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ÄärEstonian Äär is an Estonian surname meaning "border" and "boundary".
ÄärismaaEstonian Äärismaa is an Estonian surname meaning "edge/border land".
ÄärmaaEstonian Äärmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "border/boundary land".
AkarregiBasque Derived from Akerregi, the name of a place in Basque Country composed of aker "goat, billy goat" combined with either hegi "side, slope, bank; edge, border" or -egi "place".
ArlegiBasque From the name of a town in Navarre, Spain, of uncertain etymology. Possibly derived from Basque (h)egi "slope, hillside; edge, border" combined with either (h)arri "stone", arlo "field", or erle "bee" as a first element.
BergschneiderGerman topographic name for someone living by a mountain trail (as in cut into the hillside) from Berg "mountain hill" and Schneit "trail path running on a border" (Old High German sneita).
BianChinese Romanization of a Chinese surname, which in Pinyin may be respectively Biàn, Biān or Biǎn. The former, written with the character 卞 means "to be impatient", "to be in a hurry" or "excitable" and is by far the most common... [more]
ByeonKorean (Modern) Variant romanization of Sino-Korean 邉 (Byun) meaning "Border".
ByunKorean From Sino-Korean 邉 (Byun) meaning "Border".
CreightonEnglish From Irish 'crioch' meaning "border", and Old English 'tun' meaning "town".
EgiaBasque Habitational name derived from Basque (h)egi "border, edge; hill, slope, bank".
EgiarretaBasque (Rare) From the name of a neighbourhood in Arakil, Navarre, possibly derived from Basque (h)egi "side, slope, bank; edge, border" combined with (h)arri "stone, rock" and -eta "place of, abundance of".
EgilatzBasque (Rare, Archaic) From the name of a town in Álava, Basque Country, derived from (h)egi "border, edge; hill, slope, bank" and lats "brook, small stream", or possibly latz "rough, crude".
KrajewskiPolish (Rare) Habitational name taken from places in Poland named with Polish kraj "border area".
KrumreihnGerman Possibly derived from Middle High German krum(b) meaning "crooked" and rein meaning "border of a field, margin", and hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a field with a crooked edge, or perhaps a nickname for a farmer who plowed a crooked furrow... [more]
MarkEnglish, German, Dutch Topographic name for someone who lived on a boundary between two districts, from Old High German marka "border, boundary, march". The German term also denotes an area of fenced-off land (see Marker) and, like the English word, is embodied in various place names which have given rise to habitational names.
MarkellEnglish Habitational name from various locations in England containing the Old English element mearc (from Old Germanic markō) meaning "border, boundary".
MarkleyEnglish From Old English mearc meaning "border, mark" combined with leah meaning "clearing, grove."
MarksEnglish This surname is derived either from the name Mark or from Old English mearc meaning "border, mark."
PiirEstonian Piir is an Estonian surname meaning "border" and "frontier".
PiirikiviEstonian Piirikivi is an Estonian surname meaning "border stone".
PiirimaaEstonian Piirimaa is an Estonian surname meaning "border land".
PiirimäeEstonian Piirimäe is an Estonian surname meaning "border mountain".
PiirimeesEstonian Piirimees is an Estonian surname meaning "border man".
PiirisaarEstonian Piirisaar is an Estonian surname meaning "border island".
PiirisaluEstonian Piirisalu is an Estonian surname meaning "border grove".
PiirojaEstonian Piiroja is an Estonian surname meaning "border creek".
RajaEstonian Raja is an Estonian surname meaning "boundary" or "border".
RajalaaneEstonian Rajalaane is an Estonian surname derived from "raja" ("boundary", "border") and "lääne" ("occidental", "western"): "western border/boundary".
RajasaarEstonian Rajasaar is an Estonian surname meaning "border island" or "storm island".
RajasaluEstonian Rajasalu is an Estonian surname meaning "border grove".
RajasteEstonian Rajaste is an Estonian surname derived from "raja" meaning "border".
RajaveeEstonian Rajavee is an Estonian surname meaning "border water" or "storm water".
SaralegiBasque Habitational name of uncertain etymology. Possibly derived from Basque sarale "hay, dry grass, livestock feed" combined with either tegi "stable, pen, enclosure", -(t)egi "place of", or possibly (h)egi "slope, hillside; edge, border".
SoosõrvEstonian Soosõrv is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "soo" meaning "swamp" and "sõrv", possibly a corruption of "serv" meaning "border" or "edge"; "swamp/marsh border".
VeermäeEstonian Veermäe is an Estonian surname meaning "border hill/mountain".
VeermetsEstonian Veermets is an Estonian surname meaning "border forest".