Submitted Surnames from Locations

Santacruz Spanish
Habitational name from any of numerous places called with Santa Cruz 'the Holy Cross' from the dedication of a local church or shrine from santa 'holy' + cruz 'cross'.

Santaella Spanish
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous Andalusian municipality at the coordinates 37°34′03″N 4°50′48″W.

Santagata Biblical Italian (Italianized, Modern, ?)
names of several towns in Italy derived from saint agatha (sant agata )

Santala Finnish
From Finnish santa meaning "(slightly wet) sand" and the place suffix -la.

Santa María Spanish (Latin American)
Variant of Santamaría.

Santamaría Spanish
Means "Saint Mary" in Spanish, used as a name for someone from any of various locations named after the Virgin Mary.

Santamaria Italian, French, Spanish
Italian and French cognate of Santamaría as well as a Spanish variant.

Santangelo Italian
Originating someone from Sant' Angelo in Italy.

Santaolalla Spanish

Santayana Spanish, Spanish (Philippines)
Spanish variant of Santana. This name was borne by the Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana (1863-1952).

Santelices Spanish
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous locality of the municipality of Merindad de Valdeporres.

Santerre French
Habitational name from a place to the southeast of the Somme river, named with Latin sana terra "healthy, wholesome land".

Santillan Spanish

Santisteban Spanish
Habitational name from any of numerous places called Santisteban or Santesteban (from the Latin genitive form Sancti Stephani) for a local church or shrine dedicated to Saint Stephen.

Sanyal Bengali
Habitational name from the village of Senlal (or Sen Lal) in present-day Bangladesh.

São Jorge Portuguese
“St George.”

São Pedro Portuguese
Means Saint Peter in Portuguese.

Saotome Japanese
From Japanese 早乙女 (saotome) meaning "Saotome", a former village in the former district of Shioya in the former Japanese province of Shimotsuke in present-day Tochigi, Japan. The name of the location itself is derived from Japanese 早乙女 (saotome) meaning "a woman who plants rice in the fields"... [more]

Sapiro Jewish
Varient of Shapiro.

Sappingfield American (Anglicized, Rare)
From the German name "Sappenfeld," a small town in Bavaria, Germany. (Pop. 380.) The town itself is named after an early resident named "Sappo;" in English, the name means "Sappo's Field." The name "Sappo" may mean noble (unconfirmed)... [more]

Sarachaga Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Saratxaga.

Saracho Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Saratxo.

Sarada Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 皿 (sara), an assigned character to 更 (sara) meaning "new; unused" and 田 (da), the joining form of 田 (ta) meaning "rice paddy, cultivated field", referring to unused farmland.

Sarado Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 佐良土 (see Sarōdo).

Saragi Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 蛇穴 (see Jaana).

Saramago Portuguese
It's the name of a plant.

Sarasibar Basque
From sarats "willow" and ibar "valley". It's the name of a village in Navarre.

Sarata Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 皿田 (see Sarada).

Saratxaga Basque
It indicates familial origin near the eponymous river.

Saratxo Basque
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous council of the municipality of Amurrio.

Saraumi Japanese

Sard English, French, Spanish, Italian
In the book surnames of the United Kingdom: A Concise Etymological Dictionary by Henry Harrison and Gyda (Pulling) Harrison 1912 - Reprinted 1996. The Sard surname (which has been in England, Italy and Europe for a long time) is defined thus on page 136.... [more]

Sarfati Judeo-Spanish
From Hebrew צרפתית (tsar'fatít) meaning "French". It was traditionally used to refer to the Biblical location of Tzarfat, which is sometimes identified as modern-day France.

Sarıkaya Turkish
From Turkish sarı meaning "yellow" and kaya meaning "rock, cliff".

Sarnow Polabian (Germanized), German
From the village of Sarnow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Surname of the mayor of Stralsund Karsten Sarnow.

Sarnowski Polish
Habitational name for someone from any of the many places in Poland called Sarnowa, Sarnowo, or Sarnów, named with Polish sarna "roe deer".

Sarōdo Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 佐良土 (Sarōdo) meaning "Sarōdo", a former village in the district of Nasu in the former Japanese province of Shimotsuke.

Sarodo Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 佐良土 (see Sarōdo).

Sarohdo Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 佐良土 (see Sarōdo).

Saroudo Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 佐良土 (see Sarōdo).

