Submitted Surnames from Locations

Hiromi Japanese (Rare)
From the stem of adjective 広い/廣い (hiroi), meaning "spacious, vast, wide," combined with either 海 (mi), shortened from umi meaning "sea, ocean," or 見 (mi) meaning "looking, viewing."... [more]

Hirono Japanese
From Japanese 広 (hiro) meaning "wide, broad, spacious" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Hirosawa Japanese
Hiro means "broad, spacious, wide" and sawa means "swamp, marsh".

Hirose Japanese
From Japanese 広 or 廣 (hiro) meaning "broad, wide, spacious" and 瀬 (se) meaning "rapids, current".

Hirota Japanese
From Japanese 廣, 広 or 弘 (hiro) meaning "broad, wide, spacious" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Hirouchi Japanese

Hirowatari Japanese
Hiro means "wide, broad, spacious" and watari means "ferry, cross, import, deliver".

Hirozawa Japanese
Variant of Hirosawa.

Hirschberg German, Jewish
Derived from many places named Hirschberg in the states of Thuringia and North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany, or the historic city of Jelenia Góra in southwestern Poland. It is composed of Middle High German hirz meaning "deer, stag" and berg meaning "hill, mountain"... [more]

Hirschfeld German, Jewish, Yiddish
Ornamental name composed of German hirsch or Yiddish hirsh meaning "deer" and feld meaning "field". It is also a topographic name for someone who lived in an area of land frequented by deer or where millets grew.

Hirshfield German, Jewish, Yiddish
Anglicized form of Hirschfeld.

Hirst English
Variant of Hurst

Hirukawa Japanese
From Japanese 蛭 (hiru) meaning "leech" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Hiruma Japanese
From the Japanese 蛭 (hiru) "leech" and 間 (ma) "pause."

Hiruta Japanese
From Japanese 蛭 (hiru) meaning "leech" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Hirvesoo Estonian
Hirvesoo is an Estonian surname meaning "deer swamp".

Hisada Japanese
From Japanese 久 (hisa) meaning "long time ago" and 田 (da) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Hisaeda Japanese
From Japanese 久枝 (Hisaeda) meaning "Hisaeda", a former area in the former district of Wake in the former Japanese province of Iyo in parts of present-day Ehime, Japan.

Hisagae Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 久枝 (see Hisaeda).

Hisagawa Japanese
Variant of Hisakawa.

Hisaishi Japanese
Hisa means "long time ago, lasting" and ishi means "stone".

Hisaka Japanese
Hi can mean "Japanese cypress" or "scarlet, dark red" and saka means "slope, hill".

Hisamaru Japanese
Hisa means "long time, long time ago, longetivity" and maru means "circle, round".

Hisamatsu Japanese
Hisa (久) means "long ago, everlasting" and matsu (松) means "pine".

Hisamura Japanese
From Japanese 久 (hisa) meaning "long time ago" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Hisano Japanese
Hisa means "long time ago, everlasting" and no means "field, rice paddy".

Hishida Japanese
From 菱 (hishi, ryou) meaning "diamond (shape), water chestnut, caltrop, rhombus" and 田 (da) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Hishikawa Japanese
From 菱 (hishi, ryou) meaning "diamond (shape), rhombus, water chestnut, caltrop" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river".

Hita Japanese
Possibly from 日 (hi) meaning "sun" and 田 (ta) meaning "rice paddy, field".

Hitchcock English

Hitchins English
Comes from the town Hitchin

Hitokiri Japanese
A notable bearer is the author Gentatsu Hitokiri.

Hitotsuyanagi Japanese (Rare)
一 (Hitotsu) means "one" and 柳 (Yanagi) means "willow".

Hittenrauch Prussian
from the prussian word von hittenraoucht meaning "of royalty"

Hittler German
Variant of Hitler.

Hitzheim German

Hiyama Japanese
From the Japanese hi, meaning "red, scarlet", and mura, meaning "town, village".

