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Milenkov Bulgarian
Means "son of Milenko".

Milenković Serbian
Means "son of Milenko".

Milenkovska f Macedonian
Feminine form of Milenkovski.

Milenkovski m Macedonian
Means "son of Milenko".

Milesi Italian
Marco Milesi is an Italian racing cyclist.... [more]

Miletić Croatian, Serbian
Means ''son of Mile''.

Milev m Bulgarian, Macedonian
Means "son of Mile".

Mileva f Bulgarian, Macedonian
Feminine form of Milev.

Milevska f Macedonian
Feminine form of Milevski.

Milevski m Macedonian
Means "son of Mile".

Miley Irish (Anglicized)
Anglicised form of Ó Maol Aodha, though Ó Máille and Ó Maolmhuaidh can also be possibilities... [more]

Milez Filipino

Milgrom Hebrew

Milholland English

Milhous English
Variant spelling of English Millhouse.

Milhouse English
Variant spelling of Millhouse.

Milian Spanish (Caribbean)

Milianti Italian

Miliaras Greek

Miliband Jewish
This is the surname of British Labour Party politicians Ed and David Miliband, who are ethnically Jewish.

Milič Slovene
Variant of Milić.

Miliddi Italian
Possibly a Sardinian nickname for Camillo.

Milik Polish

Milina Croatian, Serbian
passed down from generations

Milingiana Italian
Probably from milinciana "eggplant, aubergine", likely given to foundlings.

Milinković Serbian
Means "son of Milinko"

Milios Greek

Miliotis Greek

Miliša Croatian

Milisavljević Serbian
Means "son of Milisav".

Militão Portuguese (Brazilian)
Locational surname denoting someone who lives near a military base.

Miljak Croatian

Miljanović Serbian
Means "son of Miljan".

Miljković Serbian, Croatian
Variant of Milković.

Milk English
Probably from Middle English milk ‘milk’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a producer or seller of milk.In some instances, probably a translation of German Milch, a variant of Slavic Milich or of Dutch Mielke (a pet form of Miele), or a shortening of Slavic Milkovich.

Milkent Lithuanian

Milkov m Bulgarian
Means "son of Milko".

Milkova f Bulgarian
Feminine form of Milkov.

Milković Serbian, Croatian
Patronymic derived from the given name Milko, itself a diminutive of Slavic names containing the element milu meaning "gracious, dear".

Milkovič Slovak
Slovak form of Milković.

Milkovich Serbian (Anglicized), Croatian (Anglicized), Slovak (Anglicized)
Americanized form of Serbo-Croatian Milković or Slovak Milkovič.

Mill Scottish, English
Scottish and English: topographic name for someone who lived near a mill, Middle English mille, milne (Old English myl(e)n, from Latin molina, a derivative of molere ‘to grind’)... [more]

Millar English
Variant of Miller.

Millare Spanish (Philippines)
Possibly a variant of Millares.

Millares Galician
Habitational name from any of various places named Millares in Galicia, from the plural of Galician millar meaning "millet field".

Millay English
This surname is thought to be a respelling of Millais, which may come from the French surname Millet, a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of millet or panic grass (derived from a diminutive form of Old French mil which is then derived from Latin milium meaning "millet").... [more]

Millet French, Catalan
metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of millet or panic grass or a topographic name for someone who lived by a field of millet from French and Catalan millet (from Latin milietum a derivative of milium in Old French mil "millet").

Millett English

Milley English
Habitational name from a lost or unidentified place possibly in Lincolnshire.

Milley Irish (Anglicized)
Variant of Malley.

Millford English (Rare)
Variant of Milford.

Milliard English

Millin English (British, ?)
Originated as Miller or McMillan

Millington English
Parishes in Cheshire, and the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Millman English
Variant of Milman

Millmon English
Variant of Millman

Millner English
Variant of Milner.

Millo Filipino

Milloy Irish

Millsap English (American), English
Judging by the name and how it sounds, I guess it's occupational. This is the name of a town in Texas, named after Fuller Millsap.

Millson English

Milludi Basque

Millwood English, Anglo-Saxon
The name was originally given to a miller or the keeper of a mill. The surname Millwood is derived from the Old English word mylenweard.

