KuromushaJapanese (Rare) From Japanese 黒武者 (Kuromusha) meaning "Kuromusha", a division in the division of Urano in the area of Iriki in the city of Satsumasendai in the prefecture of Kagoshima in Japan or 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.
KurushimaJapanese From 栗 (kuru) meaning "chestnut" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".
KurusuJapanese Combination of 来 (kuru), meaning "come, next", and 栖 (su), meaning "nest, den".
KurzbergGerman, Yiddish, Jewish From a location name meaning "short mountain" in German, from Middle High German kurz meaning "short" and berg meaning "mountain". As a Jewish surname it is ornamental.
KusakaJapanese meaning of sound of KUSA-KA is grassy-place. on kanji it means 日(sun) 下(under), there is association which grass grows good under the sun. this is the special case of usage of kanji in Japanese such as 飛鳥 asuka, 春日 kasuga and 長谷川 hasegawa.
KusakaJapanese From Japanese 日 (ku) meaning "sun, day" and 下 (saka) meaning "under, below".
KushigeJapanese (Rare) From Japanese 櫛笥 (Kushige) meaning "Kushige", a former alley in the area of Kushige in the ward of Kamigyō in the city of Kyōto in the prefecture of Kyōto in Japan.... [more]
KushigeJapanese (Rare) From Japanese 櫛下 (Kushige), from 櫛下門 (Kushigemon), the name of one of the groups 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, as well as surrounding areas.
KusunokiJapanese From Japanese 楠 (kusunoki) meaning "camphor tree". This name can also be formed from 楠 (kusu) meaning "camphor", an unwritten possessive particle, and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".
KuwayamaJapanese From Japanese 桑 (kuwa) meaning "mulberry" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".
KuyengChinese (Russified) Russified form of Kuang used by ethnic Chinese living in parts of the former Soviet Union (based on the Cantonese romanization of the name).
KuzeJapanese Ku means "long time ago" and ze comes from ze meaning "world".
KvitkaUkrainian Means "flower" in Ukrainian. It is an ornamental surname, but it could also denote to someone from a village called Kvitka.
KvonChinese (Russified) Russified form of Kuang used by ethnic Chinese living in parts of the former Soviet Union (based on the Cantonese romanization of the name).
LaVietnamese Vietnamese form of Luo, from Sino-Vietnamese 羅 (la).
LãVietnamese Vietnamese form of Lu 1, from Sino-Vietnamese 呂 (lã).
LaanDutch Means "lane, avenue" in Dutch (see Van Der Laan). Alternatively, could be a matronymic from the given name Lane, a Middle Dutch diminutive of Juliana and other names with similar elements.
LääneEstonian Lääne is an Estonian surname meaning "western".
LaaneotsEstonian Laaneots is an Estonian surname meaning "wintergreen tip" or "edge".
LaanepõldEstonian Laanepõld is an Estonian surname meaning "chickweed-wintergreen field".
LaaneviirEstonian Laaneviir is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "Laaneveere", a village in Viimsi Municipality, Harju County.
LäänsooEstonian Läänsoo is an Estonian surname meaning "west swamp".
LaayouniArabic (Maghrebi) From Laayoune, the name of a city in the Western Sahara (chiefly Moroccan).
LabazyukUkrainian From Ukrainian лабазник (labaznyk), a type of tree. Probably denoted to someone who lived near labaznyks.
LabossiereFrench Norman habitational name from a common village name La Boissière, meaning 'wooded area', from bois 'wood'. possibly a metronymic, from a feminine derivative of Bossier 'cooper', denoting the 'wife of the cooper'.
LabrieFrench Topographic name from l’abri meaning "the shelter", or a habitational name from a place named with this word.
LaBrieFrench Referred to a person who came from various places named Brie in France, for example Brie-sous-Matha, a commune in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France.
LachowskiPolish Place name for someone from the Polish village of Lachow.
LachtrupGerman Probably from a place name using the suffix -trup, related to dorf meaning "village". The first element could be lach "laugh, smile", or a corruption of loch "hole, pit".
