Submitted Surnames from Locations

Twardowski Polish
This indicates familial origin within any of 3 Greater Polish villages: 2 named Twardowo or 1 named Twardów.

Tweddle Scottish
Habitational name derived from Tweeddale.

Tweedie Scottish

Twersky Russian
Russian surname derived from Tver Oblast (known as Kalinin from 1931-1990, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Twining English
From the name of the village of Twyning in Gloucestershire, derived from Old English betweonan meaning "between" and eam meaning "river".

Twiss English

Twyford English
English habitational name from any of the numerous places named Twyford, for example in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Derbyshire, Hampshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, and Norfolk, from Old English twi- ‘double’ + ford ‘ford’.

Tyndale English
Variant of Tindall.

Tyrone Irish
Probably a habitational name from the county of Tyrone (Gaelic Tir Eoghain "land of Owen 2") in Ulster.

Tysoe English
Denoted the bearer was from the parish of Tysoe, Warwickshire, England. The name of the parish is derived from Old English Tīges hōh, meaning "spur of land belonging to the god Tiw." (Tiw was the Old English name for the Roman deity Mars, and also inspired the name of Tuesday.)

Uba Japanese
From Japanese 姥 (Uba) meaning "Uba", a division in the division of Akougi in the area of Kasasa in the city of Minamisatsuma in the prefecture of Kagoshima in Japan.

Ubushiro Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 天宮城 (see Ugushiro).

Uceda Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Manchego municipality.

Uchibara Japanese
Variant of Uchihara.

Uchida Japanese
From Japanese 内 (uchi) meaning "inside" and 田 (ta) meaning "field".

Uchihara Japanese
From Japanese 内 (uchi) meaning "inside" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Uchihashi Japanese
Uchi means "inside" and hashi means "bridge".

Uchii Japanese
Uchi means "inside" and i means "well, pit, mineshaft".

Uchimaru Japanese

Uchino Japanese
From (uchi) meaning "inside" and 野 (no) meaning "field, plain".

Uchisawa Japanese
Uchi means "inside" and sawa means "swamp, marsh".

Uchita Japanese

Uchiumi Japanese
Uchi means "inside" and umi means "sea, ocean".

Uchiwara Japanese
Variant of Uchihara.

Uchizawa Japanese
Variant of Uchisawa.

Uclés Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Manchego municipality.

Uda Japanese
From Japanese 宇 (u) meaning "eaves, roof, house" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Udagawa Japanese
From Japanese 宇 (u) meaning "eaves, roof, house", 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Udakawa Japanese

Udall English
Variant of Yewdale

Udell English

Udo Japanese

Uebara Japanese
Variant of Uehara.... [more]

Uegawa Japanese
Variant of Uekawa.

Uehira Japanese

Uekawa Japanese
From Japanese 上 (ue) meaning "above, top, upper" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Uemon Japanese (Rare)

Uemoto Japanese
From Japanese 上 (ue) meaning "above, top, upper" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Uemura Japanese
From Japanese 上 (ue) meaning "above, top, upper" or 植 (ue) meaning "plant" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Uenohara Japanese

Uenosono Japanese
From 上 (ue) meaning "top, upper, above", ノ or の (no) being a possessive particle, and 園 (sono) meaning "garden, plantation, orchard".

Uenoyama Japanese

Ueo Japanese

Ueoka Japanese
From Japanese 上 (ue) meaning "above, top, upper" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Uesaka Japanese
Ue means "upper, top, above" and saka means "hill, slope".... [more]

Uesato Japanese

Ueshiba Japanese

Ueshita Japanese
Ue means "upper, top, above" and shita means "below, under".

Ueta Japanese
Variant transcription of Ueda.

Uetsuka Japanese
Ue means "above, upper" and tsuka means "mound".

Uewara Japanese
Variant of Uehara.... [more]

Ueyama Japanese
From Japanese 上 (ue) meaning "above, top, upper" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Uezaka Japanese
Variant of Uesaka.

Uezato Japanese
Variant of Uesato.

Uezuka Japanese
Variant of Uetsuka.

Ufugusuku Okinawan
The Okinawan language reading of its kanji, meaning "big castle".

Ugalde Basque
This indicates familial origin within either of 2 eponymous neighborhoods: the one in the municipality of Larrabetzu or the one in the municipality of Okondo.