Milman English
From the old English word mylen meaning "mill" and mann meaning "man", which in this sense means a worker

Milmon English
Variant of Milman

Milmoon English
Variant of Milmon

Milner English, Scottish
Northern English (mainly Yorkshire) and Scottish: variant of Miller, retaining the -n- of the Middle English word, which was a result of Scandinavian linguistic influence, as in Old Norse mylnari.

Milo English
Derived from the given name Milo.

Miloh African

Miloševska f Macedonian
Feminine form of Miloševski.

Miloševski m Macedonian
Means "son of Miloš".

Milostan English (American)

Miłosz Polish
From the given name Miłosz.

Miloti Albanian

Milrinda English

Milutinović Serbian
Patronymic, meaning "son of Milutin".

Mily Bengali

Milyukov Russian

Mimana Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 任那 (Mimana) meaning "Mimana", an ancient hypothesized region in parts of present-day South Korea, mentioned in the Nihon Shoki.

Mimiague French

Mimieux French
Unknown.

Mimmack English

Mimori Japanese

Mimoun Arabic (Maghrebi)
Derived from the given name Mimoun.

Mimouni Arabic (Maghrebi), Judeo-Spanish
From the given name Mimoun.

Mims English (British)
Habitational name from Mimms (North and South Mimms) in Hertfordshire, most probably derived from an ancient British tribal name, Mimmas.

Mimura Japanese

Mimura Japanese
From Japanese 三 (mi) meaning "three" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Min Chinese, Korean
From Chinese 闵 (mǐn) meaning "pity, sorrow", also referring to the posthumous title of the Duke Min of Lu (personal name Ji Qi).

Minaev Russian
Means "son of Mina".

Minagawa Japanese
Variant of Minakawa.

Minagofña Chamorro
Chamorro for "all their happiness"

Minagro Sicilian
Minagro: A Sicilian surname, with Latin & Greek etymological origins. Min: from Latin minusculus/little or small — Agro: from both Latin agro/field & Greek αγρό agro/field

Minahan English (American)

Minaj Indian

Minakami Japanese
From the 水 (mina) meaning "water" and 上 (kami) meaning "above, top, upper". 水上 is often pronounced suijou, and it means "seaplane" in Japanese.

Minakata Japanese

Minakawa Japanese
From Japanese 皆 (mina) meaning "all, every" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Minami Japanese
From the Japanese "皆" (Mina) meaning "all" and "実" (mi) meaning "fruit", as well as other kanji and kanji combinations that are pronounced in the same way.

Minamide Japanese
From 南 (minami, nan) meaning "south" and 出 (de) meaning "exit".

Minamihisamatsu Japanese

Minamino Japanese
From Japanese 南 (minami) meaning "south" and 野 (no) meaning "field".

Minamisawa Japanese
Minami means "south" and sawa means "swamp, marsh".

Minamishima Japanese

Minamizawa Japanese
Variant of Minamisawa.

Minamoto Japanese
From 源 (minamoto) meaning "fountainhead, river source; source, origin," derived from a combination of 水 (mi), the combining form of mizu meaning "water," and 元/本 (moto) meaning "source, origin" with the addition of the Old Japanese possessive particle na.... [more]

Minar Romansh

Minard English

Minari Japanese

Minaru Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 御 (mi-), an archaic honorific added to emphasize godlike respect or beauty, and 鳴 (nari), from 鳴り (nari) meaning "ring", referring to a place with a lot of sound (in a positive way).

Minasian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Minasyan.

Minasian English (American)

Minassian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Minasyan.

Minasyan Armenian
Means "son of Minas".

Minato Japanese
From Japanese 湊 or 港 (minato) meaning "port, harbour".

Minatosaki Japanese
Variant reading of Minatozaki.

Minatozaki Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 湊 (minato) meaning "assemble" combined with 崎 (saki) meaning "peninsula, cape".

Minatozaki Japanese (Rare)
Means "port cape" in Japanese.

Minaya Spanish
From Minaya, the name of a town in Albacete province, Spain. According to the scholar Miguel Asín Palacios, the place name comes means "open and visible path" from Arabic. It has also been speculated that the place name has Basque origins, meaning "ore", "ore vein" or "asphodel pastures".

