Submitted Surnames from Locations

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.

Seamark English
Derived from any of several places in France called Saint-Marc.

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.

Seino Japanese
From Japanese 清 (sei) meaning "clear, pure, clean" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

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".

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
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".

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]

Senjū Japanese
From Japanese 千 (sen) meaning "thousand" and 住 (jū) meaning "abode, residence".

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

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

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
From Japanese 瀬 (se) meaning "rapids, current" and 沼 (numa) meaning "swamp, marsh".

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.

Sequeira Portuguese, Spanish
Portuguese variant and Spanish form of Siqueira.

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

Sercombe English
Derived from Sharracombe, a former settlement in Devon, England, derived from Old English cumb "valley, hollow" and an uncertain first element – possibly scir "shire, district" or the related scīrgerēfa "sheriff".

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.

Serednicki m Polish
Habitational surname for someone from a village called Serednica, meaning uncertain.

Serfati Judeo-Spanish
Variant of Sarfati.

Serfaty Judeo-Spanish
Variant of Sarfati.

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.

Serre Occitan
Occitan cognate of Sierra.

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
From Japanese 瀬戸 (seto) meaning "strait, channel", derived from 瀬 (se) meaning "rapids, current" and 戸 (to) meaning "door".

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.

Setsuhara Japanese
From Japanese 節 (setsu) meaning "section, period, verse, melody" combined 原 (hara) meaning "plain, field".

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).

Sevillano Spanish
habitational name for someone from Seville. Variant of Sevilla

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.

Seymore English
Variant of Seymour.

Sezaki Japanese
Variant of Sesaki.

Sforzo Italian
Sforza

Sha Chinese
From Chinese 沙 (shā) referring to the ancient state of Sha, which was part of the state of Song during the Zhou dynasty in what is now Hebei province. Alternately it may come from Sha Sui, the name of a fief that was part of Song in what is now Henan province, or from Su Sha, the name of an ancient clan that inhabited parts of present-day Shandong province.

Shackelford English
Variant of Shackleford.

Shackleford English, Medieval English
Locational surname deriving from the place called Shackleford in Surrey, near the town of Farnham. The origin of "shackle" is uncertain. It could be derived from Old English sceacan "to shake"... [more]

Shackleton English
The place name probably means "valley by a point of land," from the Old English scacol + denu. Another source claims the word scacol, describes a "tongue of land."

Shade English, Scottish
Topographic name for someone who lived near a boundary, from Old English scead "boundary".

Shadwell English
English surname meaning "By the shed spring"

Shahini Persian, Albanian
From the given name Shahin or from one of the multiple places in Iran named Shahini.

Shallcross English
Means "person from Shallcross", Derbyshire ("place by the Shacklecross", an ancient stone cross in the High Peak, its name perhaps denoting a cross to which people could be shackled as a penance).

Sham Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Cen.

Shami Arabic
Means "Syrian" or "Damascene", derived from Arabic الشام (ash-Sham) referring to both Syria and the Syrian city of Damascus.

Shamir Hebrew
Derived from Hebrew שָׁמִיר (shamiyr) meaning "thorn, briar, thistle" or "flint, diamond, emery, adamant". It was borne by the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir (1915-2012), whose birth name was either Yitzhak Yezernitsky or Icchak Jaziernicki.

Shan Chinese
From the place name Shan. Cheng Wang, the second king (1115–1079 bc) of the Zhou dynasty, granted to a son the area of Shan, and the son’s descendants adopted the place name as their surname. It comes from the Chinese word meaning "mountain"... [more]

Shan Chinese
From Chinese 单 (shàn) referring to the ancient state of Shan, which existed during the Zhou dynasty in what is now Henan province.

Shao Chinese
From Chinese 邵 (shào) referring to the ancient fief of Zhao, which existed during the Shang dynasty in what is now Shaanxi province. The name of the fief, 召, had the same pronunciation as the character 邵.

Shao Chinese
From Chinese 韶 (sháo) possibly referring to the ancient town of Shao that existed during the Sui dynasty in what is now Guangdong province.

Shapley English

Sharabi Judeo-Arabic
Denotes someone originally from the district of Sharab in western Yemen.

Sharafkandi Kurdish
Denoted a person from Sharafkand, a village in the Central District of Bukan County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.

Sharpton English
Habitational name from Sharperton in Northumberland, possibly so named from Old English scearp "steep" and beorg "hill", "mound" and tun "settlement".

Sharqawi Arabic (Egyptian)
Means "easterner, one from the east", derived from Arabic شرق (sharq) meaning "east, Orient".

Shatner German (Anglicized), Jewish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Schattner. A notable bearer was Canadian actor William Shatner (1931-), who is known for his roles as Captain James T. Kirk in 'Star Trek', T.J. Hooker in 'T.J. Hooker', Denny Crane in 'Boston Legal', and the Priceline Negotiator in Priceline.com commercials.