Ugarte Basque

Ugumori Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 鵜久森 (Ugumori) meaning "Ugumori", a division in the area of Miyakubo in the city of Imabari in the prefecture of Ehime in Japan.... [more]

Ugushiro Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 天宮城 (Ugushiro) meaning "Ugu Castle", a castle that was possibly somewhere in the present-day city of Fukuyama in the prefecture of Hiroshima in Japan.

Uharte Basque
Variant of Ugarte.

Uhler German
Uhler is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kastellaun, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Uigawa Japanese
Variant of Uikawa.

Uikawa Japanese

Uisawa Japanese

Uizawa Japanese
Variant of Uisawa.

Ujigai Japanese

Ujigaya Japanese

Ujihara Japanese

Ujitani Japanese

Ujiya Japanese

Uki Japanese

Üksküla Estonian
Üksküla is an Estonian surname meaning "one village".

Ukumori Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 鵜久森 (see Ugumori).

Ulatowski Polish
Habitational name for someone from Ulatowo in Ostrołęka voivodeship, a place named with Old Polish ulot, ulatać meaning "to fly away".

Ülesoo Estonian
Ülesoo is an Estonian surname meaning "above (beyond) the swamp".

Ulibarri Basque
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the Navarrese municipality of Lana.

Ulicevic Montenegrin

Ulloa Galician
This indicates familial origin within the comarca of A Ulloa.

Ulmer German
German surname meaning "from the city of Ulm".

Ulrick Scottish

Ulshafer German
Altered form of Ulshöfer.

Ulshöfer German
Habitational name for someone from a place called Ilshofen (old form Ulleshoven), near Schwäbisch Hall.

Ulukaya Turkish
From Turkish ulu meaning "great, large, exalted" and kaya meaning "rock".

Ulvestad Norwegian (Rare)
Habitational name from any of five farmsteads, most in western Norway, named from Old Norse ulfr meaning ‘wolf’ + staðir, plural of staðr meaning ‘farmstead’, ‘dwelling’.

Umanodan Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 馬 (uma) meaning "horse", ノ (no), a possessive particle, and 段 (dan) meaning "step", referring to a place with horses and a stepped landscape.... [more]

Umeda Japanese
From Japanese 梅 (ume) meaning "plum" and 田 (ta) meaning "field".

Umegaki Japanese
From Japanese 梅 (ume) meaning "prunus mume" and 垣 (gaki), the joining form of 垣 (kaki) meaning "fence", referring to a fence with a family crest of prunus mume patterns.... [more]

Umehara Japanese
From Japanese 梅 (ume) meaning "plum" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Umekawa Japanese
Ume means "plum" and kawa means "stream, river".

Umeki Japanese
"Plum tree".

Umekita Japanese
From 梅 (ume) meaning "plum" and 北 (kita) meaning "north".

Umemoto Japanese
From Japanese 梅 (ume) meaning "apricot, plum" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Umemura Japanese
Ume means "plum" and mura means "village".

Umemura Japanese
From Japanese 梅 (ume) meaning "apricot, plum" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Umeno Japanese
Ume means "plum" and no means "field, wilderness, plain".

Umesawa Japanese
Ume means "plum" and sawa means "marsh, swamp".

Umesawa Japanese
From Japanese 梅 (ume) meaning "apricot, plum" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Umeta Japanese

Umetsu Japanese

Umezaki Japanese
Variant of Umesaki.

Umezawa Japanese
From Japanese 梅 (ume) meaning "plum" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Umezu Japanese

Umezu Japanese
From Japanese 梅 (ume) meaning "apricot, plum" and 津 (zu) meaning "port, harbour".

Umiastowski Polish
This indicates familial origin within the Masovian village of Umiastów.

Umpleby English
Originally given to people from the village of Anlaby in East Yorkshire, UK. Written as Umlouebi in the Domesday Book, the place name is from Old Norse given name Óláfr + býr, "farmstead" or "village".

Unabara Japanese
From Japanese 海 (una) meaning "sea" and 原 (bara) meaning "meadow".

Unagi Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 鰻 (Unagi) meaning "Unagi", a division in the area of Yamagawanarikawa in the city of Ibusuki in the prefecture of Kagoshima in Japan.

Uñalivia Spanish (Rare)
Has no specific meaning but it was a rare spanish name

Unami Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 海南 (unami), a contraction of 海南 (unanami), from 海 (una-) meaning "of the sea; of the ocean" and 南 (nami) meaning "south".

