Submitted Surnames from Locations

Rugeley English
From the name of a town in Staffordshire, England, derived from Old English hrycg "ridge" and leah "woodland clearing".

Ruhr German
Name given to a person who lived near the Ruhr River in Germany.

Ruibal Galician
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the council of Moraña.

Rule Scottish, English
Scottish name from the lands of Rule in the parish of Hobkirk, Roxburghshire. The derivation is from the River Rule which flows through the area, and is so called from the ancient Welsh word "rhull" meaning "hasty or rushing".... [more]

Rumbelow English
Means "person from Rumbelow", the name of various locations in England ("three mounds").

Rumbia Indonesian
Named after the rumbia fruit in Indonesia.

Rumfelt German, Dutch
Altered spelling of German Romfeld, derived from Middle Low German rüm- meaning "to clear (land)" and feld meaning "open country, field", hence a topographic name or possibly a metonymic occupational name for a person engaged in clearing woodland, or in some cases a habitational name for someone from Romfelt in the Ardennes... [more]

Rumfield German (Anglicized)
Americanized form of Rumfelt.

Rumford English
From the parish of Romford in Essex, England. The name means "the wide ford" from Old English rúm "wide".

Rumsfeld German
Variant spelling of Rumfelt. A notable bearer was the American politician, businessman and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (1932-2021).

Runai Japanese
Japanese: written 船井 'boat' and 'well'

Runds Germanic (Rare)
The Runds surname most likely originated near the Rhine river. It comes from the Proto-Celtic word, rūnā, meaning mystery/mystic. The coat of arms dates back to the middle ages and consists of a black shield with three gold crescent moons... [more]

Rurikawa Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 瑠璃 (ruri) meaning "lapis lazuli" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river".

Rusakova Russian
Julia Rusakova-Harper was a Russian astronaut for NASA and former wife to Jack Harper in the movie Oblivion (2013). She was played by Olga Kurylenko alongside Jack Harper’s character played by Tom Cruise... [more]

Rusby Scottish, English
Alternative spelling of Busby, a parish in Renfrewshire. A name well represented in the Penistone, and Cawthorne districts of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Rusch German
Derived from Middle High German and Middle Low German rusch "rush reeds".

Ruscica Croatian (Americanized, Modern)
From a Croatian settlement Rušćica

Rushe English, Irish
Variant of Rush

Rushen English
Originally denoted a person who lived near a marsh, noted for its rushes (see Rush). A famous bearer of this surname is the American singer Patrice Rushen (b. 1954).

Rushford English

Rusin m Russian
Means "of the Rus'", from Russian Русь (Rus').

Rusiňak Rusyn
Czech variant spelling of Rusynyak.

Rusk Scottish

Ruskykh Ukrainian, Russian (Ukrainianized)
Means "a Russian", from Ukrainian руський (rus'kyy) "Russian". It can also derived from the Russian word русский (russkiy), with the same meaning.

Rusnak Rusyn
Variant of Rusynyak.

Rusnyak Ukrainian (Rare)
From dialectal Ukrainian русня (rusnya), meaning "Russian".

Rüster German
Means "elm (tree)" in German. Could alternatively derive from rüsten to "to equip, to arm", an occupational name for someone who provided weapons to an army.

Rusynyak Rusyn
Means "Rusyn".

Ruthström Swedish
Means "Ruth's stream" in Swedish.

Ruthven English, Scottish
From the name of a barony in Perthshire, Scotland, which comes from Scottish Gaelic Ruadhainn "Dun uplands".

Rutigliano Italian
From the name of a town located in Bari Province of Apulia, Italy.

Rutledge English, Scottish
Origin unknown

Rutman Jewish, German
1. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of Rothman. ... [more]

Rutt English, German
English: variant of Root.... [more]

Ruusuvuori Finnish
Means "rose mountain" in Finnish.

Ruvolo Italian
From Sicilian ruvolo "sessile oak".

Ruz Spanish
Possibly a variant of Ruiz or Cruz.

Ryall English
From any of several places in England named from Old English ryge "rye" + hyll "hill".

Ryan Korean (Russified)
Form of Ryang used by Koreans in Russia.

Ryang Korean
North Korean form of Yang.

