Submitted Surnames from Locations

Takasaki Japanese
From Japanese 高 (taka) meaning "tall, high" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Takasato Japanese
Taka means "tall, high, expensive" and sato means "village, hamlet, type of measurement, league, parent's home".

Takase Japanese
From Japanese 高 (taka) meaning "tall, high" and 瀬 (se) meaning "rapids, ripple, current".

Takashima Japanese
From Japanese 高 (taka) meaning "tall, high" and 島 or 嶋 (shima) meaning "island".

Takashina Japanese

Takashio Japanese (Rare)

Takata Japanese
Variant of Takada.

Takatani Japanese

Takatō Japanese

Takatsuka Japanese
Taka means "high" and tsuka means "mound, hill".

Takatsuki Japanese
From Japanese 高 (taka) meaning "tall, expensive" combined with 月 (tsuki) meaning "moon, month" or 槻 (tsuki) meaning "Zelkova tree".

Takatsutsumi Japanese
Taka means "high, tall, expensive" and tsutsumi means "river, bank, enbankment, dike".

Takaura Japanese
Taka means "tall, high, expensive" and ura means "bay, seacoast".

Takawa Japanese

Takaya Japanese

Takayama Japanese
From Japanese 高 (taka) meaning "tall, high" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

Takayanagi Japanese
From Japanese 高 (taka) meaning "tall, high" and 柳 (yanagi) meaning "willow".

Takazaki Japanese
Variant of Takasaki.

Takazato Japanese
高 (Taka) means "high, expensive, tall" and zato is a variant of 里 (sato) meaning "type of measurement, village, league, parent's home". ... [more]

Takazuka Japanese
Variant of Takatsuka.

Takeba Japanese

Takebara Japanese
Variant of Takehara.

Takebe Japanese
From Japanese 武 (take) meaning "military, martial", 竹 (take) meaning "bamboo", or 建 (take) meaning "build, construct", and 部 (be) meaning "part, section".

Takegawa Japanese
Variant of Takekawa.

Takegoshi Japanese

Takehara Japanese
From Japanese 竹 (take) meaning "bamboo" and 原 (hara) meaning "field, plain".

Takehomi Japanese

Takei Japanese
From Japanese 武 (take) meaning "military, martial" or 竹 (take) meaning "bamboo" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".

Takeiri Japanese

Takeishi Japanese
From Japanese 竹 (take) meaning "bamboo" or 武 (take) meaning "military, martial" and 石 (ishi) meaning "stone".

Takekawa Japanese
Take means "bamboo" and kawa means "stream, river".

Takemitsu Japanese
Take means "bamboo" and mitsu can mean "light".

Takemiya Japanese
From Japanese 竹 (take) meaning "bamboo" and 宮 (miya) meaning "temple, shrine, palace".

Takemizu Japanese
From Japanese 竹 (take) meaning "bamboo" combined with 水 (mizu) meaning "water".

Takemori Japanese
Take means "bamboo" and mori means "forest".

Takemoto Japanese
From Japanese 竹 (take) meaning "bamboo" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Takemura Japanese
From Japanese 竹 (take) meaning "bamboo" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Takeno Japanese
From Japanese and 武 (take) meaning "military, martial" combined with 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Takenouchi Japanese

Takeo Japanese
Take means "bamboo" and o means "tail".

Takeoka Japanese
Take means "bamboo" and oka means "ridge, hill".

Takesada Japanese

Takesawa Japanese
From Japanese 武 (take) meaning "military, martial" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "swamp, wetland, marsh".

Takeshita Japanese
From Japanese 竹 (take) meaning "bamboo" and 下 (shita) meaning "under, below".

Taketa Japanese
From Japanese 武 (take) meaning "military, martial" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Taketatsu Japanese
竹 (Take) means "bamboo", 達 (tatsu) means "reach". ... [more]

Taketsuru Japanese
From Japanese 竹 (take) "bamboo" and 鶴 (tsuru) "crane (bird)".

Takewara Japanese
Variant of Takehara.

Takeyama Japanese
From Japanese 竹 (take) meaning "bamboo" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Takezawa Japanese
From Japanese 竹 (take) meaning "bamboo" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "swamp, wetland, marsh".

Takezo Japanese
Take means "bamboo" and zo means "castle".

