Submitted Surnames Matching Pattern *a

Takiyama Japanese
From Japanese 滝 (taki) meaning "waterfall, rapids" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Takizawa Japanese
Taki means "waterfall" and zawa comes from sawa meaning "marsh, swamp".

Takizawa Japanese
From Japanese 滝 or 瀧 (taki) meaning "waterfall, rapids" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Takuma Japanese

Tala Filipino
meaning a star in philippine culture

Talaba Filipino, Cebuano
Means "oyster" in Cebuano.

Talacková f Czech

Talanoa Tongan

Talaveira Portuguese (Brazilian)
Portuguese cognate of Talavera.

Talavera Spanish
Spanish: habitational name from any of several places named Talavera, especially Talavera de la Reina in Toledo province.

Talgatova f Kazakh
Feminine form of Talgatov.

Talha Arabic, Bengali, Urdu
Derived from the given name Talha.

Talia Northern African

Taliana Maltese

Talıbova f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Talıbov.

Talıbzadə Azerbaijani
Means "born of Talıb".

Talija Serbian
Talija... [more]

Talumaa Estonian
Talumaa is an Estonian surname meaning "farmland".

Tamada Japanese
From Japanese 玉 (tama) meaning "jewel, ball" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Tamagawa Japanese
From Japanese 玉 (tama) meaning "gem, jewel, ball" and 川 (kawa) or 河 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Tamakawa Japanese
Tama means "jewel square" and kawa means "river".

Tamamura Japanese
Tama means "Jewel" and Mura means "village."... [more]

Tamanaha Japanese

Tamaoka Japanese
From Japanese 玉 (tama) meaning "gem, jewel, ball" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Tamara Japanese (Rare)

Tamata Japanese

Tamatsuka Japanese
Tama means "jewel" and tsuka means "mound".

Tamayama Japanese
玉 (Tama) means "jewel, gem" and 山 (yama) means "mountain".

Tamba Western African

Tamera Indian
Variant of Tamrakar.

Tamiya Japanese (Rare)
Tamiya means "rice field palace". See also Miyata

Tammemaa Estonian
Tammemaa is an Estonian surname meaning "oak land".

Tamta Kumaoni, Garhwali
Kumaoni and Garhwali form of Tamrakar.

Tanabata Japanese (Rare)
This surname refers to the Japanese Star Festival on July 7th.

Tanaca Japanese (Portuguese-style), Portuguese (Brazilian)
Portuguese form of Tanaka.

Tanacea Romanian (Rare)

Tanada Japanese

Tanaha Indian

Tanahara Japanese
Variant transcription of Tahara or variant of Takahara.

Tanajara Japanese (Hispanicized), Spanish (Mexican)
Hispanicized form of Tanahara.

Tanata Japanese

Tanatarova f Kazakh
Feminine form of Tanatarov.

Tanatova f Kazakh
Feminine form of Tanatov.

Tanda African

Tanda Japanese
From Japanese 反 (tan) referring to a unit of areal measure (equivalent to about 991.7 metres squared) and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Taneda Japanese
From 種 (tane) meaning "seed" and 田 (ta) meaning "rice paddy, field".

Tanegashima Japanese

Tanehira Japanese

Taneja Indian
This surname was apparently derived from tən‘blade of grass’ (from Sanskrit tṛna).

Taneva Bulgarian
Feminine form of Tanev.

Tangara Western African, Manding
Malian Bambara surname of unknown meaning.

Tanginoa Tongan

Tanguma Indigenous American (?), Mexican
Mexican surname of uncertain origin, probably Native American.

Tanibara Japanese (Rare)
Variant of Tanihara.

Tanida Japanese
From Japanese 谷 (tani) meaning "valley" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Tanigawa Japanese
From Japanese 谷 (tani) meaning "valley" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Tanihara Japanese
Tani means "valley" and hara means "plain". ... [more]

Tanikawa Japanese
From the Japanese 谷 (tani) meaning "valley" and 川 or 河 (kawa) meaning "stream, river."

Tanikuwa Japanese

Tanimura Japanese
From Japanese 谷 (tani) meaning "valley" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Taninaka Japanese
Tani means "valley" and naka means "middle".