Sarracino Italian
From Neapolitan sarracino, meaning "Saracen", a term used to refer to a variety of ethnic and religious groups, including a nomadic people from Sinai, Muslims, and pirates from the Mediterranean.

Sarrià Catalan
Catalan habitational name from any of the places named Sarrià or Sàrria, in Catalonia.

Sarricolea Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Sarrikolea.

Sarrikolea Basque
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Larrabetzu.

Saruta Japanese
From Japanese 猿 (saru) meaning "monkey" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Sas Dutch
Cognate of Sachs.

Sasago Japanese

Sasaguri Japanese
From 笹 (sasa) meaning "bamboo grass" and 栗 (kuri) meaning "chestnut".

Sasahara Japanese
Sasa means "bamboo" and hara means "field, plain".

Sasahara Japanese
From Japanese 笹 (sasa) meaning "bamboo grass" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Sasai Japanese
Sasa means "bamboo grass" and i means "well, mineshaft, pit".

Sasakawa Japanese
From Japanese 笹 (sasa) meaning "bamboo grass" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Sasako Japanese
Sasa means "bamboo grass" and no means "child, first sign of the Chinese zodiac: the rat".

Sasamura Japanese

Sasaoka Japanese

Sasayama Japanese
笹 (Sasa) means "bamboo" and 山 (yama) means "mountain".

Saska Croatian
Name given to someone from Saxony. From Croatian “saska” which translates to Saxony.

Sassano Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 颯々 (sassa), sound- and script-changed from 颯爽 (sassō) meaning "gallant; jaunty" and 野 (no) meaning "field; plain", referring to a stately person who traveled to the fields.

Sassu Italian
From Sardinian sassu "stone".

Sata Japanese
From 佐 (sa) meaning "assist" and 田 (ta) meaning "rice paddy, field".

Satake Japanese

Saterfield English (American)

Sather Anglo-Saxon
Sather is a name of ancient Anglo-Saxon origin and comes from the family once having lived in the ancient chapelry of Satterthwaite found near Hawkeshead in Lancashire. This surname was originally derived from the Old English elements soetr meaning shield and pveit meaning pasture... [more]

Satoh Japanese
Variant transcription of Satō.

Satoki Japanese
Sato means "village, city" and ki means "wood, tree".

Satomi Japanese
Sato means "village" and mi means "mindset, view, outlook".... [more]

Satomiya Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 里 (sato) meaning "village" and 宮 (miya) meaning "temple, shrine, palace".

Satonaka Japanese
From Japanese 里 (sato) meaning "village" and 中 (naka) meaning "middle".

Satorigi Japanese

Satoya Japanese
Sato means "village" and ya means "valley".

Satsuki Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 五月女 (see Saotome).

Satsukijo Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 五月女 (see Saotome).

Satsukime Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 五月女 (see Saotome).

Satsukino Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 五月女 (see Saotome).

Satsuma Japanese
From Japanese 薩摩 (Satsuma) meaning "Satsuma", a former Japanese province in parts of present-day Kagoshima, Japan.

Satterfield English
Variant of Satterthwaite.

Satterley English

Satterthwaite English
From a place in England named with Old English sætr "shielding" and Old Norse þveit "pasture".

Saucedo Spanish
Variant of Salcedo

Sautome Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 早乙女 or 五月女 (see Saotome).

Sauve' French
Sauve' from France to Canada. Changed probably due to an "a" and an "o" confusion in cursive. My granfather's was typo-ed on WW II old men's sign up in MA. or RI, USA.

Savard French
Either from Old French savart meaning "wasteland" or the Germanic elements sab of uncertain meaning and hard meaning "brave, hardy".

Savela Finnish
Derived from Finnish savi "clay". Savela is also a place in Helsinki and Jyväskylä.

Savignac French
Habitational name for someone from various communes by this name in France.

Savile English
Variant of Saville.

Savisaar Estonian
Savisaar is an Estonian surname meaning "loam" or "clay island".

Savoia Italian (Archaic)
A Italian royal court name.

Savoie French

Savolainen Finnish
Means "Savonian, person from Savonia". Savonia is a historical province in eastern Finland.

Sawa Japanese
From Japanese 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Sawabe Japanese

Sawabe Japanese
From Japanese 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh" and 部 (be) meaning "part, section".