Taki Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 滝 or 瀧 (taki) meaning "waterfall, rapids".

Takida Japanese

Takigai Japanese
Variant of Takitani.

Takigawa Japanese
From Japanese 滝 or 瀧 (taki) meaning "waterfall, rapids" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Takigaya Japanese
Variant of Takitani.

Takiguchi Japanese
From Japanese 滝 or 瀧 (taki) meaning "waterfall, rapids" and 口 (kuchi) meaning "mouth, opening, entrance".

Takikawa Japanese
Taki means "waterfall" and kawa means "river, stream".

Takimoto Japanese
From Japanese 瀧 (taki) meaning "waterfall, rapids" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Takimura Japanese
Taki means "waterfall, rapids" and mura means "village, hamlet".

Takino Japanese
Taki means "waterfall" and no means field, rice paddy".

Takinoue Japanese
Taki means "waterfall", no is a possessive particle meaning "therefore, of", and ue means "top, above, upper".

Takisaki Japanese
Taki means "waterfall" and saki means "cape, promontory, peninsula".

Takita Japanese

Takitani Japanese
Taki means "waterfall, rapids" and tani means "valley".

Takiya Japanese (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.

Takiyama Japanese
From Japanese 滝 (taki) meaning "waterfall, rapids" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Takizaki Japanese
Variant of Takisaki.

Takizawa Japanese
Taki means "waterfall" and zawa comes from sawa meaning "marsh, swamp".

Takizawa Japanese
From Japanese 滝 or 瀧 (taki) meaning "waterfall, rapids" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Takuma Japanese

Talamantes Spanish
Habitational name from Talamantes in Zaragoza province

Talampas Filipino
Means "plateau, stiff cliff" in Tagalog.

Talaveira Portuguese (Brazilian)
Portuguese cognate of Talavera.

Talcott English, Norman
Norman habitational name from Taillecourt in France.... [more]

Tallent English
Habitational name from Talland in Cornwall, which is thought to be named as ‘hill-brow church site’, from Cornish tal + lann.

Tallentire English (Rare)
From a small village in Cumbria, England, meaning 'head of the land' in Cumbric.

Tallinn Estonian
Tallinn is an Estonian surname, derived from "Tallinn", the capital city of Estonia.

Tallón Spanish
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.

Talu Estonian
Talu is an Estonian surname meaning "farmstead".

Talysh Russian
From Russian талыш (talysh), meaning "a Talysh". The Talysh are a minority ethnic group in Iran and Azerbaidzhan.

Tam Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Tan.

Tam Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Tan.

Tamachi Japanese

Tamada Japanese
From Japanese 玉 (tama) meaning "jewel, ball" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Tamagawa Japanese
From Japanese 玉 (tama) meaning "gem, jewel, ball" and 川 (kawa) or 河 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Tamai Japanese
From the Japanese 玉 (tama) meaning "jewel, ball, bundle" and 井 (i) meaning "well, pit, mineshaft".

Tamakawa Japanese
Tama means "jewel square" and kawa means "river".

Tamaki Japanese
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".

Tamamoto Japanese, Ryukyuan, Okinawan
From 玉 (tama) meaning "jewel, ball" and 元 (moto) meaning "origin".

Tamamura Japanese
Tama means "Jewel" and Mura means "village."... [more]

Tamano Japanese
From Japanese 玉 (tama) meaning "jewel, ball, sphere" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness" or 乃 (no), a possessive particle.

Tamaoka Japanese
From Japanese 玉 (tama) meaning "gem, jewel, ball" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Tamara Japanese (Rare)

Tamaru Japanese
From Japanese 田 (ta) meaning "paddy, field" combined with 丸 (maru) meaning "whole, complete".

Tamashiro Japanese
Means "jewel castle" or "ball castle" in Japanese. From the Japanese words 玉 (jewel, ball) and 城 (castle). This surname is of Okinawan origin.

Tamata Japanese

Tamatsuka Japanese
Tama means "jewel" and tsuka means "mound".

Tamayama Japanese
玉 (Tama) means "jewel, gem" and 山 (yama) means "mountain".

Tamayo Spanish
from a town in the burgos region in spain.

Tambunan Batak
Derived from Batak tambun meaning "large, many" or "hill, heap, mound".