LacombeFrench French (western and southwestern): topographic name for someone living in or near a ravine, from la combe ‘the ravine’ (a word of Gaulish origin, related to English Combe).... [more]
LæstadiusSwedish From the name of the village Lästa in Ångermanland, Sweden, whose name possibly means "Leiðulfr's home". Lars Levi Læstadius (1800-1861) was a Swedish priest who founded a Lutheran revival movement known as Laestadianism.
LafitteFrench French: topographic name for someone who lived near a boundary mark, Old French fitte (Late Latin fixta petra ‘fixed stone’, from the past participle of figere ‘to fix or fasten’), or habitational name from any of several places in western France named with this word
LaflashFrench (Quebec, Anglicized) Anglicization of the name "Richer dit Laflèche." Richer comes from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements ric ‘power(ful)’ + hari, heri ‘army.' Laflèche is a reference to La Flèche, a town in historical Anjou, France... [more]
LaflècheFrench (Quebec) A French-Canadian secondary surname from "Richer dit Laflèche," used independently since 1746. Laflèche is derived from the French town of La Flèche, in the former province of Anjou.
LafontFrench topographic name for someone living near a spring or well a variant of Font with fused feminine definite article la.
LafontOccitan Topographic name for someone who lived near a spring or well, from Occitan font meaning "fountain".
LafranchiAlpine Possibly, the Frank. Thought by some to indicate a group of merchants in Middle Ages responsible for the transalpine trade to the French.
LafrenièreFrench Topographic name derived from French frenière meaning "place of ash trees". It is often Americanised as Freeman.
LafuenteSpanish Means "the fountain" in Spanish derived from fons "fountain" with fused definite article la. Variant of Fuentes and cognate to Lafontaine.
LagardeFrench Habitational name from Lagarde or La Garde names of several places in various parts of France named in Old French with garde "watch protection" (see Garde).
LagerstedtSwedish Feom Swedish, lager meaning "lair, den, shelter" and stedt meaning "town, farmstead".
LaghiItalian Possibly originated to denote someone from the Italian town of Laghi.
LagoItalian, Spanish, Portuguese Topographic name for someone living by a lake from lago "lake" (from Latin lacus) or a habitational name from any of the many places called with this word.
LagójskìBelarusian This indicates familial origin within the city of Lagójsk.
LagrangeFrench Means "the granary" in French, a topographic name for someone who lived by a granary or a habitational name for someone who lived in Lagrange or similar in France, all derived from Old French grange "granary, barn" (see Grange) combined with the definite article la... [more]
LagunaSpanish Habitational name for someone from any of the various locations in Spain named Laguna meaning "lake, pond" in Spanish.
LahaieFrench Locational name for someone who lived near a hedge or large bush, from old French "La" the and "Haie" hedge.
LahayeFrench, Walloon topographic name with the definite article la from Old French haye "hedge" (see Haye ) or a habitational name from La Haye the name of several places in various parts of France and in Belgium (Wallonia) named with this word... [more]
LahiriBengali Habitational name from either the village of Lohori in present-day Bangladesh or the village of Laheria in India.
LahnerGerman, Hungarian Habitational name for someone from any of various places called Lahn in Hungary and Germany. In southern Germany and Austria, Lahn denotes a place where there had been an avalanche or landslide, from Middle High German laen, lēne meaning "avalanche".
LạiVietnamese Vietnamese form of Lai, from Sino-Vietnamese 賴 (lại).
LaiChinese From Chinese 赖 (lài) meaning "rely", also referring to the ancient state of Lai that existed during the Zhou dynasty in what is now Henan province.
LaiItalian Possibly denoting someone from Alà dei Sardi, or derived from the given name Nicola 1. Alternately, it may derive from lai, a type of lyrical poem.
LaidlaEstonian Laidla is an Estonian surname meaning "near an islet".
LailEnglish (American) Americanized form of German Lehl or Loehl. In either case, the name is a spelling variant of Lehle or Löhle, pet forms of the personal name Leonhardt.
