Submitted Surnames from Locations

Jáuregui Basque (Hispanicized), Spanish
Castilianized form of Jauregi.

Javier Spanish
Indicates familial origin from the town and municipality of Javier in Navarre, Spain.

Javorski Polish
Habitational name for someone from any of numerous places named Jawory or Jaworze, named with Polish jawor 'maple', 'sycamore'.

Jaworek Polish
Most likely comes from the last name Javorski meaning someone from "Jawor".

Jayama Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 蛇山 (see Hebiyama).

Jazayeri Persian
Derived from Persian جزایر (jazâyir) meaning "islands", of Arabic origin.

Jeffrey English
From a Norman personal name that appears in Middle English as Geffrey and in Old French as Je(u)froi. Some authorities regard this as no more than a palatalized form of Godfrey, but early forms such as Galfridus and Gaufridus point to a first element from Germanic gala "to sing" or gawi "region, territory"... [more]

Jeglič Slovene
"The Slovenian word for the Carniolan primrose." This name would likely have been given to people who inhabited the meadows of northwestern Slovenia where this flower is endemic.

Jelavić Serbian, Bosnian
derived from the place name Jelav, one of the places in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Jemmott English (American)

Jendoubi Arabic (Maghrebi)
From Jendouba, the name of a large city in northwestern Tunisia. The name itself is derived from Berber (Tamazight) jen meaning "market" and douba meaning "wheat".

Jericho African
Directly taken from the place name Jericho.

Jerrick English
Perhaps derrived from the place name Jericho.

Jersier French (Rare)

Jezierski Polish
Habitational name for someone from Jezioro, Jeziory, Jeziora, or Jezierzyce, all places named with jezioro meaning "lake".

Jeziorski Polish
Variant of Jezierski.

Jhand Urdu, Pakistani
From Sanskrit or northern India comes from Kemboja kings and warriors, or rulers

Ji Chinese
From Chinese 纪 (jì) referring to the ancient state of Ji, which existed during the Zhou dynasty in what is now Shandong province.

Jia Chinese
From Chinese 甲 (jiǎ) meaning "one, first", also referring to an ancient fief or small state named Jia located in what is now either Henan or Hebei province.

Jia Chinese
From Chinese 贾 (jiǎ) referring to an ancient state and fief named Jia, both located in what is now Shanxi province.

Jiang Chinese
From Chinese 蒋 (jiǎng) referring to the ancient state of Jiang, which existed during the Zhou dynasty in what is now Henan province.

Jiao Chinese
From Chinese 焦 (jiāo) referring to the ancient state of Jiao, which existed during the Zhou dynasty in what is now the provinces of Shaanxi and Henan.

Jimuta Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 爾 (ji), a phonetic character, and 牟田 (muta) meaning "wetland; bog".

Jingu Japanese
Formed with 神 (shin, jin, kami, kan, kou) meaning "god" and 宮 (kyuu, guu, kuu, miya) meaning "palace, shrine".

Jinnai Japanese

Jinnouchi Japanese
From the Japanese 陣 (jin) "camp" and 内 (uchi or nai) "inside." The grammatical and phonetic particle ノ or 之 (no) is sometimes written between the other two characters.

Jinzai Japanese

Jitchaku Okinawan (Japanized, Rare)
Japanese reading of Japanese Kanji 勢理客 (see Zerikyaku).

Jito Japanese

Jitsue Japanese (Rare)

Jitsumori Japanese

Jizodo Japanese

Jō Japanese
From Japanese 城 (jō) meaning "castle".

Jõeäär Estonian
Jõeäär is an Estonian surname meaning "riverside".

Jõekallas Estonian
Jõekallas is an Estonian surname meaning "riverbank".

Jõeorg Estonian
Jõeorg is an Estonian surname meaning "wash, or fluvial valley" and "dale".

Jõgisaar Estonian
Jõgisaar is an Estonian surname meaning "river island".

