Submitted Surnames on the United States Popularity List

This is a list of submitted surnames in which the name appears on the United States popularity list.
Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.
Käo Estonian
Käo is an Estonian surname meaning "cuckoo".
Kapadia Indian, Gujarati
Occupational name for a cloth maker from Gujarati કાપડ (kāpaḍ) meaning "cloth, fabric".
Kapel Dutch, Dutch (Surinamese)
Means "chapel" in Dutch, a habitational name for someone who lived near a chapel (or in a place named after one), or an occupational name for a chaplain.
Kapela Polish
Occupational name for a musician, derived from Polish kapela "music band; court orchestra".
Kapeller German, German (Austrian)
Derived from Middle High German kappelle, kapelle "chapel", this name denoted someone who lived near a chapel.
Kapetanović Croatian, Bosnian
Occupational surname derived from kapetan meaning "captain".
Kapić Bosnian
Derived from kapa, meaning "hat, cap".
Kaplan Turkish
Means "tiger" in Turkish.
Kaplan German, Czech, Jewish
Means "chaplain, curate" in German and Czech, ultimately from Latin cappellanus. It is also sometimes used as a Jewish name, from a translation of Hebrew כֹּהֵן (kohen) meaning "priest" (see Cohen).
Kapoor Indian, Hindi, Punjabi
From Sanskrit कर्पूर (karpura) meaning "camphor".
Käpp Estonian
Käpp is an Estonian surname meaning both "orchid" and "paw".
Kapu Indian, Telugu
It is a Telugu name, denoting an "agricultural worker".
Kapur Indian, Hindi, Punjabi
Alternate transcription of Kapoor.
Kapuściński Polish
Habitational name for someone from the town of Kapuścin or Kapuścino, both named from Polish kapusta meaning "cabbage".
Kapustin Russian
From kapusta, meaning "cabbage".
Kar Turkish
Means "snow" in Turkish.
Kara Turkish
Means "black, dark" in Turkish.
Karabatsos Greek
Uncommon Greek surname.
Karabulut Turkish
Means "black cloud" in Turkish.
Karaca Turkish
Means "roe deer" in Turkish.
Karagöz Turkish
Means "black eye" in Turkish.
Karakas Hungarian
Means "maker of wheels".
Karakaş Turkish
Means "black eyebrow" from Turkish kara meaning "black, dark" and kaş meaning "eyebrow".
Karalius Lithuanian
From Lithuanian meaning "king".
Karam Arabic, Urdu, Persian
Derived from the given name Karam.
Karami Persian
From the given name Karam.
Karan Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 加覧 (see Garan).
Karapetian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Karapetyan.
Karapetyan Armenian
Means "son of Karapet".
Karataş Turkish
From Turkish kara meaning "black" and taş meaning "stone, rock".
Karbowski Polish
Habitational name for someone from Karbowo in Torun voivodeship, a place so named from Polish karbowy "overseer (of farm laborers)", from karbowac "to make notches", i.e. to keep records.
Karch Jewish
1 Jewish (Ashkenazic): Americanized spelling of Karcz .... [more]
Karczewski Polish
habitational name for someone from Karczew, named with Polish karcz ‘stump’.
Kardashian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Kardashyan. This is the name of an Armenian-American family of socialites.
Kareem Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Karim.
Karen Czech
From a diminutive of the given name Karel.
Kärg Estonian
Kärg is an Estonian surname meaning "honeycomb".
Kargar Persian
Means "worker, labourer" in Persian.
Karhu Finnish
Means "bear" (the animal) in Finnish.
Kari Finnish, German (Austrian), Slovene (?), Hungarian, Indian, Marathi
As a Finnish name, it is a topographic and ornamental name from kari "small island", "stony rapids", "sandbar", or "rocky place in a field". This name is found throughout Finland.... [more]
Kari Estonian
Kari is an Estonian surname meaning both "reef" and "herd".
Karia Indian (Christian)
Derived from the given name Zechariah.
Karimian Persian
From the given name Karim.
Karin Estonian
Possibly derived from Estonian kari "reef, outcrop of stone in water".
Karjala Finnish
Finnish from karja ‘cattle’ + the local suffix -la, or possibly from a word of Germanic origin, harja- ‘host’, ‘crowd’, Old Swedish haer. Historic records suggest that the Germanic inhabitants of the area around Lake Ladoga (in present-day Russia) used this term to refer to the Finns who once lived there.
Kark Estonian
Kark is an Estonian surname meaning "stilt" (Himantopus himantopus).
Karki Nepali
Occupational name for a tax collector from Nepali कर (kar) meaning "tax" (ultimately of Sanskrit origin).