Tamekuni Japanese

Tamenari Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 為成 (Tamenari) meaning "Tamenari", a former area in the city of Bungotakada in the prefecture of Ōita in Japan.... [more]

Tamenari Japanese (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]

Tamenori Japanese

Tamiya Japanese (Rare)
Tamiya means "rice field palace". See also Miyata

Tammeorg Estonian
Tammeorg is an Estonian surname meaning "oak valley".

Tamminen Finnish
From "tammi" meaning "oak tree". A place with lot of oaks.

Tammsaar Estonian
Tammsaar is an Estonian surname, meaning "oak island".

Tammsalu Estonian
Tammsalu is an Estonian surname meaning "oak ridge".

Tan Chinese
From Chinese 谭 (tán) referring to the state of Tan that existed during the Zhou dynasty in what is now Shandong province.

Tan Chinese
From Chinese 谈 (tán) referring to the ancient vassal state of Tan, which existed during the Zhou dynasty in what is now Shandong province.

Tanabe Japanese
From Japanese 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" and 辺 or 邊 (nabe) meaning "area, place".

Tanaca Japanese (Portuguese-style), Portuguese (Brazilian)
Portuguese form of Tanaka.

Tanada Japanese

Tanahara Japanese
Variant transcription of Tahara or variant of Takahara.

Tanahashi Japanese

Tanajara Japanese (Hispanicized), Spanish (Mexican)
Hispanicized form of Tanahara.

Tanase Japanese
From 棚 (tana) meaning "shelf", 種 (tana) meaning "seed", 田 (ta) meaning "rice paddy, field" combined with 名 (na) meaning "name, reputation, status", or 多 (ta) meaning "many, various" combined with 那 (na) meaning "what", that is then combined with 瀬 (se) meaning "rapids, current, ripple, torrent"

Tanata Japanese

Tänavsuu Estonian
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").

Tanda Japanese
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".

Taneda Japanese
From 種 (tane) meaning "seed" and 田 (ta) meaning "rice paddy, field".

Tanehira Japanese

Taneichi Japanese
From Japanese 種 (tane) meaning "seed, pit, origin" and 市 (ichi) meaning "market, shop".

Tăng Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Zeng, from Sino-Vietnamese 曾 (tăng).

Tangen Norwegian
Tangen is a village in south-east Norway.

Tangerine English
Possibly means "from Tangier".

Tanhuser Romansh (Germanized)
Variant of Tannhauser.

Taniai Japanese

Tanibara Japanese (Rare)
Variant of Tanihara.

Tanida Japanese
From Japanese 谷 (tani) meaning "valley" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Tanie Japanese
Tani means "valley" and e means "inlet, river".

Tanifuji Japanese
Tani means "valley" and fuji means "wisteria".

Tanigawa Japanese
From Japanese 谷 (tani) meaning "valley" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Tanihara Japanese
Tani means "valley" and hara means "plain". ... [more]

Tanikawa Japanese
From the Japanese 谷 (tani) meaning "valley" and 川 or 河 (kawa) meaning "stream, river."

Tanikuwa Japanese

Tanimatsu Japanese
From Japanese 谷 (tani) meaning "valley" and 松 (matsu) meaning "pine tree, fir tree".

Tanimizu Japanese
From Japanese 谷 (tani) meaning "valley" and 水 (mizu) meaning "water".

Tanimoto Japanese
From Japanese 谷 (tani) meaning "valley" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Tanimura Japanese
From Japanese 谷 (tani) meaning "valley" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Taninaka Japanese
Tani means "valley" and naka means "middle".

Tanino Japanese
From 谷 (tani) meaning "valley" and 野 (no) meaning "field, plain".

Tanioka Japanese
Tani means "valley" and oka means "ridge, hill".

Tanisawa Japanese
Tani means "valley" and sawa means "swamp, marsh".

Tanita Japanese

Taniura Japanese
From Japanese 谷 (tani) meaning "valley" and 浦 (ura) meaning "bay, inlet".

Taniwara Japanese (Rare)
Variant of Tanihara.

Taniyama Japanese
Tani means "valley" and yama means "mountain". ... [more]

Tanizawa Japanese
Variant of Tanisawa.

Tanjung Minangkabau, Batak
Means "cape, headland, point" in Minangkabau and Batak.

Tannahill Scottish
From the name of a place in Ayrshire, Scotland.