Hiyama Japanese
From Japanese 檜, 桧 (hi) meaning "Japanese cypress" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

Hjelm Swedish, Danish
From Swedish hjälm or Danish hjelm, both derived from Old Norse hjalmr "helmet".

Hjermstad Norwegian (Rare)
Hjerm means royal swords, stad means place. So Hjermstad means "place for the King's swords".

Hjornevik Norwegian
Named after the town of Hjørnevik, Norway

Hoa Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Hua, from Sino-Vietnamese 花 (hoa).

Hoắc Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Huo, from Sino-Vietnamese 霍 (hoắc).

Hoadley English
Habitational name from East or West Hoathly in Sussex, so named from Old English hað / Middle English hoath "heath" + leah "wood, clearing".

Hoagland American
American form of Scandinavian topographical surnames, such as Swedish Högland or Norwegian Haugland, both essentially meaning "high land".

Hoceimi Arabic (Maghrebi, Rare)
Habitational name for someone originally from Al Hoceima, a town and province in Algeria.

Hochfeld German
Means "high field".

Hochstein German
Topographic name for someone who lived by a high rock or a castle of that name from Middle High German hoh "high" and stein "rock stone castle".

Hockenhull English
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of Tarvin, Cheshire West and Chester.

Hockney English

Hockstetter German
Variant of Hostetler.

Hockton German
In relation to Hock a wine producing region and probably being adopted into Britain via Anglo Saxon settlers.

Hodnett English
Derived from an English village named "hodnet".

Hoebeke Dutch, Flemish
A habitational name meaning "high brook", from Old Dutch hō "high" and beke "brook, stream, creek".

Hoelzer German
German cognate of Holt

Hoemo Okinawan (Japanized, Rare)
Variant reading of 保栄茂 (see Bin).

Hoen Norwegian
Denoted someone from one of two farmsteads called Hon, derived from either Old Norse hundr "dog" or from Hóvin, a compound of hór "high", or possibly hof "temple, shrine", and vin "meadow".

Hoermann German

Hof Dutch
Standard Dutch form of Hoff.

Hoff German
Means "yard, court, farmyard", from Germanic hof.

Hoffer German
The name Hoffer is derived from the Old German and German word hof, which means settlement, farm or court.

Hofstadter Jewish
Derived from the German towns of Hofstetten, Franconia and Hofstaedt, Pomerania. In German, the suffix -er means "from".... [more]

Hofstede Dutch
Means "farmstead, property; farmhouse with land" in Dutch, a compound of Old Dutch hof "yard, court" and stat "place, location, abode, town".

Hogaki Japanese
Variant of Hokaki.

Hogan Norwegian
Anglicized form of the Norwegian surname Haugen (or Haugan), meaning "hill."

Högberg Swedish
Means "high mountain" in Swedish.

Hoheisel German
Topographic from the German elements hoh "high" and a diminutive of hus "house".

Hohensee German
Habitational name from any of several places so named in Pomerania and East Prussia, or perhaps from Hohenseeden near Magdeburg.

Hohenzollern German
Royal dynasty of the German Kaiserreich.

Hoit English
A variant of Hoyt.

Højgaard Danish, Faroese
Combination of Danish høj "high" and gård "farm, garden".

Hojo Japanese
Variant transcription of Houjou.

Hokada Japanese

Hokino Japanese
Hoki means "paulownia" and no means "field, plain".

Hokinoue Japanese (Rare)
Hoki means "cave, grotto, den", no means "of, therefore", and ue means "upper, top, above". ... [more]

Hokita Japanese
From 洞 (hoki) meaning "paulownia" and 田 (ta) meaning "rice paddy, plain, field".

Hokue Japanese (Rare)

Hol Dutch
Variant form of Holl.

Holanda Portuguese, Spanish
Spanish and Portuguese form of Holland 2.

Holbrook English, German (Anglicized)
English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Derbyshire, Dorset, and Suffolk, so called from Old English hol ‘hollow’, ‘sunken’ + broc ‘stream’. ... [more]

Holbrooke English
Variant of Holbrook.