Shattuck English
A locational name from a family in Chaddock, a hamlet in the parish in Lancashire, England. Also a variant of Chadwick.

Shazar Hebrew
Referred to someone living near acacia trees that tend to be twisted, derived from Hebrew שָׁזַר (shazar) literally meaning "to twist, to be twisted, to intertwine". A famous bearer was the Israeli president, author and poet Zalman Shazar (1889-1974), who was born Shneur Zalman Rubashov.

Sheard English
English surname which was originally from a place name meaning "gap between hills" in Old English.

Sheffield English, English (British)
A surname which named after an city in England.... [more]

Shefton English

Shek Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Shi.

Sheldon English, English (American)
From an Old English place name meaning "valley with steep sides".

Shelford English

Shelley English, Irish (Anglicized)
Habitational name from any of the three places called Shelley (Essex Suffolk Yorkshire) or from Shelley Plain in Crawley (Sussex)... [more]

Shen Chinese
From Chinese 沈 (shěn) referring to the ancient state of Shen, which existed during the Zhou dynasty in what is now the Henan province.

Sheng Chinese
From Chinese 盛 (shèng) meaning "flourishing, prosperous", also referring to the ancient state of Sheng which existed during the Zhou dynasty in present-day Shandong province.

Shenton English
"Beautiful town" in Old English. Parishes in Leicestershire, and Cheshire.

Sheptitskiy Ukrainian
This indicates familial origin with the village of Sheptychi in Ukraine, which, as of February 2017, is located within Sambir Raion in the Lviv Oblast.

Sherel English (Rare)

Shereshevsky Russian, Jewish
Name for someone originally from the city of Sharashova in Belarus, probably derived Russian шерешь (sheresh) meaning "frozen mud, ice (on a river)".

Sherhouse English

Sherrell English
This surname is of English locational origin, from the place in Devonshire called Shirwell. The placename is first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Sirewelle, and by 1242 as Shirewill... [more]

Sherwood English
From a place name meaning "bright forest", derived from Old English scir meaning "bright" and wudu meaning "tree, wood".

Shi Chinese
From Chinese 施 (shī) referring to the ancient state of Shi, which existed during the Xia dynasty in present-day Hubei province.

Shi Chinese
From Chinese 石 (shí) meaning "stone", also referring to the ancient city of Chach that is now Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Shia Chinese (Teochew)
Teochew romanization of Xie.

Shiba Japanese
From Japanese 斯波 (Shiba) meaning "Shiba", a former district in the prefecture of Iwate in Japan.... [more]

Shibakawa Japanese
From Japanese 芝 (shiba) meaning "turf, lawn, sod" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river".

Shibanami Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 紫波 (see Shiba).

Shibata Japanese
From Japanese 柴 (shiba) meaning "brushwood, firewood" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Shibayama Japanese
From Japanese 柴 (shiba) meaning "firewood" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

Shibazaki Japanese

Shibazaki Japanese
From Japanese 柴 (shiba) meaning "firewood, brushwood" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Shibugai Japanese
Variant of Shibutani.

Shibugaya Japanese
Variant of Shibutani.

Shibuki Japanese
Shibu means "astringent, rough" and ki means "tree, wood".

Shibusawa Japanese
From Japanese 渋 or 澁 (shibu) meaning "astringent (taste), harsh" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Shibutani Japanese
From Japanese 澁 or 渋 (shibu) meaning "rough" and 谷 (tani) meaning "valley".

Shibuzawa Japanese
Variant of Shibusawa.

Shichiho Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 七宝 or 七寳 (see Shichihō).

Shichihō Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of 七宝 (see Shippō) and can be also spelled 七寳.

Shichihoh Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 七宝 or 七寳 (see Shichihō).

Shichihou Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 七宝 or 七寳 (see Shichihō).

Shida Japanese
From Japanese 志 (shi) meaning "will, purpose" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Shidehara Japanese
Combination of the kanji 幣 (shide, of uncertain meaning) and 原 (hara, "meadow").

Shieh Taiwanese
Alternate romanization of Xie or Shi chiefly used in Taiwan.

Shigaraki Japanese
From Japanese 死 (shi) meaning "death", 柄 (gara) meaning "handle, grip", and 木 (ki) meaning "tree"

Shigawa Japanese
Variant of Shikawa.

Shigei Japanese

Shigematsu Japanese

Shigematsu Japanese
From Japanese 重 (shige) meaning "layers, folds" and 松 (matsu) meaning "pine tree, fir tree".

Shigemura Japanese
Shige means "luxurious" and mura means "hamlet, village" or "town".

Shigeoka Japanese
From Japanese 重 (shige) meaning "layers, folds" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Shigesato Japanese
Shige means "luxurious" and sato means "village".

