Browse Submitted Surnames

Milenkovski m Macedonian
Means "son of Milenko".

Berroa Basque
Means "a scrubland, a thicket" in Basque.

Luhtanen Finnish
Luhtanen is an Finnish surname derived from "luhta" meaning "swamp flood meadow".

Gouda Indian, Hindi, Odia
Alternate transcription of Gauda.

Thakur Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Odia, Assamese, Gujarati, Nepali
From a feudal title meaning "lord, master", derived from Sanskrit ठक्कुर (thakkura) meaning "deity".

Ramaš Croatian

Vään Estonian
Vään is an Estonian surname meaning "climbing".

Takayasu Japanese
Taka means "tall, high" and yasu means "cheap, inexpensive, relax"

Najaryan Armenian
Means "son of the carpenter" from dialectal Armenian նաջար (naǰar) meaning "carpenter" (of Arabic origin).

Chiovaro Sicilian
Unknown meaning. Brought over to the United States from Sicilian immigrants, where the pronunciation changed from KEE-o-vah-row to SHIV-ahr-ow.

Nosoko Okinawan (Japanized, Rare)
Japanese reading of Japanese Kanji 野底 (see Nusuku).

Naughton Irish
Reduced form of McNaughton.

Kontsov m Russian
Derived from Russian конец (konets), meaning "end".

Verkholyak Ukrainian

Soh Chinese (Hokkien)
It is from the Hanzi character "蘇" (so͘) meaning "perilla".

Amâncio Portuguese
From the given name Amâncio.

Pedreña Filipino

Taj Pashto, Urdu, Persian
Derived from the given name Taj.

Atreides Literature
Used by Frank Herbert for the main character of first two novels of Dune, Paul Atreides, the heir of house Atreides. He probably based it on Ancient Greek Ἀτρείδης (Atreídēs), meaning "child of Atreus".

Chichigova Chechen
Feminine transcription of Chechen Чичигов (see Chichigov).

Iwamura Japanese
Iwa means "stone " and mura can mean "village, hamlet" or "town".

Orru Italian
From Sardinian orrù "bramble", itself from Latin rubus "bramble, blackberry bush".

Osichenko Ukrainian

Makowski Polish
Name for someone from any of various places called Maków, Makowa or Makowo, all derived from Polish mak meaning "poppy".

Az Indonesian

Hacızadə Azerbaijani
Azerbaijani form of Hajizadeh.

Gobzems Latvian

Chardel French

Ōzora Japanese
From Japanese 大 (ō) meaning "big, great" and 空 (sora) meaning "sky".

Hamazono Japanese
Hamazono/濱園 = "Beach Garden"

Africa Filipino

Kekke Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 結解 (kekke), a variant reading of 結解 (ketsuge) meaning "klesha to nirvana".

Van Dyne Dutch (Americanized)
Americanized form of Dutch Van Duijne, a habitational name from any of several locations in the Netherlands name Duin or Duinen, derived from the element duin "dune".

Mootalu Gorontalo

Palacol Filipino, Tagalog
Means "ax" in Tagalog.

Pauleta Portuguese

Kenwyn Cornish (Rare)
This surname is derived from the name of a town and river in Cornwall, England (called Keynwynn in Cornish). It is said that the name is derived from Cornish keyn meaning "back, keel, ridge" and gwynn meaning "white, fair, blessed."

Kiska Belarusian

Iskändärov Bashkir, Russian
Means "son of Iskändär".

Lahe Estonian
Lahe is an Estonian surname meaning both "spacious" and "easy-going".

Alecu Romanian
Means "son of Alexandru" in Romanian.

Kuanyshbekov m Kazakh
Means "son of Kuanyshbek".

Baviera Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan
Means "Bavaria" in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Catalan. Indicating for someone from Bavaria a state in Germany.

Brusch Romansh
Derived from the given name Ambrosius.

Permyakov m Russian

Gion Romansh
Derived from the given name Gion.

Warnock Irish
Variant of MacGilvernock.

Phonekeo Lao
From Lao ພອນ (phone) meaning "blessing" and ແກ້ວ (keo) meaning "jewel, gem".

Yaqoob Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Yaqub.

Annus Estonian
Annus is an Estonian surname meaning "dose".

Aslie English
Variant of Ansley.

Leekha Indian

Spradlin English (British)
Originally Spradling, mean one who spreads seed

Jahelka Slovak

Phuangkitcha Thai

Tamaru Japanese
From Japanese 田 (ta) meaning "paddy, field" combined with 丸 (maru) meaning "whole, complete".