Holcomb English
Habitational name from any of various places, for example in Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Greater Manchester, Oxfordshire, and Somerset, so named from Old English hol meaning "hollow", "sunken", "deep" + cumb meaning "valley".

Holder German, Jewish, English
1. German: topographic name for someone who lived by an elder tree. Middle High German holder, or from a house named for its sign of an elder tree. In same areas, for example Alsace, the elder tree was believed to be the protector of a house... [more]

Holdridge English

Hole English
Topographic name for someone who lived by a depression or low-lying spot, from Old English holh "hole, hollow, depression".

Holgate English

Holl German, Dutch
Topographic name meaning "hollow" or "hole", from Middle Low German and Middle High German hol.

Holl English
Variant of Hole.

Hollande French
French form of Holland 2, indicating someone from the province of Holland in the Netherlands.

Hollander German, English, Jewish, Dutch, Swedish
Regional name for someone from Holland 1.

Hollandsworth English (British, Rare)
Possibly an alternative spelling of Hollingsworth. Likely named after the town of Holisurde(1000s AD)/Holinewurth(1200s)/Hollingworth(Present) The town's name means "holly enclosure"

Holley English
English (chiefly Yorkshire) topographic name from Middle English holing, holi(e) ‘holly tree’. Compare Hollen.

Holliday Scottish
An ancient Scottish name that was first used by the Strathclyde-Briton people of the Scottish/English Borderlands. It is a name for someone who lived near the mountain called Holy Day in the country of Annandale.

Hollifield English
habitational name from a minor place called as "the holy field" (Old English holegn "holy" and feld "open country") perhaps Holyfield in Waltham Holy Cross (Essex) or less likely for linguistic reasons Hellifield (Yorkshire).

Holling English
Location name for someone who lived near holly trees.

Hollinger German, Jewish
Habitational name for someone from places called Holling or Hollingen.

Hollinger English, Northern Irish, Scottish
Topographical name from Middle English holin 'holly' + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.

Hollingshead English
Habitational name from a lost place in County Durham called Hollingside or Holmside, from Old English hole(g)n "holly" and sīde "hillside, slope"; there is a Hollingside Lane on the southern outskirts of Durham city... [more]

Hollingworth English
Habitational name for a person from the village in Greater Manchester and other villages as such, all derived from Old English holen "holly" and worþ "enclosure". Leta Stetter Hollingworth (1886-1939) was an American psychologist, educator, and feminist.

Hollis English
Topographic name for someone who lived where holly trees grew.

Hollow English
Variant of Hole.

Hollowell English
Either a variant of Halliwell or derived from another place named with Old English hol "hollow" and wella "spring, well".

Hollyfield English

Hollywood English
Habitational name from any of various farms or hamlets in England called Hollywood such as one in Sandon and Burston (Staffordshire) perhaps named with Middle English holegn "holly" and wudu "wood".

Holman Dutch
Topographic or habitational name from Dutch hol "hollow, hole" or Middle Dutch heule "arched bridge, weir". It can also derive from the given name Holle, a short form of names containing the element hold "loyal, faithful, gracious".

Holman English
Uncertain etymology. Could be a topographic name derived from Old English holh "hollow, hole" or holm, which can mean either "holly" or "small island" (see Holme), combined with man "man, person"... [more]

Holmstock English (American, Rare), Dutch (Rare), Belgian (Rare)
Corruption of Stockholm.

Holstein German
habitational name from the province of Holstein long disputed between Germany and Denmark. This gets its name from holsten the dative plural originally used after a preposition of holst from Middle Low German holt-sate "dweller in the woods" (from Middle Low German holt "wood" and sate sete "tenant")... [more]

Holter English, German, Norwegian
Derived from English holt meaning "small wood". A topographic name for someone who lived near a small wooden area, as well as a habitational name from a place named with that element.

Holtey German
Old German name meaning "Wood Island". Holt means wood and ey means island. Family can be traced back to around 650 A.D. and is located in the Ruhr and Essen area of Germany.

