Submitted Surnames Starting with U
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UCEDASpanishThis indicates familial origin within the eponymous Manchego municipality.
UCHIDAJapaneseFrom Japanese 内 (uchi) meaning "inside, within" and 田 (da) meaning "paddy, field". ...
[more] UCHIYAMAJapaneseFrom 内
(uchi) meaning "inside" and 山
(yama) meaning "mountain, hill".
UCLÉSSpanishThis indicates familial origin within the eponymous Manchego municipality.
UDAMEstonianUdam is an Estonian surname, possibly a corruption of "südame", meaning "dearest".
UDUEstonianUdu is an Estonian surname meaning "fog", "mist" and "haze".
UEMATSUJapanese上 (Ue) means "Above, Upper" and 松 (Matsu) means "Pine Tree".
UEMURAJapanese上 (Ue) means "Above, Upper" and 村 (Mura) means "Village, Hamlet".
UESHITAJapaneseUe means "Upper, Top, Above" and Shita means "Below, Under".
UESUGIJapanese上 (Ue) means "Upper, Above" and 杉 (Sugi) means "Cedar Tree".
UGALDEBasqueThis indicates familial origin within either of 2 eponymous neighborhoods: the one in the municipality of Larrabetzu or the one in the municipality of Okondo.
UHKEEstonianUhke is an Estonian surname meaning "proud" or "vain".
UHLERGermanUhler is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kastellaun, whose seat is in the like-named town.
UHLMANNGermanFrom a pet form of a Germanic compound personal name beginning with
odal ‘inherited property’.
ÜHTEGIEstonianÜhtegi is an Estonian surname derived from "ühtelugu", meaning "steadily" and "always".
UIBOEstonianUibo is an Estonian surname derived from "Uibu", meaning "wintergreen".
UIKEstonianUik is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "luik", meaning "swan"; or "huik", meaning "crake".
ULATOWSKIPolishHabitational name for someone from Ulatowo in Ostrołęka voivodeship, a place named with Old Polish ulot, ulatać meaning "to fly away".
ÜLEJÕEEstonianÜlejõe is an Estonian surname meaning "located on the other side of a river".
ÜLESOOEstonianÜlesoo is an Estonian surname meaning "above (beyond) the swamp".
ÜLGEKÜTTEstonianÜlgekütt is an Estonian surname derived from "hülgekütt" meaning "seal hunter".
ULIBARRIBasqueThis indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the Navarrese municipality of Lana.
ULJASEstonianUljas is an Estonian surname (and masculine given name) meaning "darling" and "valiant".
ULLAEstonianUlla is an Estonian surname derived from "üla-", a prefix meaning "upper".
ULLOAGalicianThis indicates familial origin within the comarca of A Ulloa.
ULMERGermanGerman surname meaning "from the city of Ulm".
ULSHÖFERGermanHabitational name for someone from a place called Ilshofen (old form Ulleshoven), near Schwäbisch Hall.
ULUOTSEstonianUluots is an Estonian surname, possibly derived from "uluk" ("(hunting) game" ) and "ots" ("end").
ULVAEUSSwedish (Rare)Allegedly a latinization of Ulfsäter, a combination of Swedish
ulv "wolf" and
säter "mountain pasture". Björn Ulvaeus (b. 1945) is a Swedish songwriter, composer and former member of ABBA.
ULVESTADNorwegian (Rare)Habitational name from any of five farmsteads, most in western Norway, named from Old Norse
ulfr meaning ‘wolf’ +
staðir, plural of
staðr meaning ‘farmstead’, ‘dwelling’.
ULYANOVRussianMeans "son of
Ulyan". This was the surname of communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), who was born as Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.
UMBURTERTivMeans, "Remember the father". Father also used in the context of God.
UMEDAJapaneseFrom the Japanese 梅 (
ume) "plum" and 田 (
da or
ta) "rice paddy" or 多 (
da or
ta) "many."
UMEHARAJapanese梅原 - "Umehara" meaning field of plums / 原 - "hara" meaning "field" / 梅 - "ume" meaning "plum"
UMEZAWAJapaneseFrom the Japanese 梅 (
ume) "plum" and 澤 or 沢 (
zawa or
sawa) "swamp."
UMIASTOWSKIPolishThis indicates familial origin within the Masovian village of Umiastów.
UMONJapanese (Rare)This surname combines 右 (u, yuu, migi) meaning "right" or 宇 (u) meaning "eaves, heaven, house, roof" with 門 (mon, kado, to) meaning "gate."...
[more] ÜNALTurkishMeans "become famous" or "become well-known" in Turkish.
UNDERBERGNorwegianHabitational name from a place named with Old Norse
undir meaning "under" and
berg meaning "mountain, hill".
UNGERGermanGerman, Jewish (Ashkenazic), and Slovenian: ethnic name for a Hungarian or a nickname for someone who had trade relations with Hungary, from the ethnic term Unger ‘Hungarian’ ...
[more] UNNIKRISHNANIndian, MalayalamMeans "Lord Krishna" or "young Krishna", a combination of the title and given name
ഉണ്ണി (uṇṇi) meaning "infant boy, young boy" and the name of
Krishna, Hindu deity.