Unamunsaga Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Unamuntzaga.

Unamuntzaga Basque
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Etxebarria.

Uncastiello Aragonese
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.

Uncastillo Aragonese (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Uncastiello.

Underberg Norwegian
Habitational name from a place named with Old Norse undir meaning "under" and berg meaning "mountain, hill".

Underbrook English
Meaning "under the brook".

Undurraga Basque
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Zeanuri.

Ungar German, Jewish
ethnic name for a Hungarian or a nickname for someone who had trade relations with Hungary. Cognate of Ungaro and variant of Unger.

Unno Japanese
From Japanese 海 (un) meaning "sea, ocean" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Uno Japanese
From Japanese 宇 (u) meaning "eaves" and 野 (no) meaning "field".

Unterberger German (Austrian)
Denoted someone from Unterberg, the name of many places in Austria.

Unterreiner German
Topographic name for someone who lived below a mountain ridge, from Middle High German under meaning ‘under’ + rein meaning ‘ridge’.

Unthank English
From a place name meaning "squatter's holding" from Old English unthanc (literally "without consent").

Untzaga Basque
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Urkabustaiz.

Untzueta Basque

Únzaga Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Untzaga.

Unzueta Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Untzueta.

Upchurch English
habitational name from a place called as "the high church" or possibly the higher of two churches from Middle English up "up high higher" and chirche "church" (Old English upp and cirice)... [more]

Updike English

Upham English
"enclosure surrounded by water"

Uppadathil Malayalam
From Old Malayalam uppadam (sea), lit. "from over the Arabian sea," referring to the descendants of a group of Arab traders who settled in Kerala. Predominantly Muslim, although sizeable sections have branched away and practice Hinduism... [more]

Upshaw English
Probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place named with Old English upp meaning "up(per)" and sc(e)aga meaning "copse", or a topographic name with the same meaning.

Upsher English
This Anglo-Saxon surname means “of Upshire” and refers to someone from the hamlet Upshire in County Essex.

Upshur English
Most probably an altered spelling of English Upshire, a habitational name from Upshire in Essex, named with Old English upp "up" and scir "district". Alternatively, it may be a variant of Upshaw.

Ura Japanese
Ura means "bay, seacoast".

Urabane Japanese

Urabata Japanese

Urabe Japanese

Urada Japanese

Urahane Japanese (Rare)
Ura means "bay, seacoast" and hane means "feather, plume".

Urahata Japanese
Ura means "bay, creek, inlet, beach, gulf, seacoast" and hata means "field".

Urai Japanese
Ura means "seacoast, bay" and i means "well, pit, mineshaft".

Urain Basque
It indicates familial origin in the vicinity of the eponymous tower house in the municipality of Oñati.

Uraki Japanese

Uraoka Japanese (Rare)
Ura means "bay, seacoast" and oka means "hill, ridge".

Urasaki Japanese
From Japanese 浦 (ura) meaning "bay, inlet" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Urasawa Japanese
Ura means "seacoast, bay" and sawa means "swamp, marsh".

Urasawa Japanese
From Japanese 浦 (ura) meaning "bay, inlet" and 沢 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Urashima Japanese

Urata Japanese
From Japanese 浦 (ura) meaning "bay, inlet" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Uratsuji Japanese (Rare)
Uratsuji means "Inlet/rivermouth crossroad"

Urazawa Japanese
Variant of Urasawa.

Urbino Sicilian, Italian
Possibly from the name of an Italian town. Could also be from Sicilian urbu or orbu, meaning "blind", in which case it may refer to literal blindness, or a more metaphorical "blind to one's sins", especially in the case of foundlings.

Urdanegi Basque
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Gordexola.

Urdanegui Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Urdanegi.

Urdaneta Basque
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Aia.

Urduña Basque
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous city.

Urenda Basque
Most probably a topographic name formed with Basque ur- ‘water’.

Urgu Italian
From an ancient toponym.

Uriarte Basque
It means "between cities".

Uribarri Basque

Uriondo Basque
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Zeberio.

Urizar Basque

Urkiaga Basque
This indicates familial origin within the vicinity of the eponymous hill that is in fact the northernmost one in Navarre.

Urkiola Basque
It indicates familial origin near the eponymous natural park.

Urquiaga Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Urkiaga.