Holtham English

Holtmann German
Variant of Holzmann.

Holtze German
Variant of Holtzer.

Holtzer German
Variant of Holzer.

Holtzman German (Americanized)
Americanized form of Holtzmann.

Holtzmann Upper German, German
Derived from the Upper German word "holz," which means "forest." Thus many of the names that evolved from this root work have to do with living in the woods

Holyfield English, Scottish
Although the Scottish surname is known to derive from the Medieval Latin word "olifantus," meaning "elephant," its origins as a surname are quite uncertain. ... He was one of the many Anglo-Norman nobles that were invited northward by the early Norman kings of Scotland.

Holyoak English
Habitational name from Holy Oakes (Leicestershire) or else a topographic name from residence near a "holy oak" (or "gospel oak") from Middle English holy "holy" and oke "oak" (from Old English halig and ac).

Holz German
Variant of Holtz.

Holzberg German
Habitational name from any of various places called Holzberg for example in Hesse and Silesia.

Holze German
Variant of Holzer.

Holzheim German
The meaning of Holzheim is " wood home". Holz=wood and heim=home. ... [more]

Homans Dutch
Variant of Homan.

Homma Japanese
From 本 (hon, moto) meaning "origin, source, root" and 間 (ma) meaning "pause, between, while".

Hon Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Hakka)
Cantonese and Hakka romanization of Han.

Honeycott English
Variant of Honeycutt

Honeycut English

Honeysuckle English

Honjo Japanese
Alternate transcription of Japanese 本庄 (see Honjō).

Honjō Japanese
From Japanese 本 (hon) meaning "root, origin, source" and 庄 (shō) meaning "manor, villa".

Honsberger German (Swiss)
Variant of Hunsberger.

Hooch Dutch (Americanized, Rare, Archaic)
Possibly an archaic or Americanized form of Dutch Hoog "high, tall".

Hoog Dutch
Variant of De Hoog.

Hoogenboom Dutch
Means "high tree" in Dutch, from hoog "high" and boom "tree", a topographic name for someone living by a tall tree, or a habitational name from places called Hoogboom and Hogenboom in the Belgian province of Antwerp... [more]

Hoogendijk Dutch
Derived from Dutch hoog meaning "high, elevated" and dijk meaning "dike, ditch, levee", referring to someone who lived near a high dyke or embankment.

Hoogendoorn Dutch
From any of several place names derived from either hoog "high" or haag "hedge" combined with doorn "thorn bush".

Hoogendyk Dutch
Variant of Hoogendijk.

Hoogerdijk Dutch
Variant of Hoogendijk meaning "higher dyke".

Hoogerdyk Dutch
Variant of Hoogerdijk.

Hoogeveen Dutch
From any of several places called Hoogeveen, derived from Dutch hoog "high, elevated" and veen "peat bog, marsh".

Hoogland Dutch
A toponoymic or habitational surname meaning "highland", derived from Middle Dutch hooch "high" and lant "land".

Hoogteijling Dutch
Habitational name from Hoogteilingen, derived from hoogh "high" and the toponym Teijlingen, from Old Dutch *tagla "tail, narrow ridge".

Hooi Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Xu 2.

Hooiveld Dutch
Means "hay field" in Dutch.

Hook English
This surname is derived from a geographical locality. "at the hook," from residence in the bend or sudden turn of a lane or valley.

Hookham English
This surname may derive from Old English hóc meaning "hook, angle" and hám meaning "village, hamlet, dwelling."

Hoot Dutch (Americanized)
Americanized form of Hout or Hoed.

Hopelyn English

Hopley English

Hopperstad Norwegian
Probably a habitational name from a farm name in Norway.

Hori Japanese
From Japanese 堀 (hori) meaning "ditch, moat, canal".

Horiba Japanese
From Japanese 堀 (hori) meaning "ditch, moat, canal" and 場 (ba) meaning "place, situation, circumstances".

