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SykesEnglish English Surname (mainly Yorkshire): topographic name for someone who lived by a stream in a marsh or in a hollow, from Middle English syke ‘marshy stream’, ‘damp gully’, or a habitational name from one of the places named with this word, in Lancashire and West Yorkshire.
SymingtonScottish Habitational surname derived from the places of the same name, derived from the given name Simon 1 and northern Middle English ‘ton’ meaning settlement... [more]
SynadenosGreek From the city of Synnada in ancient Anatolia.
SyracuseItalian (Anglicized) Americanized spelling of Siracusa. This is also the name of a city in the U.S. state of New York, though the etymology is unrelated.
SytkowskiPolish This indicates familial origin within Sytkowo, a neighborhood in Poznań (the Greater Polish capital).
SzamotulskiPolish This indicates familial origin within the Greater Polish town of Szamotuły.
SzászHungarian From Szász meaning "Saxon" in Hungarian. Ethnic or regional name for a German speaker from Transylvania or Szepes, etymologically a derivative of German Sachs.
SzeligaPolish Habitational name from places called Szeliga or Szeligi. It is not clear whether there is any connection with the Polish vocabulary word szeliga ‘coat-of-arms’.
SzlávikHungarian This surname is more common in the modern Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County and in the area that made up the former Jászság.
SzokolyiHungarian Derived from Szokolya, a village in Pest county, Hungary. It is located in the largest basin of the Börzsöny Hills. The Morgó Brook runs across the village.
SzołdrskiPolish This indicates familial origin within the Greater Polish village of Szołdry.
SzpakowskiPolish This indicates familial origin within the Podlachian village Szpakowo.
SzurkowskiPolish This indicates familial origin within either of 2 Greater Polish villages named Szurkowo.
SzymanowskiPolish Name for someone from a place called Szymanów, Szymanowo or Szymanowice, all derived from the given name Szymon.
TừVietnamese Vietnamese form of Xu 1, from Sino-Vietnamese 徐 (từ).
TabataJapanese From Japanese 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" and 端 (hata) meaning "edge, end, tip".
TabataJapanese From Japanese 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" and 畑 or 畠 (hata) meaning "farm, cropfield".
TabetaJapanese In eastern Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands, its often written as 田 (ta) meaning "rice paddy, field" and 端 (beta) meaning "edge, end". However, tabe has also been spelled with 多 (ta) meaning "many" and 部 (be) meaning "part, section".
TabiJapanese (Rare) From Japanese 多比 (Tabi) meaning "Tabi", an area in the city of Numazu in the prefecture of Shizuoka in Japan.
TachikawaJapanese Tachi means "stand" ad kawa means "river, stream".
TachikuraJapanese Tachi means "stand" and kura means "granary, storehouse, warehouse, have, possess".
TaczanowskiPolish This indicates familial origin within either of 2 Greater Polish villages in Gmina Pleszew: Taczanów Pierwszy or Taczanów Drugi.
TadaJapanese From the Japanese 多 (ta) "many" and 田 (ta or da) "rice paddy."
TadanoJapanese From Japanese 多 (ta) meaning "many", 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".
TadanoJapanese From Japanese 只 (tada) meaning "only, simply, just" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".
TadokoroJapanese It literally means "farmland, country", from 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy", and 所 (dokoro) meaning "place, institute, plant, station".
TafuJapanese (Rare) From Japanese 多布 (Tafu) meaning "Tafu", a former township in the former district of Kōge in the former Japanese province of Buzen in parts of present-day Ōita, Japan and Fukuoka, Japan.
ŢagaRomanian Țaga is a commune and village in Cluj County, Romania.
TagashiraJapanese From 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" combined with 頭 (hashira) meaning "head, brain".
TailwalIndian Tailwal is a Garhwali Brahmin surname used in the state of Uttarakhand. Tailwal are Kanyakubja Brahmin. They came from western-Central part of India and settled in Taila village of Garhwal in 1600.
TairaJapanese Meaning "peace". Together with the Fujiwara and Minamoto, this is one of the most prominent clans in Japanese history... [more]
TakazatoJapanese 高 (Taka) means "high, expensive, tall" and zato is a variant of 里 (sato) meaning "type of measurement, village, league, parent's home". ... [more]
TakitaniJapanese Taki means "waterfall, rapids" and tani means "valley".
TakiyaJapanese (Rare) Taki (滝) means "waterfall", ya (谷) means "valley". One notable fictional character who bears this surname is Genji Takiya (滝谷 源治) from Crows Zero, this surname is very rare.