Jølstad Norwegian

Jonda Spanish (Latin American, Japanized), American (Hispanic)
Jondá means Slingshot and hole in Spanish and is a surname in some Latin American countries and Americans with Hispanic heritage. It is a Japanized form of the surname Honda... [more]

Jong Korean
Alternate romanization of Jeong chiefly used in North Korea.

Jōnouchi Japanese
From Japanese 城 (jō) meaning "castle"; 之 (no), a possessive particle; and 内 (uchi) meaning "inside".

Joo Korean
Alternate transcription of Korean Hangul 주 (see Ju).

Joof Serer
The surname Joof (English spelling in Gambia) whit its derivatives Juuf / Juf (Seereer proper) or Diouf (French spelling in Senegal and Mauritania) is a Senegambian surname found amongst the Seereer people of Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania... [more]

Jorba Catalan
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.

Jordison English
Possibly meaning son of Jordan. This name is surname of American drummer Joey Jordison.

Jorquera Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Andalusian municipality.

Joto Japanese

Jouttijärvi Finnish (Rare)
From the name of any of the many lakes named Jouttijärvi in Finland.

Joya Catalan
Catalan variant of Hoya

Ju Korean
Korean form of Zhu, from Sino-Korean 朱 (ju).

Jundo Japanese

Junyent Catalan

Jurauskas Lithuanian
Lithuanian form of Jurowski.

Jürimäe Estonian
Jürimäe is an Estonian surname meaninh "Jüri's (masculine given name) hill/mountain".

Jurio Italian

Jürisoo Estonian
Jürisoo is an Estonian surname derived from the masculine given name "Jüri" and "soo" (swamp); "Jüri's swamp". "Soo" was substituted later for the Germanic "son" ("Jüri's son").

Juroŭski Belarusian
Belarusian form of Jurowski.

Jurovský Czech, Slovak
Czech and Slovak form of Jurowski.

Jurowski Polish
A surname referring to someone from Jurow, Poland.

Jutsum Old Danish
Of Jutish extraction. From Jutland.

Kaag Dutch
Denotes someone from the Dutch village Kaag, derived from Middle Dutch kaghe "land next to water, land outside of a dyke or levee".

Kaba Japanese
From Japanese 樺 (kaba) meaning "birch tree".

Kaba Western African, Manding
From a Mandinka clan name perhaps derived from the name of a village in southern Mali.

Kabaciński Polish
The surname Kabaciński is a habitational name for someone from a place called Kabaty, in Warszawa voivodeship. It is also a derivative of the nickname Kabat.

Kabara Japanese
Variant of Kahara.

Kabayama Japanese (Rare)
Kaba (樺) means "birch", yama (山) means "mountain"

Kabeya Japanese
From Japanese 壁 (kabe) meaning "wall, barrier" and 谷 (ya) meaning "valley".

Kabu Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 蕪 (Kabu), a clipping of 蕪 (Kabumon) meaning "Kabu Gate", a name of a group of several households, that was in the division of Kami in the area of Noda in the city of Izumi in the prefecture of Kagoshima in Japan, for the Kadowari System that took place in the Edo Period in the former Japanese province of Satsuma in parts of present-day Kagoshima, Japan.... [more]

Kabuhashi Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 株 (kabu) meaning "tree stump, company share stock" and 橋 (hashi) meaning "bridge", possibly referring to a bridge next to a tree stump.

Kabura Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 鏑 (Kabura) meaning "Kabura", a division in the division of Tsuchizawa in the area of Towa in the city of Hanamaki in the prefecture of Iwate in Japan.

Kabura Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 蕪 (see Kabu).

Kaburagi Japanese
A notable bearer is Saiko Kaburagi, an artist.

Kaburaki Japanese

Kaczanowski Polish
Habitational name for someone from any of various places called Kaczanów or Kaczanowo, named with Polish kaczan meaning "cob".