Sawabe Japanese
From Japanese 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh" and 辺 (be) meaning "area, place, vicinity".

Sawada Japanese
From Japanese 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Sawaguchi Japanese
From Japanese 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh" and 口 (kuchi) meaning "mouth, entrance".

Sawai Japanese
Sawa means "marsh, swamp" and i means "mineshaft, pit, well."

Sawai Japanese
From Japanese 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".

Sawajiri Japanese
Sawa means "marsh, swamp" and jiri comes from shiri, meaning "rear".

Sawaki Japanese

Sawamura Japanese
From Japanese 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "swamp, marsh" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Sawano Japanese
Sawa means "swamp, marsh" and no means "field, plain, wilderness".

Sawaoka Japanese
Sawa means "swamp, marsh" and oka means "hill, mound".

Sawara Japanese (Rare)
Sawara (椹) is a type of cypress native to Japan

Sawara Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 佐原 (see Sahara).

Sawaragi Japanese (Rare)
Sawaragi (椹木) literally means "Sawara tree".

Sawasaki Japanese
Sawa means "swamp, marsh" and saki means "cape, peninsula, promontory".

Sawasaki Japanese
From Japanese 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Sawata Japanese

Sawayama Japanese
From Japanese 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Sawazaki Japanese
Variant of Sawasaki.

Sawhney Indian, Punjabi
Variant of Sahni.

Sawicki Polish
This indicates familial origin anywhere within a cluster of 3 Podlachian villages in Gmina Repki: Sawice-Dwór, Sawice-Wieś, or Sawice-Bronisze.

Sawtell English (British)
A dialectal variant of Sewell, which was first recorded in early 13th-century England. The later addition of the 't' was for easier pronunciation.... [more]

Sawyers Jamaican Patois

Sax Upper German, Dutch, Luxembourgish
Upper German variant of Sachs and Dutch variant of Sas.

Saxton English
Habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, possibly also one in Cambridgeshire, both so named from Old English Seaxe "Saxons" and tūn "enclosure, settlement".

Sayago Leonese (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Sayagu.

Sayagu Leonese
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous comarca.

Sayetan Thai
Alternate transcription of Saetan.

Sayetang Thai
Alternate transcription of Saetang.

Sayeyang Thai
Alternate transcription of Saeyang.

Saza Japanese
From the Japanese 佐 (sa) "assistant" and 座 (za) "seat."

Scafata Italian
Possibly denoting someone from the Italian town Scafati, from Latin scapha "skiff, light boat". Alternately, may be from Italian scafare "to husk peas", either literally referring to someone's occupation, or from the figurative meaning of "to make more confident; alert, shrewd".

Scaffidi Italian
Variant of Scafidi.

Scala Italian, Greek
Habitational or topographic name from any of various places named with scala, "ladder", "steps", "wharf".

Scalera Italian

Scales English
Name for a person who lives in a shed.

Scali Italian
Habitational name from Scali in Piedimonte Etneo, Sicily. From greek skali, "step", "terrace".

Scali Italian
Variant of Scala.

Scalia Italian
Habitational name derived from Scalea in the province of Cosenza, deriving ultimately from medieval Greek skaleia meaning "hoeing".

Scarborough English
Habitational name from Scarborough on the coast of North Yorkshire, so named from the Old Norse byname Skarði + Old Norse borg "fortress", "fortified town".

Scarbrough English
Variant of Scarborough.

Scargill English
This ancient surname is of Old Norse origin, and is a locational name from a place called Scargill in Northern Yorkshire, deriving from the Old Norse bird name "skraki", a diving duck, plus the Old Norse "gil", valley or ravine.

Scellato Italian, Sicilian
Variant of Scillato.

Schaal German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Jewish
Either a nickname for a braggart or a market crier, (derived from Middle High German schal meaning "noise, bragging"), an occupational name for someone who made dishes for scales and vessels for drinking, (from Middle Low German and Dutch schale "dish"), a habitational name from Schaala in Thuringia or the Schaalsee lake near Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, or a topographic name for someone living on marshy land, (from Dutch schald "shallow")... [more]

Schade German, Dutch, Scottish, English
German and Dutch: from schade ‘damage’, a derivative of schaden ‘to do damage’, generally a nickname for a thug or clumsy person, or, more particularly, a robber knight, who raided others’ lands.... [more]

Schattner German, Jewish
Habitational name for someone from any of several places named Schaten or Schatten, or a topographic name for someone living in a shady location, from Middle High German schate "shade", "protection".

