Submitted Surnames from Locations

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.

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.

Salthouse English
Salthouse and other variants come from the place name in Northumberland.

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

San Jorge Spanish
“St George”

San Jose Spanish (Philippines)
Unaccented form of San José primarily used in the Philippines.

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

San Juan Spanish
Means "Saint John", derived from Spanish santo "saint" combined with Juan 1. This is a habitational name for a person from any of various places called San Juan, so named for a local shrine or church dedicated to Saint John (San Juan).

Sanjurjo Spanish
Spanish: Habitational Name From Any Of Numerous Places In Galicia (Spain) Named Sanjurjo For A Local Church Or Shrine Dedicated To Saint George

Sankey English, Irish
Habitational name from a place in Lancashire, which derived from the name of an ancient British river, perhaps meaning "sacred, holy." ... [more]

Sankt Johann German
Means Saint John in German.

San Luis Spanish
In honor of Saint Louis.

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

San Martín Spanish
(San Martín; also Sanmartín): habitational name from any of numerous places so named for a local shrine or church dedicated to Saint Martin (Spanish San Martín).

San Miguel Spanish
Habitational name from any of the numerous places so named for a local shrine or church dedicated to St. Michael (San Miguel).

San Pedro Spanish
Means Saint Peter in Spanish

San Pietro Italian
Means Saint Peter in Italian.

San Román Spanish
San Roman refers to a family line of Spanish and Italian origin. The term San Roman in Spanish or Castilian refers to ' St. Roman ' and the name is a habitual name from any of the persons from the local church or shrines of Saint Roman.

San Severino Italian, Neapolitan
From the name of places inside Italy, all named after Saint Severinus of Noricum. This name is mainly found in Naples.

Santa Japanese
Variant of Mita.

Santa Ana Spanish (Philippines)
Variant of Santana primarily used in the Philippines.

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, Sicilian
Either habitational name from any of numerous places especially in the south named with reference to a local shrine or church dedicated to Saint Angel (Italian Sant'Angelo) as for example Sant'Angelo a Cupolo (Benevento) Sant'Angelo a Fasanella (Salerno) Sant'Angelo all’Esca and Sant'Angelo a Scala (Avellino) Sant'Angelo d'Alife (Caserta) and Sant'Angelo del Pesco (Molise)... [more]

Santano Spanish
Possibly a variant of Santana.

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".

Santiesteban Spanish
Variant of Santisteban

Santillán 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.

Santistevan Spanish
Variant of Santistevan

Santostefano Spanish
Habitational name of numerous churches 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]

Saraceno Italian
A nickname from saraceno "Saracen" (from Late Latin Saracenus) denoting someone of swarthy appearance an unruly person or someone who had taken part in a Crusade... [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).

Saralegi Basque
Habitational name of uncertain etymology. Possibly derived from Basque sarale "hay, dry grass, livestock feed" combined with either tegi "stable, pen, enclosure", -(t)egi "place of", or possibly (h)egi "slope, hillside; edge, border".

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 (Rare)
From 皿 (sara) meaning "dish, plate" and 海 (umi) meaning "sea, ocean".

Sard English, French, Spanish, Italian (Rare)
Denoted a person from Sardinia, Italy.

Sarfati Judeo-Spanish
From Hebrew צרפתית (tsar'fatit) meaning "French". It was originally used to refer to the Biblical place name Tzarfat, which has come to be identified as modern-day France.

Sarfatti Judeo-Spanish
Variant of Sarfati.

Sarfaty Judeo-Spanish
Variant of Sarfati.

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

Sarközy Hungarian
Variant of Sárközi.

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

Sasaguchi Japanese

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

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

Sasai Japanese
From 笹 (sasa) meaning "bamboo grass" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, 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

Sasano Japanese
From 笹 (sasa) meaning "bamboo grass" and 野 (no) meaning "field, plains, wilderness".

Sasaoka Japanese

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

Sashihara Japanese
From 指 (sashi) meaning "finger" and 原 (hara) meaning "plain, field".

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
From Japanese 佐 (sa) meaning "help, aid" and 竹 (take) meaning "bamboo".