Kada Japanese

Kade English

Kaden German
Habitational name for someone from Kaaden in North Bohemia, or any of several other places called Kaden.

Kadenokohji Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 勘解由小路 (see Kadenokōji).

Kadenokōji Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 勘解由小路 (Kadenokōji) meaning "Kadeno Alley" or its other name 勘解由小路 (Kageyukōji) meaning "Kageyu Alley", a former alley in the city of Kyōto in the prefecture of Kyōto in Japan.... [more]

Kadenokoji Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 勘解由小路 (see Kadenokōji).

Kadenokouji Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 勘解由小路 (see Kadenokōji).

Kadohata Japanese
Kado means "gate" and hata means "field".

Kadohira Japanese
Kado means "gate" and hira means "peace, level, even".

Kadota Japanese (Rare)
Kado means "gate" and ta means "rice paddy, field".

Kadota Japanese
From Japanese 門 (kado) meaning "gate, entrance" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Kadowaki Japanese
From Japanese 門 (kado) meaning "gate, entrance" and 脇 (waki) meaning "side".

Kadoya Japanese
From Japanese 門 (kado) meaning "gate, entrance" and 屋 (ya) meaning "house, dwelling".

Kafkalas Greek

Kaga Japanese
From the Japanese 加 (ka) "increase," "step up" and 賀 (ka or ga) "congratulation."

Kagaya Japanese

Kagaya Japanese
From Japanese 加 (ka) meaning "add, increase", 賀 (ka) meaning "congratulate, greet, celebrate" and 谷 (ya) meaning "valley".

Kagayama Japanese

Kagewari Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 蔭 (kage) meaning "shade" and 割 (wari), from 割り (wari), the continuative form of 割る (waru) meaning "to divide; to separate, to crack", referring to a shady land with cracks.

Kageyama Japanese
From Japanese 影 or 景 (kage) meaning "shadow" or 蔭 (kage) meaning "shade, shelter" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

Kahale Hawaiian
"The house".

Kahara Japanese

Kai Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 廻 (see Meguri 2).

Kaihatsu Japanese
From Japanese 開発 (Kaihatsu) meaning "Kaihatsu", a former village in the former district of Imizu in the former Japanese province of Etchū in present-day Toyama, Japan.

Kaihotsu Japanese
Variant reading of Kaihatsu.

Kaino Japanese

Kaito Japanese
From 海 (kai, umi) meaning "sea, ocean" and 藤 (to, fuji) meaning "wisteria".

Kajibara Japanese
Variant of Kajihara.

Kajihara Japanese
Kaji means "wind" and hara means "plain, field".

Kajikawa Japanese

Kajima Japanese
Variant of Kashima.

Kajita Japanese
From Japanese 梶 (kaji) meaning "mulberry" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Kajiura Japanese (Rare)
Kaji means "wind" and Ura means "seacoast, bay".... [more]

Kajiwara Japanese
From Japanese 梶 (kaji) meaning "paper mulberry" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Kakawa Japanese

Kakibara Japanese
Variant of Kakihara.

Kakida Japanese

Kakihara Japanese
From Japanese 柿 (kaki) meaning "persimmon" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain". A notable bearer of this surname is voice actor Tetsuya Kakihara (柿原 徹也, 1982–).

Kakii Japanese
Kaki means "pomegranate" means "well, pit, mineshaft".

Kakimura Japanese
Kaki means "persimmon" and mura means "village, hamlet".

Kakine Japanese (Rare)
Kaki (垣) means "fence", ne (根) means "root, base, foundation". Notable bearers of this surname are Takuya Kakine, a football player, and Teitoku Kakine, a character from Toaru Majutsu no Index

Kakino Japanese

Kakinoki Japanese
"Persimmon tree."

Kakinuma Japanese
From Japanese 柿 (kaki) meaning "persimmon" and 沼 (numa) meaning "swamp, marsh".

Kakisaki Japanese
Kaki means "persimmon" and saki means "cape, peninsula, promontory".

