Submitted Surnames on the List of Nobel Prize Winners

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Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.

Seifert German (East Prussian)
German/Russian/Ashkenazi Jewish this surname derived from the very popular personal name siegfried, introduced for the first time inglaterra in the Anglo-Saxon period, and again as a surname thousand years later... [more]

Semenza Italian
From semenza ‘seeds’ possibly used for a seed merchant.

Şen Turkish
Means "happy, cheerful" in Turkish.

Sen Bengali
Derived from Sanskrit सेना (sena) meaning "army, armament".

Shapley English

Sherrington English (British)

Shimomura Japanese
From Japanese 下 (shimo) meaning "below, down, under" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

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"

Shull German
Derivative of Scholl

Singer German
variant of Sänger, in the sense of ‘poet’

Sirleaf Western African
Altered form of Sheriff (a predominantly Mandinka Muslim surname, itself a variant of Sharif).

Smalley English, Cornish (?)
Locational surname from places in Derbyshire and Lancashire, so called from Old English smæl ‘narrow’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. This may also be a Cornish name with an entirely separate meaning.

Söderblom Swedish
Combination of Swedish söder "south" and blom "bloom, flower".

Solzhenitsyn Russian
Derived from Russian соложеница (solozhenitsa) meaning "maltman".

Sperry English
Variant of Spear.

Steinbeck German
Denotes a person hailing from one of the many places in Germany called Steinbeck or Steinbach, from Middle High German stein "stone" and bach "stream, creek". In some cases it is a South German occupational name for a mason... [more]

Steitz German, French

Stiglitz German
Variant of Stieglitz

Sussman German, Jewish
In German, this is an elaborated form of Süß, meaning "sweet man".... [more]

Suttner German

Svedberg Swedish
Combination of Swedish svedja "to burn off, to swidden" (referring to slash-and-burn agriculture (in Swedish: svedjebruk)) and berg "mountain". This name can be both locational (surname derived from a place named with Sved-... [more]

Synge English (British)
First found in Shropshire where they had been anciently seated as Lords of the Manor of Bridgenorth, from the time of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 A.D.

Szóstak Polish
It literally means a deer with 6-pointed antlers.

Tagore Indian, Bengali
Bengali form of Thakur.

Tayler English
Variant of Taylor.

Thaler German

Ting Chinese (Min Dong)
Min Dong romanization of Chen.

Ting Chinese, Chinese (Cantonese)
Alternate transcription of Chinese 丁 (see Ding) as well as the Cantonese romanization.

Tomonaga Japanese
From Japanese 朝 (tomo) meaning "morning, epoch, period" and 長 (naga) meaning "long" or 永 (naga) meaning "eternity".

Tomonaga Japanese
From Japanese 友 (tomo) meaning "friend" and 永 (naga) meaning "eternity".

Townes English

Trimble English, Scottish, Northern Irish
A variant of Trumble, recorded in Northern Ireland since the 17th century.... [more]

Tsui Chinese
Alternate transcription of Cui.

Tu Chinese
From the ancient city of Zoutu.

Tu Chinese
From Chinese 屠 (tú) referring either to Zou Tu, an ancient country that may have existed in what is now Shandong province, or the ancient fief of Tu, which existed during the Shang dynasty in what is now Shaanxi province.

Tu Chinese
From Chinese 涂 (tú), the old name for the Chu River that runs through the present-day provinces of Anhui and Jiangsu.

Vane English
Possible variant of Fane.

Walcott English
habitational name from any of several places called Walcott Walcot or Walcote for example in Lincolnshire Leicestershire Norfolk Oxfordshire and Wiltshire all named in Old English wealh "foreigner Briton serf" (genitive plural wala) and cot "cottage hut shelter" (plural cotu) meaning "the cottage where the (Welsh-speaking) Britons lived".

Wald German, English
Topographic name for someone who lived in or near a forest (Old High German wald, northern Middle English wald).

Wallach Scottish
Variant of Wallace, meaning 'foreigner' that is found chiefly in Dumfries.

Weinberg German, Jewish
Weinberg means "Vineyard" in german.

Weller English, German
Either from the Olde English term for a person who extracted salt from seawater, or from the English and German "well(e)," meaning "someone who lived by a spring or stream."... [more]

Whipple English
English surname of uncertain meaning. It might be a shortened form of “whippletree”; an early name for the dogwood. It may also be a variation of Whipp – an early surname for someone who carried out judicial punishments.

Whittingham English

Wieland German, Germanic Mythology
Derived from the given name Wieland.

Wien German, Jewish
Habitational name from the city of Vienna (German Wien Yiddish Vin)... [more]

Wiesel German, Jewish
Means "weasel" in German.

Wilczek Polish
Diminutive form of Wilk, which means "wolf" in Polish.

Willstatter German, Jewish

Wofford English (Anglicized, Modern)
Wof=wolf... [more]

Ximenes Portuguese
Portuguese form of Jiménez.

Yamanaka Japanese
From Japanese 山 (yama) meaning "mountain" and 中 (naka) meaning "middle".

Yang Korean
Korean form of Liang, from Sino-Korean 梁 (yang).

Yang Hui

Yeats English
Scottish and northern English variant spelling of Yates.

Yousafzai Pashto
Means "son of Yusuf" in Pashto. A notable bearer is Malala Yousafzai (1997-), a Pakistani education and human rights activist and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Yukawa Japanese
From Japanese 湯 (yu) meaning "hot spring" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Yunus Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
From the given name Yunus.

Zeilinger German
Habitational name for someone from Zeiling in Bavaria.

Zsigmondy Hungarian
Derived from the given name Zsigmond. The Austrian-born chemist Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865-1929), together with the German physicist Henry Siedentopf, invented the ultramicroscope... [more]

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