Urquiola Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Urkiola.

Urrea Aragonese (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Urreya.

Urreya Aragonese
This indicates familial origin within either of 2 municipalities: Urreya de Gayén or Urreya de Xalón.

Urritzola Basque
This indicates familial origin within either of 2 eponymous Navarrese localities.

Urrizola Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Urritzola.

Urrunaga Basque
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the municipality of Legutio.

Urrutigoiti Basque
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the commune of Montori, located in the French canton of Euskal Mendialdea.

Urrutigoïty Basque (Gallicized)
Parisianized form of Urrutigoiti.

Urrutikoetxea Basque
From Basque urruti meaning "far, distant" and etxe meaning "house".

Ursúa Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Urtsua.

Ursuya Basque (Gallicized)
Parisianized form of Urtsua.

Urtiaga Basque
It indicates familial origin near the eponymous cave in the municipality of Deba.

Urtsua Basque
This indicates familial origin near the eponymous mountain in the French department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

Urushibara Japanese
A variant of Urushihara.

Urushihara Japanese (Rare)
漆 (Urushi) means "lacquer/lacker, varnish" and 原 (hara) means "plain, field".

Urushimakka Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 漆 (urushi) meaning "toxicodendron vernicifluum", 真下 (makka) meaning "(literally) down; below; beneath", referring to low lands.

Urushimatsuka Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 漆眞下 (see Urushimakka).

Urushino Japanese
Urushi means "lacker/lacquer" and no means "field, plain".

Urushiwara Japanese
A variant of Urushihara.

Urzędowski Polish
This indicates familial origin within the Lesser Polish town of Urzędów.

Usada Japanese

Usai Italian
Possibly from the name of the former village Usani, or alternately, from Sardinian uscare "to burn, to scorch".

Usami Japanese

Usami Japanese
From Japanese 宇 (u) meaning "house, eaves, roof", 佐 (sa) meaning "help, aid" and 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful".

Usata Japanese

Usategi Basque
It literally means "dovecote".

Uselton English
Perhaps a variant of Osselton, a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, probably in northeastern England, where this name is most common.

Ushida Japanese
From Japanese 牛 (ushi) meaning "cow" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Ushijima Japanese
From Japanese 牛 (ushi) meaning "cow, bull, ox" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".

Ushisawa Japanese
From 牛 (ushi) meaning "cow, bull, ox, 2nd sign of the Chinese zodiac" and 澤 or 沢 (sawa) meaning "marsh, swamp".

Ushishima Japanese
Ushi means "cow, bull, ox, second sign of the Chinese zodiac" and shima means "island".

Ushito Japanese

Ushiyama Japanese
From Japanese 牛 (ushi) meaning "cow" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain", referring to a mountain with many cows.

Ushiyama Japanese
From Japanese 牛山 (Ushiyama) meaning "Ushiyama", an area in the city of Kasugai in the prefecture of Aichi in Japan.

Usuda Japanese

Usui Japanese

Usui Japanese
From Japanese 臼 (usu) meaning "millstone, mortar" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".

Usui Japanese
From Japanese 碓 (usu) meaning "pestle" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".

Utada Japanese

Utagawa Japanese
Uta means "song" and Gawa comes from Kawa, meaning "river".

Utakawa Japanese
Uta means "song" and kawa means "river, stream".

Utamura Japanese
Uta means "song, poem" and mura means "village, hamlet".

Utley English
Derived from the Old English elements ote, or "oats" and leah, meaning "a clearing."

Utsunomiya Japanese
From Japanese 宇 (u) meaning "house, eaves, universe", 都 (tsu) meaning "city", and 宮 (miya) meaning "temple, shrine, palace".

Utterback German

Utting English, Jewish

Uudmäe Estonian
Uudmäe is an Estonian surname meaning "virgin/unspoiled hill/mountain".

Uusmaa Estonian
Uusmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "new land".

Uussaar Estonian
Uussaar is an Estonian surname meaning "new island".

Uustalu Estonian
Uustalu is an Estonian surname meaning "new farmstead".

Uwano Japanese

Uxbridge English
Place in England. Like Enfield.

Uyama Japanese

Uyeda Japanese
Variant of Ueda.

Uyehara Japanese
Variant transcription of Uehara.

Uyeno Japanese
Variant of Ueno.

Uyesugi Japanese
Alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji 上杉 (see Uesugi).

