Submitted Surnames Starting with S

Shiokawa Japanese
From Japanese 塩 (shio) meaning "salt" combined with 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Shiomi Japanese
From Japanese 汐 (shio) meaning "salt, tide, opportunity" and 見 (mi) meaning "sight".

Shiono Japanese
From Japanese 塩 (shio) meaning "salt" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness, plain".

Shiosaki Japanese

Shiota Japanese

Shiotani Japanese
From Japanese 塩 (shio) meaning "salt" and 谷 (tani) meaning "valley".

Shiozaki Japanese
From Japanese 塩 (shio) meaning "salt" and 崎 (saki) meaning "peninsula, cape".

Shiozawa Japanese
From Japanese 塩 (shio) meaning "salt" and 沢 (sawa) meaning "wetland, swamp, marsh".

Shiozuka Japanese

Ship English
This unusual name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and is an occupational surname for "a mariner", or perhaps, occasionally a "ship or boat-builder". The derivation of the name is from the Olde English pre 7th Century scip, ship, in Middle English schip

Shipley English (Rare)
English: habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Derbyshire, County Durham, Northumberland, Shropshire, Sussex, and West Yorkshire, so called from Old English sceap, scip ‘sheep’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.

Shipman English
Occupational name for a mariner, or occasionally perhaps for a boatbuilder, from Middle English "schipman". One notable person is known evildoer Harold Shipman. He was an English general practitioner who is believed to be one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history.

Shipov m Russian
From Russian шип (ship), meaning "thorn, spike". Probably denoted to a person living near thornbushes.

Shipp English
nickname for a mariner or perhaps a boatbuilder from Middle English schip "ship". Compare Shipman . in addition the name may occasionally also have been topographic or habitational referring to a house or inn distinguished by the sign of a ship.

Shipper German, Jewish, English
German and Jewish Cognate and English variant of Schipper. occupational name from Middle English shippere "shipman sailor seaman" (Old English scipere) perhaps also with the sense "skipper" (Middle Low German schipper).

Shippo Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 七宝 (see Shippō).

Shippō Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 七宝 (Shippō) meaning "Shippō", a former village in the district of Toyota in the former Japanese province of Aki in parts of present-day Hiroshima, Japan.

Shippoh Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 七宝 (see Shippō).

Shippou Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 七宝 (see Shippō).

Shipton English
From Old English scip "sheep", and tun "enclosure; settlement".

Shipwright English
Occupational name for a ship builder.

Shira Indian

Shira Albanian

Shirado Japanese

Shiradoh Japanese

Shiradou Japanese

Shiraga Japanese

Shiragawa Japanese
Variant of Shirakawa.

Shirah Iranian

Shirahama Japanese
From Japanese 白 (shira) meaning "white" and 濱 (hama) meaning "beach, seashore".

Shirahata Japanese
From Japanese 白 (shira) meaning "white" and 幡 (hata) meaning "flag, banner".

Shirai Japanese
Means "Purple Thunder". From Japanese 紫 (shi) meaning "purple" and 雷 (rai) meaning "thunder". Notable bearers are joshi wrestlers Mio Shirai and Io Shirai.

Shiraiwa Japanese
From Japanese 白 (shira) meaning "white" and 岩 (iwa) meaning "cliff, rocks".

Shirako Japanese
Meaning "white child".

Shiramizu Japanese
From Japanese 白 (shira) meaning "white" and 水 (mizu) meaning "water".

Shiran Hebrew

Shiranami Japanese
Shira means "white" and nami means "wave".

Shirano Japanese
Shira means "white" and no means "field, plain".

Shirao Japanese

Shirasaka Japanese
From Japanese 白 (shira) meaning "white" and 坂 (saka) meaning "slope, hill".

Shirasaki Japanese
From Japanese 白 (shira) meaning "white" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Shirasawa Japanese

Shirasuga Japanese
Shira means "white" and suga means "sedge".

Shiratō Japanese
From Japanese 白 (shira) meaning "white" and 藤 (tō) meaning "wisteria".

Shiratoh Japanese

Shiratou Japanese

Shircliff English
Habitational name from Shirecliff in Sheffield (Yorkshire) from Old English scir "bright" and clif "cliff bank".

Shires English (British)

Shirima African
Common in Tanzania

Shirino Japanese (Rare)
Shiri can mean "rear, behind" and no means "field, wilderness, plain".