Minayev Russian
Alternate transcription of Minaev.

Minchev Bulgarian
Means "son of Mincho".

Mincheva f Bulgarian
Feminine form of Minchev.

Minchie Central African

Mincinoiu Romanian
From Romanian mincino "liar".

Minda Romanian
From the Meglenite language.

Mindalano Filipino, Maranao
From the name of Mindalano' sa Tonong, a character in the Darangen epic.

Mindanao Tagalog
From the name of the second largest island in the Philippines, which was derived from the name of the Maguindanao people (see Mindanao).

Minde German
Habitational name denoting someone from the city of Minden.

Minden German, English
Habitational name from any of various places so named, for example in Westphalia (German) or Shropshire (English).

Mindlin Jewish

Mindlin English

Mine Japanese
This surname is used as 岑, 峯, 峰, 嶺, 三根, 美根, 美祢, 美禰 or 見根 with 岑 (gin, shin, mine), an outdated character meaning "mountaintop, peak," 峯/峰 (hou, ne, mine) meaning "peak, summit," 嶺 (ryou, rei, mine) meaning with the same meaning as 峯/峰, 三 (san, zou, mi, mi'.tsu, mi.tsu) meaning "three," 美 (bi, mi, utsuku.shii) meaning "beauty/iful," 見 (ken, mi.eru, mi.seru, mi.ru) meaning "chances, hopes, idea, look at, opinion, see, visible," 根 (kon, ne, -ne) meaning "head (pimple), radical, root" and 祢/禰 (dei, nai, ne) meaning "ancestral shrine."... [more]

Minea Romanian
Meaning unknown.

Minegishi Japanese
From Japanese 嶺 (mine) meaning "peak, summit" and 岸 (kishi) meaning "beach, seashore, bank".

Minegishi Japanese
From Japanese 嶺 or 峰 (mine) meaning "peak, summit, ridge" and 岸 (kishi) meaning "beach, seashore, bank".

Mineharu Japanese

Mineiro Portuguese

Minella Italian
Southern Italian, from a pet form of the female personal name Mina 1, a short form of Guglielmina, Giacomina, etc.

Minelli Italian
Patronymic or plural form of Minello, a pet form of the personal name Mino, which is a short form of a personal name formed with the hypocoristic suffix -mino, such as Adimino, Giacomino, Guglielmino, etc.

Minematsu Japanese

Mineo Japanese
Mine means "peak" and i means "tail".

Miner English
English occupational name for someone who built mines, either for the excavation of coal and other minerals, or as a technique in the medieval art of siege warfare. The word represents an agent derivative of Middle English, Old French mine ‘mine’ (a word of Celtic origin, cognate with Gaelic mein ‘ore’, ‘mine’).

Minerva Italian
From the female given name Minerva.

Minervini Italian
Either a variant of or son of Minervino.

Minervino Italian
a habitational name from either of two places, Minervino di Lecce or Minervino Murge, in the provinces of Lecce and Bari, which take their names from ancient temples dedicated to the Roman goddess Minerva.

Mínervudóttir Icelandic
Means "daughter of Minerva" in Icelandic. A famous bearer is Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir.

Mínervuson Icelandic
Means "son of Minerva" in Icelandic

Mineta Japanese
From Japanese 峯 (mine) meaning "peak, summit" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Mineyama Japanese
Mine means "peak" and yama means "mountain, hill".

Mineyev m Russian

Ming Chinese

Minghella English (British)
It derives from the Roman (Latin) "Dominicus", meaning "belonging to the lord god", from "dominus", lord or master. The name was given considerable impetus by the fame of the Spanish saint "Dominicus", who founded the Dominican order of monks, although it was already well established.

Ming-rujiralai Thai
From Thai มิ่ง (ming) meaning "something that is auspicious", รุจิรา (ruchira) of unknown meaning, and ลัย (lai) of unknown meaning.

Minh Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Ming, from Sino-Vietnamese 明 (minh).

Minhas Indian
Unknown meaning. Minhas is a clan in India and Pakistan, and offshoot of the Rajput clan.