Kakisawa Japanese

Kakita Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 柿 (kaki) meaning "persimmon" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Kakiwara Japanese
Variant of Kakihara.

Kakizaki Japanese
Variant of Kakisaki.

Kakizaki Japanese
From Japanese 柿 (kaki) meaning "persimmon" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Kakizaki Japanese
From Japanese 蠣 (kaki) meaning "oyster" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Kakizawa Japanese

Kaku Japanese
From Japanese 角 (kaku) meaning "corner".

Kakugai Japanese
Variant of Kakutani.

Kakugaya Japanese
Variant of Kakutani.

Kakuma Japanese
From Japanese 加 (ka) meaning "add, increase" and 隈 (kuma) meaning "corner, shade".

Kakuta Japanese
From 角 (kaku) meaning "corner" and 田 (da) meaning "rice paddy, field".

Kakutani Japanese
From Japanese 角 (kaku) meaning "corner" and 谷 (tani) meaning "valley".

Kakuya Japanese
Variant of Kakutani.

Kalda Estonian
Variant form of Kallas "shore".

Kaldoja Estonian
Kaldoja is an Estonian name meaning "sloping creek".

Kale Croatian
Possibly derived from Turkish kale, meaning "castle, fortress".

Kale Turkish
Means "castle, fortress" in Turkish, ultimately from Arabic قلعة (qal'ah).

Kaler English, German (Americanized)
Americanized form of German Kahler, Köhler, or Kehler.

Kalinin Russian
Derived from Russian калина (kalina) meaning "guelder rose" (a type of plant).

Kalinov m Russian
From Russian калина (kalina), meaning "viburnum".

Kalinowska f Polish
Feminine form of Kalinowski.

Kalinowski m Polish
Name for someone from any of various locations named Kalinowa, Kalinowo or Kalinów, all derived from Polish kalina meaning "viburnum (a type of plant)".

Kalinska Polish

Kalju Estonian
Means "cliff, rock" in Estonian. The given name Kalju is an independent invention.

Kaljumäe Estonian
Kaljumäe is an Estonian surname meaning "cliff hill".

Kaljurand Estonian
Kaljurand is an Estonian surname meaning "cliff beach".

Kaljuvee Estonian
Kaljuvee is an Estonian surname meaning "cliff water".

Kallas Estonian
Means "shore, bank (of a river), seashore" in Estonian.

Kallaste Estonian
Kallaste is and Estonian surname meaning "seaside" or "seashore".

Kállay Hungarian
Habitational name for someone from a place called Kálló or Kallo in Nógrád County or from the provincial town of Nagykálló in Szabolcs County in Hungary

Kalm Estonian
Kalm is an Estonian surname derived from "kalme", meaning "burial mound" and "kalmistu", meaning "cemetery".

Kalnieks Latvian
Derived from the word kalns meaning "mountain".

Kalthoff German
German (Westphalian): habitational name from a place named as 'the cold farm', from Middle High German kalt "cold" + hof "farmstead", "manor farm’, "court".

Kalviste Estonian
Kalviste is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "Kalvi", a village in Lääne-Viru County.

Kalynenko Ukrainian
From Ukrainian калина (kalyna), meaning "virburnim". Denoted to a person who lived by virburnims.

Kalyniuk Ukrainian
Alternate transcription of Kalynyuk.

Kalynyuk Ukrainian
From Ukrainian калина (kalyna), meaning virburnim.

Kamachi Japanese
Kama means "honeysuckle" and chi means "ground, soil", or it could be spelled as ka meaning "add, increase" and machi meaning "town".

Kamada Japanese
From Japanese 鎌 (kama) meaning "sickle, scythe" and 田 (Ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Kamai Japanese
Kama means "honeysuckle" and i means "well, pit, mineshaft".

Kamakura Japanese
Kama means "honeysuckle" and kura means "storehouse."