Ryazanov m Russian
Habitational name for someone who lived in Ryazan

Ryazanskiy m Russian
Means "from Ryazan".

Ryazantsev m Russian
Denotes to a person from Ryazan'.

Rybacki Polish
Habitational name for someone from any of various places called Rybaki, derived from Polish ryba meaning "fish".

Rybinski Polish
Habitational name for someone from any of several places called 'Rybno'.

Rybintsev m Russian
Means "from Rybinsk".

Rycroft English
Derived from Rycroft, in the parish of Birstall, Yorkshire

Ryen Norwegian
Habitational name from any of more than ten farmsteads, originally named with Old Norse rugr ‘rye’ + vin ‘meadow’.

Rykaczewski m Polish
Likely means "from Rykaczewo".

Rylaarsdam Dutch
Variant of Rijlaarsdam

Ryle English
Habitational name from Royle in Lancashire (see Royle).

Rylee English (American)
Variant of Riley 1.

Rylo English
Variant of the surname Rilo.

Ryne German (Swiss)
Respelling of Swiss German Rhyn, a topographic name for someone living on the Rhine river, Middle High German Rin.

Rynearson German, German (Swiss)
Derived from the Rhine River.

Ryuen Japanese (Rare)
龍 (Ryuu) means "Dragon" and 円 (En) means "Circle, Round". En also can also mean "Garden" in this surname. ... [more]

Ryūfuku Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 竜福 (Ryūfuku), a clipping of 竜福寺 (Ryūfukuji), a former temple that was located possibly somewhere in the prefecture of Tochigi in Japan. It is also a clipping of 龍福寺 (Ryūfukuji), former temple in the division of Shiji in the area of Shiraki in the ward of Asakita in the city of Hiroshima in the prefecture of Hiroshima in Japan.... [more]

Ryufuku Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 竜福 or 龍福 (see Ryūfuku).

Ryuhfuku Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 竜福 or 龍福 (see Ryūfuku).

Ryusaki Japanese
Ryu means "dragon" or "imperial" and Saki means "peninsula".

Ryuuen Japanese
Most common transcription of Ryuen, meaning "dragon garden".

Ryuufuku Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 竜福 or 龍福 (see Ryūfuku).

Ryuuko Japanese

Ryūzaki Japanese
From Japanese 竜, 龍 (ryū) meaning "dragon" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula". One bearer of this surname was actor Katsu Ryūzaki (竜崎 勝, 1940–1984), born Fumiaki Takashima (高島 史旭).

Rzasa Polish
Topographic name for someone who lived near a pond where duckweed grew, from Polish rzasa ‘duckweed’.

Rzewuski Polish
It indicates familial origin within the Podlachian village of Rzewuszki.

Rzhevsky Russian
Derived from Russian Ржев "Rzhev", a historical town between Moscow and Minsk, itself of unknown origin. This was the surname of a Russian noble family as well as Poruchik Dmitry Rzhevsky, a fictional character in the 1962 Soviet musical Hussar Ballad, often used in Russian jokes.

Rzymski Polish
Derived from a place named ryzm "Rome". Denoting for someone from Rome.

Sá Portuguese, Galician
Variant spelling of Saa, a habitational name from any of the numerous places named Saa, mainly in northern Portugal and Galicia.

Saa Portuguese, Galician
Habitational name from any of the numerous places named Saa, mainly in northern Portugal and Galicia.

Saaremaa Estonian
Toponymic surname from an island in the West Estonian archipelago, derived from saar "island" and maa "land, earth".

Saarniit Estonian
Saarniit is an Estonian surname meaning "island meadow".

Saavedra Spanish, Mexican
Derived from the place-name Saavedra and therefore signifies "descendant or son of one from Saavedra". The place-name Saavedra is located in the north western province of Lugo in Galicia, Spain and is believed to be derived from the elements "Saa" meaning "Hall" and "Vedra" (feminine) meaning "Old".

Sabău Medieval Romanian

Sabella Sicilian, Italian
Possibly derived from the Latin cognomen Sabellus, or in some cases from a diminutive of the feminine given name Isabella... [more]

Sablone Italian
From Latin sabulo "coarse sand, gravel".