Karla Czech
Karla, from English - carla
Kärlin German
German surname from the personal name Karl. Also an altered spelling of German Gerling.
Karlin Jewish
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) habitational name for someone from Karlin, a suburb of Pinsk in Belarus, in which the Jews formed the majority of the population until the Holocaust. A well-known Hasidic sect originated in Karlin and at one time it attracted so many followers that a (now obsolete) Russian word for ‘Hasid’ was Karliner (of Yiddish origin)... [more]
Karlin Swedish (Rare)
Variant spelling of Carlin 3.
Karlin Polish
Polish habitational name from a village in Poland.
Karling German
A habitational name from Karling in Bavaria.
Karlović Croatian
Means "son of Karlo".
Karłowicz Polish
Patronymic from Karol 1 or Karl.
Karlson English
Means "Son of Karl".
Karlström Swedish
Literally means "Carl's stream" in Swedish.
Karm Estonian
Karm is an Estonian surname meaning "strict" and "austere".
Karmakar Indian, Bengali, Assamese
Means "blacksmith" in Bengali and Assamese.
Kármán Hungarian
An ethnic name for people from Karaman, Turkey, via Medieval Latin Caramanus.
Karman Dutch
Dutch form of Carman 1
Karman Jewish
From Russian карман (karman) meaning "pocket, bag pocket", probably an occupational name for someone who made such items. Alternatively, could derive from Hungarian Kármán.
Karmann German
German form of Carman 1.
Kärner Estonian, German
Derived from an archaic loan word meaning "gardener", related to German Gärtner.
Karol Jewish (Ashkenazi), Polish, Rusyn, Slovak
Polish, Slovak Rusyn, Slovak: from the personal name Karol 1, Polish and Slovak equivalent of Charles.... [more]
Károly Hungarian
From the given name Károly.
Kärp Estonian
Kärp is an Estonian surname meaning "stoat" or "ermine".
Karp English
From the given name Karp.
Karp Polish
From Middle High German karp(f)e Middle Low German karpe or Slavic (Russian and Polish) and Yiddish karp ‘carp’ hence a metonymic occupational name for a carp fisherman or seller of these fish or a nickname for someone thought to resemble the fish.... [more]
Karpenko Ukrainian
Means "son of Karp".
Karpiak Ukrainian
Likely from the given name Karp.
Karpiński m Polish
Derived from karp, the Polish spelling of "carp." Historically, the Karpiński family was part of the royal Clan of Korab, one of the twelve noble tribes of Poland.
Karpov m Russian
Means "son of Karp".
Karpowicz English
Patronymic from Karp.
Karr German, Scottish, English
German: truncated form of Karren or Karrer.... [more]
Karras Greek
Means "dark" in Greek. Feminine form is Karra.
Karter Breton
Breton form of Carter. This was the birth surname of Breton-French explorer Jacques Cartier (1491-1557), who is known for discovering the gulf of St. Lawrence.
Karunaratne Sinhalese
From Sanskrit करुणा (karuna) meaning "compassion, kindness, mercy" and रत्न (ratna) meaning "jewel, treasure".
Kasabyan Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Ղասաբյան (see Ghasabyan)
Kasahara Japanese
From Japanese 笠 (kasa) meaning "conical hat" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".
Kasahara Japanese (Rare)
From an additional character of Japanese 上 (ka) meaning "above; high; up" added to 砂原 (Sunahara) (see Sunahara).
Kasai Japanese
It means fire in Japanese
Kasap Turkish
Means "butcher" in Turkish.
Kase Japanese
From Japanese 加 (ka) meaning "add, increase" and 瀬 (se) meaning "rapids, current".
Käser German, German (Swiss)
occupational name for a cheesemaker or a cheese merchant (see Kaeser ). topographic name for someone who lived by a summer dairy in the Alps from a Tyrolean dialect word derived from Ladin casura... [more]
Kasey English
Variant of Casey.
Kashani Persian
Indicated a person from the city of Kashan in Isfahan province, Iran. The name may be derived from the Kasian, the original inhabitants of the area.
Kasher Jewish, Hebrew
From Hebrew כשר (ksher) meaning "fit, proper".
Kashif Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Kashif.
Kashima Japanese
From Japanese 鹿 (ka) meaning "deer" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".
Kashiwabara Japanese
From Japanese 柏 (kashiwa) meaning "oak" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".
Kashiwagi Japanese
From 柏 (kashiwa), which specifically refers the Japanese Emperor Oak/Daimyo oak (Quercus dentata), and 木 (ki), meaning "tree".