Kamase Japanese
From Japanese 釜 (kama) meaning "cauldron; pot; kettle" and 瀬 (se) meaning "rapids; current".

Kamata Japanese
From Japanese 鎌 (kama) meaning "sickle, scythe" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Kambayashi Japanese

Kamberg German

Kambos Greek (Anglicized), English (American), English (Australian)
Anglicized form of Kampos.

Kambosos Greek (Anglicized), English (American), English (Australian)
Anglicized form of Kamposos.

Kamchatsky Russian
Refers to a region in Eastern Russia named "Kamchatka."

Kameda Japanese
From Japanese 亀 (kame) meaning "turtle, tortoise" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Kamegai Japanese
"Turtle valley".

Kamegaya Japanese
"Turtle valley".

Kamei Japanese
Japanese surname meaning "turtle well". It is written as 亀井. A bearer of this surname is Eri Kamei. She is a member of the Japanese pop group Morning Musume. (1988-)

Kameoka Japanese
From Japanese 亀 (kame) meaning "turtle, tortoise" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Kametani Japanese
"Turtle valley."

Kameya Japanese
"Turtle valley".

Kameyama Japanese
From Japanese 亀 (kame) meaning "turtle, tortoise" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Kamida Japanese

Kamieńska f Polish
Feminine form of Kamieński.

Kamieński Polish
Variant of Kamiński.

Kamigai Japanese

Kamigawa Japanese
Variant of Kamikawa.

Kamigaya Japanese

Kamihigashi Japanese

Kamijo Japanese

Kamikawa Japanese

Kamimoto Japanese

Kamimura Japanese
Kami means "god" or "top, upper" and mura means "village, hamlet "

Kaminskis Latvian
Latvian form of Kamiński.

Kaminsky Polish, Serbian
Variant of Kamiński.

Kamio Japanese
The Japanese surname "Kamio" (上尾) typically means "upper tail" or "upper end." Surnames in Japanese often have different origins and meanings, but "Kamio" likely originated from a geographic feature or a historical occupation.

Kamioka Japanese

Kamisaka Japanese
Kami can mean "god" or "above, upper, top" and saka means "hill, slope."

Kamita Japanese

Kamitani Japanese

Kamiyama Japanese
From Japanese 神 (kami) meaning "god" or 上 (kami) meaning "above, upper" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Kamizaka Japanese
Variant of Kamisaka.

Kamizawa Japanese

Kamm German, Estonian
Means "comb" in German, an occupational name for a wool comber or fuller, or perhaps a maker of combs. In some cases it might have been used in the sense of "ridge of mountains, hills", making it a topographic name... [more]

Kamon Japanese

Kamori Japanese
Ka means "increase, step up" or "congratulation" and mori means "forest".

Kamosawa Japanese
Kamo means "duck" and sawa means "swamp, marsh".

Kamoshida Japanese
From Japanese 鴨 (kamo) meaning "duck", 志 (shi) meaning "will, purpose" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Kamp German, Dutch, Danish
From the Germanic element kamp "field", derived from Latin campus "open space, battlefield".

Kamphuis Dutch
Topographic name for someone who lived near a field, derived from Dutch kamp "enclosed field" and huis "house, home, building".

Kampos Greek
From Greek meaning "plain, lowlands".

Kamposos Greek
Diminutive of Kampos.

Kampū Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 寒風 (Kampū) meaning "Kampū", a former division in the former large village of Kamiminamiaosawa in the former district of Akumi in the former Japanese province of Ugo in parts of present-day Akita and Yamagata in Japan.

Kana Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 海南 (see Unami).

Kanagai Japanese
Variant of Kanatani.

Kanagaya Japanese
Variant of Kanatani.

Kanai Japanese

Kanai Japanese
From Japanese 金 (kana) meaning "gold, metal, money" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".

Kaname Japanese
Kana means "gold, metal, money" and ne means "root, origin".

Kanamoto Japanese
Kana means "gold, metal, money" and moto means "origin, root, source".