Sabusawa Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 寒風沢 (Sabusawa), a clipping of 寒風沢浜 (Sabusawahama) meaning "Sabusawahama", a former village in the district of Miyagi in the former Japanese province of Rikuzen in parts of present-day Miyagi and Iwate in Japan, or a clipping of 浦戸寒風沢 (Uratosabusawa) meaning "Uratosabusawa", an area in the city of Shiogama in the prefecture of Miyagi in Japan.... [more]

Sacheverell Norman, French

Sachse German
Variant of Sachs.

Sackmann German
Occupational name from Middle High German sacman meaning "baggage servant", one who was in charge of transporting and looking after a knight’s baggage and supplies on campaign.

Saculsan Philippine Mythology
Surname found in tbe Bicol Region in the Philippines

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

Sadakane Japanese

Sadat German (Rare)
The last name Sadat means "master" and "gentleman," and is originally a religious last name which was popular in the west, more precisely in Germany.

Sado Japanese

Sadov m Russian
From Russian сад (sad), meaning "garden".

Sadovskiy m Russian
Variant of Sadov.

Sadovyy m Ukrainian
Means "garden (adjective)" in Ukrainian.

Sadpara Urdu
Originally denoted a person from Sadpara (also Satpara) which is the name of a village and lake near Skardu in Gilgit-Baltistan. The place name Sadpara means "seven gates".

Saechao Thai
Form of Zhao used by Chinese Thais.

Saechua Thai
Form of Cai (via the Teochew romanization) used by Thais of Chinese descent, formed with Thai แซ่ (sae) denoting Chinese family names.

Saegusa Japanese
Variant of Saekusa.

Saeki Japanese
From Japanese 冴 (sae) meaning "clear, serene" and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".

Saelim Thai
Form of Lin used by Chinese Thais (based on the Hokkien romanization of the name).

Saeng Thai
Form of Wu used by Chinese Thais (based on the Cantonese romanization of the name).

Saetae Thai
Form of Zheng used by Chinese Thais (based on the Hokkien romanization of the name).

Saetan Thai
Form of Chen used by Chinese Thais (based on the Hokkien romanization of the name).

Saetang Thai
Form of Tang used by Chinese Thais. This is one of the most common surnames in Thailand.

Sæter Norwegian
Variant of Sæther.

Sæther Norwegian
Derived from Old Norse sætr "farm" or setr "seat, residence, mountain pastures".

Saeyang Thai
Form of Yang used by Chinese Thais.

Saffioti Italian
From the place name Punta Safò, a settlement in Briatico.

Sagadraca English

Sagami Japanese
Variant of Sakami.

Sagara Japanese
From Japanese 相 (saga) meaning "nature, custom, fate, destiny" and 良 (ra) meaning "good, virtuous, respectable" or 楽 (ra) meaning "comfort, ease".

Sagastume Basque
Topographic name from Basque sagasta "apple tree" and ume "young (plant), child".

Sagawa Japanese
From Japanese 佐 (sa) meaning "help, aid" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Sagisu Japanese

Sagorsky Polish, Russian
It means literally "of the city/town Sagorsk". Sagorsk is a city near the Russian capital of Moskva. The ending of "sky" means "of". The "Sagor" part of the surname sounds to me like "za gor" which is "za gorod"... [more]

Sagraves English
Variant of Seagrave.

Sagun Spanish (Philippines)
Variant of Sahagún.

Sahagún Spanish
Habitational name from Sahagùn in Lleón province.

Sahara Japanese
From Japanese 佐 (sa) meaning "aid, assist, help" and 原 (hara) meaning "meadow, plain, field". This is the name of areas in the city of Yokosuka and the city of Katori in Japan.

Sahara Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 砂原 (see Sunahara).

Sahara Arabic, Persian
Alternate transcription of Sahra.

Sahashi Japanese
From Japanese 佐 (sa) meaning "help, assist, aid" and 橋 (hashi) meaning "bridge".

Sahata Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 茶畑 (see Chabata 2).

Sahni Indian (Sikh), Punjabi
Possibly from Sahni, the name of a village in Punjab.

Sahra Arabic, Persian, Somali, Turkish (Rare)
Derived from Arabic meaning "desert".

Sahraoui Arabic (Maghrebi)
Means "of the desert" or "of the Sahara" from Arabic صَحْرَاء (ṣaḥrāʾ) meaning "desert".

