet form of Laura.

Lardelli American (Americanized)

Larichev Russian
Derived from a diminutive form Larya of the Russian monastic name Illarion.

Larinson ?
Means "son of LARIN".

Larouche French (Quebec)
After any of the various locations called La Rouche in France.

Laroussi Arabic (Maghrebi)
Alternate transcription of El Aroussi.

Larralde Basque
This indicates familial origin within any of several eponymous localities in the former French province of Lapurdi.

Larrimer English

Larrison English
This surname means “son of Larry”.

Larronde Spanish

Lartigue French

Larzabal Spanish

Laskaris Greek
From ancient and medieval Greek laskaris, a kind of soldier, from Persian laeshkaer "army". This is the same word as Urdu lascar "sailor" and Arabic el-askari "the army", "the troops".

Lasmanis Latvian

Lassague French (Rare), Basque (Rare)
French form of Lasaga.

Lasseter English

Lassiter English

Lasswell English

Lastavec Croatian
From lasta meaning ''swallow''.

Lastours French

Latimore English
Variant of Lattimore

Latortue French

Latsague French, Basque
French form of Lasaga.

Lattanzi Italian

Lättemäe Estonian
Lättemäe is an Estonian surname derived from "läte" meaning "spring" or "fountain" and "mäe" meaning "hill" and "mountain"; "spring mountain".

Lattimer English
Variant of Latimer

Latuwael Moluccan

Latxague French, Basque
French form of Lasaga.

Latzague French (Rare), Basque (Rare)
French form of Lasaga.

Laufmann German, Jewish
Variant of Läufer.

Laughlin Irish
Variant of Loughlin

Laughton English
Habitational name from any of the numerous places in England so called. Most of them, as for example those in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire (near Gainsborough), Sussex, and West Yorkshire, are named with Old English leac ‘leek’ + tun ‘enclosure’... [more]

Laureano Spanish
From the given name Laureano

Laurence English, French
From the given name Laurence.

Laurente Spanish (Philippines)
From the given name Laurente.

Laurenti English (American, Rare)

Lauriano Asturian
From the given name Lauriano

Laurimaa Estonian
Laurimaa is an Estonian surname meaning "Lauri's land" (Lauri is an Estonian masculine given name).

Laurisoo Estonian
Laurisoo is an Estonian surname meaning "Lauri's (a masculine given name) swamp". However, the name is probably an Estoniazation of the masculine given name "Lauri" and the Germanic suffix "son"; "Lauri's son".

Lauteman German
Variant of Lautemann

Lauterer German
Variant of Lautemann

Lavallee French

Lavalley English

Lavallin French (Huguenot)

Lavender English, Dutch
Occupational name for a washerman or launderer, Old French, Middle Dutch lavendier (Late Latin lavandarius, an agent derivative of lavanda "washing", "things to be washed"). The term was applied especially to a worker in the wool industry who washed the raw wool or rinsed the cloth after fulling... [more]

Laverdur French

Laverick English
Derived from Old English lāferce meaning "lark", making it a cognate of Lark.

Lavernia Catalan

Lavesque French

Lawalata Moluccan

Laxamana Filipino, Pampangan, Tagalog
Derived from Malay laksamana meaning "admiral, officer", ultimately from Sanskrit लक्ष्मण (lakshmana).

Laybourn English
Habitational name from Leyburn in North Yorkshire, High Leybourne in Godalming in Surrey, or Leybourne in Kent. The North Yorkshire name may derive from Old English hlēg “shelter” and burna “spring, stream”... [more]

Lazalier French
Comes directly from the last name "Larzelere"

Lazareva f Russian
Feminine form of Lazarev.

Łazowski Polish
Habitational name for someone from any of various places called Łazy, Łazow, or Łazowa, named with łazy meaning "clearing in a forest".

Leachman English
Occupational name for a physician’s servant, from Leach 1 + Middle English man ‘manservant’.

Leandres Portuguese
Means "son of Leandro" in Portuguese.

Leandrez Spanish
Spanish cognate of Leandres.

Leathers English

Lebakeng Sotho

Lebesgue French
Means "the stammerer" in French, denoting a person with a stammer, from Old French beguer "stuttering, stammering", from Middle Dutch beggen “to chat”.

Le Borgne French
Means "the one-eyed" in French.

Leborgne French
Variant spelling of Le Borgne.

Leboutte Belgian

Lebovits Yiddish
Variant of Leibowitz.

Lebovitz Yiddish
Variant of Leibowitz.

Lebowitz Yiddish
Variant of Leibowitz.

Lebowski Polish
Means "head"

Le Breton French
Describes someone from the French region Breton.

Lebreton French
Variant of Le Breton.

Lecompte French

Lederman German
Variant of Leatherman.