Kanaoka Japanese
Kana means "metal, money, gold" and oka means "hill, mound",

Kanarek Jewish (Anglicized, Modern)
Originally from Canary, as in the Canary Islands.

Kanasawa Japanese
Kana means "gold, metal, money" and sawa means "marsh, swamp".=

Kanata Japanese
Variant of Kanada.

Kanatani Japanese

Kanatsu Japanese

Kanaya Japanese
From Japanese 金 (kana) meaning "metal, money" and 谷 (ya) meaning "valley".

Kanayama Japanese
From Japanese 金 (kana) meaning "metal, money" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Kanazawa Japanese
From Japanese 金 (kana) meaning "metal, money, gold" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Kanba Japanese
From 樺 (kanba) meaning "birch".

Kanbara Japanese
From Japanese 神 (kan) meaning "god" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Kanbayashi Japanese
From the Japanese 上 (kan, kami or ue) "upper," "above," 管 (kan) "tube," "canal," 官 (kan) "authorities," "government" or 神 (kan, kami or shin) "god" and 林 (bayashi or hayashi) "forest," "woods," "grove."

Kanbe Japanese
It's written as kan meaning "god, deity" and be meaning "door".

Kandel Nepali
Habitational name from a village called Kanda.

Kandiotis Greek

Kaneda Japanese
From Japanese 金 (kane) meaning "metal" and 田 (ta) meaning "field".

Kanehara Japanese
From Japanese 金 (kane) meaning "gold, metal, money" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Kaneko Okinawan (Japanized)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 我如古 (see Ganeko).

Kanemitsu Japanese
Kane means "gold, metal" and mitsu means "light".

Kanemoto Japanese
From Japanese 金 (kane) meaning "gold, metal, money" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Kaneniwa Japanese
"Golden garden."

Kaneshiro Japanese
From Japanese 金 (kane) meaning "gold, metal, money" and 城 (shiro) meaning "castle".

Kaneta Japanese

Kang Chinese, Korean
From Chinese 康 (kāng), derived from Kangju (康居), the Chinese name for an ancient kingdom in Central Asia (now known as Sogdiana). It may also refer to the city of Samarkand in present-day Uzbekistan, which was called 康 in Chinese.

Kanie Japanese
From Japanese 蟹 (kani) meaning "crab" and 江 (e) meaning "bay, inlet".

Kanja Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 冠者 (Kanja), a variant spelling of 管者 (Kanja) meaning "Kanja", a former division in the district of Chīsagata in the former Japanese province of Shinano in present-day Nagano, Japan.

Känngård Swedish (Rare)
Derived from a place named Kännavallen (now known as Tjännavallen) outside Enånger, Hälsingland, Sweden.

Kanno Japanese
From the Japanese 菅 (kan or suga) "sedge" and 野 (no) "field," "area." This name can also be read as Sugano.

Kano Japanese
From Japanese 狩 (ka) meaning "hunt, gather" and 野 (no) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Kanpistegi Basque
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the commune of Ezterenzubi in the arrondissement of Baiona.

Kanroji Japanese
Fron Japanese 甘 (kan) meaning "sweet", 露 (ro) meaning "dew" and 寺 (ji) meaning "temple".

Kantakouzenos Greek
One of the noble Byzantine families, the surname is connected to the locality of Kouzenas, a name for the southern part of Mount Sipylus near Smyrna (Izmir).

Kanzawa Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 寒風澤 (see Sabusawa).

Käosaar Estonian
Possibly means "cuckoo island" in Estonian, from a genitive form of kägu "cuckoo" combined with saar "island". It could also indicate someone from the village Käo in Saare county, on the island Saaremaa.

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.

Kapeller German, German (Austrian)
Derived from Middle High German kappelle, kapelle "chapel", this name denoted someone who lived near a chapel.

Kapodistrias Greek
This surname is a greek version of Capo d'Istria

Kapos Greek

Kaposi Hungarian
Derived from places named Kaposvár or Kapos.