Shigeta Japanese
From Japanese 重 (shige) meaning "layers, folds" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Shigezato Japanese
Variant of Shigesato.

Shih Chinese
Alternate transcription of Chinese 施 (see Shi).

Shiha Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 斯波 (see Shiba).

Shijou Japanese
From Japanese 市 (shi) meaning "market, town", 四 (shi) meaning "four" or 砥 (shi) meaning "whetstone"; combined with 場 (jou) meaning "place", 條 (jou) meaning "article, twig, ray", 条 (jou) with the same meaning as the previous one, or 上 (jou) meaning "above".

Shikawa Japanese

Shikazu Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese 志和 (see Shiwa).

Shiki Japanese

Shikimi Japanese

Shim Korean
Alternate transcription of Sim.

Shima Japanese
From Japanese 島 (shima) meaning "island".

Shimabuku Japanese

Shimadzu Japanese
Variant transcription of Shimazu.

Shimai Japanese
Shima means "island" and i means "well, pit, mineshaft".

Shimajiri Japanese
From 島 (shima) meaning "island" and 尻 (jiri) meaning "rear".

Shimamori Japanese
Shima (島) means "island", mori (森) means "forest"

Shimamoto Japanese
From Japanese 島 (shima) meaning "island" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Shimano Japanese
Shima means "island" and no means "field, wilderness, plain".

Shimaoka Japanese
島 (Shima) means "jsland", 岡 (oka) means "ridge, hill".

Shimasaki Japanese

Shimata Japanese

Shimatsu Japanese

Shimazaki Japanese
From Japanese 島 (shima) meaning "island" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Shimazu Japanese
From Japanese 島 (shima) meaning "island" and 津 (zu) meaning "harbor".

Shimemura Japanese

Shimobayashi Japanese

Shimoda Japanese
From Japanese 下 (shimo) meaning "below, down, under" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Shimoenoo Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 下酔尾 (Shimoenoo) meaning "Shimoenoo", a former division in the area of Terushima in the city of Ichikikushikino 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.

Shimogawara Japanese

Shimokata Japanese
Shimo can mean "under, below" and kata can mean "shape" or "single".

Shimokawa Japanese
From Japanese 下 (shimo) meaning "below, down, under" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Shimomae Japanese

Shimomura Japanese
From Japanese 下 (shimo) meaning "below, down, under" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Shimono Japanese
From Japanese 下 (shimo) meaning "under, below" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Shimooka Japanese
Shimo means "under, below" and oka means "ridge, hill". ... [more]

Shimosawa Japanese
Shimo means "below, under" and sawa means "swamp, marsh".

Shimota Japanese

Shimoyama Japanese
Shimo means "under, below" and yama means "mountain". ... [more]

Shimoyashiki Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 下 (shimo) meaning "lower, downstream" and 屋敷 (yashiki) meaning "mansion", referring to a mansion in the lowlands.

Shimozawa Japanese
Variant of Shimosawa.

Shimura Japanese
From Japanese 志 (shi) meaning "will, purpose" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Shin Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 針 (see Hari).

Shinada Japanese

Shinagawa Japanese
Variant of Shinakawa.

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

Shinami Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 斯波 (see Shiba).

Shindera Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 新寺 (see Niidera).

Shingawa Japanese
Variant of Shinkawa.

Shinkai Japanese
From Japanese 新 (shin) meaning "new" and 海 (kai) meaning "sea, ocean".

Shinkura Japanese
From 新 (shin, ara, nii) meaning "fresh, new" and 蔵 (kura) or 倉 (kura) meaning "possess, storehouse, granary".

Shinmar Ancient Hebrew (Hellenized, Archaic, ?)
'Shin'; literally translated as 'god', 'crown'. 'Mar'; Hebrew translation for 'master'. Used by Ancient Hebrew descendants/Jews still existing in Middle East & India. Also a city that exists in West Punjab with majority Hebrew/Jews & synagogues.... [more]

Shinmura Japanese
From 新 (shin, ara, nii) meaning "new, fresh" and 村 (mura) meaning "village, hamlet".

Shino Japanese

Shinomi Japanese
From 篠 (shino) meaning "dwarf bamboo" and 見 (mi) meaning "view, outlook".

Shinosaki Japanese
Shino means "bamboo" and saki means "cape, promontory, peninsula".

Shinota Japanese
Variant of Shinoda.

Shinotsuka Japanese
Shino means "dwarf bamboo" and tsuka means "mound, hillock".

Shinozuka Japanese

Shinozuka Japanese
From Japanese 篠 (shino) meaning "dwarf bamboo" and 塚 (tsuka) meaning "hillock, mound".

Shinsawa Japanese

Shinseki Japanese
Shin can mean "new" or "trust, faith" and seki means "frontier pass".