Shirlan English (Rare)

Shiroda Japanese

Shirogane Japanese (Rare)
Shirogane typically spelt "白銀" ... [more]

Shiroi Japanese
Shrio means "white" and i means "well, pit, mineshaft".

Shiroiwa Japanese

Shirokane Japanese

Shiroma Japanese

Shiromori Japanese
From Japanese 白 (shiro) combined with 森 (mori) meaning forest. Other kanji combinations are possible.

Shirono Japanese
Shiro means "white" and no means "field, wilderness".

Shirota Japanese

Shirpa Indian

Shirtz Jewish

Shiryaev m Russia
The name means "wide shoulders" or "corpulent"

Shiryayev m Russian

Shiryo Japanese

Shiryou Japanese

Shiryu Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 四柳 (see Shiryū).

Shiryū Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 四柳 (see Yotsuyanagi).

Shiryuh Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 四柳 (see Shiryū).

Shiryuu Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 四柳 (see Shiryū).

Shirzadi Persian
From the given name Shirzad.

Shirzai Pashto
Means "son of Sher".

Shishani Chechen (Expatriate), Arabic
Means "Chechen" in Arabic. This name is primarily used by Chechens living in the Arab world.

Shishido Japanese
Japanese: habitational name taken from a district in Hitachi (now Ibaraki prefecture), written with a variant character for ‘flesh’ and ‘door’. It is found mostly in northeastern Japan.

Shishido Japanese
From Japanese 宍 (shishi) meaning "meat, flesh" and 戸 (to) meaning "door".

Shishigami Japanese
A Japanese surname meaning "deer god".

Shishikura Japanese
Shishi means "lion" and kura means "possess, have, storehouse, warehouse".

Shishima Japanese
I don't know the history of this last name. I saw it in a magazine somewhere...

Shishimine Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 獅 (shishi), script-changed from 猪 (shishi) meaning "sus scrofa" and 峯 (mine) meaning "peak; summit".... [more]

Shishinai Japanese

Shishkin Russian
From Russian шишка (shishka) meaning "cone, pinecone".

Shishko Russian, Belarusian

Shit Indian, Hindi, Bengali
Variant transcription of Seth.

Shitao Japanese
From 下 (shita) meaning "lower, downstream, under" and 尾 (o) meaning "tail, end".

Shitara Japanese
From Japanese 設 (shita) meaning "establish" and 楽 (ra) meaning "comfort".

Shitayashiki Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 下屋敷 (see Shimoyashiki).

Shitole Indian

Shittu Nigerian

Shitu Nigerian
Related to Shittu.

Shiu Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Shao.

Shivaza Dungan
Derived from Chinese 十娃子 (shí wázǐ) manning "the tenth child". A notable bearer was Iasyr Shivaza (1906-1988), a Soviet Dungan poet.

Shivazy Dungan
Variant of Shivaza.

Shivdasani Sindhi, Hindi

Shivers Irish
Irish variant of Chivers.

Shiwa Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 斯波 or 紫波 (see Shiba) or variant of Shiba but written 志和.

Shiyanagi Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 四柳 (see Yotsuyanagi).

Shiyune Japanese

Shiyuno Japanese

Shiyuno African

Shizu Japanese

Shizuma Japanese

Shizume Japanese

Shkëmbi Albanian

Shklovskiy m Russian
Means "from Shklov". Shklov (or Shklow, Škloŭ) is a city in the Mohilyov region of Belarus.

Shklowski m Belarusian
Belarusian form of Shklovskiy.

Shkoda Ukrainian
Means "damage" in Ukrainian.

Shkolnik Russian
A Russian word used to refer to a student.

Shkonda Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

Shkoza Albanian

Shkrebnev Russian (Rare)

Shkreli Albanian

Shkrepi Albanian

Shlomov Jewish, Russian
Means "son of Shlomo".

Shlyapnikov m Russian
Means "son of the hatmaker", from Russian шляпник (shlyapnik), meaning "hatmaker, hatter".

Shlyukhin Russian
Derived from Russian шлюха (shlyukha) meaning "slut, whore".

Shmailov Hebrew, Georgian, Russian, Jewish
A variant of Shmuel.

Shmelev Russian
From a bumble, which is "шмель" in Russian

Shmidt Russian
Russian form of Schmidt.

Shnayder Jewish (Russified)
Russified form of Schneider.