Kappelin Swedish
Swedish cognate of Kappel.

Kapuściński Polish
Habitational name for someone from the town of Kapuścin or Kapuścino, both named from Polish kapusta meaning "cabbage".

Karadağ Turkish
From Turkish kara meaning "black" and dağ meaning "mountain".

Karadeniz Turkish
Means "black sea" in Turkish.

Karakawa Japanese
Kara means "larch" and kawa means "river, stream".

Karakaya Turkish
Means "black rock" in Turkish.

Karamanian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Քարամանյան (see Karamanyan).

Karamanli f Greek
Feminine form of Karamanlis. Anna Karamanli (1968-) is a Greek politician, sports journalist, and former athlete.

Karamanlis m Greek
Originally indicated a person who came from Karaman, a city located in south-central Turkey, itself is derived from Karaman Bey, a Turkoman chieftain who ruled the Karamanids in the 13th century... [more]

Karamanukyan Armenian
Variant of Karamanyan.

Karamanyan Armenian
From Ottoman Turkish قرامان (Karaman), a city in south-central Turkey, or قرامان (karaman) "swarthy, black, dark-skinned".

Karasawa Japanese

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.

Karczewski Polish
habitational name for someone from Karczew, named with Polish karcz ‘stump’.

Kareaga Basque
Derived from Basque kare "lime (mineral)" and -aga "place of, abundance of".

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]

Karigai Japanese

Karigaya Japanese

Karino Japanese

Karitani Japanese

Kariya Japanese

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.

Karjamaa Estonian
Karjamaa is an Estonian surname meaning "pastureland".

Karkavandian Armenian, Iranian
Those belonging to the Karkevand/Garkevand district of Iran who are most likely of Armenian origin. Typical modern Armenian last names end with the originally patronymic suffix -յան or -եան, transliterated as -yan, -ian, or less often '-jan'... [more]

Karlin Polish
Polish habitational name from a village in Poland.

Karling German
A habitational name from Karling in Bavaria.

Karlsberg German
Means "Carl's Mountain" in German language, it is also used in other Germanic languages

Karlström Swedish
Literally means "Carl's stream" in Swedish.

Kármán Hungarian
An ethnic name for people from Karaman, Turkey, via Medieval Latin Caramanus.

Karmazinas Lithuanian
Perhaps a habitational name taken from the Lithuanian village Karmazinai. The name of the village is allegedly derived from Polish karmazyn "crimson". See also Karmazsin, a Hungarian occupational name for a dyer or for someone making dyestuff (taken directly from Hungarian karmazsin "crimson").

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.

Karrantza Basque
Habitational name from Basque Country, Spain, a Basque adaptation of Carrantia, a toponym probably of Cantabrian origin meaning "high rocks" (compare Basque harri "rock, stone" and (h)andi "big, large").

Karslake English
Variant spelling of Kerslake.

Karube Japanese
From Japanese 苅 (karu) meaning "reap, cut" and 部 (be) meaning "part, section".

Karyotakis Greek

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).

Kasaya Japanese

Kašćelan Montenegrin
Derived from Italian castello, meaning "castle".

Kaseda Japanese
If kase is spelled like 加 (ka) meaning "add, increase, join, include, Canada" and 世 (se, yo) meaning "generation, world, society, public", then it can also be read as kayo... [more]

Kaselaid Estonian
Kaselaid is an Estonian surname meaning "birch islet".

Kasemaa Estonian
Kasemaa is an Estonian surname meaning "birch land".

Kasemets Estonian
Kasemets is an Estonian surname meaning "birch forest".

Kashani Persian

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.

Kashgari Uyghur, Arabic
Originally denoted someone who came from the city of Kashgar, located in the Xinjiang region of western China. The city's name is of Persian origin probably meaning "rock mountain".

Kashibara Japanese
Variant of Kashihara.