Horibe Japanese

Horie Japanese
Hori means "moat, canal" and e means "inlet, river".

Horie Japanese
From Japanese 堀 (hori) meaning "ditch, moat, canal" and 江 (e) meaning "bay, inlet".

Horigome Japanese
掘 (Hori) means "moat" and 米 (gome) means "rice, America". ... [more]

Horiguchi Japanese
From Japanese 堀 (hori) meaning "ditch, moat, canal" and 口 (kuchi) meaning "mouth, entrance".

Horii Japanese
From Japanese 堀 (hori) meaning "ditch, moat, canal" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".

Horikawa Japanese
From Japanese 堀 (hori) meaning "ditch, moat, canal" and 川 (kawa) or 河 (kawa) both meaning "river, stream".

Horikiri Japanese
Hori means "moat, canal" and kiri means "paulownia".

Horikoshi Japanese
From Japanese 堀 (hori) meaning "moat" and 越 (koshi) meaning "across".

Horimiya Japanese
Hori means "moat, canal" and miya means "shrine, temple".

Horimoto Japanese

Horinoue Japanese

Horio Japanese
Hori means "ditch, canal, moat" and o means "tail".

Horio Japanese
From Japanese 堀 (hori) meaning "ditch, moat, canal" and 尾 (o) meaning "tail, foot, end".

Horisawa Japanese
Hori means "canal, moat" and sawa means "swamp, marsh, wetland".

Horiuchi Japanese
From Japanese 堀 (hori) meaning "ditch, moat, canal" and 内 (uchi) meaning "inside".

Horizawa English
Variant of Horisawa.

Hornæus Swedish (Archaic)
Probably a latinization of Härnösand, a city in Västernorrland County, Sweden. A notable bearer was Swedish priest Laurentius (Lars) Christophori Hornæus (born as Lars Christoffersson in 1645 in Härnösand)... [more]

Hornby English
A habitational name from locations called Hornby in northern England, though predominantly associated with Lancashire. Derived from the Norse horni meaning "horn" and býr meaning "farm" or "settlement".

Hornecker German
Habitational name denoting someone from any of various places called Horneck.

Hornowski Polish
Habitational name from Hornowo, ultimately from Belarusian горны (horny) meaning "upper".

Hornsby English
A habitational name from Cumbria, derived from the Norse Ormr meaning "serpent" and býr meaning "farm". Similar in form to Hornby, Hornsby is a widespread surname in northern England.

Hořovice Czech
Czech from of Horowitz.

Hörschelmann German
This denotes familial origin in the former village of Hörschel (annexed to Eisenach in 1994).

Horsley English
Old English hors ‘horse’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’... [more]

Horst Dutch, Low German
Means "elevated and overgrown land, thicket" or "bird of prey’s nest, eyrie" in Dutch, the name of several locations.

Horta Catalan, Portuguese
Means "garden" (Latin hortus), hence a topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosed garden or an occupational name for one who was a gardener.

Horwitz Yiddish
Derived from the Yiddish pronunciation of the name of the town of Hořovice in Bohemia.

Hosaka Japanese
From Japanese 保 (ho) meaning "protect" and 坂 (saka) meaning "slope".

Hosford English
Variant of HORSFORD.

Hoshiba Japanese

Hoshikawa Japanese
From Japanese 星 (hoshi) meaning "star" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Hoshimiya Japanese
From Japanese 星 (hoshi) meaning "star" and 宮 (miya) meaning "temple, shrine, palace".

Hoshimura Japanese
From Japanese 星 (hoshi) meaning "star" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Hoshina Japanese
It can be spelled with 星 (hoshi) meaning "star, mark, dot" and 奈 (na) meaning "name, noted, distinguished, reputation", or 保 (ho) meaning "protect", combined with 科 (shina, ka) meaning "department, technology".

Hoshinoue Japanese

Hoshisaki Japanese
Hoshi means "star" and saki means "promontory, cape, peninsula".