Shnayderman Yiddish
It literally means "snitherman".

Sho Japanese
Japanese name meaning "to fly/soar" or "wind instrument".

Sho Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 初 (see Hatsu) or a variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 初 (see Shō).

Shō Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 初 (see Hatsu).

Shoaf American
Origin is unknown but it is the surname of American Rachel Shoaf who is a convicted murderer.

Shoaib Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Shoaib.

Shōami Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 正阿弥 (shōami), a sect of kettle brim making, hat brim making, or weapon-end guard making.

Shoami Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 正阿弥 (see Shōami).

Shoat English (American)
Variant of Choate

Shōaya Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 正阿弥 (see Shōami).

Shoaya Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 正阿弥 (see Shōaya).

Shockley English
(i) perhaps "person from Shocklach", Cheshire ("boggy stream infested with evil spirits"); (ii) perhaps an anglicization of Swiss German Schoechli, literally "person who lives by the little barn"

Shoda Japanese

Shoeby Pakistani

Shoels English (American)
Variant of Scholes.

Shoemaker English

Shoen German (Anglicized), Jewish
Americanized spelling of German or Ashkenazic Jewish Schön or Schoen.

Shoesmith English

Shoesmith English
occupational name for a blacksmith who either specialized in shoeing horses (a farrier) or in making and fitting iron blades known as shoes such as the tips of spades and the plowshares on plow moldboards from Middle English sho "shoe" (Old English scoh) and smith "smith" (Old English smiþ).

Shoh Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 初 (see Shō).

Shoham Hebrew
Means "onyx" in Hebrew.

Shohmi Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 正味 (see Shōmi).

Shoichet Jewish

Shojaee Persian
Alternate transcription of Persian شجاعی (see Shojaei).

Shojaei Persian
Derived from Persian شجاع (shoja) meaning "brave, courageous".

Shōji Japanese
From Japanese 庄 (shō) meaning "manor, villa" and 司 (ji) meaning "officer, boss".

Shoji Japanese
From the Japanese 庄 (sho) "level" and 司 (shi or ji) "director," "official."

Shoji Japanese
Alternate transcription of Japanese 庄司 (see Shōji).

Shōjiya Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 小路谷 (see Kōjiya).

Shojiya Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 小路谷 (see Shōjiya).

Shokanov m Kazakh
Means "son of Shokan".

Shokanova f Kazakh
Feminine form of Shokanov.

Shokry Arabic (Egyptian)
Derived from the given name Shukri.

Shokutsu Japanese
From Japanese 食 (shoku) meaning food and 通 (tsu) meaning "connoisseur".

Sholar English (American)

Sholokhov m Russian
Derived from Russian шорох (šórox) "rustle, soft crackling sound", denoting a quiet person, or шерохий (šeróxij) "rough, rugged", denoting a person with a rough face.

Sholom Russian
Derived from Old Russian шолом (sholom) meaning "helmet".

Sholty English

Shōmi Japanese
From Japanese 正味 (Shōmi) meaning "Shōmi", a division in the area of Yoshiumi in the city of Imabari in the prefecture of Ehime in Japan.

Shomi Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 正味 (see Shōmi).

Shomko Ukrainian

Shomurodov Uzbek
Means "son of Shomurod".

Shoni Japanese

Shonkwiler German (Americanized)
Americanized form of Schankweiler.

Shooter English

Shootman Germanic
Uncertain origin, probably occupational, from German, Dutch, or English. If German, possible occupational surname for a cobbler, from Old German Schuchmann, lit. "shoe man". Similar origin if Dutch... [more]

Shopa Ukrainian
Jewish, found in Russia, Lithuania and Ukraine. Native spelling is Шопа.

Shore English
From the Old English word scora meaning "the land along the edge of an ocean, sea, lake, or river; a coast."

Shorokhova Russian

Shortall English
The ancient history of the name Shortall began soon after 1066 when the Norman Conquest of England occurred. It was a name given to a stocky or short-necked person which was in turn derived from the Anglo-Saxon word scorkhals meaning a person with a short neck.

Shorter English

Shortman English

Shorts English

Shortt English (Canadian)

Shoshan Jewish
Means "lily" in Hebrew.

Shostakovich Russian
Last name of the Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich.

Shotadze Georgian
Means "son of Shota".

Shotashvili Georgian
Means "son of Shota".