TallentEnglish Habitational name from Talland in Cornwall, which is thought to be named as ‘hill-brow church site’, from Cornish tal + lann.
TallentireEnglish (Rare) From a small village in Cumbria, England, meaning 'head of the land' in Cumbric.
TallinnEstonian Tallinn is an Estonian surname, derived from "Tallinn", the capital city of Estonia.
TallónSpanish Either a Spanish variant of Catalan Talló (see Tallo) or a habitational name from any of the places in A Coruña, Ourense, and Pontevedra provinces called Tallón.
TaluEstonian Talu is an Estonian surname meaning "farmstead".
TamaiJapanese From the Japanese 玉 (tama) "ball," "bundle" and 井 (i) "well."
TamakawaJapanese Tama means "jewel square" and kawa means "river".
TamakiJapanese From Japanese 玉 (tama) meaning "jewel, ball, sphere" combined with 城 (ki) meaning "castle", 置 (ki) meaning "put, place, set", or 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".
TamaruJapanese From Japanese 田 (ta) meaning "paddy, field" combined with 丸 (maru) meaning "whole, complete".
TamashiroJapanese Means "jewel castle" or "ball castle" in Japanese. From the Japanese words 玉 (jewel, ball) and 城 (castle). This surname is of Okinawan origin.
TamenariJapanese (Rare) From Japanese 為成 (Tamenari) meaning "Tamenari", a former area in the city of Bungotakada in the prefecture of Ōita in Japan.... [more]
TamenariJapanese (Rare) From Japanese 為成 (Tamenari) meaning "Tamenari", a former division in the area of Fuchū in the city of Toyama in the prefecture of Toyama in Japan.... [more]
TänavsuuEstonian Tänavsuu is an Estonian surname literally meaning "street mouth" ("street entry", or "the beginning of the street"); derived from the compound words "tänav" ("street") and "suu" ("mouth").
TandaJapanese From Japanese 反 (tan) referring to a unit of areal measure (equivalent to about 991.7 metres squared) and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".
TannenGerman, Jewish German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) habitational name from any of several places in Lower Saxony or Baden named with German Tannen ‘pine’, or from a short form of any of the many compound names formed with this element... [more]
TannenbaumJewish, German German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) topographic name or Jewish ornamental name from German Tannenbaum ‘fir tree’, ‘pine tree’.
TannhäuserGerman Habitational name for someone from any of the places called Tannhausen in Brandenburg, Silesia or Württemberg.
TarantoItalian Habitational name from the southern Italian city and provincial capital of this name (from Latin Tarentum from Greek Taras). Variant of Tarantino and Di Taranto.
TarbellEnglish Tarbell is an alteration of the English placename Turville in Buckinghamshire in England.
TarchaneiotesGreek (1) Either from the village of Tarchaneion in Thrace, (2) from Mongol word targan, for "smith",(3) from the Khazar noble title tarkhan, ultimately of Sogdian/Saka origin.
TardáguilaSpanish Tardáguila is a Spanish surname that is believed to have originated from the Basque region of Spain. The surname is a combination of the words "tarda", which means late, and "aguila", which means eagle... [more]
TarguistiArabic (Maghrebi) Moroccan (northern): habitational name for someone from the town of Targuist.
TarkowskiPolish Habitational name for someone from Tarkowo in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship or Tarków in Masovian Voivodeship (of uncertain origin compare tarka ‘grater rasper’).
TarnowskiPolish This indicates familial origin within the Lesser Polish city of Tarnów.
TartakovskyRussian, Jewish Name for someone originally from the town of Tartakiv (or Tartakov) in Ukraine, derived from Ukrainian тартак (tartak) meaning "sawmill".
TartaroSpanish Ethnic name or regional name for someone who was from Tatarstan or who had traded with Tatarstan.
TartuEstonian Tartu is an Estonian surname derived from the city of the same name in Tartu County.
TaueJapanese From Japanese 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" and 上 (ue) meaning "above, top, upper".
TauntonEnglish Habitational name from Taunton in Somerset, Taunton Farm in Coulsdon, Surrey, or Tanton in North Yorkshire. The Somerset place name was originally a combination of a Celtic river name (now the Tone, possibly meaning ‘roaring stream’) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’... [more]
TauraJapanese From Japanese 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" and 浦 (ura) meaning "bay, inlet".