Schau Norwegian
Variant of Skau.

Schaumburg German, Dutch, Belgian
Habitational name from any of the places called Schaumburg or Schauenburg in Germany, or Schauwberg in Brabant, Belgium.

Scheidegger German, German (Swiss)
Topographic name for someone who lived near a boundary or watershed. The name was derived from the Old German word SCHEIDE, meaning 'to part, to divide'. It may also have been a habitation name from any of the numerous places named with this word.

Schermerhorn Dutch
From Schermerhorn, the name of a village in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands, derived from Dutch schermer meaning "fencer" and hoorn meaning "horn". It was borne by the Dutch politician Willem "Wim" Schermerhorn (1894-1977), a Prime Minister of the Netherlands.

Scherzer German (Austrian)
Habitational name for someone from a place called Scherz in Switzerland

Scheunert German
Scheunert - deutsch - Besitzen einer Scheune... [more]

Scheving Icelandic, Danish (Rare)
From the name of the Danish town Skævinge whose name might be derived from Old Danish skap "something excavated".

Schiefelbein German
Habitational name from Schievelbein in Pomerania.

Schifer German, Jewish
Variant of Schiff

Schiff German, Jewish
From Middle High German Schif "ship", indicating the bearer was either a sailor, or lived in a house distinguished by a ship sign.

Schiffer German, Jewish
Variant of Schiff

Schild Jewish
From German Schild "shield", "(house) sign", applied either as an ornamental name or as a habitational name for someone who lived in a house distinguished by a sign.

Schildt German, Jewish
Variant of Schild.

Schilling German, Dutch, Jewish
Nickname for a serf who had paid his rent or fee to his lord for his freedom, derived from Middle High German schillinc, Middle Low German schillink and German schilling meaning "shilling"... [more]

Schirokauer German, Yiddish
Derived from the town of Sieraków in the Silesian Voivodeship in Poland.

Schlander German

Schlatter Upper German
Topographic name from Middle High German slâte "reedy place", or a habitational name from any of several places named Schlatt, from the same word.

Schlesinger German

Schnackenberg German

Schoenbeck German, Jewish
Means "beutiful stream" in German.

Schoenberg German, Jewish
Means "beautiful mountain" in German

Schoenenberger German
Variant of Schönenberger.

Schoettmer German
Variant of Schöttmer

Scholes English
A name for a person who lives in a shed.

Scholier Banat Swabian
Scholier

Schönenberger German
Habitational name for someone from any of several places in Germany and Switzerland named Schönenberg.

Schools Dutch
Variant of School.

Schorr German
In the south a topographic name from Middle High German schor(re) 'steep rock', 'rocky shore'.

Schottlander German, Jewish, Dutch
From German Schottland, 'Scotland' and, in some cases, denoted an immigrant from Scotland or Ireland. Numerous Irish fled to continental Europe after the Anglo-Norman invasion in the 13th century.... [more]

Schou Danish
Topographic name for someone who lived by a small wood, from a Germanized form of Danish skov 'wood', 'forest', 'copse'.

Schrödinger German
Denoted a person from Schröding, a old placename in Bavaria.

Schuknecht German
Occupational name for a shoemaker’s assistant, from Middle High German schuoch meaning "shoe" + knecht meaning "journeyman", "assistant".

Schuller German
Possibly a habitational name from Schüller in the Eifel.

Schüpbach German (Swiss)

Schwab German, Jewish
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): regional name for someone from Swabia (German Schwaben), from Middle High German Swap, German Schwabe ‘Swabian’. The region takes its name from a Germanic tribe recorded from the 1st century BC in the Latin form Suebi or Suevi, of uncertain origin; it was an independent duchy from the 10th century until 1313, when the territory was broken up.

Schwabe German
1. The name given to those who lived in Swabia

Schwanbeck German
Habitational name from any of several places so named, for example near Lübeck and near Anklam.

Schwandt German
Habitational name from any of the various places called Schwand or Schwanden, all in southern Germany, named with this element, from Middle High German swant (from swenden "to thin out", "make disappear", causative from swinden "to disappear" modern German schwinden.

Schwarm Low German, German
habitational name from Schwarme a place south of Bremen... [more]

Schwarzberg German
Variant of Schwartzberg, which means "black mountain" in German.