Saterfield English (American)

Sather Norwegian (Americanized)
Americanized form of Sæther.

Satoda Japanese
From Japanese 里 (sato) meaning "village" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Satoh Japanese
Variant transcription of Satō.

Satoi Japanese
From Japanese 里 (sato) meaning "village" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".

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".

Satomura Japanese
From Japanese 里 (sato) meaning "village" and 村 (mura) meaning "village, hamlet".

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

Satorigi Japanese

Satoya Japanese
From Japanese 里 (sato) meaning "village" and 谷 (ya) meaning "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.

Savintsev m Russian

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

Savitskiy m Polish (Russified), Russian, Jewish
A form of Sawicki.

Savoia Italian (Archaic)
A Italian royal court name.

Savoie French

Savorgnan Italian (Rare)
From a small town near Udine named Savorgnano del Torre, of Friulian origin. This was the name of a Friulian aristocratic family, ascribed to the Venetian participate. The famous bearer of this surname was an Italian-French explorer Pierre Paul François Camille Savorgnan de Brazza (1852-1905)

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

Sawabe Japanese
From Japanese 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh, wetlands, swamp" and 部 (be) meaning "part, section" or 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 "swamp, wetland, marsh" and 口 (kuchi) meaning "mouth, opening, entrance".

Sawai Japanese
From Japanese 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "wetland,swamp, marsh" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mineshaft, 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
From Japanese 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh, swamp, wetland" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula, promontory".

Sawashiro Japanese
From Japanese 沢 (sawa) meaning "swamp, wetland, marsh" and 城 (shiro) meaning "castle".

Sawata Japanese

Sawatzki m Polish (Germanized)
Germanized form of Zawadski or Zawadzki. This surname is masculine in Poland, but unisex in Germany.

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

Sawazaki Japanese
Variant of Sawasaki.

Sawhney Indian, Punjabi
Variant of Sahni.

Sawicka f Polish
Feminine form of Sawicki.

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, Flemish
South 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 Japanese 佐 (sa) meaning "to assist, to help" and 座 (za) meaning "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, 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]

Schaap Dutch
Means "sheep" in Dutch, an occupational name for a shepherd. Alternatively, it could be a nickname for someone who looked or behaved like a sheep in some way, or who lived by a sign depicting a sheep.

Schalkwijk Dutch
Variant of Van Schalkwijk.

Schalkwyk Afrikaans
Afrikaans variant of Van Schalkwijk.

Schallenberger German
Variant of Schollenberger.

Schankweiler German
From the name of a German municipality, derived from Schank "bar, pub, tavern" and Weiler "hamlet".

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.

Schaufelberg German (Swiss, Americanized)
Americanized form of Schaufelberger.

Schaufelberger German (Swiss)
likely refers to someone from a place named Schaufenberg.

Schaumburg German, Belgian
Habitational name from any of the places called Schaumburg or Schauenburg in Germany, or Schauwberg in Brabant, Belgium. Derived from schūm "slag, cinder" and burg "mountain, hill".

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.

Scheidemann German
Denoted a person who is divorced or who lives in a valley, from Middle High German scheiden "to separate, to divorce (a couple)" and mann "man".

Schena Italian
Derived from a regional variant of Italian schiena "back (of the body)", perhaps a nickname for someone with a straight, rigid posture, or a topographic name denoting a rise or bump in the ground.

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

Scheuer German, Jewish
Derived from Middle High German schiure meaning "barn, granary", denoting somebody who lived in a barn of some sort.

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" or "(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
Means "shilling (coin)", possibly a nickname for a serf who had paid his rent or fee to his lord for his freedom. It could also be a habitational name derived from Schillingen, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany... [more]

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

Schlander German

Schlatt German, Upper German
Variant of Schlatter

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.

Schleiden German
Variant of Schleider.

Schleider German
Derived from places named Schleid or Schleiden.

Schlesinger German

Schmidtberger German
A distinguishing name for someone named Berger who worked as a blacksmith, or a habitational name for someone from any of several places called Schmidtberg in Bavaria and Switzerland.

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