Tannen German, 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]

Tannenbaum Jewish, German
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) topographic name or Jewish ornamental name from German Tannenbaum ‘fir tree’, ‘pine tree’.

Tannhäuser German
Habitational name for someone from any of the places called Tannhausen in Brandenburg, Silesia or Württemberg.

Tannhauser Romansh (Germanized)
Germanized form of Danuser.

Tanno Japanese
From Japanese 丹 (tan) meaning "red, vermilion" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Tano Japanese
From 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness, plain".

Tanobe Japanese

Tanooka Japanese

Tanose Japanese
From 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy", 野 (no) meaning "field, plain, wilderness", and 瀬 (se) meaning "ripple, rapids, current".

Tanoue Japanese
Ta means "field, rice paddy", no is a possessive particle, and ue means "above".

Tantawi Arabic (Egyptian)
Alternate transcription of Egyptian Arabic طنطاوى or Arabic طنطاوي (see Tantawy).

Tantawy Arabic (Egyptian)
Indicated a person from the Egyptian city of Tanta, possibly of Coptic origin.

Tanuma Japanese
From Japanese 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" and 沼 (numa) meaning "swamp, wetland, marsh".

Tanzawa Japanese
From Japanese 丹 (tan) meaning "cinnabar" and 沢/澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Tào Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Cao, from Sino-Vietnamese 曹 (tào).

Taoda Japanese

Tapachula Nahuatl, Aztec
Means "between the waters" in Nahuatl.

Tapu Estonian
Tapu is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "Tapa", a town in Lääne-Viru County.

Tarancón Spanish
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous Manchego municipality.

Taranto Italian
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.

Tarbell English
Tarbell is an alteration of the English placename Turville in Buckinghamshire in England.

Tarchaneiotes Greek
(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.

Tardáguila Spanish
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]

Targuisti Arabic (Maghrebi)
Moroccan (northern): habitational name for someone from the town of Targuist.

Tarkington English

Tarkowski Polish
Habitational name for someone from Tarkowo in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship or Tarków in Masovian Voivodeship (of uncertain origin compare tarka ‘grater rasper’).

Tarnowska f Polish
Feminine form of Tarnowski.

Tarnowski Polish
This indicates familial origin within the Lesser Polish city of Tarnów.

Tarnutzer Romansh
Derived from the place name Malanser Tarnutz.

Tarragon French (Rare)

Tarrant English

Tartakovsky Russian, Jewish
Name for someone originally from the town of Tartakiv (or Tartakov) in Ukraine, derived from Ukrainian тартак (tartak) meaning "sawmill".

Tartaro Spanish
Ethnic name or regional name for someone who was from Tatarstan or who had traded with Tatarstan.

Tartu Estonian
Tartu is an Estonian surname derived from the city of the same name in Tartu County.

Tarumoto Japanese

Tarver English
Uncertain etymology. Possibly derived from Thorferth, a variant of the Old Norse given name Þórfreðr (compare Tolfree), or perhaps from Torver, the name of a former village in Lancashire... [more]

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

Tasaki Japanese
From Japanese 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, promontory, peninsula".

Tasawa Japanese
Variant of Tazawa.

Tashima Japanese
Ta means "field, rice patty" and shima means "island".

Tatarashvili Georgian
Georgian form of Tatarov.

Tatarchenko Ukrainian
Variant of Tatarenko.

Tatarenko Ukrainian
Ukrainian form of Tatarov.

Tatarov m Russian
Means "son of a Tatar".

Tatebe Japanese
From 立 (tate) meaning "stand, set up, establish" and 部 (be) meaning "section, department, category".

Tateishi Japanese
Tate can mean "rise, stand" and ishi means "rock, stone".

Tatematsu Japanese
From Japanese 立 (tate) meaning "stand, rise" and 松 (matsu) meaning "pine tree, fir tree".

Tateno Japanese
From Japanese 立 (tate) meaning "stand, rise" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Tateoka Japanese
From Japanese 立 (tate) meaning "stand, rise" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Tatewaki Japanese
From the Japanese 舘 (tate) meaning "mansion, large building, palace" and 脇 (waki) meaning "side."

Tateyama Japanese
From Japanese 館 (tate) meaning "large building, mansion" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Tati Popular Culture, French, Russian
A well known diminutive of both Tatiana and Tatischeff.