Mini South African

Mini Italian

Minić Serbian

Minichiello Italian
Campania,

Minin m Russian

Minion French
French form of Miner, an occupational name for a someone working in a mine.

Minnelli Italian

Minniear German

Minnieweather African American
Anglicised version of Mannweiler, a municipality in Germany.

Minnow English
Possibly derived from the English word "minnow", a small fish.

Mino Japanese

Minoda Japanese

Minogue English (Australian)

Minojima Japanese
Variant of Minoshima.

Minor English, German, French
English: variant spelling of Miner.... [more]

Minoshima Japanese
Mi means "beauty", no is a possessive particle, and shima means "island".

Minota Japanese

Minowa Japanese
From Japanese 箕 (mi) meaning "winnow", an unwritten possessive marker の (no) and 輪 (wa) meaning "wheel, ring, circle".

Minsch Romansh
Derived from the given name Dumeni.

Minsky Belarusian, Russian
Refers to the city named "Minsk" in Belarus.

Mintálová f Slovak

Mintoff Maltese

Minton English

Mintram English
Unknown

Mintzias Greek

Minyan Chinese

Minyokhin m Russian

Mio Japanese
From 三 (mi, mitsu, ji) meaning "three" and 尾 (o) meaning "tail".

Mio Italian
Variant of Mione.

Mioč Croatian

Mioda Japanese
mioda means "water route field". the kanji used for this name are 澪(mio,rei) meaning " water route" and 田(ta) meaning "field". a bearer of this name is Ibuki Mioda from Danganronpa 2.

Miodownik Polish, Jewish
The literal translation is "honey cake", from the Polish word/root surname miod, meaning "honey." An occupational surname to those in the honey business, mainly beekeepers and bakers.... [more]

Miola Italian
italian

Miolo Gorontalo

Mione Italian

Miota Japanese

Miotke Polish (Germanized)
Germanized form of Polish Miotka, a nickname derived from miotac 'to throw or toss'.

Mique Filipino

Miqueletos Spanish
From the Spanish given name Miguel.

Mir Iranian

Mirabella Italian, Sicilian
Italian (Campania and Sicily): habitational name from Mirabella Eclano in Avellino or Mirabella Imbaccari in Catania, or from various places with the name Mirabello, all named from medieval Latin mira, "viewpoint", and bella, "beautiful"... [more]

Mirabueno Filipino

Miracle English

Miraglia Italian
From the Old Sicilian military title miraglia di mari meaning "admiral".

Miraj Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
Derived from the given name Miraj.

Mirajkar Marathi
Means "one from Miraj" in Marathi. Miraj is a city located in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

Mirako Japanese

Miral Filipino

Mirəliyev m Azerbaijani
Means "son of Mirəli".

Miram Afghan

Miramon French
MIRAMON is a French name with Spanish origins. ... [more]

Miramond Medieval Occitan, Occitan, French
From Old Occitan mirar "look" and mond "world".

Miramontes Spanish
Looker of mountains.

Miranchuk Russian, Ukrainian

Mircea Romanian
From the given name Mircea.

Mirčeska f Macedonian
Feminine form of Mirčeski.

Mirčeski m Macedonian
Means "son of Mirče".

Mirčevska f Macedonian
Feminine form of Mirčevski.

Mirčevski m Macedonian
Means "son of Mirče".

Mirena Spanish (Latin American)

Mirer Romansh

Mires Greek
good, honest

Mirghani Northern African, Arabic
Sudanese name of unknown Arabic meaning.

Mirkin Jewish
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Mirke, a pet form of the Biblical Hebrew name Miryam.

Mirković Serbian
Patronymic, meaning "son of Mirko".

Miron Romanian
From the given name Miron 1.

Mironov Russian
Means "son of Miron 1".

Mironova Russian
Feminine form of Mironov.

Miroshnichenko Ukrainian
Denis Miroshnichenko is the chairman of the People's Council of the LNR.

Mirrow English (Rare)

Mirschel Yiddish
Jewish (Ashkenazic) and German variant of Herschel.

Mirskiy m Russian, Yiddish (Russified)
Derived from Russian мир (mir), meaning "world" or "peace".

