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AljasEstonian Aljas is an Estonian surname. It is a corruption of "haljas" meaning "green" and "verdant".
AobaJapanese 青 (Ao) means "green, blue" and 葉 (ba) being a form of, ha meaning "leaf". This surname refers to a fresh leaf. ... [more]
AochiJapanese Ao means "green, blue" and chi means "ground".
AodaJapanese So means "green, blue" and da is a form of ta meaning "field, rice paddy".
AoharaJapanese From 青 (ao) meaning "green, blue" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".
AoikeJapanese 青 (Ao) means "blue, green" and 池 (ike) means "pond, pool".
AokakiJapanese Ao means "green, blue" and kaki means "fence".
AomatsuJapanese Ao means "green, blue" and matsu means "pine".
AonoJapanese From Japanese 青 (ao) meaning "green, blue" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".
AonumaJapanese From Japanese 青 (ao) meaning "green, blue" and 沼 (numa) meaning "swamp, marsh".
AosakaJapanese Ao means "green, blue" and saka means "slope, hill".
AosakiJapanese Ao means "blue, green" and saki means "promontory, cape, peninsula".
AosawaJapanese Ao means "blue, green" and sawa means "swamp, wetland, marsh".
AoshimaJapanese Ao means "green, blue" and shima means "island".
AotaJapanese From Japanese 青 (ao) meaning "green, blue" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".
AoyagiJapanese From Japanese 青 (ao) meaning "green, blue" and 柳 (yagi) meaning "willow".
AozakiJapanese (Rare) Ao means "blue,somewhat green" & zaki means "blossom". So, Nobutaka "Blue Blossom",is an artist who was born in Japan,but now lives in New York as an artist who has been featured in magazines.
BataborFilipino, Maranao Means "coffeepot, teapot" or "green malong (tube skirt)" in Maranao.
BoisvertFrench Means "green wood" in French, from bois "wood" and vert "green".
BrinkLow German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish Means "village green" or "hill, slope, edge of a field or steep place". As a Swedish name, it’s ornamental.
BrinkerGerman, Dutch Derived from brink "edge, slope" or "village green", indicating that the bearer of the surname lived near a prominent slope of land or next to the centre of a village.
BuglassEnglish Possibly from the Booklawes region near Melrose, Roxburgshire, originally spelt "Buke-Lawes" (lit. "buck/stag" combined with "low ground"); otherwise from the Gaelic words buidhe - "yellow" and glas - "green".
ChabashiraJapanese (Rare) From 茶 (cha) literally meaning "green tea" and 柱 (hashira) meaning "pillar". A tea pillar is considered good luck in Japanese culture.
CrownoverGerman (Anglicized) Americanised spelling of German Kronauer, denoting someone from Kronau, a town near Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It could also be an Americanised form of Kronhöfer (a variant of Grünhofer), a habitational name for someone from a lost place called Grünhof, derived from Middle High German gruene meaning "green" or kranech meaning "crane" and hof meaning "farmstead".
DalgleishScottish Means "person from Dalgleish", near Selkirk ("green field").
FaheyIrish Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fathaidh or Ó Fathaigh meaning "descendant of Fathadh", a given name derived from the Gaelic word fothadh "base, foundation".... [more]
GlasWelsh Nickname meaning "gray, green, silver-haired".
GlassIrish, Scottish Anglicized form of the epithet glas "gray, green, blue" or any of various Gaelic surnames derived from it.
GreenallEnglish From Lincolnshire in England, meaning "green hill".
GreenbergerGerman, Jewish Anglicized form of the German surname Grünberger, which is formed from the words grün "green", Berg "mountain", and the habitational suffix -er. This name indicated a person who lived on or near a forest-covered mountain.
GreenhillEnglish The name is derived from a geographic locality, "at the green hill", or rather, more specifically of "Greenhill". The surname could also derive from the liberty on the wapentake of Corringham in Lincolnshire, or a hamlet in the parish of Harrow in Middlesex... [more]
GreenidgeEnglish From Greenhedge Farm in Aslockton, Nottinghamshire, itself derived from Old English grene “green” + hecg “hedge”.