LaithenEnglish English habitational name from any of various places so called, for example in Lancashire (near Blackpool) and in North Yorkshire. The former was named in Old English as ‘settlement by the watercourse’, from Old English lad ‘watercourse’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the latter as ‘leek enclosure’ or ‘herb garden’, from leac ‘leek’ + tun... [more]
LaithwaiteEnglish Habitational name for a person from the places named Laithwaite in Pemberton or Cockerham, derived from Old Norse hlaða "storehouse, barn" and þveit "clearing".
LakeEnglish Topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, Old English lacu, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, for example in Wiltshire and Devon. Modern English lake (Middle English lake) is only distantly related, if at all; it comes via Old French from Latin lacus... [more]
LakemanDutch Either a topographic name for someone who lived by a lake or pond, from Middle Dutch lake "lake, pool; stream, marshland" and man "person, man", or an occupational name from laken "broadcloth".
LakuntzaBasque From the name of a town in Navarre, Spain, derived from Basque lako "wine press" and -une "place, location" combined with -tza "large quantity, abundance".
LalicataItalian Variant of the toponymic surname Licata using the definite article la.
LalondeFrench, French (Quebec) Habitational name from any of various places in Normandy called La Londe, from the French definite article la with Old Norse lundr meaning "grove"... [more]
LâmVietnamese Vietnamese form of Lin, from Sino-Vietnamese 林 (lâm).
LamDutch, North Frisian Means "lamb" in Dutch, a habitational name for someone who lived by a sign depicting a lamb or a place named for them. In some cases, it may derive from the name of a ship.
LamalfaSicilian Variant of Malfa, most probably a habitational name for someone from Malfa on the island of Salina (Messina), although the name has also been linked with Amalfi in Salerno and Melfi in Potenza.
LamborghiniItalian Probably from Germanic landa "land" and burg "fortress, castle".
LamendolaItalian, Sicilian nickname or more often a habitational name from places named with the dialect term amendola, mendola, mendula "almond" (also "almond tree").
LammasEnglish Lammas is a surname from the village Lamarsh in Essex, England.
LammersEnglish Habitational name from either Lamas in Norfolk or Lamarsh in Essex, derived from Old English lām "loam, clay" combined with ersc "plowed field" or mersc "marsh".
LamshedEnglish Surname common in Australia & the UK. A variation of Lambshead which was originally a mis-spelling of Lambside which was the area from which the family originated in Pommyland. Other variations include Lambshed, Lamshead, Lammyside and Lamesta... [more]
LanChinese From Chinese 蓝 (lán) referring to a place called Lantian that existed in what is now Shaanxi province.
LanbarriBasque Habitational name meaning "newly ploughed land", derived from Basque lan "work, labour" (or possibly landa "field") and barri "new".
LancashireEnglish Shire of Lancaster; One who came from Lancashire, a county in the North of England.
LancasterEnglish From the name of a city in northwestern England derived from Middle English Loncastre, itself from Lon referring to an ancient Roman fort on the River Lune combined with Old English ceaster meaning "city, town".
LanckorońskiPolish This denotes familial origin within the Lesser Polish village of Lanckorona.
LançonFrench Can be a habitational name from any of several locations in France, a diminutive form of Lance, or possibly derived from Old French lançon "branch", a topographic name for someone living in a forested area or an occupational name for a woodcutter... [more]
LandEnglish, German Topographic name from Old English land, Middle High German lant, "land, territory". This had more specialized senses in the Middle Ages, being used to denote the countryside as opposed to a town or an estate.
LandaverdeSpanish From Spanish landa meaning 'meadow' + verde meaning 'green'.
LandazuriBasque Habitational name derived from Basque landa "field, prairie, plain" and zuri "white".
LandeFrench, Norwegian, Jewish French: topographic name for someone living on a heath, lande (from Gaulish landa ‘space’, ‘land’), or a habitational name from any of numerous minor places named La Lande from this word.... [more]
LandetxoBasque (Rare, Archaic) From the name of a neighborhood in the municipality of Mungia, Spain, derived from Basque landa "field, prairie, plain" and etxe "house, home, building".