Hoshizaki Japanese (Rare)
Variant of Hoshisaki.... [more]

Hoshizora Japanese (Rare)
Hoshi (星) means "star", sora/zora (空) means "sky", this name literally means "starry sky". Sora changes to zora due to rendaku

Hosoda Japanese
From 細 (hoso) meaning "fine, thin, slender, narrow" and 田 (ta) meaning "rice paddy, field".

Hosoda Japanese
From Japanese 細 (hoso) meaning "thin, fine, slender" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Hosodaki Japanese (Rare)
Hoso (細) means "fine/thin", Daki (滝) means "waterfall". Daki is a variant of Taki and it changed the T to D due to rendaku. See also Hosotaki

Hosodera Japanese
Variant of Hosotera.

Hosogai Japanese
Variant of Hosotani.

Hosogawa Japanese
Variant of Hosokawa.

Hosogaya Japanese
Variant of Hosotani.

Hosoi Japanese

Hosoi Japanese
From Japanese 細 (hoso) meaning "thin, fine, slender" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".

Hosoiri Japanese
From 細 (hoso) meaning "fine, thin, narrow, slender" and 入 (iri) meaning "entry, input".

Hosokawa Japanese
From Japanese 細 (hoso) meaning "thin, fine, slender" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Hosomi Japanese
Hoso means "thin, narrow, slender, fine" and no means "viewpoint, outlook".

Hosomiya Japanese
Hoso means "thin, slender, narrow, fine" and miya means "shrine, palace, temple".

Hosonishi Japanese
Hoso means "slender, narrow, thin, fine" and nishi means "west".

Hosono Japanese

Hosono Japanese
From Japanese 細 (hoso) meaning "thin, fine, slender" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Hosonuma Japanese
Hoso means "thin, fine, narrow, slender" numa means "swamp".

Hosoo Japanese
From the Japanese 細 (hoso) "narrow" and 尾 (o) "tail."

Hososaki Japanese
Hoso means "thin, fine, narrow, slender" "cape, peninsula, promontory".

Hosota Japanese

Hosotaki Japanese (Rare)
Hoso (細) means "fine/thin", Taki (滝) means "waterfall". Sometimes Taki changes to Daki due to rendaku. See also Hosodaki

Hosotani Japanese
Hoso means "thin, fine slender narrow" and tani means "valley".

Hosotera Japanese
Hoso means "fine, thin, slender, narrow" and tera means "temple".

Hosoya Japanese
Variant of Hosotani.

Hosoya Japanese
From Japanese 細 (hoso) meaning "thin, fine, slender" and 谷 (ya) meaning "valley".

Hosoyama Japanese
Hoso means "thin, slender, fine, narrow" and yama means "mountain, hill".

Hosozaki Japanese
Variant of Hososaki.

Hostetler German
The name itself comes from the word Hostet or Hochstatt meaning "high place". Thus Hostetler is someone living in a high place or on high ground.

Hota Japanese

Hotaling Dutch (Americanized)
Americanized spelling of Dutch Hoogteijling.

Hotohara Japanese
From 蛍 (hoto, hotaru) meaning "firefly" and 原 (hara) meaning "plain, field".

Hotta Japanese

Hough English
English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Cheshire and Derbyshire, so named from Old English hoh ‘spur of a hill’ (literally ‘heel’). This widespread surname is especially common in Lancashire... [more]

Houghtling Dutch (Americanized)
Variant of Hotaling.

Houghton English
English habitational name from any of the various places so called. The majority, with examples in at least fourteen counties, get the name from Old English hoh ‘ridge’, ‘spur’ (literally ‘heel’) + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’... [more]

Houjou Japanese
From Japanese 北 (hou) meaning "north" and 條 or 条 (jou) meaning "article".

Houseal French (Anglicized), German (Anglicized)
French (Lorraine) spelling of German Häusel, a topographic name meaning ‘small house’, a diminutive of Haus... [more]

Houseman English
Referred to a man who lived or worked in a house, as opposed to a smaller hut (see House). Famous bearers of this name include Romanian-British-American actor John Houseman (1902-1988; real name Jacques Haussmann), Argentine soccer player René Houseman (1953-2018) and Canadian actor Tyson Houseman (1990-).