Shintaku Japanese
From Japanese 新 (shin) meaning "fresh, new" and 宅 (taku) meaning "house, home".

Shintani Japanese
From Japanese 新 (shin) meaning "fresh, new" and 谷 (tani) meaning "valley".

Shinwari Pashto
Perhaps from Shinwar, the name of a Pashtun-inhabited district in Afghanistan. The Shinwari are a Pashtun tribe found in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Shinzawa Japanese
Variant of Shinsawa.

Shioda Japanese
From Japanese 塩 (shio) meaning "salt" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Shioe Japanese
From 潮 (shio) meaning "salt" and 江 (e) meaning "inlet, river".

Shiohata Japanese

Shiojiri Japanese
From Japanese 塩 (shio) meaning "salt" and 尻 (jiri) meaning "rear, end, back".... [more]

Shiokawa Japanese
From Japanese 塩 (shio) meaning "salt" combined with 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Shiomi Japanese
From Japanese 汐 (shio) meaning "salt, tide, opportunity" and 見 (mi) meaning "sight".

Shiono Japanese
From Japanese 塩 (shio) meaning "salt" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness, plain".

Shiosaki Japanese

Shiotani Japanese
From Japanese 塩 (shio) meaning "salt" and 谷 (tani) meaning "valley".

Shiozaki Japanese
From Japanese 塩 (shio) meaning "salt" and 崎 (saki) meaning "peninsula, cape".

Shiozawa Japanese
From Japanese 塩 (shio) meaning "salt" and 沢 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Shiozuka Japanese

Shipley English (Rare)
English: habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Derbyshire, County Durham, Northumberland, Shropshire, Sussex, and West Yorkshire, so called from Old English sceap, scip ‘sheep’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.

Shippo Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 七宝 (see Shippō).

Shippō Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 七宝 (Shippō) meaning "Shippō", a former village in the district of Toyota in the former Japanese province of Aki in parts of present-day Hiroshima, Japan.

Shippoh Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 七宝 (see Shippō).

Shippou Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 七宝 (see Shippō).

Shipton English
From Old English scip "sheep", and tun "enclosure; settlement".

Shirado Japanese

Shiradoh Japanese

Shiradou Japanese

Shiragawa Japanese
Variant of Shirakawa.

Shirahama Japanese
From Japanese 白 (shira) meaning "white" and 濱 (hama) meaning "beach, seashore".

Shiraiwa Japanese
From Japanese 白 (shira) meaning "white" and 岩 (iwa) meaning "cliff, rocks".

Shiramizu Japanese
From Japanese 白 (shira) meaning "white" and 水 (mizu) meaning "water".

Shirano Japanese
Shira means "white" and no means "field, plain".

Shirao Japanese

Shirasaka Japanese
From Japanese 白 (shira) meaning "white" and 坂 (saka) meaning "slope".

Shirasaki Japanese
From Japanese 白 (shira) meaning "white" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Shirasuga Japanese
Shira means "white" and suga means "sedge".

Shiratō Japanese
From Japanese 白 (shira) meaning "white" and 藤 (tō) meaning "wisteria".

Shiratoh Japanese

Shiratou Japanese

Shircliff English
Habitational name from Shirecliff in Sheffield (Yorkshire) from Old English scir "bright" and clif "cliff bank".

Shirino Japanese (Rare)
Shiri can mean "rear, behind" and no means "field, wilderness, plain".

Shiroda Japanese

Shiroi Japanese
Shrio means "white" and i means "well, pit, mineshaft".

Shiroiwa Japanese

Shirono Japanese
Shiro means "white" and no means "field, wilderness".

Shirota Japanese

Shiryu Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 四柳 (see Shiryū).

Shiryū Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 四柳 (see Yotsuyanagi).

Shiryuh Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 四柳 (see Shiryū).

Shiryuu Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 四柳 (see Shiryū).

Shishido Japanese
Japanese: habitational name taken from a district in Hitachi (now Ibaraki prefecture), written with a variant character for ‘flesh’ and ‘door’. It is found mostly in northeastern Japan.

Shishido Japanese
From Japanese 宍 (shishi) meaning "meat, flesh" and 戸 (to) meaning "door".

Shishikura Japanese
Shishi means "lion" and kura means "possess, have, storehouse, warehouse".

Shishinai Japanese

Shitao Japanese
From 下 (shita) meaning "lower, downstream, under" and 尾 (o) meaning "tail, end".

Shitayashiki Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 下屋敷 (see Shimoyashiki).

Shiu Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Shao.

Shiwa Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 斯波 or 紫波 (see Shiba) or variant of Shiba but written 志和.

Shiyanagi Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 四柳 (see Yotsuyanagi).

Shiyuno Japanese

Shizu Japanese

Shoat English (American)
Variant of Choate