Kashiwagi Japanese
From Japanese 柏 (kashiwa) meaning "oak" and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".
Kashyap Indian, Hindi, Punjabi
From the given name Kashyapa.
Kasim Arabic, Filipino, Maguindanao, Tausug
From the given name Qasim.
Kasimov Russian
From the city of Kasimov, located in Ryazan district, Russia.
Kasongo Central African
A Congolese surname derived from the town with the same name, located in the Maniema Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Kasparian Armenian (Expatriate)
Variant of Gasparyan used by Armenians living outside Armenia.
Käsper Estonian
Käsper is an Estonian surname derived from the masculine given name "Kasper".
Kasper German, Czech
From the given name Kasper.
Kasperson English
Means "Son of Kasper".
Kass Estonian
Means "cat" in Estonian.
Kassel German
habitational name mainly from a place of this name in northeastern Hesse so named from Frankish castella cassela "fortification" a military term from Late Latin castellum "fortified position fort" or a topographic name from the same word.
Kassem Arabic
From the given name Kassem, a form of Qasim.
Kassler German
habitational name for someone from Kassel (see Kassel).
Kastanis m Greek
From Greek καστανιά (kastania) meaning "chestnut, chestnut tree". This name is given to someone with chestnut hair or someone who lived near a chestnut tree.
Kastelic Slovene
Means "from a castle".
Kastl German
From a pet form of the saint's name Castulus, itself a diminutive of the Latin adjective castus 'chaste'.
Kastrati Albanian
Derived from the name of the Kastrati tribe inhabiting the region of Malësia in northern Albania.
Kasuba Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 斯波 (see Shiba).
Kasun Sinhalese
From the given name Kasun.
Kasunić Croatian
Possibly derived from the old Slavic word kazati, meaning "to order, to command".
Kat Dutch, Frisian, South African, Jewish
Means "cat", a habitational name for someone who lived by a sign depicting a cat, or a nickname for someone who somehow resembled a cat, perhaps in agility or an independent nature.
Katagiri Japanese
From the Japanese 片 (kata) "single-" and 桐 (giri) "foxglove tree."
Katai Japanese
From Japanese 片 (kata) meaning "partial, one-sided" and 井 (i) meaning "well".
Katan Jewish
From Hebrew קָטָן (katan) meaning "small, little, young".
Katano Japanese
From Japanese 片 (kata) meaning "one-sided, part" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".
Kataoka Japanese
From Japanese 片 (kata) meaning "partial, one-sided" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".
Katayama Japanese
From Japanese 片 (kata) meaning "partial, one-sided" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".
Kate English
Derived from the given name Kate.
Katherine English
Derived form the given name Katherine.
Kathleen English
Derived from the given name Kathleen.
Katin Russian
Matronymic surname derived from a diminutive Katya of the Russian given name Yekaterina.
Katje Dutch
Diminutive form of the surname Kat.
Katoh Japanese
Variant transcription of Kato.
Katopodis Greek
It cames only from the greek island lefkada, its by the word meaning is "Downfoot" nut actually it means The guy who run away
Katsumata Japanese
Katsu means "victory, win, prevail" and mata means "again, furthermore".
Katsura Japanese
This surname is used as 桂, 勝占, 勝羅, 勝良, 曽良 or 葛良 with 桂 (kei, katsura) meaning "cinnamon tree, Japanese Judas-tree", 勝 (shou, ka.tsu, katsu, -ga.chi, sugu.reru, masa.ru) meaning "excel, prevail, victory, win", 曽 (so, sou, zou, katsu, katsute, sunawachi) meaning "before, ever, formerly, never, once", 葛 (kachi, katsu, kuzu, tsudzura, katsura) meaning "arrowroot, kudzu", 占 (sen, urana.u, shi.meru) meaning "divining, forecasting, fortune-telling, get, have, hold, occupy, take", 羅 (ra, usumono) meaning "gauze, Rome, thin silk" and 良 (ryou, i.i, yo.i, ra) meaning "good, pleasing, skilled."... [more]
Kattan Jewish
Variant of Katan.
Kattan Arabic
Alternate transcription of Arabic قطان (see Qattan).
Katzen Jewish (Ashkenazi)
Katzen is a variant of Kotzen, or a shortened version of Katzenellenbogen. Its origins can also be traced back to a habitational form of Katzenelnbogen. There is no clear answer of where this surname exactly came from... [more]
Katzenberg Jewish
Elaboration of Katz with the old German word berg meaning "mountain".
Katzin Jewish
Jewish: nickname from Hebrew katsin ‘rich man’. ... [more]
Katzman Slavic
Slavic form of Katz. Means "high priest, king".