LandibarBasque From the name of a neighborhood in the village of Urdazubi, Navarre, derived from Basque landa "field, prairie, plain" and ibar "valley, riverbank".
LandonFrench Either from the given name Landon the French cognate of Lando. Or a habitational name from a place so named (from a diminutive of lande "heath") in Creuse.
LangarikaBasque (Rare) From the name of a hamlet in Álava, Spain, of uncertain etymology. Possibly derived from Basque langarri "arable, cultivatable", or from an uncertain given name.
LangelandNorwegian Derived from the elements lang meaning "long" and land meaning "land" or "farmstead".
LangendonckDutch, Belgian A habitational name derived from lang "long, elongated" and donk "sandy hill".
LangerakDutch A habitational name from any of several places called Langerak, derived from lang "long" and rak "straight section of a waterway".
LangfieldEnglish Habitational name for someone originally from any of the various locations in England named Langfield, from Old English lang meaning "long" and feld meaning "field".
LanghoferGerman Habitational name for someone from any of several places called Langhof.
LanghornDanish Habitational name from Langenhorn (Danish Langhorn), a settlement in the north of Germany that was at one point under Danish rule.
LanghorneEnglish From Middle English lang "long" and horn "horn". Can be a habitational name from a place named with the elements, with horn used in the sense of a promontory or extending piece of land... [more]
LangtryEnglish From the Old English ‘lang’, meaning long, and ‘treow’, meaning tree. The name of several settlements across England.
LangwadeEnglish From an English village Langmead, in the county of Devon. It was used to refer to those individuals who lived at the lang-mead, which literally means "the long meadow".
LansingEnglish Derived from the name of Lancing, a place in West Sussex, which was composed of the Old English personal name Wlanc and -ingas meaning "family of" or "followers of".
LapčevićSerbian Serbo-Croatian surname meaning "river" or "white". Likely from the river Elbe in Germany, which is called Labe and Laba in Slavic languages. Lab also having the meaning "white" in archaic Slavic (like the bird labud - swan).
LaplanderEnglish A surname referring to someone who had immigrated from Lapland, northern Scandinavia.
LapsleyScottish, English, Medieval English Combination of Old English læppa ”end of a parish” and leah ”woodland clearing”. Another meaning could be possible.
LaramieEnglish From the French la ramée "the small wood, the arbour".
LardinoisFrench Originally denoted a person from the Ardennes, a forest-covered region situated in Belgium and Luxembourg, extending into Germany and France. A notable bearer of this name was the Dutch politician and diplomat Pierre Lardinois (1924-1987).
LardizabalBasque, Filipino Habitational name derived from Basque lahardi "brushland, place of brambles" and zabal "wide, broad, ample".
LareduCantabrian It indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.
LarínSpanish (Latin American) Probably a habitational name from any of several places called Larín in A Coruña and Lugo provinces.
LarivièreFrench (Modern) From the region of Bourgoigne, in France, meaning 'the river'. The name is likely a topographic reference to the physical location, likely a river in this case.
La RosaItalian Derived from Italian rosa meaning "rose", used as a name for someone who lived by a rose bush.
LaroseFrench Topographic name for someone who lived at a place where wild roses grew; or a habitational name from a town house bearing the sign of a rose. It may also have been a nickname for a man with a ‘rosy’ complexion, as well as a nickname of a soldier... [more]
LarragaBasque From the name of a town and municipality in Navarre, Spain, derived from Basque larre "pasture, meadow, prairie" and the locative suffix -aga "place of, group of".
LarrainBasque Means "threshing floor" in Basque. This is also the name of a hamlet in Navarre, Spain.
LarraldeBasque Derived from Basque larre "pasture, meadow, prairie" and -alde "near, by; side".
LarramendiBasque Means "pastureland, mountain grassland", derived from Basque larre "pasture, meadow, prairie" and mendi "mountain".
LarrañagaBasque, Spanish From the name of a farmhouse in Azpeitia, Spain, derived from Basque larrain "threshing yard" and -aga "place of, group of".