Sai Japanese (Rare)
From 蔡 (sai) meaning "tortoise used for divination, dust, thicket".

Saida Japanese

Saigusa Japanese

Saiia Italian

Saijo Japanese
Alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji 西城 (see Saijō).

Saijō Japanese
From Japanese 西 (sai) meaning "west" and 城 (jō) meaning "castle".

Saiki Japanese

Saimura Japanese

Sainei Korean (Japanized, Rare)
From Japanese 載寧 (Sainei), the Japanese reading of Korean Hanja 載寧 (Chaeryŏng/Jaeyeong) meaning "Chaeryŏng", a clan or a county in province of South Hwanghae in North Korea where the clan originated.

Sainsbury English
Habitational name from the village of Saintbury in Gloucestershire, from the Old English given name Sæwine and burg "fortress, fortification, citadel".

Saint-exupery French
From the place named Saint-Exupery. Famous bearer of this surname is Antoine Saint-Exupery, the writer of .

Saint-Jean French
Means Saint John in French

Saint-saëns French
From any place named Saint-Saens by honor to the saint Sidonius.

Saita Japanese

Saitama Japanese
Japanese surname meaning "precious stone peninsula".

Saitoh Japanese

Saitozaki Japanese (Rare)
Variant of Saitosaki.

Saiyo Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 濟陽 (see Saiyō).

Saiyō Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 濟陽 (see Watayō).

Saka Japanese
Saka means "slope, hill", often found in other surnames and place names such as Osaka.

Saka Japanese
From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope".

Sakabara Japanese
Variant of Sakahara.

Sakabayashi Japanese (Rare)
Variant of Sakahayashi.

Sakabe Japanese
From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope" and 部 (be) meaning "part, section".

Sakade Japanese

Sakae Japanese

Sakagai Japanese

Sakagami Japanese
From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "hill, slope" and 上 (kami) meaning "high place, upper, above, top".

Sakagashira Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 坂 (saka) meaning "slope; hill" and 頭 (gashira), the joining form of 頭 (kashira) meaning "head", referring to the top of a hill.... [more]

Sakagaya Japanese

Sakagi Japanese
Variant of Sakaki.

Sakaguchi Japanese
From Japanese 坂 (saka) meaning "slope" and 口 (kuchi) meaning "mouth, entrance".

Sakahara Japanese
From Japanese 阪 (saka) meaning "slope" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Sakahayashi Japanese

Sakai Japanese
From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".

Sakai Japanese
From Japanese 酒 (saka) meaning "alcohol" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".

Sakakawa Japanese
Saka means "slope, hill" and kawa means "river, stream".

Sakakibara Japanese
From Japanese 榊 (sakaki) meaning "sakaki" (a type of tree) and 原 (hara) meaning "meadow, plain, field".

Sakakida Japanese (Rare)
Sakaki (榊) means "sakaki tree", da (田) means "ricefield". Ta changes to da because of rendaku. This surname is extremely rare

Sakakihara Japanese
Sakaki refers to the "sakaki tree" and hara means "field plain".

Sakakita Japanese

Sakakiwara Japanese
Variant of Sakakihara.

Sakami Japanese
Salad means "slope, hill" and mi means "view".

Sakamizu Japanese
From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope, hill" and 水 (mizu) meaning "water".

Sakane Japanese
From the Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) "slope" or 酒 (saka or sake) "alcohol" and 根 (ne) "root."

Sakano Japanese
From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope, hill" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Sakanoue Japanese

Sakashita Japanese
From Japanese 坂 (saka) meaning "slope" and 下 (shita) meaning "under, below".

Sakata Japanese
From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Sakatani Japanese
阪 (Saka) means "hill, slope" and 谷 (tani) means "Valley".

Sakate Japanese

Sakato Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 坂頭 or 阪頭 (see Sakatō).

Sakatō Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 坂頭 or 阪頭 (see Sakagashira).

Sakatoh Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 坂頭 or 阪頭 (see Sakatō).

Sakatou Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 坂頭 or 阪頭 (see Sakatō).

Sakaue Japanese

Sakawa Japanese

Sakawara Japanese
Variant of Sakahara.