Kau German
From Middle High German gehau "(mountain) clearing" hence a topographic name for a mountain dweller or possibly an occupational name for a logger.
Kau German
Topographic name for someone who lived by a mineshaft, from Middle High German kouw(e) "mining hut".
Kauhane Hawaiian
Literally, "the spirit". Ka being "the" and Uhane being "spirit".
Kauk German
probably a variant of Kauke from Middle Low German koke "cake" (dialect kauke) hence a metonymic occupational name for a baker or confectioner or a nickname for a cake lover.
Kaul Kashmiri (Modern)
The word Kaul, meaning well-born, is derived from Kula, the Sanskrit term for family or clan.
Kaun Estonian
Kaun is an Estonian surname meaning "pod" or "legume".
Kaup Estonian
Kaup is an Estonian surname meaning "merchandise" or "goods".
Kauppi Finnish
From the medieval variant of the given name Jaakob. In some cases from the Finnish archaic term meaning "merchant, trader".
Kaur Estonian
Kaur is an Estonian surname (and masculine given name) derived from the given name "Kaur" (loon: Gavia).
Kaus German
From a regional (Hessian) variant of the habitational name Kues, from a place on the Mosel river, probably so named from Late Latin covis "field barn", "rack" and earlier recorded as Couese, Cobesa.
Kausar Urdu
Derived from the given name Kausar.
Kausch German
Pet name derived from the Old High German personal name Gozwin, of uncertain origin.
Kausch German
From a medieval form of the Old High German personal name Chuzo.
Kauss Estonian
Kauss is an Estonian surname meaning "dish" and "bowl".
Kaut German
Netonymic occupational name for a flax grower or dealer, from Middle High German kute, from Kaut(e) "male dove", hence a metonymic occupational name for the owner or keeper of a dovecote.
Kaut German
Topographic name from the Franconian dialect word Kaut(e) "hollow", "pit", "den".
Kauten Hungarian
Nickolas Kauten was born July 15, 1890, in Austria - Hungary, ... [more]
Kautz German
Nickname for a shy or strange person, from Middle High German kuz "screech owl".
Kautzmann German
Variant of Kautz, with the addition of Middle High German -man "man".
Kavka Slovak, Ukrainian, Czech
Yet another variant of Kafka and its pop culture equivalents Kefka and Cefca. Also like Kaffka, it simply means ‘Jackdaw’ in Slovak.
Kawabata Japanese
'Side or bank of the river'; written two ways, with two different characters for kawa ‘river’. One family is descended from the northern Fujiwara through the Saionji family; the other from the Sasaki family... [more]
Kawabata Japanese
From Japanese 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream" and 畑 (hata) meaning "farm, cropfield".
Kawabata Japanese
From Japanese 川 (kawa) or 河 (kawa) both meaning "river, stream" and 端 (hata) meaning "edge, end, tip".
Kawabe Japanese
From Japanese 川 (kawa) or 河 (kawa) both meaning "river, stream" and 辺 (be) meaning "area, place, vicinity".
Kawachi Japanese
From 川 or 河 (kawa) meaning "river, stream" combined with 内 (dai, nai, uchi, chi) meaning "among, between, home, house, inside, within."
Kawada Japanese
From Japanese 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".
Kawahara Japanese
From Japanese 川 or 河 (kawa) meaning "river" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".
Kawai Japanese
From Japanese 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".
Kawamata Japanese
From Japanese 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream" and 又 (mata) meaning "again, once more".
Kawamata Japanese
From Japanese 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream" and 俣 (mata) meaning "fork, crotch".
Kawamoto Japanese
From Japanese 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".
Kawamura Japanese
From Japanese 川 or 河 (kawa) meaning "river, stream" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".
Kawanishi Japanese
From Japanese 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream" and 西 (nishi) meaning "west".
Kawano Japanese
From the Japanese 川 or 河 (kawa or gawa) meaning "river, stream" and 野 (no) meaning "field, plain, wilderness."
Kawase Japanese
From Japanese 川 (kawa) or 河 (kawa) both meaning "river, stream" and 瀬 (se) meaning "ripple, rapids, current".
Kawashima Japanese
From Japanese 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream, brook" and 島 (shima) or 嶋 (shima) both meaning "island".
Kawata Japanese
Variant transcription of Kawada.
Kawauchi Japanese
From Japanese 河 (kawa) or 川 (kawa) meaning "river" combined with 内 (uchi) meaning "inside".
Kawka Polish
Polish variant of Kawa and cognate of Kafka.
Kay Chinese
From Chinese 凯 (kǎi) meaning "triumphant, victorious, triumphal".