Itami Japanese
Ita means "board" and mi means "view, outlook".

Wickramasekera Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala වික්‍රමසේකර (see Wickramasekara).

Stable English

Meshcheryakov m Russian
From Russian мещеряк (meshcheryak), meaning "Mishar Tatar". Compare the Tatar surname Mişär.

Tyutyunnik Russian
Occupational name for a tobacco tycoon, derived from Slavic word tyutyun literally meaning "tobacco".

Tsugawa Japanese
From 津 (tsu) meaning "ferry, port, harbor" and 川 (kawa) meaning "stream, river".

Panzeri Italian
Either a nickname from Italian pancia "belly, paunch", referring to someone with a prominent belly (see Panza), or an occupational name for someone who manufactured girdles and armour, from panciere "corset, girdle; paunce (armour covering the belly)", ultimately from the same root.

Farzaneh Persian
From Persian فرزانه (farzâne) meaning "wise, learned".

Audlin English

Halligan Irish
shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÁilleagán "descendant of Áilleagán" a double diminutive of áille "beauty".

Esterhuizen Afrikaans
Habitational name of French origin, denoting a person from Estreux, a commune in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France.

Palme Swedish
The name was adopted by a notable Swedish family in honor of their ancestor Palme Lyder (born 1570s, died 1630), a merchant who immigrated to Sweden from the Netherlands or Germany in the early 1600s... [more]

Charlo Spanish
From the personal name Carlos

Qosja Albanian

Chesna English (American)

Simard French (Quebec)
From the Germanic name Siegmar via the French form Simar.

Nijino Japanese
Made up of the kanji 虹, meaning "rainbow", and 乃 ,meaning "of"。... [more]

Moone English

Vahidpour Persian
Means "son of Vahid".

Grzybiński Polish
Habitational name from Grzybiny or Grzybina.

Tsyrenzhapova f Buryat (Russified)
Feminine form of Tsyrenzhapov.

Maude English
From the female given name Maude.

Samadi Persian, Arabic
From the given name Samad.

Lellouch Judeo-Spanish
Variant of Lellouche.

Lafiti Obscure

Phonsila Thai

Momme Danish

Aldrich English (American)

Kremko Ukrainian
From Ukrainian крем (krem), meaning "cream".

Hotz German (Swiss), German, Hungarian
Of debated origin and meaning; theories include a habitional name for someone from the Hotzenwald, a derivation from any given name containing the Germanic name element hadu "battle, combat" and a derivation from the verb hotzen "to swing, to sway, to tremble".

Stockhardt German
Nickname for a stiff person, from Stock "stick, staff, trunk" and hart "hard".

Denet French

Curter French (?)

Odilia Spanish (Anglicized, Rare, Archaic)

San Chinese
Variant of Shan or Shen.

Boiteux French, Breton
From a Breton nickname meaning "lame".

Windus English
Variant of Wingers. The name is a metonymic occupational name for a textile worker or weaver, derived from the Middle English wyndhows ("winding house").

Pfotenhauer German
High German, carpenter's and woodworker's main occupation. Actual old German translation is "paw slapper" or "large paw" as in an animal (bear).

Netting English
As Needham the derivation is from the Olde English pre 7th century elements 'ned' meaning need, with 'ham', a homestead or village, the name indicating a place that provided a poor living.

Zhandosov m Kazakh
Means "son of Zhandos".

Yanagino Japanese

Vignerot French

Afghanzada Dari Persian
Means "son of the Afghan" in Persian.

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.

Aquena Portuguese (Brazilian)

Andra Ukrainian

Cavallino Italian

Filagic Serbian, Croatian
Probably derived from the Turkish word aga. Agas were the Sultan's regents.

Tamang Tamang
From Tamang རྟ་དམག་ (Ta Damag) meaning "Tamang", a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group.

Matira Tagalog
Means "to remain, to endure" in Tagalog.

Stoakley English
This is an English locational name of Anglo-Saxon origin. The meaning is either the wood from which stocks, that is to say tree stumps or logs were obtained and derived from the Old English pre 7th Century word stocc, meaning a stump and leah, "a wood or glade"... [more]

Fokov Russian
Means "son of Foka".

Carmine Italian (Rare), English (Rare)
Derived from the given name Carmine, which in turn was derived from the color of a vivid form of red.

Cascalho Portuguese (?)
What I know about this surname is that it came from Alentejo, a region in Portugal countryside. The eldest Cascalho I know lived in Évora (city in this province) so I assume the name born there...