UNOJapaneseFrom Japanese 宇 (
u) meaning "eaves" and 野 (
no) meaning "field".
UNTERREINERGermanTopographic name for someone who lived below a mountain ridge, from Middle High German
under meaning ‘under’ +
rein meaning ‘ridge’.
UNTHANKEnglishFrom a place name meaning "squatter's holding" from Old English
unthanc (literally "without consent").
UNTZAGABasqueThis indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Urkabustaiz.
UNWINEnglishFrom the Old English male personal name
Hūnwine, literally "bearcub-friend" (later confused with Old English
unwine "enemy"). Bearers include British publisher Sir Stanley Unwin (1885-1968) and "Professor" Stanley Unwin (1911-2002), South African-born British purveyor of comical nonsense language.
UPSHUREnglishMost probably an altered spelling of English Upshire, a habitational name from Upshire in Essex, named with Old English
upp "up" and
scir "district". Alternatively, it may be a variant of
Upshaw.
URAMOTOJapanese (Rare)浦 (Ura) means "Seacoast,Bay" and 本 (Moto) means "Source, Origin, Root". Kentaro Uramoto is a notable bearer of this surname, he is a former Japanese football player.
URARAKAPopular CultureIn the case of the character Ochako (Ochaco) Uraraka (麗日 お茶子) from 'My Hero Academia', her surname is made up of 麗 (rei, uruwa.shii, ura.raka,
urara) meaning "bright, beautiful" and 日 (jitsu, nichi, -
ka, hi, -bi) meaning "day."
URBEstonianUrb is an Estonian surname meaning "catkin".
URBANEnglish, French, German, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Hungarian, JewishFrom a medieval personal name (Latin Urbanus meaning "city dweller", a derivative of urbs meaning "town", "city").
URBAŃSKIPolishhabitational name for someone from a place named with the personal name Urban.
URDANEGIBasqueThis indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Gordexola.
URDUÑABasqueThis indicates familial origin within the eponymous city.
URENDABasqueMost probably a topographic name formed with Basque ur- ‘water’.
URIEScottish, English, IrishFrom the Scottish Fetteresso parish, Kincardineshire. May mean someone who is brave and loud.
URIONDOBasqueThis indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Zeberio.
URKIAGABasqueThis indicates familial origin within the vicinity of the eponymous hill that is in fact the northernmost one in Navarre.
URMEstonianUrm is an Estonian surname meaning; a dialectal Estonian word for "catkin" and "frost". Also meaning "bleeding wound" and "gore".
URREYAAragoneseThis indicates familial origin within either of 2 municipalities: Urreya de Gayén or Urreya de Xalón.
URRITZOLABasqueThis indicates familial origin within either of 2 eponymous Navarrese localities.
URRUTIABasqueBasque surname meaning "distant, far away" in Euskara.
URRUTIGOITIBasqueThis indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the commune of Montori, located in the French canton of Euskal Mendialdea.
URTSUABasqueThis indicates familial origin near the eponymous mountain in the French department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
URUSOVRussianFrom Slavic
urush which means "warrior". This was the surname of a noble family in Russia.
URZĘDOWSKIPolishThis indicates familial origin within the Lesser Polish town of Urzędów.
USECHEBasquethe prefix use means bird in Basque and the prefix che means bird. Useche means bird house
USELTONEnglishPerhaps a variant of
Osselton, a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, probably in northeastern England, where this name is most common.
UTECHGermanFrom Middle Low German ūt-echtisch ‘outsider’, a term denoting someone who was not a member of a particular guild.
UTSAREstonianUtsar is an Estonian surname, possibly a truncated variant of "Kutsar", meaning "coachman".
UTSUNOMIYAJapaneseThis surname is used as either 宇都宮 or 宇津宮 with 宇 (u) meaning "eaves, heaven, house, roof", 都 (tsu, to, miyako) meaning "capital, metropolis", 津 (shin, tsu) meaning "ferry, harbour, haven, port" and 宮 (kyuu, ku, kuu, guu, miya) meaning "constellations, palace, princess, Shinto shrine."...
[more] ÜTTEstonianÜtt is an Estonian surname (loosely) meaning "vocative"; a "word of address'' or "exclamatory address".
UUDMÄEEstonianUudmäe is an Estonian surname meaning "virgin/unspoiled hill/mountain".
UUETOAEstonianUuetoa is an Estonain surname, meaning "new home" or "new room".
UUKEstonianUuk is an Estonian surname meaning "bay" and "dormer".
UULIEstonianUuli is an Estonian surname derived from "uulits", meaning "street".
UURITSEstonianUurits is an Estonian surname meaning "engraver" and "burin".
UZHAKHOVIngush (Russified)Russified form of an Ingush surname derived the name of an Ingush teip (clan). The clan's name is possibly derived from a given name, in turn possibly from an Ingush word meaning "bold, strong".
UZUMAKIJapanese (Rare)This name combines 渦 (ka, uzu) meaning "eddy, vortex, whirlpool" or 太 (ta, tai, futo.i, futo.ru) meaning "big around, plump, thick" with 巻 (kan, ken, maki, ma.ki, ma.ku) meaning "book, coil, part, roll up, scroll, tie, volume, wind up."...
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