Kaya Japanese
From 賀 (ka) meaning "congratulate", combined with 屋 (ya) meaning "house, shop".
Kaye English
From the first name Kaye.
Kayler English
Variant of Kaylor.
Kaylor Scottish, German
Variant of Scottish Keillor.... [more]
Kayser German
Variant of Kaiser.
Kaz Jewish
Variant of Katz.
Kazak Russian
Unisex Russian surname, meaning the word "Cossack"
Kazakov Russian
From Russian казак (kazak) meaning "Cossack".
Kazan Jewish
From Hebew chazan, which is an occupational name for a cantor in a synagogue.
Kazan Ukrainian, Belarusian, Jewish
From Turkish kazan meaning "kettle, boiler, furnace".
Kazan Greek
Reduced form of Kazandis which is an occupational surname for a maker of cauldrons or someone who uses a cauldron for the distillation of ouzo or raki... [more]
Kazan Turkish
From Turkish meaning "cauldron".
Kazanchyan Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Ղազանչյան (see Ghazanchyan).
Kazandjian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Ղազանչյան (see Ghazanchyan).
Kazanjian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Ղազանչյան (see Ghazanchyan).
Kazantsev m Russian
Denotes to a person from Kazan'.
Kazarian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Ղազարյան (see Ghazaryan).
Kazaryan Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Ղազարյան (see Ghazaryan).
Kaze Japanese
Kaze means "wind".
Kazemzadeh Persian
Means "born of Kazem".
Kazi Indian (Muslim)
Variant spelling of Qazi ‘judge’.
Kazi Bengali, Indian
Variant of Qazi.
Kazi Bengali, Indian (Muslim)
Bengali form of Qazi as well as an alternate transcription of Hindi काज़ी and Urdu قاضی.
Kazim Urdu, Punjabi, Arabic
From the given name Kazim.
Kázmér Hungarian
From the given name Kázmér.
Kazmi Urdu
From the given name Kazim.
Kaźmierczak Polish
Derived from the given name Kazimierz.
Kc Chinese, Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Teochew), Chinese (Hokkien), Taiwanese, Korean, Burmese, English, Hungarian
Some characteristic forenames: Chinese Young, Kwang, Yong, Sung, Jae, Eun, Hyun, Myung, Jung, Kyong, Sang, Wing. Korean Chang, Chong, Chung, Byung, Byung Soo, Hak, Jeong, Kwang Soo, Min, Myong, Pak, Sinae.... [more]
Ke Chinese
From Chinese 柯 (kē) meaning "axe handle, stalk, branch".
Keagle German (Americanized)
Americanized form of the German surname "Kegel".
Keahi Hawaiian
From the given name Keahi.
Keala Hawaiian
From the given name Keala.
Kealoha Hawaiian
From the given name Kealoha.
Keane Irish (Modern)
A nickname for a "brave" or "proud" person deriving from Middle English given name Kene
Kear Scottish Gaelic
Kear is derived from the Gaelic name O'Ciarain or O'Ceirin, which comes from the Gaelic word ciar, meaning black or dark brown.
Kearns Irish (Anglicized)
Irish anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Céirín ‘descendant of Céirín’, a personal name from a diminutive of ciar ‘dark’, ‘black’... [more]
Kearny Irish
Variant of Kearney.
Kearse Irish
Variant of Keirsey.
Kearsley English
Derived from any of the English settlements called Kearsley
Keate English
Variant of Kite.
Keats English
Variant of Kite.
Keay Irish (?), Scottish
Possibly from the given name Kay 1.
Kedem Hebrew
Either means "east" or "ancient" in Hebrew.
Keel English
English habitational name from Keele in Staffordshire, named from Old English cy ‘cows’ + hyll ‘hill’, or from East and West Keal in Lincolnshire, which are named from Old Norse kjolr ‘ridge’... [more]
Keel Irish
Irish reduced form of McKeel.
Keel German (Swiss)
Swiss German variant of Kehl.
Keel German (Anglicized)
Americanized spelling of German Kühl, Kiehl, or Kiel.
Keel Estonian
Keel is an Estonian surname meaning "language/speech" and also "reed".
Keeler English
English: occupational name for a boatman or boatbuilder, from an agent derivative of Middle English kele ‘ship’, ‘barge’ (from Middle Dutch kiel). Americanized spelling of German Kühler, from a variant of an old personal name (see Keeling) or a variant of Kühl.
Keeling Irish, English
Irish: see Keeley. ... [more]
Keenan Irish
Variant of O'keenan.
Keene English
Variant of Keen.
Keener English
Anglicized form of Kiener or Kühner.