Tanioka Japanese
Tani means "valley" and oka means "ridge, hill".

Tanisawa Japanese
Tani means "valley" and sawa means "swamp, marsh".

Tanita Japanese

Taniura Japanese
From Japanese 谷 (tani) meaning "valley" and 浦 (ura) meaning "bay, inlet".

Taniwara Japanese (Rare)
Variant of Tanihara.

Taniyama Japanese
Tani means "valley" and yama means "mountain". ... [more]

Tanizawa Japanese
Variant of Tanisawa.

Tanooka Japanese

Tanuma Japanese
From Japanese 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" and 沼 (numa) meaning "swamp, wetland, marsh".

Tanzawa Japanese
From Japanese 丹 (tan) meaning "cinnabar" and 沢/澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Taoda Japanese

Tapachula Nahuatl, Aztec
Means "between the waters" in Nahuatl.

Tapavicza Hungarian

Tapdıqova f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Tapdıqov.

Tapola Finnish

Tara Indian

Taranova f Russian
Feminine form of Taranov.

Tarasova Russian
Feminine form of Tarasov.

Tarcza Polish, Hungarian
Means "shield" in Polish.

Tardáguila Spanish
Tardáguila is a Spanish surname that is believed to have originated from the Basque region of Spain. The surname is a combination of the words "tarda", which means late, and "aguila", which means eagle... [more]

Tarifa Albanian

Tarkpea Estonian
Tarkpea is an Estonian surname meaning "wiseacre" (literally, "clever head").

Tarnawa Polish (Modern)

Tarnowska f Polish
Feminine form of Tarnowski.

Tartaglia Italian
From Italian tartagliare "to stutter".

Tartara Italian, French

Tarverdiyeva f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Tarverdiyev.

Tasaka Japanese
From Japanese 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" and 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope".

Tasawa Japanese
Variant of Tazawa.

Taseska f Macedonian
Feminine form of Taseski.

Taseva f Bulgarian, Macedonian
Feminine form of Tasev.

Tasevska f Macedonian
Feminine form of Tasevski.

Tashima Japanese
Ta means "field, rice patty" and shima means "island".

Tasidjawa Moluccan

Tasifa Amharic
Means “hope” in Amharic.

Tatania Italian

Tatara Japanese
From 多 (ta) meaning "many", 々, a phonetic character indicting a duplication of the beginning kanji, combined with 良 (ra) meaning "good".

Tateoka Japanese
From Japanese 立 (tate) meaning "stand, rise" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Tateyama Japanese
From Japanese 館 (tate) meaning "large building, mansion" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Tatka f Polish
Meaning Unknown.

Tatola Tongan

Tatsuda Japanese
From 竜 (tatsu) meaning "dragon" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Tatsumura Japanese
Tatsu means "dragon" and mura could mean "town" or "hamlet, village".

Tatsuoka Japanese
Tatsu means "Stand" or "Dragon, Imperial", and Oka means "Ridge, Hill."

Tatsushima Japanese
立 (Tachi) means "stand" and 島 (shima) means island.... [more]

Tatsuta Japanese

Tatula Swiss (?)

Tauekelova f Kazakh
Feminine form of Tauekelov.

Taura Japanese
From Japanese 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" and 浦 (ura) meaning "bay, inlet".

Tavitha African

Tăvuța Romanian (Rare)

Tawa Japanese

Tawada Japanese

Tawanda Shona
Tawanda means "We have increased or multiplied". #It is a name acknowledging the birth of a child as an increase to the family".

Tawaraya Japanese

Tawata Japanese
Variant of Tawada.

Tayama Japanese
From Japanese 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Tazawa Japanese
From the Japanese 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" or 多 (ta) meaning "various, many" combined with 澤 or 沢 (sawa) meaning "wetland, marsh, swamp."

Tazhibaeva f Kyrgyz, Kazakh
Feminine form of Tazhibaev.

Tea English
Variant of Tee.

Tea Khmer

Teheiura Tahitian
From the given name Teheiura.