Schwebach Luxembourgish

Schweizer German
Variant of Schweitzer.

Schwend German
Variant of Schwandt.

Scillato Italian, Sicilian
Comes from the commune of Scillato in Sicily, Italy, southeast of Palermo.

Scimeca Italian

Sciscoe English (?)

Scobie Scottish
Means "person from Scobie", an unidentified place in Perth and Kinross ("thorny place"). A fictional bearer is Henry Scobie, the conscience-wracked and ultimately suicidal deputy commissioner of police in Graham Greene's West Africa-set novel 'The Heart of the Matter' (1948).

Scoffield English

Scofield English

Scoles English

Scorrano Italian
Denotes someone from Scorrano, Italy. Coincides with scorrano "to run, to flow".

Scorsese Italian
From a nickname that indicated a person who came from Scotland, derived from Italian scozzese literally meaning "Scotsman, Scottish". This spelling arose from a transcription error of the surname Scozzese... [more]

Scotford English
Derived from Scotforth, the name of a village near Lancaster (in Lancashire) in England. The village's name means "ford of the Scot(s)" and is derived from Old English Scott "Scot" combined with Old English ford "ford".

Scotland English
(i) "person from Scotland"; (ii) "person from Scotland or Scotlandwell", Perth and Kinross; (iii) from the Norman personal name Escotland, literally "territory of the Scots"

Scotto Italian
Either an ethnic name for someone from Scotland or Ireland from medieval Italian scotto or scoto meaning "Scot", making it a cognate of Scott, or from a diminutive of given names ending in sco such as Francesco (via its diminutive Francescotto) or Maresco (via Marescotto).

Scotts Scottish, English
Variant of Scott.

Screeton English
Locational surname originating from the village of Screveton in Nottinghamshire. Derived of Old English elements scīr-rēfa "sheriff" and tun "settlement".

Scroggs English
From Middle English scrogge meaning "brushwood".

Scroggs Scottish
Derived from a place in Scotland named Scrogges.

Scruggs English (American)
Variant of Scroggs.

Scudamore Anglo-Norman
A locational surname that was first recorded in England in 1264. Derived from one of the ancient villages of Fifield Scudamore or Upton Scudamore, with Scudamore coming from the Old English scitemor, which means "one who lived at the moor."

Scurrah English

Se Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 瀬 (Se) meaning "Se", a division in the area of Ei in the city of Awaji in the prefecture of Hyōgo in Japan.

Seaberry English

Seabra Portuguese
Habitational name from the town of Puebla de Sanabria in northwestern Spain of uncertain meaning, possibly of Arabic, Celtic or Latin origin.

Seabridge English
It means "sea bridge".

Seabury English

Seafield English

Seaforth English
English

Seaforth English
The name of a projection of the sea on the east coast of Lewis, on the Long Island, Scotland. Means "the forth of the sea".

Seagrave English
Habitational name from a place in Leicestershire, recorded in Domesday Book as Satgrave and Setgrave; probably named from Old English (ge)set meaning "fold", "pen" (or sēað meaning "pit", "pool") + grāf meaning "grove" or græf meaning "ditch".

Seagrove English

Seah Chinese (Hokkien), Chinese (Teochew)
Hokkien and Teochew romanization of Xie chiefly used in Singapore.

Seatter Scottish
From an ancient barony called "The lands of Setter", Stromness, Orkney. Derives from the Ancient Norse word "saetr" meaning a hut or shelter for animals.

Seawright English

Seda Japanese

Sedda Italian
From a place name in Sardinia, meaning "top of a mountain". May alternately derive from Sardinian sedda "saddle", indicating the bearer's occupation.

Seddon English
"Broad hill" in Old English. A surname that most occurs in Merseyside, and Lancashire.

Sedgewick English
Variant of Sedgwick.

Sedgwick English
Habitational name from Sedgwick in Cumbria, so named from the Middle English personal name Sigg(e) (from Old Norse Siggi or Old English Sicg, short forms of the various compound names with the first element "victory") + Old English wic "outlying settlement", "dairy farm"; or from Sedgewick in Sussex, named with Old English secg (sedge) + wic.

Sedon English
Variant of "Seddon"

Sedowski Polish
Habitational name from places called Sedowice, Sedowo, Sedów, in Lublin, Bydgoszcz, Piotrków, and Sieradz voivodeships.

