FeulnerGerman Franconian dialect form of Feilner (see Feiler), or derived from Feuln, a town near the district of Kulmbach, Bavaria, Germany. A notable bearer is the American academic Edwin Feulner (1941-).
Ó CéirínIrish Meaning ‘descendant of Céirín’, a personal name from a diminutive of ciar ‘dark’, ‘black’. English patronymic -s has been added superfluously.
BaleEnglish Variant of Bail. This is the surname of Welsh footballer Gareth Bale.
ElfvingSwedish Possibly a combination of an obsolete spelling of Swedish älv "river" and the suffix -ing (ultimately from Proto-Germanic -ingaz) meaning "coming from, belonging to, descending from"... [more]
Dell'oroItalian Means "of the gold" in Italian. Might indicate someone with blond hair, someone who worked as a goldsmith, or might be descended from the Latin name Aurius.
HingstonEnglish From any of several towns named Hinxton or Hingston, varyingly meaning "Hengist’s hill" (from hengest "stallion" and dun "hill, mountain") or "hind’s stone" (from hind "female deer" and stan "stone").
DeolPunjabi Sikh name based on the name of a Jat clan. Etymology unexplained.
MinegishiJapanese From Japanese 嶺 (mine) meaning "peak, summit" and 岸 (kishi) meaning "beach, seashore, bank".
FuchiwakiJapanese From 淵 (fuchi) meaning "abyss, deep pool, profound, deep end" and 脇 (waki) meaning "armpit, flank, side, underarm".
EscoriuelaAragonese It indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.
HạVietnamese Vietnamese form of He, from Sino-Vietnamese 賀 (hạ).
BuisDutch Means "buss, fishing vessel" in Dutch, a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman. Alternatively, a variant of the patronymic surname Buijs.
WatteauFrench Possibly from French gâteau “cake”, denoting a baker.
AjtósiHungarian Derived from a destroyed medieval settlement in Békés County, meaning "with door" in Hungarian, from Hungarian ajtó "door". It could also mean "doormaker" in Hungarian.
YanqiChinese Yanqi is/ was a county of China. It is also the surname of Mao Yanqi, also known as VAVA.
BircherGerman (Swiss) South German and Swiss German topographic name for someone who lived by a birch tree or in a birch wood, from Middle High German birche "birch" + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.
PavelkaCzech Derived from the given name Pavel. A famosu bearer is Jake Pavelka.
HuāwūChinese From Chinese 花 (huā) meaning "flower, blossom" combined with 屋 (wū) meaning "shop".
PuurEstonian Puur is an Estonian surname meaning "hutch" or "coop".
ErmatingerGerman (Swiss) The surname Ermatinger derives from the village of Ermatingen on the Swiss shore of Lake Constance. It simply means "from Ermatingen".... [more]
HartungGerman German, Dutch, and Danish: from a Germanic personal name, a derivative (originally a patronymic) of compound names beginning with hart ‘hardy’, ‘strong’.
AlsEnglish Means "son of Ale" in English, Ale being a short form of any of various personal names beginning with al-.
OjastuEstonian Ojastu is an Estonian surname derived from "oja" meaning "creek/stream".
RayfordAmerican From a Germanic personal name with the elements ric- meaning "powerful" and -frid meaning "peace".
DubosqueFrench DuBosque means 'of the forest' in french and was a surname given typically to someone from a rural treed area.
JaramilloSpanish, South American Spanish habitational name from either of two places in the Burgos province: Jaramillo de la Fuente or Jaramillo Quemada.
KoduEstonian Kodu is an Estonian surname meaning "home".
WadlowEnglish Habitational name from a lost place, Wadlow in Toddington.
VeitchScottish Derived from the Latin word vacca which means "cow". This was either an occupational name for a cowherd or a nickname for a gentle person.
L'HuillierFrench Denoted a person who produces or sells oil, from French huile "oil" with fused definite article l'. Anne Geneviève L'Huillier (1958-) is a French physicist who beat the world record for the shortest laser pulse, of 170 attoseconds.
BenallyNavajo From Navajo binálí meaning "his grandchild", derived from análí meaning "(paternal) grandchild". It was commonly adopted when Native Americans were required to take surnames for record purposes.
KurylenkoUkrainian Possibly from Ukrainian курити (kuryty), meaning "to smoke". A famous bearer is Ukrainian-French actress and model Olga Kurylenko (1979-).
KaitsEstonian Kaits is an Estonian surname meaning "guard".
TappEnglish, German Derived from an Old English given name Tæppa, of uncertain origin and meaning. In German, it is a nickname for a clumsy person or a simpleton, derived from Middle Low German tappe meaning "oaf".
YazdiPersian Indicated a family or person from the city of Yazd in Iran
BangDanish Originally a nickname denoting a loud or brash person, from Old Danish bang "noise" (from Old Norse banga "to pound, hammer" of echoic origin). A literary bearer was Danish author Herman Bang (1857-1912).... [more]
TiffanyEnglish From the medieval female personal name Tiffania (Old French Tiphaine, from Greek Theophania, a compound of theos "God" and phainein "to appear"). This name was often given to girls born around the feast of Epiphany.
MaramotTagalog Means "stingy, miserly, selfish" in Tagalog.
DuretFrench Derived from French dur meaning "hard, tough".
BornGerman, English A topographical name indicating someone who lived near a stream, from the Old English "burna, burne". Alternatively, it could be contemporarily derived from the modern English word "born". Possible variants include Bourne, Burns 1 and Boren.
VerranCornish Perhaps means "person from Treverran", Cornwall (from Cornish tre "farmstead" with an unknown second element), or "person from Veryan", Cornwall ("church of St Symphorian").
BourgetFrench Possibly meaning "from the city, town" or given to wealthy families, (from bourgeois)
UpwoodEnglish Derived from a place name meaning "upper forest" in Old English.
DrouillardFrench Probably a derogatory nickname, from a derivative of the regional term drouiller "to defecate", which also has various figurative senses.
AsamenJapanese (Rare) From Japanese 浅面 (Asamen), a clipping of 浅面門 (Asamemmon) meaning "Asamen Gate", a name of a group of several households in the Kadowari System that took place in the Edo Period in the former Japanese province of Satsuma in parts of present-day Kagoshima, Japan.
AbiruJapanese From Japanese 畔蒜 (Abiru) meaning "Abiru", a manor that was in the former district of Ahiru in the former Japanese province of Kazusa in parts of present-day Chiba, Japan.... [more]
MellarkPopular Culture The surname of the deuteragonist of the Hunger Games Trilogy, Peeta Mellark.
AllaireBreton, French (Quebec) From the name of the town of Allaire (Alaer in Breton) in Brittany, France. Other theories suggest it may come from Hilaire or from Alor.... [more]
FilipkowskiPolish Either a patronymic from the given name Filip, or a habitational name denoting a person from various places called Filipki (also derived from the given name) in Poland.
DoubledayEnglish Possibly from the nickname or byname do(u)bel meaning "the twin", or a combination of the given name Dobbel (a pet form of Robert) and Middle English day(e) meaning "servant".
ClavelSpanish Metonymic occupational name for a spice trader or a nail maker, derived from Spanish clavel or Catalan clavell meaning "nail", later also "clove", itself a derivative of Latin clavellus "nail".