Te Hira Maori

Teixeria Portuguese, English (Rare)
Variant of Teixeira, more commonly used in the United States likely by American-Portuguese citizens

Tejada Spanish
Meaning "roof" or "lime tree."

Tejeda Spanish
Variant of Tejada.

Tejera f Caribbean

Tejima Japanese
Variant of Teshima.

Tekazewa Japanese

Telaga Indian, Telugu
It is a Telugu name, mostly denoting agricultural laborers.

Telaumbanua Nias
Meaning uncertain.

Telgmaa Estonian
Telgmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "axial land".

Teliha Ukrainian

Tellechea Basque
Castilianized spelling of Telletxea, a habitational name meaning "(from) the house with tiles", composed of teila "roof tile" and etxe "house, home, building".

Telleria Basque
Habitational name derived from Basque teileria meaning "tile works, tile kiln; place where tiles are made".

Temelkoska f Macedonian
Feminine form of Temelkoski.

Temelkova f Macedonian, Bulgarian
Feminine form of Temelkov.

Temelkovska f Macedonian
Feminine form of Temelkovski.

Temirbekova f Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Feminine form of Temirbekov.

Temirkhanova f Kazakh
Feminine form of Temirkhanov.

Temirzhanova f Kazakh
Feminine form of Temirzhanov.

Temotowa kastila

Tempesta Italian
Originally a nickname for a person with a blustery temperament, from Italian tempesta meaning "storm, tempest" (compare Tempest).... [more]

Tempesta Romansh
Derived from Romansh tempesta "hailstorm".

Tenaglia Italian
From tenaglia "pincers".

Tenayuca Indigenous American, Mexican (Rare), Comanche (?)
Of uncertain origin. A known bearer was Emma Tenayuca (1916-1999), an American labor leader of Comanche descent.

Tenesa Spanish

Tennohja Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōja).

Tennohjiya Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjiya).

Tennōja Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjiya).

Tennoja Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōja).

Tennōjiya Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 天王寺谷 (Tennōjiya), script-changed from 天王寺屋 (Tennōjiya) meaning "Tennōji Store", a store that was in the ward of Tennōji in the city of Ōsaka in the prefecture of Ōsaka in Japan.

Tennojiya Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjiya).

Tennouja Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōja).

Tennoujiya Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjiya).

Tera Estonian
Tera is an Estonia surname that can mean "blade", "edge" and "grain".

Terada Japanese
From Japanese 寺 (tera) meaning "Buddhist temple" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Teragaya Japanese

Terajima Japanese
Variant of Terashima.

Teramura Japanese

Teraoka Japanese
Tera means "temple" and oka means "hill".

Teraoka Japanese
From Japanese 寺 (tera) meaning "temple" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Terasawa Japanese
From Japanese 寺 (tera) meaning "temple" and 沢 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Terashima Japanese
From Japanese 寺 (tera) meaning "Buddhist temple" and 島 or 嶋 (shima) meaning "island".

Terashita Japanese

Terata Japanese

Teraya Japanese

Terenya Russian, Belarusian

Teriimana Tahitian

Terina Russian (?)

Terpstra West Frisian, Dutch
Derived from terp, a kind of artificial hill used as shelter during floods or high tide, and the Frisian habitational suffix -stra.

Terra Portuguese (Brazilian)

Terracina Italian
From the name of a city in Lazio, Italy, called Tarracina in Latin.

Terunuma Japanese
From Japanese 照 (teru) meaning "shine" and 沼 (numa) meaning "swamp, marsh".

Terzieva f Bulgarian
Feminine form of Terziev.

Terziyska f Bulgarian
Feminine form of Terziyski.

Teshigawara Japanese
From Japanese 勅 (te) meaning "imperial order", 使 (shi) meaning "messenger, envoy", 河 (ga) meaning "river", and 原 (wara) meaning "field".

Teshima Japanese
From Japanese 手 (te) meaning "hand" and 島 or 嶋 (shima) meaning "island".

Testaguzza Italian (?)

Testina Italian (Rare)

Teterevkova Lithuanian

Tetsuka Japanese
Te means "hand" and tsuka means "mound, hillock".

Tetta Italian
Means "boob, tit" in Italian.