Sedwick English

See English, German
Topographic name for someone who lived by the sea-shore or beside a lake, from Middle English see meaning "sea", "lake" (Old English sǣ), Middle High German sē. Alternatively, the English name may denote someone who lived by a watercourse, from an Old English sēoh meaning "watercourse", "drain".

See Chinese (Hokkien)
Hokkien romanization of Shi.

Seedorf German
habitational name from any of the numerous places so named from See "lake" and Dorf "village".

Segade Galician

Segărceanu Romanian
A topographical surname designating someone from Segarcea, a small town in Dolj County, Romania.

Segarra Catalan
Regional name from the district of La Segarra, or habitational name from any of the places named with Segarra or La Segarra in Catalonia and Valencia.

Segawa Japanese
Variant of Sekawa.

Segoviano Spanish
One who came from Segovia, a region from Spain.

Segura Spanish, Catalan, American (Hispanic)
Derived from Spanish segura "safe, secure".

Sei Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 生 (see Ike 2).

Seidenberg German, Jewish
Derived from several places with the same name. As an ornamental name, it is derived from German seide meaning "silk" and berg meaning "mountain".

Seiichi Japanese

Seijas Galician (Hispanicized)
Hispanicised Galician cognate of Seixas.

Seinfeld German, Jewish
From the German word sein "to be" and the word of German Jewish origin feld which means "field". It was a name given to areas of land that had been cleared of forest.

Seisui Japanese

Seixas Portuguese
Habitational name from any of various places called Seixas in Galicia, Spain, most likely derived from Galician seixo meaning "pebble, stone" (ultimately from Latin saxum).

Sekawa Japanese
From Japanese 瀬 (se) meaning "rapids, current" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Sekawa Japanese
Se means "current, ripple" and kawa means "river, stream".

Sekigawa Japanese
Variant of Sekikawa.

Sekiguchi Japanese
From Japanese 関 (seki) meaning "frontier pass" and 口 (kuchi) meaning "mouth, entrance".

Sekikawa Japanese
From Japanese 関 (seki) meaning "frontier pass" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Sekimoto Japanese

Sekine Japanese
From Japanese 関 (seki) meaning "frontier pass" and 根 (ne) meaning "root, foundation".

Sekino Japanese
Seki means "frontier pass" and no means "field, plain".

Sekino Japanese
From Japanese 関 (seki) meaning "frontier pass" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Sekiya Japanese
From Japanese 関 (seki) meaning "frontier pass" and 谷 (ya) meaning "valley".

Sekizawa Japanese
關 translates to "connection; barrier; gateway; involve; concerning" and 澤 translates to "swamp" so it could be translated as "a connected swamp"

Sela Hebrew
Means "rock" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this is the name of a city, the capital of Edom. Famous bearer is the Israeli model, actress and television presenter Rotem Sela (born 1983)

Selbee English (American)
Variant of Selby.

Selbey English
Variant of Selby.

Selfridge English
habitational name from an unidentified minor place called with Old English scelf "shelf" and hrycg "ridge".

Selland Norwegian
From the Old Norse habitational name Seljuland, from selja "willow" and land "land", "farm".

Selouani Moroccan
Habitational name from the Rifian town of Selouane.

Selsey English

Selva Catalan, Italian
From any of various places in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, or northern Italy named Selva, as for instance the Catalan district La Selva, from selva "wood", Latin silva.

Selvig Norwegian (Rare), Popular Culture
Variant of Selvik. Erik Selvig is a fictional character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He appears in several MCU movies between 2011 and 2022 where he is portrayed by Stellan Skarsgård... [more]

Selvik Norwegian
From any of the farms in Norway named with Old Norse selja "willow" or selr "seal" combined with vík "bay, inlet".

Selz German
The Selz is a river in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, and a left hand tributary of the Rhine. It flows through the largest German wine region, Rheinhessen or Rhenish Hesse. Also, Seltz (German: Selz) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department of the Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine region in north-eastern France.... [more]

Sem Norwegian
Norwegian: habitational name from any of about fifteen farms so named, a variant of Seim.

Semadeni Romansh
Derived from the place name Samedan.

Semer English
From the village of Semer in Suffolk.

Semura Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 瀬 (se) meaning "rapids; current" and 村 (mura) meaning "village".