GreenleafEnglish From Old English grēne "green" and lēaf "leaf", presumably applied as a nickname, the significance of which is now lost.
GreenwayEnglish Originally given to a person who lived near a grassy path, from Middle English grene "green" and weye "road, path" (cf. Way).... [more]
GrinerGerman (Anglicized), Jewish Americanised form of German Greiner. It could also denote a person who came from various German places called Grüna or Grünau. In Jewish, it is a topographic name for someone who lived in a green of leafy area, derived from Yiddish grin meaning "green" or Middle High German gruene meaning "greenery".
GrinfelderCroatian Derived from German grün, "green", and feld, "field".
GroenewegDutch Dutch cognate of Greenway. habitational name from any of various minor places called Groeneweg a compound of groen "green" and weg "road path" for instance from the hamlets Groeneweg near Hoog Blokland in the province of South Holland and near Westbroek in the province of Utrecht.
GrünGerman, Jewish from Middle High German gruoni "green fresh raw" hence a nickname for someone who habitually dressed in green a topographic name for someone who lived in a green and leafy place or a habitational name for someone from a place called with this word such as GrunaGrunau in Silesia... [more]
GrünbaumGerman, Jewish from Middle High German gruoni "green" and boum "tree" probably a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a tree in leaf... [more]
GrünfeldGerman, Jewish Habitational name from any of several places in northern and central Germany named Grünfeld named with elements meaning "green open country" derived from the elements gruoni "green" and feld "field"... [more]
MidorinoJapanese Midori means "green" and no means "field, plain".
MidoriyaJapanese (Rare), Popular Culture Combination of 緑 (midori) meaning "green" and 谷 (ya) meaning "valley," used on the main character Izuku Midoriya (緑谷 出久) in 'My Hero Academia'.... [more]
MonteverdeItalian Habitational name from any of various places called Monteverde, for example in Avellino province, from monte meaning "mountain" + verde meaning "green".
MonteverdiItalian Derived from Italian monte meaning "mountain" and verdi meaning "green"; literally means "green mountain".
MurawskiPolish Name for someone from placed called Murawa or Murawy, both derived from Polish murawa meaning "lawn, green, sward".
PellicanoItalian, Sicilian nickname from dialect pelecanòpelicanò "woodpecker" from modern Greek pelekanos "green woodpecker" (cognate with pelekan "pelican"; both come from pelekys "axe" the pelican because its beak is shaped like an axe the woodpecker because it uses its beak like an axe).
RizalFilipino, Tagalog, Cebuano From Spanish ricial meaning "green field" or "rice field". A notable bearer was José Rizal (1861-1896), a Filipino nationalist and national hero.
RohemaaEstonian Rohemaa is an Estonian surname meaning "green land".
ÜlevainEstonian Ülevain is an Estonian surname meaning "above/across village green".
VainEstonian Vain is an Estonian surname meaning "village common", or "village green".
VainkülaEstonian Vainküla is an Estonian surname meaning "(village) green/common village"
VainmäeEstonian Vainmäe is an Estonian surname meaning "(village) green/common hill/mountain".
Van BrinkDutch Means "from the village green", from Dutch brink "village green, town square, edge of a field or hill".
Van BronckhorstDutch Means "from Bronckhorst", a town in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands, itself derived from Dutch brink meaning "village green, edge, slope" and horst meaning "overgrown hillock" or "higher located brushwood"... [more]
VerdeItalian, Spanish, Portuguese From Spanish verde "green" (Latin viridis), presumably a nickname for someone who habitually dressed in this color or had green eyes, etc. This is also a common element of place names.
VerdierFrench, Norman, English Occupational name for a forester. Derived from Old French verdier (from Late Latin viridarius, a derivative of viridis "green"). Also an occupational name for someone working in a garden or orchard, or a topographic name for someone living near one... [more]
VermontFrench (Rare) Derived from french, meaning "green mountain" (Vert, "green"; mont, "mountain").
ZelieskaPolish Polish Ashkenazic surname, possibly derived from surname Zieliński what is a habitational name for someone from Zielona or Zielonka (places in Poland), deriving from the root word meaning "green".
ZelyonkaRussian Derived from Russian зелёный (zelyonyy), meaning "green".