Texeira Portuguese
Variant of Teixeira.

Teymurova f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Teymurov.

Tezuka Japanese
From Japanese 手 (te) meaning "hand" and 塚 (tsuka) meaning "mound, hillock, grave".

Thammavongsa Lao
From Lao ທັມມະ (thamma) meaning "dharma, virtue, righteousness" and ວົງສາ (vongsa) meaning "family".

Thapa Nepali, Indian, Bengali, Assamese, Hindi, Odia
From an ancient military rank used in the Khasa Kingdom, which ruled parts of South Asia from the 11th to 14th centuries.

Tharanga Sinhalese
From the given name Tharanga.

Thathara Indian
Variant of Tamrakar.

Thathera Indian
Variant of Tamrakar.

Thavornvongsa Thai (Rare)
Variant transcription of Thai ถาวรวงศ์ (see Thawonwong).

Thawornwongsa Thai (Rare)
Variant transcription of Thai ถาวรวงศ์ (see Thawonwong).

Thelaidjia Arabic (Maghrebi)

Thepthida Lao

Theresa English, German
From the given name Theresa.

Theuma Maltese
Most likely derived from Arabic ثُوم (ṯūm) meaning "garlic", used in reference to someone who grew garlic or owned a garlic field. Alternatively, it may also be from تَوْأَم (tawʾam) meaning "twin, double".

Thika Albanian

Thilakarathna Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala තිලකරත්න (see Thilakaratne).

Thilakaratna Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala තිලකරත්න (see Thilakaratne).

Thilakawardana Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit तिलक (tilaka) meaning "mark, dot, ornament" and वर्धन (vardhana) meaning "increasing, strengthening, growing".

Thilakawardena Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala තිලකවර්ධන (see Thilakawardana).

Thilakawardhana Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala තිලකවර්ධන (see Thilakawardana).

Thoma German, German (Swiss)
German and Swiss German: variant of Thomas. Greek: genitive patronymic from Thomas. Genitive patronymics are particularly associated with Cyprus.

Thupakula Tamil

Thushara Sinhalese
From the given name Thushara.

Tiama African

Tiarra African

Tiba Central African

Tibba Western African

Tichina Russian

Ticona Indigenous American, Aymara (Hispanicized)

Tiella Italian

Tienna Indonesian

Tiesema Frisian
It's a patronym and it means "son of Ties".

Tihurua Moluccan

Tiigimaa Estonian
Tiigimaa is an Estonian surname meaning "pond land".

Tiirmaa Estonian
Tiirmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "twirl/wander "land".

Tiitsmaa Estonian
Tiitsmaa is an Estonian surname derived from the masculine given name "Tiit" and "maa ("land"); "Tiit's land".

Tikhanovskaya f Russian
Russian form of Tsikhanouskaya. The standard form is Tikhonovskaya, but when referring to the politician Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya in Russian, Tikhanovskaya is used.

Tikhonovskaya f Russian
Feminine form of Tikhonovskiy.

Tikka Finnish
means "woodpecker" in Finnish

Tilahunga Gorontalo

Tilakarathna Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala තිලකරත්න (see Thilakaratne).

Tilakaratna Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala තිලකරත්න (see Thilakaratne).

Tilea Romanian
Meaning unknown.

Tilga Estonian
Possibly derived from the name of either of two villages in Estonia.

Timofeeva f Russian
Feminine form of Timofeev.

Tina Indian

Tinsulanonda Dambro, Thai

Tipa Indian

Tissera Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Teixeira.

Tiwana Indian, Pakistani, Punjabi
Habitational name from the village of Tiwana in present-day Pakistan.

Tjalsma West Frisian
Frisian, meaning son of Tjalling.

Tjia Chinese (Hokkien)
Dutch-influenced spelling of Chia used in Indonesia.

Tjoa Filipino
Filipino for Cai.

Tlatilpa Nahuatl
Meaning uncertain, possibly derived from a given name.

Tlatilpa Aztec
It means where fire is born.

Toba Japanese
From Japanese 鳥 (to) meaning "bird" and 羽 (ba) meaning "feather".