Shotton English

Shotwell English

Shotz Jewish

Shou Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 初 (see Shō).

Shouami Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 正阿弥 (see Shōami).

Shouaya Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 正阿弥 (see Shōaya).

Shoumi Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 正味 (see Shōmi).

Shoutz English (American)

Shouyu Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Shoyu.

Shovba Ukrainian, Russian

Shovel English (New Zealand)

Shovkhalov Chechen
Chechen surname of unknown meaning.

Shovkhalova Chechen
Feminine transcription of Chechen Шовхалов (see Shovkhalov).

Showalter German

Showecker German
Variant of Schauwecker

Shoygu Tuvan
Sergey Shoygu is a Russian politician.

Shoyu Japanese (Rare)
Shoyu is made up of two kanji that literally means "soy sauce".

Shōzō Japanese (Rare)
This surname is used as 宗 (shuu, sou, mune) meaning "origin, religion, sect" and 像 (zou) meaning "figure, image, picture, portrait, statue."... [more]

Shpak Ukrainian
Starling

Shpakovskiy m Russian

Shpara Ukrainian

Shpigl Yiddish
Yiddish form of Spiegel.

Shpilbarg Yiddish
Yiddish form of Spielberg.

Shpuntenkov m Russian

Shrader English
Variant of Schrader.

Shramchuk Ukrainian
Derived from the word шрам, meaning "scar".... [more]

Shramko Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian
Derived from East Slavic шрам (shram) meaning "scar, cicatrix".

Shrapnel English
A different form of Carbonell. Shrapnel (i.e. metal balls or fragments that are scattered when a bomb, shell or bullet explodes) is named after General Henry Shrapnel (1761-1842), a British artillery officer who during the Peninsular War invented a shell that produced that effect.

Shreck German (Americanized)
Americanized form of Schreck.

Shrestha Nepali
Means "excellent" in Nepali, ultimately from Sanskrit श्रेष्ठ (shreshtha) meaning "best, most excellent".

Shrestha Newar
From Sanskrit श्रेष्ठ (śrēṣṭha) meaning "important; most excellent; great" in Sanskrit. This is originally used by the Shrestha caste but is now adopted by many castes.

Shreve English
Altered English variant of Sheriff. In some cases, this surname may have arisen from a nickname.

Shreves English
Variant form of Shreve.

Shrewsbury English
From Shrewsbury, a market town and the county town of Shropshire, England, derived from Old English scrobb meaning "scrub, brushwood" and burg meaning "fortified place".

Shreya Indian

Shrimpton English
Probably referring to the unknown "Estate of Shrimp"

Shrivastav Indian, Hindi
Short form of Sanskrit श्रीवास्तव्य (shrivastavya) meaning "abode of wealth", itself from श्री (shri) meaning "diffusing light, radiance, splendour, beauty, wealth, prosperity" and वास्तव्य (vastavya) meaning "residence, abode, dwelling, inhabiting".

Shrivastava Indian, Hindi, Marathi
Alternate transcription of Shrivastav.

Shroff Indian, Hindi, Gujarati, Arabic, Urdu, Indian (Parsi)
Originally an occupational name for a cashier, money changer or banker, derived from Gujarati સરાફ (saraf) meaning "bullion merchant", itself ultimately derived from Arabic صراف (sarraf) meaning "teller".

Shropshire English
Regional name from the county of Shropshire, on the western border of England with Wales.

Shrout German
This surname is related to the German surname Schroder which means cut as in a wood cutter etc.

Shtayyeh Arabic
Meaning unknown.

Shtemenko Ukrainian

Shteyn Yiddish
Yiddish form of Stein.

Shteynberg Jewish
Russified form of Steinberg.

Shteynfeld Yiddish
It means "stone field".

Shteynhoyz Yiddish
It literally means "stonehouse".

Shu Chinese

Shu Chinese
From Chinese 舒 (shū) referring to the ancient state of Shu, which existed during the Zhou dynasty in what is now Anhui province.

Shu Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese 鞠 (see Shū).

Shū Chinese (Japanized)
Japanese transcription of Xi or Zhou.

Shū Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese 鞠 (see Mari).

Shuaib Arabic
From the given name Shuaib.

Shubin Russian
Derived from Russian шуба (shuba) meaning "fur coat".

Shuck English
Origin uncertain; perhaps a nickname from Middle English schucke "devil, fiend".