Tatischeff French, Russian, English
Best known as the actual full surname of Jacques Tati.

Tatka f Polish
Meaning Unknown.

Tatlock English
Probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place in Lancashire or Cheshire, where the surname occurs most frequently.

Tatlow English (British, Rare)
I heard it was from a small village in England called Tallow.

Tatsuda Japanese
From 竜 (tatsu) meaning "dragon" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Tatsuki Japanese
Tatsu can mean "dragon" and ki means "tree, wood".

Tatsumi Japanese
This surname is used as the combinations shown above, as well as others that aren't on this entry.... [more]

Tatsumura Japanese
Tatsu means "dragon" and mura could mean "town" or "hamlet, village".

Tatsuno Japanese
From Japanese 辰 (tatsu) meaning "dragon of the Chinese zodiac" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Tatsushima Japanese
立 (Tachi) means "stand" and 島 (shima) means island.... [more]

Tatsuta Japanese

Taue Japanese
From Japanese 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" and 上 (ue) meaning "above, top, upper".

Taunton English
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]

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

Tavárez Spanish (Caribbean)
Spanish form of Tavares chiefly used in the Dominican Republic.

Tawada Japanese

Tawata Japanese
Variant of Tawada.

Tawney English, Norman
Habitational name from either of two places, Saint-Aubin-du-Thennay or Saint-Jean-du-Thennay, in Eure, Normandy, both so named from an uncertain first element (possibly a Gallo-Roman personal name or the Gaulish word tann ‘oak’, ‘holly’) + the locative suffix -acum.

Tay Chinese (Hokkien), Chinese (Teochew)
Hokkien and Teochew romanization of Zheng.

Tayama Japanese
From Japanese 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Tazawa Japanese
From the Japanese 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" or 多 (ta) meaning "various, many" combined with 澤 or 沢 (sawa) meaning "wetland, marsh, swamp."

Tazelaar Dutch
Dutch (Zeeland) variant of ’t Hazelaar "the hazel bush", a topographic name for someone living by hazel bushes.

Teagarden Low German
The surname Teagarden was first found in Bavaria, where the name Tiegarten was anciently associated with the tribal conflicts of the area. The name appeared in Solingen as Thegarden as early as 1374 and was recorded as Tegarden in 1488... [more]

Teasdale English
From Teesdale, the name of a valley of the River Tees in northern England, derived from the river's name (meaning "warmth" in Old English) combined with dæl meaning "valley".

Tebay English
From the name of a village in Cumbria, England, derived from the German name element theod meaning "people".

Tecuceanu Romanian
A topographical Romanian surname meaning "from Tecuci". Tecuci is a city in the Galaţi county of Romania.

Tedford Scottish, Northern Irish, English

Tedsungnoen Isan
From Thai สูงเนิน (Sung Noen) meaning "Sung Noen", a district in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.

Tee Chinese (Hokkien)
Hokkien romanization of Zheng.

Teekivi Estonian
Teekivi is an Estonian surname meaning "path stone".

Teetamm Estonian
Teetamm is an Estonian surname meaning "causeway" or "embankment".

Teggin Medieval Welsh
derived from tha ancient area of now Flintshire which was named Tegeingl

Tegnér Swedish
Derived from the name of Tegnaby parish in Småland, Sweden. The name was originally spelled Tegnérus, but was later shortened to Tegnér. Notable bearers include Alice Tegnér (1864-1943), composer of many Swedish hymns and children's songs, and Esaias Tegnér (1782-1846), bishop and writer.

Teh Chinese (Hokkien), Chinese (Teochew)
Hokkien and Teochew romanization of Zheng.

Teich German, Jewish
Derived from Middle High German tīch "pond".

Teixeria Portuguese, English (Rare)
Variant of Teixeira, more commonly used in the United States likely by American-Portuguese citizens

Tejada Spanish
Meaning "roof" or "lime tree."

Tejas Spanish
Variant of Tejada.

Tejeda Spanish
Variant of Tejada.

Tejima Japanese
Variant of Teshima.

Telford English
From the words taelf meaning "plateau" and ford meaning "river crossing"... [more]

Telger Low German
Derivative of Telge, a topographic name denoting an enclosed tree nursery.

Tellechea Basque
Castilianized spelling of Telletxea, a habitational name meaning "(from) the house with tiles", composed of teila "roof tile" and etxe "house, home, building".