Sakaya Japanese

Sakayanagi Japanese (Rare)
阪 (Saka) means "slope, hill" and 柳 (yanagi) means "willow". ... [more]

Sakazaki Japanese
From Japanese 坂 or 阪 (saka) meaning "slope, hill" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, promontory, peninsula".

Sakei Japanese
Sake means "liquor" and I means "well, mineshaft".

Sakhalinsky Russian
Refers to an island in Eastern Russia named "Sakhalin."

Sakhno Ukrainian
From any Ukrainian village called Sakhno (Сахно), the name itself of unknown origin.

Saki Japanese
Saki means "peninsula, cape, promontory".

Sakii Japanese
Saki means "cape, promontory, peninsula" and i means "mineshaft, pit, hole".

Sakimoto Japanese
From Japanese 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Sakino Japanese
Saki means "peninsula, cape, promontory" and no means "field, wilderness, plain".

Sakiyama Japanese
From Japanese 崎 (saki) "small peninsula, cape" and 山 (yama) "mountain".

Sako Japanese
From Japanese 佐 (sa) meaning "help, aid" and 古 (ko) meaning "old".

Sakoda Japanese
Derived from the Japanese kanji 迫 (sako) meaning "a small valley on the mountain side" and 田 (da) meaning "paddy, field".

Sakoh Japanese

Sakota Japanese
From Japanese 迫 (sako) meaning "mountainside valley" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Sakou Japanese
From Japanese 佐 (sa) meaning "help, aid" and 向 (kō) meaning "facing".

Saks Estonian
Saks is an Estonian surname derived from "Saksa" ("German") and "Saksamaa" ("Germany"). Ultimately derived from "Saxon" and "Saxony".

Sakuda Japanese

Sakuma Japanese
From Japanese 佐 (sa) meaning "help, aid" combined with 久 (ku) meaning "long time ago" and 間 (ma) meaning "among, between".

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

Sakura Japanese
From Japanese 佐 (sa) meaning "help, aid" and 倉 (kura) meaning "warehouse, storehouse".

Sakuraba Japanese
From Japanese 桜 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom" and 庭 (ba) meaning "garden".

Sakuragi Japanese, Popular Culture
From Japanese 桜, 櫻 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom" combined with 木 (gi) meaning "tree, wood" or 樹 (gi) meaning "tree". Chloe Cerise and Professor Cerise (also known as Koharu Sakuragi and Dr... [more]

Sakurajima Japanese
From Japanese 桜 or 櫻 (sakura) both meaning "cherry blossom" combined with 島 (jima) meaning "island". This surname comes from 桜島 (Sakurajima), an active stratovolcano located in Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan... [more]

Sakuramachi Japanese
Sakura means "cherry blossom" and machi means "town".

Sakurami Japanese
rom Japanese 桜 or 櫻 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom" combined with 見 (mi) meaning "to see, appearance, look, view" or 実 (mi) meaning "berry, fruit, nut, seed, reality, truth, real".

Sakuramoto Japanese
Sakura means "cherry blossom" and moto means "origin, root, source".

Sakurano Japanese
From 桜 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom" and 野 (no) meaning "wilderness, field".

Sakurasaka Japanese
Sakura means "cherry blossom" and saka means "cape, peninsula".

Sakurasaki Japanese
Sakura means "cherry blossom" and saki means "peninsula".

Sakurashima Japanese
Sakura means "cherry blossom" and shima means "island".

Sakurata Japanese
Variant of Sakurada.

Sakurayashiki Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 桜 (sakura) meaning "cherry blossom" and 屋敷 (yashiki) meaning "estate; grounds; mansion; compound; residence".... [more]

Sakurazaka Japanese (Rare)
Sakura means "cherry blossom" and zaka is a form of saka that means means "peninsula, cape". ... [more]

Sakurazaki Japanese
Variant of Sakurasaki. Sakura means "cherry blossom" and zaki is a form of saki means "peninsula".

Sakuta Japanese

Sala Latvian
From Latvian sala meaning "island".

Saldaña Spanish
Habitual surname for a person from any of the locations in Spain named Saldaña. The name itself comes from the older name Gili-Zalan, which is of uncertain meaning.

Saldanha Portuguese
Portuguese cognate of Saldaña.