Shudai Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 主代 (see Nushiro).

Shue German (Anglicized), Jewish (Anglicized)
Americanized form of Schuh or Schue. A famous bearer of this name is the American actress Elisabeth Shue (1963-).

Shue Chinese (Hokkien)
Hokkien romanization of Xu 1, Xu 2 or Xue.

Shuel Jewish (Anglicized, Modern, Rare), Latvian (Anglicized, Modern, Rare), Russian (Anglicized, Modern, Rare)
People with this surname usually have jewish ancestry.

Shufelt American

Shufelt German

Shufflebottom English
Meaning: "From a sheep valley"

Shuford English (American)
American form of German Schuffert (see Schuchardt).

Shukla Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi
Derived from Sanskrit शुक्ल (shukla) meaning "white, bright, pure".

Shuklin Russian

Shukri Arabic
From the given name Shukri.

Shukurov Uzbek
Means "son of Shukur" in Uzbek.

Shukuru Kongo

Shuler German (Americanized), English (American)
Americanized form of Schuler.

Shul'ga Ukrainian (Russified)
Russified form of Shul'ha.

Shulgina Russian

Shul'ha Ukrainian

Shull German
Derivative of Scholl

Shulman Jewish
It is a Jewish-Polish surname that first appeared around 1090. It means Rabai, Gabbai, or Shamash. These are occupations that take place in a Shul-Synagogue. Shul is the Yiddish word for Synagogue. The name litterally means 'man that goes to the Synagogue'.

Shults Jewish (Anglicized, Rare)
The name Shults comes from one of those ancient dukedoms, territories and states that would eventually form a part of present day Germany. At its birth in the Middle Ages, it was used to indicate someone who worked as a town-mayor derived from the medieval name "Schultheis" which has the same meaning.... [more]

Shultz German (Americanized)
Americanized spelling of German Schultz , or a variant spelling of the Jewish name.

Shul'zhenko Ukrainian
Possibly a form of Shul'ha.

Shum Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Shen.

Shum Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Cen.

Shumakov m Russian
Derived from Russian word "шум (shum)" meaning noise.

Shuman Jewish

Shumate French, English (American)
Americanized version of De La Chaumette.

Shumenkov m Russian

Shumenov m Kazakh

Shumiya Japanese

Shump English

Shundi Albanian

Shurgot Polish, English (American)
Americanized spelling of Szurgot.

Shuri Japanese

Shurick English

Shurtleff English (Modern)

Shushan Hebrew

Shushanyan Armenian (Rare)
Means "son of Shushan".

Shusko Slovak

Shuster English
Variant of German Schuster or Slovenian Šuster, both meaning "shoemaker".

Shuto Japanese
From 首 (shu) meaning "neck, counter for songs or poems" combined with 藤 (to, fuji) meaning "wisteria".

Shuttle English

Shuttles English

Shuttlesworth English

Shuttleworth English

Shutz Jewish

Shuu Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese 鞠 (see Shū).

Shuxian Chinese

Shvarts Jewish
Variant of Schwartz

Shvartsebord Yiddish
It literally means "black beard".

Shvedov Russian
From Russian швед (shved) meaning "Swede, Swedish person".

Shvedova Russian
Feminine transcription of Russian Шведов (see Shvedov).

Shvetsov Russian, Ukrainian
Means "son of a cobbler" or "shoemaker" in Russian or Ukrainian.

Shvydko Ukrainian, Russian
Derived from Ukrainian швидкий (shvydky) meaning "fast, quick".

Shvydkoy Ukrainian, Russian
Derived from Ukrainian швидкий (shvydky) meaning "fast, quick".

Shvydky Ukrainian
Derived from Ukrainian швидкий (shvydky) meaning "fast, quick".

Shvyryov m Russian

Shwets Ukrainian
Variant of Shwetz

Shy English (American)
Americanization of Schei.

Shyamalan Indian (Rare), Malayalam (Rare)
Derived from the given name Shyamal or Shyama. This is the surname of Manoj "M... [more]

Shyian Ukrainian

Shyko English

Shyko Ukrainian

Shyko Ukrainian

Shyla Belarusian
Means "awl" in Belarusian, from the Old Slavic root šidlo.

Shylau m Belarusian
Belarusian form of Shilov.

Shylava f Belarusian
Feminine form of Shylau.

Shyle Albanian