Bunmi Thai
From Thai บุญ (bun) meaning "merit" and มี (mi) meaning "have, own, possess".

Brunswick English, German
English habitational name from the city in Saxony now known in German as Braunschweig. ... [more]

Wata Japanese

Cress German, Jewish, Belarusian
A variant of the German surname Kress. From the Middle High German "kresse" meaning "gudgeon" (a type of fish) or the Old High German "krassig", meaning "greedy". Can also be from an altered form of the names Erasmus or Christian, or the Latin spelling of the Cyrillic "КРЕСС".

Mortazavi Persian
From the given name Mortaza.

Utamura Japanese
Uta means "song, poem" and mura means "village, hamlet".

Vakameau Fijian

Szloltmann Polish

Fenrich De Gjurgjenovac German
Fenrich is a German family name, derived from a military title 'fenrich'/'fähn(d)rich' meaning "ensign" or "standard bearer" (bannerman), from early New High German fenrich. The term was formed and came into use around 1500, replacing Middle High German form vener, an agent derivative of Alemannic substantive van (flag).... [more]

Menchavez Spanish

Billinghurst English
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous village in West Sussex.

Haraldsdóttir Icelandic
Means "daughter of Haraldur" in Icelandic.

Blasius German, French
From the Latin personal name Blasius. This was a Roman family name, originating as a byname for someone with some defect, either of speech or gait, from Latin blaesus "stammering, lisping", itself from Ancient Greek βλαισός (blaisos) "bent, crooked; bow-legged".

Morskoy Russian
From the Russian word море (more), meaning "sea".

De Maupassant French

Romyn Dutch
Variant of Romijn.

Hutt English

Nishantha Sinhalese
From the given name Nishantha.

Amirpoor Persian
Alternate transcription of Persian امیرپور (see Amirpour).

Breyel French (Rare)

Gauda Indian, Hindi, Odia
An occupational name for a dairy farmer.

Ga Korean
Variant of Ka.

Kogino Japanese

Reynaldez Spanish (Latin American, Rare)
Means "son of Reynaldo" in Spanish.

Bay Scottish
Reduced form of MacBeth.

Francuski Serbian
From Serbian Francuski meaning French.

Iida Japanese
From Japanese 飯 (ii) meaning "cooked grains, cooked rice" and 田 (ta) meaning "field".

Bottom English
Topographic name for someone who lived at the bottom of a valley, derived from Middle English botme "dell, valley".

Ebeneezer English
Obtained from the given name Ebenezer

Seakanyeng Tswana

Konjen Thai

Rysbekova f Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Feminine form of Rysbekov.

Ogaya Japanese
Variant of Otani.

Bone English

Bialosuknia English (American)

Hachiyama Japanese
Means "8 mountains" in Japanese.

Farooqi Urdu
From the given name Faruq.

Piir Estonian
Piir is an Estonian surname meaning "border" and "frontier".

Bashkirov m Russian
Originally indicated a person who was a Bashkir, a Turkic ethnic group indigenous to Russia, from Russian башкир (baškir).

Kanakuri Japanese
Derived from the Japanese kanji 金 (kana) meaning "gold, metal, firmness" combined with 栗 (kuri) meaning "chestnut". ... [more]

Gandonnière French

Eustace English
Derived from first name Eustace

Phommachack Lao
From Lao ພົມມະ (phomma) referring to the Hindu god Brahma and ຈັກ (chack) meaning "disk, circle, wheel".

Ty Vietnamese

Vogt Von Altensteig Medieval German
Toponymic variant of Vogt.

Vitorino Portuguese
From the given name Vitorino

Hirozawa Japanese
Variant of Hirosawa.

Seabert English
Transferred use of the given name Seabert

Iseya Japanese

Daitol Filipino, Cebuano
Means "touch a small part (of something)" in Cebuano.

Kuraszkiewicz Ukrainian (Polonized)
Polonised form of Kurashkevych.

Stocks English (British)
meaning "lives near tree stumps"

Renggli Swiss

DeMille French (Belgian)
Denoted a person from Hamme-Mille, a section of the municipality of Beauvechain, in the province of Walloon Brabant in Wallonia, Belgium. This surname was borne by the American filmmaker and producer Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959).

Lodu Estonian
Lodu is an Estonian surname meaning "marsh" or "fen".

Dubarton German

Pashby Irish

Sheth Indian, Marathi, Bengali, Hindi
Variant transcription of Seth.

Tsunashima Japanese
From Japanese 綱 (tsuna) meaning "rope, cable, cord" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".