Tobida Japanese

Tobita Japanese

Toda Japanese
Japanese: there are multiple meanings with this surname depending on the kanji used. ... [more]

Todoroska f Macedonian
Feminine form of Todoroski.

Todorovska f Macedonian
Feminine form of Todorovski.

Toga Japanese
From Japanese 東 (tō) "East", "eastern" and 賀 (ga) "congratulation". Other kanji combinations can form this surname as well.

Togata Japanese
From Japanese 通 (to, tou, tō) meaning "through" and 形 (gata) meaning "form"

Tohma Japanese

Tokareva Russian
Feminine transcription of Russian Токарев (see Tokarev).

Tokida Japanese

Tokioka Japanese

Tokita Japanese

Tokiwa Japanese
Combination of Kanji Characters "管" meaning "Organize", and "和" meaning "Normal", "Japanese". Other combinations possible.

Tokoroa Indigenous Australian

Toktarova f Kazakh
Feminine form of Toktarov.

Tokuda Japanese
From Japanese 徳 (toku) meaning "benevolence, virtue" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Tokugawa Japanese
From 徳 (toku) meaning "virtue" and 川 (kawa) meaning "stream, river".

Tokuma Japanese
From 徳 (toku) meaning "virtue" and 間 (ma) meaning "pause".

Tokunaga Japanese
From Japanese 徳 (toku) meaning "benevolence, virtue" and 永 (naga 3) meaning "perpetual, eternal".

Tokushima Japanese
From Japanese 徳 (toku) meaning "benevolence, virtue" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".

Tokuta Japanese

Tokutaka Japanese

Tokuyama Japanese
Combination of Kanji Characters 徳 meaning "Virtue" and 山 meaning "Mountain".

Tola Italian, Albanian

Tolegenova f Kazakh
Feminine form of Tolegenov.

Tolja Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian

Tolka Albanian

Tolkynova f Kazakh
Feminine form of Tolkynov.

Toma Japanese

Tomagola Moluccan

Tomasoa Moluccan

Tombura Zande, Central African
Tombura is of unknown etymology.

Tomida Japanese
Tomi means "wealth, abundance" and da comes from ta meaning "field, wilderness, plain".

Tomikawa Japanese
From 富/冨 (tomi) meaning "riches, wealth, fortune" combined with 川/河 (kawa) meaning "river."

Tominaga Japanese
From Japanese 富 or 冨 (tomi) meaning "wealth, abundance" and 永 (naga) meaning "eternity".

Tomisawa Japanese
Tomi means "wealth, abundance" and sawa means "swamp, marsh".

Tomita Japanese
From Japanese 富 or 冨 (tomi) meaning "wealth, fortune" and 田 (ta) meaning "field".

Tomiyama Japanese
From Japanese 富 or 冨 (tomi) meaning "abundant, rich, wealthy" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

Tomizawa Japanese
From Japanese 富 (tomi) meaning "wealth, abundance" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "wetland, swamp, marsh".

Tomoeda Japanese
Tomo means "Friend", Eda means "Branch, Twig".

Tomogaya Japanese
Variant of Tomotani.

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".

Tomooka Japanese
Tomo means "friend" and oka means "hill".

Tomosaka Japanese
友 (Tomo) means "friend" and 坂 (saka) means "slope, hill".

Tomotaka Japanese

Tomoya Japanese
Variant of Tomotani.

Tomura Japanese

Tonooka Japanese

Tooyama Japanese

Topalova f Bulgarian
Feminine form of Topalov.

Topasna Polynesian

Topla Turkish

Topuria Georgian, Mingrelian

Torihama Japanese
From 鳥 (tori) meaning "bird, chicken" and 濱 (hama) meaning "seashore, beach".

Toriyama Japanese
From Japanese 鳥 (tori) meaning "bird" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill". A notable bearer of this surname is Akira Toriyama (1955–), a manga artist best known for creating the Dragon Ball manga series.

Tormenta Spanish

Torquemada Castilian
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality in the Province of Palencia.

Torrabadella Spanish

Torralba Spanish, Catalan, Aragonese
Habitational name from any of several places called Torralba, named with torre meaning "tower" + alba meaning "white".