Mirt Slovene

Mirth English

Mirvić Bosnian

Mirza Urdu, Bengali
From the given name Mirza.

Mirzadeh Persian
Means "prince" in Persian, derived from Arabic أمير (amir) meaning "prince, commander" combined with Persian زاده (zadeh) meaning "offspring".

Mirzaee Persian
Variant transcription of Mirzaei.

Mirzaei Persian
From the given name Mirza.

Mirzamagomedov Lezgin (Russified)
Derived from the Persian title میرزا (mirzâ) meaning "prince" (see Mirza) combined with the given name Magomed.

Mirzapour Persian
Means "son of Mirza".

Mirzəzadə Azerbaijani
Means "born of Mirzə".

Mirzazadeh Persian
Means "born of Mirza".

Mirzoda Tajik
Tajik form of Mirzadeh.

Miś Polish

Misaka Japanese (Modern)
This name is from Japanese anime A Certain Scientific Railgun's protagonist.

Misaki Japanese
From Japanese 三 (mi) meaning "three" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Misakian Armenian
An Armenian surname meaning "descendant of Misak." Misak is the Armenian form of the Ancient Hebrew name Meshach.

Misani Romansh

Mişär Tatar
Means "story" in Tatar.

Misato Japanese

Misawa Japanese
Mi could mean "three" or "beautiful", and sawa means "swamp, marsh, wetland".

Misawa Japanese
From Japanese 三 (mi) meaning "three" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Misayoshi Japanese

Mischel German
Diminutive of Misch.

Mischol Romansh
Derived from the given name Michael.

Mise Japanese

Misely Malagasy
From the given name Misely.

Miseroole French, South African

Mish Iranian

Misha Russian

Mishani Hebrew

Mishima Japanese
From Japanese 三 (mi) meaning "three" and 島 or 嶋 (shima) meaning "island".

Mishkin Russian
Derived from the given name Mishka, a diminutive of Mikhail.

Mishkina Russian
Feminine transcription of Russian Мишкин (see Mishkin).

Mishler German
Americanized spelling of Swiss German Mischler .

Mišić Serbian, Croatian
Patronymic, meaning "son of Mišo". Also, mišić (мишић) can be translated as "muscle".

Misiewicz Polish
Patronymic from Miś.

Misipeka Samoan (Rare)

Misirlou Greek
Misirlou (Μισιρλού), due to the suffix "ou", is the feminine form (in Greek) of Misirlis (Μισιρλής- a surname) which comes from the Turkish word Mısırlı, which is formed by combining Mısır ("Egypt" in Turkish, borrowed from Arabic مِصر‎ Miṣr) with the Turkish -lı suffix, literally meaning "Egyptian".

Misita Serbian

Miskell Irish
Anglicized form of Irish Ó Meisceall meaning "descendant of Meiscill", a personal name of unexplained etymology. It was sometimes Anglicized as Maxwell.

Miskinis Lithuanian
Topographic name from miškinis ‘forest’, ‘forest spirit’. This name is also established in Poland.

Miskovetz Russian (Americanized)

Mišković Serbian, Croatian, Montenegrin
Means "son of Miško".

Misleh Arabic
Variation of Musleh. Means "peacemaker" or "social reformer" in Arabic.

Mišmaš Slovene

Misner American

Miso Japanese (Rare)
Miso is made up of two symbols literally referring to "miso soup". Approximately less than 140 people in Japan possess this last name.

Misora Japanese
Mi means "beautiful" and sora means "sky, heaven".

Mišši Chuvash

Missi African

Missingham English
The name means "lost home", and it's from the Old English words "missan" and "ham".

Missirlian Armenian

Missoni Italian, Friulian
Of uncertain meaning.

Mist English

Misti Bengali

Mistone English (American)

Mistral French

Mistry English
Influenced by the English word mystery meaning unknown.

Misuari Filipino, Tausug
Meaning uncertain. A famous bearer is Nurallaji Pinang Misuari (1939-), better known as Nur Misuari, a Moro Filipino revolutionary.

Misumi Japanese
Mi means "three" and sumi can mean "dwelling, residence, abode" or "corner, nook".

Misun Belarusian

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