Telleria Basque
Habitational name derived from Basque teileria meaning "tile works, tile kiln; place where tiles are made".

Tellinghuisen East Frisian (Americanized)
Altered form of Tellinghusen.

Tellinghusen East Frisian
Habitational name from a lost or unidentified location in Lower Saxony.

Temple English, French
Occupational name or habitational name for someone who was employed at or lived near one of the houses ("temples") maintained by the Knights Templar, a crusading order so named because they claimed to occupy in Jerusalem the site of the old temple (Middle English, Old French temple, Latin templum)... [more]

Templeton English
Derived from Templeton, from the English words 'temple' and 'town'.

Templin German
German habitational name from a place so named in Brandenburg, of Slavic origin.

Tempski Polish
Habitatual name derived from Tępcz, Gdańsk, Luzino commune, a town in Poland.

Ten Boom Dutch
Means "at the tree" in Dutch. A notable bearer of this surname was Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983), a German woman who helped Jewish people take refuge into her home during the Second World War.

Ténérife Spanish (Canarian), Guanche
Derived from the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Spain.

Tenerife Spanish (Philippines)
Unaccented form of Ténérife. Used primarily in the Philippines.

Teneyck Dutch (Americanized)
From Dutch ten eik meaning "at the oak tree", a topographic name for someone who lived by a prominent oak tree. This has been a prominent family name in Albany, NY, area since the 1630s.

Teng Chinese
From Chinese 滕 (téng) referring to the ancient state of Teng, which existed during the Zhou dynasty in what is now Shandong province.

Teng Chinese
Alternate transcription of Deng as well as the Hokkien and Teochew romanization of the name.

Ten Have Dutch
Variant form of Hof.

Tenkubashi Japanese (Rare)
From 天 (ten) meaning "heaven", 空 (ku) meaning "sky", and 橋 (hashi) meaning "bridge".

Tennohja Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōja).

Tennohjidani Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjidani).

Tennohjitani Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjitani).

Tennohjiya Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjiya).

Tennōja Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjiya).

Tennoja Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōja).

Tennōji Japanese (Rare)
Composed of Japanese ten 天 meaning "heaven," ō (which becomes nō due to renjō) 王 meaning "king," and ji 寺 meaning "temple" or "Buddhist temple."

Tennōjidani Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjiya).

Tennojidani Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjidani).

Tennōjitani Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjiya).

Tennojitani Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjitani).

Tennōjiya Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 天王寺谷 (Tennōjiya), script-changed from 天王寺屋 (Tennōjiya) meaning "Tennōji Store", a store that was in the ward of Tennōji in the city of Ōsaka in the prefecture of Ōsaka in Japan.

Tennojiya Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjiya).

Tennouja Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōja).

Tennoujidani Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjidani).

Tennoujitani Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjitani).

Tennoujiya Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjiya).

Tenorio Spanish
Possibly a habitational name from a place called Tenorio in Pontevedra province, Spain.

Tepetl Aztec, Nahuatl
From Nahuatl meaning "hill".

Terachi Japanese
From Japanese 寺 (tera) meaning "temple" and 地 (chi) meaning "ground".

Terada Japanese
From Japanese 寺 (tera) meaning "Buddhist temple" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Teragai Japanese

Teragaya Japanese

Teraguchi Japanese
Tera means "temple" and guchi means "opening, mouth".

Terai Japanese
Tera means "temple" and i means "well".

Teraji Japanese
Tera means "temple" and ji means "road".

Terajima Japanese
Variant of Terashima.

Terakado Japanese
From 寺 (tera) meaning "Buddhist temple" meaning 門 (kado) meaning "gate".

Teramoto Japanese
From Japanese 寺 (tera) meaning "Buddhist temple" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Teramura Japanese

Teranishi Japanese

Teranishi Japanese
From Japanese 寺 (tera) meaning "temple" and 西 (nishi) meaning "west".

Terao Japanese
Tera means "temple" and o means "tail".

Terao Japanese
From Japanese 寺 (tera) meaning "temple" and 尾 (o) meaning "tail, foot, end".

Teraoka Japanese
Tera means "temple" and oka means "hill".

Teraoka Japanese
From Japanese 寺 (tera) meaning "temple" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Terasaki Japanese
From Japanese 寺 (tera) meaning "Buddhist temple" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".