Saldívar Spanish
Castilianized variant of Basque Zaldibar, a habitational name from a place so named in Biscay province. The place name is of uncertain derivation: it may be from zaldu ‘wood’, ‘copse’ or from zaldi ‘horse’ + ibar ‘water meadow’, ‘fertile plain’.

Sale English, French
English: from Middle English sale ‘hall’, a topographic name for someone living at a hall or manor house, or a metonymic occupational name for someone employed at a hall or manor house. ... [more]

Salemi Italian, Sicilian
habitational name from a place so called in Trapani.

Salerno Italian
Southern Italian habitational name from the city of Salerno in Campania.

Salfati Judeo-Spanish
Variant of Sarfati.

Salgari Italian, Venetian
Meaning unknown.

Salgueiro Portuguese, Galician
Portuguese and Galician cognate of Salguero.

Salguero Spanish
Means "willow tree" in Spanish, ultimately from Latin salix. It was either a topographic name for someone who lived near willow trees or a habitational name for someone from the city of Salguero in Burgos, Spain (also derived from this word).

Salierno Italian
Possibly denotes someone from the city Salerno.

Salimpour Kurdish
Means ‘from the city of Salim’, in Kurdish.

Salinš Latvian
Topographic name for someone living on an island, from a derivative of Latvian sala meaning ‘island’.

Salisberry English
Variant of Salisbury.

Salisbury English
Habitational name from the city in Wiltshire, the Roman name of which was Sorviodunum (of British origin). In the Old English period the second element (from Celtic dun ‘fortress’) was dropped and Sorvio- (of unexplained meaning) became Searo- in Old English as the result of folk etymological association with Old English searu ‘armor’; to this an explanatory burh ‘fortress’, ‘manor’, ‘town’ was added... [more]

Salk English (American)
Likely the English form of Schalk, which means "dweller near a willow tree".

Salles English

Sallis English
A name for someone who lives where sallows grow - sallows being a type of willow, from the Middle English 'salwe'.

Sallow English (Rare)
Sallow comes from the medieval word for willow tree. It is a location surname.

Sallwasser German
It is derived from the German words (Salz) meaning "salt", & (Salweide) meaning "water".

Salm Dutch
Denoted a person from any of various places called Salm. It could also derive from Dutch zalm meaning "salmon", referring to someone who lived near a sign depicting them, or to someone who fished for salmon.

Salmerón Spanish
It indicates familial origin within the vicinity of the eponymous Murcian volcano.

Salming Swedish (Rare)
Derived from Salmi, the name of a small village in Northern Sweden (see also Salmi).

Salsbury English
Variant of Salisbury.

Salt English
From the name of a town in Staffordshire, derived from Old English sealt "salt" due to its historical mining for salt and alabaster. In some cases, an occupational name for a maker or seller of salt, of the same origin (see Salter).

Salthouse English
From the name of any of the various places in England so-called or somebody who lived or worked in a salthouse, all derived from Old English sealthus "salt facility, storehouse for salt".

Salu Estonian
Salu is an Estonian surname meaning "grove".

Salumäe Estonian
Salumäe is an Estonian surname meaning "grove ridge".

Salumets Estonian
Salumets is an Estonian surname meaning "grove/coppice forest", derived from the compounds "salu" (grove/coppice) and "mets" (forest).

Salussolia Italian, Piedmontese
Originally denoted a person from Salussola, a comune (municipality) in the province of Biella in Piedmont, Italy.

Saluveer Estonian
Saluveer is an Estonian surname meaning "grove embankment (berm)".

Salzano Italian

Sầm Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Cen, from Sino-Vietnamese 岑 (sầm).

Sam Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Cen.

Samaniego Basque, Spanish
Habitational name from a town and municipality in Álava, Basque Country, of uncertain etymology.

Samarsky Russian
Refers to a region named "Samara" in Russia.

Samberg Jewish
Habitational name from any of several places named Samberg in Germany and Austria.

Sambourne English
From the name of a hamlet in Warwickshire, England.

Same Japanese
Variant reading of 五月女 (Saotome).