Drowne English
Variant of Drown

Zhuge Chinese
One of the rare Chinese double character surnames. It is ranked 314th in the Hundred Family Surnames. The first character 諸 can be read as "all, these, various" and the second character 葛 as meaning "vine, vines"... [more]

Qamar Urdu
From the given name Qamar.

Yurkovich Ukrainian, Belarusian
Patronymic from the personal name Yurko, a pet form of Yuriy, eastern Slavic equivalent of George.

Kaur Estonian
Kaur is an Estonian surname (and masculine given name) derived from the given name "Kaur" (loon: Gavia).

Myrzakhanova f Kazakh
Feminine form of Myrzakhanov.

Floris Italian
Cognate to Flores, or a toponym from Sardinian floris "flowers". Possibly from the Latin cognomen Florens meaning "prosperous, flourishing".

Degutis Lithuanian
Occupational name for a person who sold tar; from the Lithuanian word degutas meaning "tar".

Frollo Literature
Meaning unknown. This was the surname of Claude Frollo, the antagonist of Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Toninger German

Ravenhill English
From Rauenilde or Ravenild, medieval English forms of the Old Norse given name Hrafnhildr.

Khuất Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Qu, from Sino-Vietnamese 屈 (khuất).

Mac An Tsámhaigh Irish
It means, "son of the peaceful man".

Scamp English
Variant of Camp with a prosthetic -s.

Ros Dutch
Could be an occupational name for a horse breeder or trader derived from Middle Dutch ros "horse, steed" (see hros), or a nickname for someone with red hair or ruddy skin derived from Dutch ros "reddish; red-haired, ginger".

Derkach Ukrainian
Means "derkach", a Ukrainian folk instrument similar to a rattle or a noisemaker, from Ukrainian деркач (derkach).

Taye Ethiopian

Mazraoui Arabic (Maghrebi)

Greenford English

Iraola Basque
Derived from Basque ira "fern" and -ola "location, place of".

Hilliard English
From the Norman female given name Hildiard, a variant of Germanic Hildegard, derived from hilt "strife, battle" and gart "enclosure, yard".

Babbitt English (American)
Variant form of Bobbitt.

Moseby English

De La Hoya Spanish
Means "of the hole" in Spanish.

Kendy English (?)
Variant of Kindy(?).

Shi Chinese
In Chinese Shi means History.

Angeles Spanish

Lennan English
Either a variant of Lennon or a shortened form of Maclennan.

Legrange French

Radiamoda Filipino, Maranao
From a title for a crown prince, derived from Maranao radia meaning "king" and moda meaning "young".

Stoianov Bulgarian
Variant transcription of Stoyanov.

Volodin m Russian
Means "son of Volodya".

Shinakawa Japanese
Shina means "family, department, section" and kawa means "river, stream".

Tali Estonian
Tali is an Estonian surname meaning both "winter" and "tackle" or "pulley".

Marinkovska f Macedonian
Feminine form of Marinkovski.

Shimogawara Japanese

Hi Chinese (Hakka)
Hakka form of Xu 2.

Winchell English
Variant of Winchel.

Palmqvist Swedish
Combination of Swedish palm meaning "palm tree", and kvist meaning "twig"

Altukhov m Russian

Vadén Swedish
Combination of Swedish place name element vad which in most cases mean "ford, place for wading", and the common surname suffix -én.

Pale Nahuatl
Possibly a variant of Apale.

Hewit English
Variant of Hewitt

Anrep Russian
Derived from surname von Anrep

Laalaa Northern African

Tessler Romanian, Russian
Russian, Christian. From The original name tescherak

Wijngaard Dutch
Means "vineyard" in Dutch.

Hallmark English
From Middle English halfmark ‘half a mark’, probably a nickname or status name for someone who paid this sum in rent.

Nooni Estonian
Nooni is an Estonian surname meaning "nones".

Minatoya Japanese
From Japanese 湊 or 港 (minato) meaning "port, harbour" combined with 屋 (ya) meaning "dwelling, roof".

Pun Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Pan 2.

Merrefield English

Giuliante Italian

Odin Swedish
Variant of Odén.

Korchuganov m Russian

Huseinbegović Bosnian

Fritsler m German (Russified)
Russified form of Fritzler.

List Hungarian
Variant of Liszt.

Kakoulidis Greek

Chaiyasing Thai
From Thai ไชย (chai) meaning "victory" and สิงห์ (sing) meaning "lion".

Caines English

Gato Japanese
See Goto.

Lucier French
Derived from old French lucière meaning "light".