Semura Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 瀬村 (Semura), a clipping of 杭瀬村 (Kuinose-Mura) meaning "Semura Village", formerly in the city of Wakayama in the prefecture of Wakayama in Japan.

Semura Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 瀬村 (Semura), a clipping of 瀬田蔵 (Setagura-Mura) meaning "Setagura Village", formerly in the city of Tottori in the prefecture of Tottori in Japan.

Senami Japanese
Se means "ripple, current" and nami means "wave".

Senba Japanese

Senda Japanese
From Japanese 千 (sen) meaning "thousand" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Seng German
1. Topographic name for someone who lived by land cleared by fire, from Middle High German sengen ‘to singe or burn’. ... [more]

Seno Japanese
From 瀬 (se) meaning "current, ripple" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness, plain".

Sensabaugh American
Americanized form of German Sensenbach, a topographic name formed with an unexplained first element + Middle High German bach ‘creek’.

Sensen Dutch

Sensenbach German
A topographic name formed with an unexplained first element + Middle High German bach ‘creek’. Pretty common in Iowa and Pennsylvania.

Senuki Japanese (?)

Senuma Japanese
Se means "ripple" and numa means "marsh, swamp".

Senzaki Japanese
From Japanese 先 (sen) meaning "before, previous" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Seoane Galician
This indicates familial origin within any of multiple localities that bear this syncopated form of the name San Xoán.

Seok Korean
Korean form of Shi, from Sino-Korean 石 (seok).

Seow Chinese (Hokkien), Chinese (Teochew)
Hokkien and Teochew romanization of Xiao.

Sepúlvado Spanish
Variant of Sepúlveda.

Serapiglia Italian

Serbia Spanish
Unknown.. researching history of the spanish name that was first identify being used in Utado Puerto, Rico in 1790s by Fransico Serbia and Paula Serbia Filare

Serdà Catalan (Valencian)
Variant of Cerdà, or from the name of the village of Cerdà (also called La Serda) in the province of Valencia in Spain.

Sero Japanese
From Japanese 瀬 (se) meaning "rapids" and 呂 (ro) meaning "spine"

Serrallonga Catalan
Taken from the name of a town in the Vallespir district, in Northern Catalonia.

Serre French
Means 'greenhouse' in French.

Serres French
Altered form of "Serre"

Servopoulos Greek
Means "descendant of a Serb" in Greek.

Sesaki Japanese
Se means "ripple, current" and saki means "peninsula, cape, promontory".

Sether Norwegian
Habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named Seter or Sæter.

Seto Japanese
Se means "riffle" and to means "door". ... [more]

Setoh Japanese
Variant transcription of Seto.

Seton Scottish
It has been claimed in the past that the name Seton is Norman in origin, however evidence points to it being Flemish. Various suggestions have been put forward regarding the derivation of the name but nothing proved conclusively; it probably means "town by the sea" and possibly derives from the "sea town" of Staithes in modern day North Yorkshire... [more]

Setou Japanese
Variant transcription of Seto.

Settai Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 摂待 (Settai) meaning "Settai", a former village in the former district of Hei in the former Japanese province of Rikuchū in parts of present-day Iwate and Akita in Japan or a division in the same place, in the area of Tarō in the city of Miyako in the prefecture of Iwate in Japan.... [more]

Settle English
From the town of Settle in Yorkshire, England.

Severn English
From the name of the River Severn, which is of unknown meaning. The Severn is Great Britain's longest river, flowing from Wales through much of western England to the Bristol Channel. It is one of Britain’s most ancient river names, recorded as early as the 2nd century AD in the form Sabrina; its original meaning may have been "slow-moving" or "boundary".

Sevilla Spanish
Habitational name from the city of Seville (or Sevilla) in Andalusia, Spain. The city's name is probably derived from Phoenician šplh meaning "valley, plain" through Arabic إِشْبِيلِيَة‎ (ʾišbīliya).

Sewick English
Derived from Sedgwick.

Seydoux French, French (Swiss), Occitan
Derived from the Germanic names Sedulius, Sedulfus or Segedolfus. Another theory suggests Occitan roots; it might be an occupational name for someone who worked with silk, derived from Occitan sedós meaning "silky, soft"... [more]

Seymer English
Variant of Seymour, or from the village of Semer in Suffolk.