Samejima Japanese
”鮫” (sa me) is meaning ”shark”(in ancient use, ”alligator” ) and ”島”(or ”嶋”) (shima in west Japan , jima in east Japan) is meaning "island" in Japan.... [more]

Sameshima Japanese

Sammartino Italian
From Italian san (apocopic form of santo ("saint") + Martino ("Martin").

Samoa Samoan

Samonte Filipino, Tagalog
Most likely a topographic name derived from the Tagalog prefix sa- and Spanish monte meaning "mountain".

Sampedro Spanish, Galician, Portuguese
habitational name from any of several places especially in Galicia so named for a local church or shrine dedicated to Saint Peter; variant of San Pedro.

Samper Catalan
Habitational name from any of the places in Catalonia called Sant Pere, generally as the result of the dedication of a local church or shrine to St. Peter (Sant Pere).

Sampsted Icelandic

Samrajyam Indian
It means "a kingdom".

Samukawa Japanese
A notable bearer is Tatsukiyo Samukawa (1697-1739), the daimyo of the Zeze Domain.

Samune Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 実 (sane) meaning "fruit seed" and 宗 (mune) meaning "principle; aim; purpose; meaning; gist", referring to a land with many fruits or with rich fertility.... [more]

Samura Japanese
Sa means "support, assist" and mura "village, hamlet" or "town".

Samusawa Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 寒風沢 or 寒風澤 (see Sabusawa).

Sanabra Catalan
Catalan cognate of Seabra.

Sanabria Spanish (Latin American)
Spanish cognate of Seabra.

San Antonio Spanish (Philippines)
Means "Saint Anthony" in Spanish.

Sanata Japanese

Sanbe Japanese
From Japanese 三 (san) meaning "three" and 部 (be) meaning "part, section".

Sanborn English (American)
Variant of Sambourne.

Sand English, Scottish, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German, Jewish
From the vocabulary word sand. As a Swedish and Jewish name, often ornamental. Otherwise topographic.

Sanda Japanese
Variant of Mita.

Sandahl Swedish, Norwegian (Rare)
Combination of Swedish and Norwegian sand "sand" and dal "valley".

Sande Norwegian
Habitational name from any of forty or more farmsteads so named, especially on the west coast, from the dative case of Old Norse sandr meaning "sand", "sandy plain", "beach".

Sande German
Variant of Sand.

Sandhu Indian, Punjabi
From Sindhu, the Sanskrit name for the Indus River.

Sandhurst English (Rare)
From Sandhurst, the name of places in the English counties of Kent, Gloucestershire and Berkshire, all of which come from the Old English elements sand "sand" and hyrst "hillock, copse".

San Diego Spanish (Philippines)
Habitational name from any of various places named San Diego, so named for a local shrine or church dedicated to Saint Didacus (San Diego).

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

Sandrino Spanish (Rare)

Sandrow English

Sandusky Polish
Germanized spelling of Sandowski or Sedowski.

Sandvik Norwegian
Combination of Norwegian sand "sand" and vik "bay, inlet".

Sandwell English
From a place called SANDWELL.

Sanematsu Japanese

Sanemune Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 実宗 or 實宗 (see Samune).

Saneto Japanese
From 實 (sane, jitsu, mino.ru, mi.chiru, mi, mame, makoto) meaning "fruit, seed, ripen, fulfill, truth, sincerity" and 藤 (to, fuji) meaning "wisteria".

Sanfelippo Italian
Italian (mainly Sicily and southern Calabria): habitational name from any of several places so named for a local church or shrine dedicated to St. Philip, in particular San Filippo del Mela in Messina province.

Sanfilippo Italian, Sicilian
habitational name from any of several places called with reference to a local church or shrine dedicated to Saint Philip specifically San Filippo del Mela in Messina province, San Filippo near Reggio Calabria.

Sang Chinese
From Chinese 桑 (sāng) referring either to the ancient city of Qiong Sang, which existed in what is now Shandong province, or the ancient state of Sang, which existed in what is now Henan province and was annexed by the state of Qin.

Sangawa Japanese
Variant of Sankawa.

San Giorgio Italian
“Saint George.”

San Giovanni Italian
Means Saint John in Italian

Sangüesa Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Zangoza.

Sanguinetti Italian, Judeo-Italian
From Sanguinetto, the name of two places in Genova and Verona provinces.

Sanjoba Japanese

Sanjoh Japanese