Uyeta Japanese
Variant transcription of Ueta.

Uytdehaage Dutch
Means "from The Hague", a city in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. It could also mean "from the hedge". Both etymologies are derived from Dutch uit meaning "out, of, from" and Middle Dutch hage meaning "hedge, bush"... [more]

Vaage Norwegian
Variant of Waage.

Vaamonde Spanish
Variant of the habitational surname Bahamonde, from one of the Galician places called Baamonde (earlier written Bahamonde) in the province of Lugo most probably Santiago de Baamonde (Begonte).

Værnes Norwegian
Værnes is a village in the municipality of Stjørdal in Nord-Trøndelag county in Mid-Norway. The original spelling of the village's name was Vannes and it is a combination of var "calm, quiet" and nes "headland"... [more]

Våge Norwegian
Habitational name from any of several farms named Våge, derived from Old Norse vágr "bay, inlet, fjord".

Vagula Estonian, Brazilian
Vagula is the name of a village and a lake in Võru Parish, Võru County in southern Estonia.

Vahe Estonian
Vahe is an Estonian surname meaning "middle".

Vaikjärv Estonian
Vaikjärv is an Estonian surname meaning "quiet/still lake".

Vail English

Vaillancourt French (Quebec)
Possibly a variant of Valencourt. This is the surname of a noble family who probably lived near Willencourt.

Vainumäe Estonian
Vainumäe is an Estonian surname derived from "vainurästas", meaning "redwing blackbird" (Turdus iliacus) and "mäe", meaning ""hill".

Väisänen Finnish
Topographic name from väisä meaning either meaning "road" or "sign placed on the ice" + the common surname suffix -nen.

Val Spanish, French
It means valley. It comes from Britain and then moved to Aragón (Spain).

Valade French
Variant of Vallée.

Valance English
Variant of Vallance.

Valančiūnas Lithuanian (Rare)
Derived from the place name Valančiūnai.... [more]

Valbuena Spanish
Habitational name from any of the places called Valbuena for example in Valladolid Cáceres and Salamanca.

Valcazar Spanish

Valderrábano Spanish
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.

Valderrama Spanish
Habitational name from any of the places named Valderrama, as for example in Burgos province.

Valderrama Spanish
This surname is made up of the prefix "bal-" from latin "vallis," the equivalent of prefix "-valle" meaning a vale or a valley plus the Spanish "derramare" - to scatter or to spread. Hence, implies valley which is spread out.

Valdés Asturian
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.

Valdivia Spanish

Valdivieso Spanish
This place-name is derived from the Asturian word val-di-vieso, which means old man's-valley.

Valdoviño Galician
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.

Vale English
Topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, Middle English vale (Old French val, from Latin vallis). The surname is now also common in Ireland, where it has been Gaelicized as de Bhál.

Valee German
From French origin, denoting someone who lives or comes from a valley.

València Catalan
Catalan form of Valencia.

Valenciano Spanish
A Spanish surname. It is a regional name denoting someone from Valencia.

Valens American (Hispanic), Popular Culture
English variant of Valenzuela.

Valensuela Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish (Latin American)
Variant and Portuguese form of Valenzuela

Valenzuela Spanish
Habitational name from places named Valenzuela in Córdoba and Ciudad Real. The place name is a diminutive of Valencia, literally "Little Valencia".

Valera Spanish
Habitational name from either of two places in Spain named Valera.

Valerian French

Valeti Telugu

Valgañón Spanish
This indicates familial within the eponymous Riojan municipality.

Väli Estonian
Väli is an Estonian surname meaning "field".

Väljaots Estonian
Väljaots is an Estonian surname meaning "out/afield (of the) cusp/tip".

Väljas Estonian
Väljas is an Estonian surname meaning "afield" or "out in the open".

Väljataga Estonian
Väljataga is an Estonian surname meaning "outside behind/at the back of".

Valladolid Spanish
Habitational name from the city of this name.

Vallance English
Means "person from Valence", southeastern France (probably "place of the brave").

Valle Spanish, Filipino, Italian
Habitational name from any of the many places named with valle "valley", or topographic name for someone who lived in a valley (Latin vallis).

Vallée French
topographic name for someone who lived in a valley from Old French valee "valley" (from Latin vallis) or a habitational name from (La) Vallée the name of several places in various parts of France... [more]

Vallee French

Vallejo Spanish
Denoted someone who lived in a small valley.