Housley English

Hout Dutch
Means "wood, forest", a Dutch cognate of Holt. Can also be an occupational name (see Houtman).

Houtmann Alsatian
Alsatian form of German Holzmann.

Houtteman Flemish
Variant form of Houtman "wood man".

Hovda Norwegian
Habitational name from the many farmsteads in Norway named Hovda. Derived from Old Norse hófði "rounded peak", itself derived from Old Norse hofuð "head".

Hovde Norwegian
Variant of Hovda.

Hovenden English, Irish
Variant of Ovenden a habitational name perhaps derived from Ovingdean (Sussex) or Ovenden (Yorkshire)... [more]

Howald German
From any several places named, from the elements hoh "high" and wald "forest".

Howarth English
"From a hedged estate", from Old English haga ("hedge, haw") and worð ("farm, estate"). Likely originating from the Yorkshire village of the same name. Common in Lancashire and recorded from at least 1518, as Howorthe, with an earlier version of Hauewrth in Gouerton dated 1317 recorded in the Neubotle charters.

Howcroft English
Means "enclosed field on a hill". Derived from the words haugr "hill", of Norse origin, and croft "enclosed field"

Howden English, Scottish
Either a Scottish habitational name from Howden (Midlothian Dumfriesshire). Or a variant of Haldane... [more]

Howley English, Irish
English habitational name from Howley in Warrington (Lancashire) or Howley in Morley (Yorkshire). The Lancashire name also appears as Hooley and Wholey while the Yorkshire placename comes from Old English hofe "ground ivy... [more]

Howrey English (British)

Hoxby English

Hoxie English
They were first found in the settlement of Hawkshaw in the county of Lancashire. The surname Hoxie belongs to the large category of Anglo-Saxon habitation names, which are derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads.

Hoya Spanish
is a habitational (local) name, taken on from any of several place names, such as from Hoyos in Cáceres province, or Hoyos in Ávila province. These place names come from the Spanish words "hoyo," meaning "pit," or "hole."

Hoyama Japanese

Hoyburg Danish

Høyer Danish
A surname relatively common in Denmark, derived from the Old Norse word haugr, meaning "mound, cairn, hill". Alternatively, meaning can be traced back to the old Germanic personal name Hucger, a compound consisting of hug- "heart, mind, spirit" and geirr "spear".

Hoyland English, Norwegian
English (South Yorkshire): habitational name from any of various places in South Yorkshire named with Old English hoh ‘hill spur’ + land ‘(cultivated) land’. ... [more]

Hoyt English
Generally a topographical name for someone who lived on a hill or other high ground. As such Hoyt is related to words such as heights or high. Hoyt is also possibly a nickname for a tall, thin person where the original meaning is said to be "long stick".

Hozumi Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 八朔 (see Hassaku).

Hradecký m Czech
Hradecký refers to someone from the city of Hradec Králové in the Czech Republic. A famous bearer is Finnish-Slovak soccer goalkeeper Lukáš Hradecký (1989-).

Hreczkoski Polish

Hruszewski Polish
This indicates familial origin within the Podlachian village of Hruszew.

Hrvatin Croatian, Slovene
From Croatian and Slovene Hrvat meaning "Croat, person from Croatia".

Hryniewska f Polish
Polish feminine form of Hryniewski.

Hryniewski Polish
It indicates familial origin within any of several Polesian villages named "Hryniewicze".

Hryniv Ukrainian (Rare)
From the Hryniv village in Ukraine.

Hryniw Ukrainian (Anglicized, Rare)
Anglicised form of Hryniv.

Hrženjak Croatian
Habitational name for someone from places starting with "Hržen-".

Hsin Taiwanese
Alternate romanization of Xin chiefly used in Taiwan.

Hu Chinese (Min Bei)
Min Bei form of Xu 2.