LarrazabalBasque, Spanish Habitational name derived from Basque larre "field, pastureland, prairie" and zabal "wide, open, ample".
LarrionBasque From the name of a village in Navarre, Spain, derived from Basque larre "field, pasture, meadowland" and on "good".
LarterEnglish Uncertain etymology. Possibly a variant of the French Habitational surname Latour. Other theories connect it to Old Teutonic lahtro "place where animals bear young", or to Old English lyrt "liar, deceiver; crooked", though the latter is unlikely.
LasbyEnglish (Hellenized, Rare), French (Quebec) Likely derived from a place in England. Associated with the Old English terms "laes" and "by", meaning pasture or village. Now rare in England, most people with this surname are American or Canadian, and are descended from a group of French Canadian furtrappers.
LascellesFrench French location name from Lacelle in Orne, northern France and referring to "small rooms or cells inhabited by monks".
LaskiPolish, Hungarian, Jewish Polish (Laski) and Jewish (from Poland): habitational name from Lasko (now Lask) in Sieradz voivodeship, named with laz, lazy ‘clearing in a forest’. ... [more]
LaskurainBasque Possibly derived from Basque lats "creek, brook, small stream" and the locative suffixes -ko and -ain.
LatellaItalian Possibly derived from the Calabrian word tella or tiella, meaning "baking tray, pan", ultimately from Latin tegula "tile". Alternatively, it could be a habitational name from the town of Atella.
LathamEnglish (British) Habitational name from any of the places in England named with the Old Norse word hlaða meaning "barn".
LatoszyńskiPolish This indicates familial origin within the Lesser Polish village of Latoszyn.
LatourFrench Either a topographic name for someone who lived near a tower usually a defensive fortification or watchtower from Old French tūr "tower"; or a habitational name from any of various places called Latour or La Tour named with this word.
LauderScottish, Northern Irish From a village in Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders. It derives from the Celtic Lauuedder, probably indicating a rapidly flowing river, cognate with Modern Welsh llifer meaning 'to gush'.
LaudrupDanish Possibly from the name of homesteads in Denmark, most likely derived from Old Norse laut meaning "barn", combined with the Danish suffix -drup (itself from Old Norse thorp) meaning "outlying farmstead, village, settlement"... [more]
LäuferGerman, Jewish Habitational name for someone from a place called Lauf, also an occupational name for a messenger or a nickname for a fast runner, from an agent derivative of Middle High German loufen, German laufen ‘to run’.
LauncestonCornish Derived from the Cornish place name Lannstevan. Besides the Cornish town, there is also a Launceston in Tasmania (Australia).
LauperGerman (Swiss) From the short form of a Germanic personal name composed of the elements liut 'people', 'tribe' + berht 'famous'. topographic name for someone who lived at a Lauben, a row of houses and stores with an arcade in front, from Middle High German loube 'arbor', 'bower', 'gallery'.
LauraSpanish Of uncertain origin; in some cases, it is possibly a habitational name from a place named Laura.
LaurelSpanish, Portuguese, Filipino, Tagalog, Cebuano Topographic name for someone who lived by a laurel tree, Spanish laurel (Latin laurus), or a habitational name from Laurel in the Canary Islands.
LaurieFrench Habitational name from a place in Cantal derived from Latin laurus "laurel" with the suffix -ea.
LauterbachGerman From the name of various places in Germany, for example the village of Lauterbach in the district of Rottweil, Baden-Württemberg.
LavecchiaItalian Means "the old (one)" or "the old lady" in Italian, a nickname for a man who fussed like an old woman, or for someone from an old family. It can also denote someone from a toponym containing the element vecchia.
LaverdièreFrench Habitational name from various places named La Verdière in France, or a variant of the name Leverdier (see Verdier).
LaverdiereFrench (Quebec) Said to be a locational or occupational name related to land and greenery. Related to the Cauchons, descended from Quebec. A noble Paris woman was sent to Quebec for marriage in the 17th century.
LaverdureFrench From the French place name La Verdure meaning "greenness, greenery".