Vallet French, English
French topographic name from a diminutive of Old French val "valley" (see Val ) or a habitational name from (Le) Vallet the name of several places mainly in the northern part of France and French and English occupational name for a manservant from Old French and Middle English vallet "manservant groom".

Valley English
Topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, Middle English valeye.

Valmaseda Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Balmaseda.

Valmont English, French
Means "Hill of the vale"

Valmorida Filipino, Cebuano
Means "valley of the forest field" derived from Spanish val, a contraction of valle meaning "valley", combined with Japanese 森 (mori) meaning "forest, woods" and 田 (ta) "paddy, field" (see Morita).

Valois French
topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, or a habitational name from any of the various places called Val(l)ois, or regional name from the district in northern France so called, which was once an independent duchy... [more]

Valsecchi Italian
Denoting someone from the former municipality of Valsecca in Lombardy.

Valtierra Basque (Hispanicized)
From the name of the city of Valtierra in Navarre, Spain.

Valverde Spanish
Refers to a place name which suggests a landscape, agreeable with herbs, flowers and water.

Van Achterberg Dutch
Variant of Achterberg.

Van Agt Dutch
Means "from Acht", a small village within the city of Eindhoven in the province of Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands. It is derived from Middle Dutch acht, achte meaning either "eight" or "preserve, lordly possession, legal district"... [more]

Van Amerongen Dutch
Means "from Amerongen", a town in the province of Utrecht in the Netherlands.

Van Ark Dutch
Habitational name from a place called Ark in Gelderland.

Van Beek Dutch
Like Verbeek and Van de(r) Beek, the family name Van Beek can indicate a place of residence on a certain stream, the name for a narrow and shallow (clear and sometimes erratic) water stream, or in a village or hamlet that leads to a stream... [more]

Van Beethoven Flemish
Means "from the beet fields". A famous bearer of this name was German Clasical composer Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827).

Van Bergen Dutch, Flemish, German
Variant of Bergen.

Van Blankenberg Dutch, Belgian
Habitational name from any of various places so called, in particular in Hennef and Gelderland, or from Blankenberge in West Flanders, Belgium.

Van Boxtel Dutch
The family name Van Boxtel indicates origin from the North Brabant place Boxtel, written around 1110 Buchestelle, and later in the Middle Ages, among others, Bucstelle and Boextel.... [more]

Van Breukelen Dutch
Means "from Breukelen", a town in the province of Utrecht in the Netherlands, itself derived from Old Dutch bruoc meaning "marsh, marshland, wetland" and lētha meaning "excavated, canalised watercourse"... [more]

Van Bronckhorst Dutch
Means "from Bronckhorst", a town in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands, itself derived from Dutch brink meaning "edge, slope, village green" and horst meaning "overgrown hillock" or "higher located brushwood"... [more]

Van Burgen Dutch
Comes from the Middle Dutch word "burch," or "burg," meaning a fortified town. The prefixes "Van" and "den" mean "from" and "the" respectively. Thus this surname means "from the hill". As such, it may have been topographic name for someone who lived by a citadel or walled city; or, it may have been a habitational name

Van Buskirk Dutch
The name is made up of two Dutch words: "bos," meaning "woods," and "kerk," meaning "church." The characteristic Dutch prefix "van" literally means "from," and thus the surname indicates "one from the church in the woods."

Van Buuren Dutch
Variant of Van Buren.

Vancouver Dutch
Dutch name meaning "someone from Coevorden", a city in the Netherlands.

Van Dam Dutch
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Van De Kerkhof Dutch
Means "from the churchyard", derived from Middle Dutch kerke meaning "church" and hof meaning "court, garden, yard". Famous bearers of this surname include twin brothers René and Willy Van De Kerkhof (1951-), both retired Dutch soccer players.

Van De Mark Dutch
Topographic name for someone who lived by a border or boundary, from Middle Dutch marke, merke meaning "boundary", "borderland".

Vandenberg Dutch
Variant of Van den Berg

Van den Bogaard Dutch
Means "from the orchard", derived from Dutch boomgaard literally meaning "orchard".

Van Den Broek Dutch
The family name Van den Broek is derived from a toponym with the component Broek, for example a farm name that owes its name to its location near a Broek, a name for a swampy terrain.