Sirelpuu Estonian
Sirelpuu is an Estonian name meaning "lilac tree".

Piscitelli Italian

Feldmann Jewish
From the surname Feld combined with the German suffix mann "man"

Čataković Bosnian

Wimalaratna Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala විමලරත්න (see Wimalarathna).

Olmstead English (British)
Comes from the Old French ermite "hermit" and Old English stede "place".... [more]

Ocharán Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Otxaran.

Buckworth English

Raughley English

Ind English (?)
Meaning deweller at the end of a villiage (Gypsy)

Corenswet English (American)

Mac Phaayl Manx
Means "son of Paayl" in Manx Gaelic, Paayl being the Manx form of Paul.... [more]

Pirlo Italian

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

Kuroko Japanese (Rare)
Kuro means "black" and ko means "child, sign of the rat". ... [more]

Hulse German
derived from Holtz, means "a wood"

Peureux French
In the war there was a French resistance fighter named Maurice Peureux.

Aberlin German, German (Swiss)
Variant of Oberlin.

Peep Estonian
Peep is an Estonian surname (and masculine given name). Taken from the given name "Peep".

Piao Chinese
Chinese transcription of the Korean surname Park 1.

Hatano Japanese
From Japanese 波 (ha) meaning "waves, billows", 羽 (ha) meaning "feather, wing", 秦 (hata), a place name, or 畑 (hata) meaning "farm, field, garden" combined with 多 (ta) meaning "many, frequent" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Matley English

Frances Spanish, Catalan
From Spanish and Catalan meaning "French". Denoting someone of French origin.

Mizuseki Japanese

Parayuelos Spanish

Ivanjoš Croatian
Derived from the forename Ivan.

Sachdeva Indian, Hindi, Punjabi
Variant transcription of Sachdev.

Fausto Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From the give name Fausto.

Ouma Japanese (Modern)

Parmar Indian

Abeyesinghe Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala අබේසිංහ (see Abeysinghe).

Hot Bosnian

Hagu Estonian
Hagu is an Estonian surname meaning "brush".

Jette French

Aukio Finnish
"square", "plaza", "clearing", or "concourse"

Villwock German
Of uncertain and much debated origin.... [more]

Howrey English (British)

Marric English

Bozkurt Turkish
Means "grey wolf" from Turkish boz meaning "grey" and kurt meaning "wolf".

Oreshkin m Russian
From Russian орешек (oreshek), meaning "nut".

Fujibara Japanese
Variant of Fujihara.

Pinka Slovak

Keidrich German

Bantiloc Filipino

Verrall English
An uncommon Anglo-Saxon surname.

Vondrák m Czech

Venieris Greek
The Greek version of the Venetian surname Venier attested in Kythera, where the Venier family ruled on behalf of the Republic of Venice. Originally is thought that the surname derives from Venus.

Garington English
Possibly from the given name Gareth.

Baechli German (Swiss)
Derived from the word "Bächli," which means "small brook" in Swiss German.

Bittenbinder German
Occupational name for a cooper, from Middle High German büte(n) "cask", "(wine) barrel" + binder "binder" (agent derivative of binden "to bind").

Sacayan Filipino, Cebuano
From Cebuano sakayan meaning "boat, vessel".

Daniilov Russian
Variant transcription of Danilov.

Deodato Portuguese
From the given name Deodato.

Astley English
Habitational name for a person from any of several places in England called Astley, from Old English east "east" and leah "woodland, clearing"... [more]

Catregn Romansh
Derived from the given name Catregna.

Kihu Estonian
Kihu is an Estonian surname meaning "impulse" and "urge".

Jović Croatian, Serbian
Means "son of Jovan".

Hawj Hmong
Original Hmong form of Her.

Fallet Romansh

Lille Estonian
From the Estonian word lill "flower".

Ziolli Italian

Catagbo Filipino, Cebuano
From Cebuano katagbo meaning "someone one is meeting with".

Goodrich English
Derived from the Middle English given name Goderiche (itself derived from the Anglo-Saxon given name Godric), composed of Old English god meaning "good" and ric meaning "ruler, mighty, god's ruler, power"... [more]

Nicoli Italian
Variant of Niccoli.

Tery Arabic (Egyptian)

Pettifer English
Nickname for a good infantryman, an old soldier who had lost a foot, or a person who was never tired of walking, derived from Old French pedefer, pied de fer meaning "iron foot".

Eargle English
Variant of Ergle.

Dittmann German
Variant of Dittmar. In eastern Germany, this form has been used for Dittmar since the 15th century.