Hứa Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Xu 2, from Sino-Vietnamese 許 (hứa).

Huben German
The roots of the distinguished German surname Huben lie in the kingdom of Bavaria. The name is derived from the Middle High German word "huober," meaning "owner of a patch of farmland." The term "Hube" was used to denote a 40-acre hide of farmland... [more]

Hübenthal German
From either of two place names, derived from the older form Hufinadah meaning "valley where the hooves were".

Hück German
Topographic name meaning "bog" or "corner".

Huckabay English
Variant of Huckaby.

Huckabee English
This surname originated as a habitational name, derived from Huccaby in Devon, England; this place name is derived from two Old English elements: the first, woh, meaning "crooked"; the second, byge, meaning "river bend".... [more]

Huckaby English
Means "person from Huccaby", Devon (perhaps "crooked river-bend"), or "person from Uckerby", Yorkshire ("Úkyrri's or Útkári's farmstead").

Huckeby English
Variant of Huckaby and Huckabee

Huddlestun English
Variant spelling of Huddleston.

Hudgell English
Variant of Yewdale

Huehuetenango Nahuatl
Means "place of the ancients" in Nahuatl.

Huertas Spanish
Plural form of Spanish huerta meaning "garden, orchard".

Huffington English
Means "Uffa's town". A famous bearer is Arianna Huffington, born Αριάδνη-Άννα Στασινοπούλου

Hügel German
From German meaning "hill".

Hughston Scottish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Houston.

Huhtamäki Finnish
Derived from huhta (“woodland cleared for slash-and-burn cultivation”) +‎ mäki (“hill”).

Huidobro Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the Castilian municipality of Los Altos.

Huisman Dutch
Literally "houseman", an occupational name for a farmer, specifically one who owned his own farm.

Huizinga West Frisian, Dutch
Habitational name from Huizinge, a town in Groningen, Netherlands, possibly derived from Old Frisian hūs "house" and dinge "newly cultivated lands"... [more]

Huller English
Topographical name for a 'dweller by a hill', deriving from the Old English pre 7th Century 'hyll' a hill, or in this instance 'atte hulle', at the hill.

Hulse German
derived from Holtz, means "a wood"

Hulshof Dutch
Habitational name derived from Middle Dutch hul "holly" and hof "court, garden, farmstead".

Hultqvist Swedish
Combination of Swedish Hult and kvist "branch, twig".

Humaloja Finnish

Huneycutt English
Variant of Honeycutt.

Hungate English
A habitational name from Old English hund,'hound', and Old Norse gata, 'gate'.

Hungerford English
From the name of a settlement in Berkshire, England, derived from Old English hungor "hunger, famine" and ford "ford, river crossing".

Hunnam English
Variant form of Hannam. A famous bearer is the English actor and screenwriter Charlie Hunnam (1980-).

Hunsberger German
Habitational name for someone from a place called Hunsberg or Huntsberg.

Huntington English
English: habitational name from any of several places so called, named with the genitive plural huntena of Old English hunta ‘hunter’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’ or dun ‘hill’ (the forms in -ton and -don having become inextricably confused)... [more]

Huntley English, Scottish
Habitational name from a place in Gloucestershire, so named from Old English hunta 'hunter' (perhaps a byname (see Hunt) + leah 'wood', 'clearing'). Scottish: habitational name from a lost place called Huntlie in Berwickshire (Borders), with the same etymology as in 1.

Huntly English
Variant of Huntley.

Hunton English

Huntzinger German
Habitational name for someone from Hintschingen, earlier Huntzingen.

Huo Chinese
From Chinese 霍 (huò) referring to the ancient state of Huo, which existed during the Zhou dynasty in what is now the city of Huozhou in Shanxi province.

Hurley English, Irish
Meaning is "from a corner clearing" in Old English. Also an anglicized form of an Irish name meaning "sea tide" or "sea valor".

Hurst German
Topographic name from Middle High German hurst "woodland, thicket".

Hurston English