Submitted Surnames from Locations

Tonosaki Japanese
From Japanese 外 (to) meaning "outside", an unwritten possessive marker 之 (no), and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Toon English
From the Old English word tun meaning "enclosure, yard, town"

Tooyama Japanese

Topasna Polynesian

Topelius Finnish (Rare), Swedish (Rare)
Latinized form of the Finnish place name Toppila in Ostrobothnia, Finland. Zachris Topelius (1818-1898) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, journalist, and historian.

Topham English

Topolovec Slovene, Croatian
Several locations in Slovenia and Croatia bare the name "Topolovec".

Topp German
German: from Low German topp 'point', 'tree top', hence a topographic name; or alternatively a metonymic occupational name or nickname from the same word in the sense 'braid'.

Toppin English (American)

Toran Galician, Irish
Galician (Torán): habitational name from the village of Santa María de Torán in Ourense province.... [more]

Torg English
Possibly from the Old Norse word “torg” meaning “marketplace”.

Torihama Japanese
From 鳥 (tori) meaning "bird, chicken" and 濱 (hama) meaning "seashore, beach".

Torii Japanese
From Japanese 鳥 (tori) meaning "bird" and 居 (i) meaning "seat, abode".

Torinese Italian
One who came from Turin.

Torino Japanese
Tori means "bird" and no means "field, rice paddy".

Torino Italian
Habitational name from the capital city of Piedmont, Italy, called Turin in English.

Torisu Japanese

Toriumi Japanese
From Japanese 鳥 (tori) meaning "bird" and 海 (umi) meaning "sea, ocean".

Toriyama Japanese
From Japanese 鳥 (tori) meaning "bird" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill". A notable bearer of this surname is Akira Toriyama (1955–), a manga artist best known for creating the Dragon Ball manga series.

Torkington English
From the name of a place in Greater Manchester, originally meaning "Tork's settlement" (Tork being a name or nickname combined with Old English tun meaning "enclosure, yard, town").

Torlak Bosnian, Croatian

Torn German
Derived from Old High German dorn / torn "thorn". As a surname, it was usually given to someone who lived near a thorn hedge.

Torni Finnish
Means "tower" in Finnish.

Toro Spanish, Italian
Either a habitational name from Toro in Zamora province. Compare De Toro . Or a nickname for a lusty person or for someone who owned a bull or a metonymic occupational name for a tender of bulls or possibly for a bull fighter from toro "bull" (from Latin taurus).

Torp Norwegian, Swedish, Danish
Scandinavian form of Thorpe.

Torquemada Castilian
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality in the Province of Palencia.

Torralba Spanish, Catalan, Aragonese
Habitational name from any of several places called Torralba, named with torre meaning "tower" + alba meaning "white".

Torras Spanish (?)
Means 'towers' in Spanish. Similar to name Torres.

Torre Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian cognitive and, Spanish and Portuguese variant of Torres. From torre "tower" (from Latin turris).

Torregano Judeo-Spanish
Variant of Trigano.

Torrello Spanish
Uncertain etymology. Possibly related to Torres.

Torrence Scottish, Irish
Scottish and northern Irish habitational name from either of two places called Torrance (one near East Kilbride, the other north of Glasgow under the Campsie Fells), named with Gaelic torran ‘hillock’, ‘mound’, with the later addition of the English plural -s.... [more]

Torrent Spanish
A topographical name for someone who lived by a flood stream, deriving from the Spanish torrente. Topographical surnames were among the earliest created, since both natural and man-made features in the landscape provided easily recognisable distinguish names in the small communities of the Middle Ages... [more]

Torrez Spanish
Variant of Torres.

Torriano Italian
Variant of Torre.

Torroella Catalan
This indicates familial origin within any of various eponymous localities.

Torrontegi Basque
Derived from Basque dorre "tower" and on "good" with the suffix -tegi "place of".

Torróntegui Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Torrontegi.

Torrubiano Spanish
It indicates familial origin within the municipality of Torrubia de Soria.

Torshkhoev Ingush (Russified)
Russified form of an Ingush family name derived the name of an Ingush teip (clan). The clan's name itself is derived from ТӀаьрши (Tarsh), a village in Ingushetia, of unknown meaning.

Torshkhoeva f Ingush (Russified)
Feminine form of Torshkhoev.

Torsrud Norwegian

Tortorici Italian
Habitational name from Tortorici in Messina.

Tosaki Japanese

Toscano Italian, Spanish
Originally indicated someone who came from the region of Tuscany in central Italy.

Toshima Japanese

Toshimori Japanese
It could be from Japanese 敏 (toshi) meaning "smart; clever" 森 (mori) meaning "forest".

Toso Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 十都 (see Totsu).... [more]

Totaka Japanese
From Japanese 戸 (to) meaning "door" and 高 (taka) meaning "tall, high".

Totoki Japanese
From Japanese 十 (to) meaning "ten" and 時 (toki) meaning "time".

Totsuka Japanese
From Japanese 戸 (to) meaning "door" and 塚 (tsuka) meaning "hillock, mound".

Tou Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 塔 (see Tō).

Touati Arabic (Maghrebi), Judeo-Spanish
Habitational name denoting someone who originally came from the region of Touat (or Tuat) in Algeria.

Touitou Judeo-Spanish
Likely a variant of Touati, though it has also been connected to the Arabic word نونو (nunu) meaning "thrush, blackbird" (a dialectal term).

Toujou Japanese
From Japanese 東 (tou) meaning "east" and 條 or 条 (jou) meaning "paragraph".

Toulouse French, French (African)
Derived from the name of the city of Toulouse.

Toulza Occitan
Originally indicated a person from the city of Toulouse, of uncertain etymology.

Tounsi Arabic (Maghrebi)
Derived from Arabic تُونِسِيّ (tūnisiyy) meaning “Tunisian”, ultimately from تُونِس (tūnis) meaning "Tunisia, Tunis". It can refer to a native of the country of Tunisia, someone from the city of Tunis (in Tunisia), or the Tunisian Tounsi dialect of Arabic.

Touret French
Derived from the French town of Tourrettes-sur-Loup which is located in the southeast of France.

Touriño Galician
It indicates familial origin within the eponymous neighborhood of the parish of San Martiño de Lanzós in the municipality of Vilalba.

Tourville French
The name Tourville is a very old, and in one case, very famous name. One of the Marshall's of France was named Anne Hilarion de Cotentin de Tourville. This reads: Anne Hilarion of/from Cotentin, Comte (Count) of Tourville... [more]

Toward English, Welsh
Variant of Doward.

Tower English

Town English
topographic name from Middle English toun(e) th one tun(e) "town village settlement" (Old English tun) often in the senses "primary settlement within an area" "manor estate" and "hamlet farm" for someone who lived in such a place.

Towne English

Townes English

Townshend English
Variant of Townsend. This surname is borne by the English musician Pete Townshend (1945-).

Townsley English
Variant of Townley.

Toyama Japanese
From 当 (tou) meaning "this, correct" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain."

Toyoguchi Japanese (Rare)
Toyo means "abundant" and guchi means "mouth, opening". ... [more]

Toyohara Japanese

Toyokawa Japanese
From Japanese 豊 (toyo) meaning "bountiful, luxuriant" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Toyonaga Japanese
From Japanese 豊 (toyo) meaning "lush, abundant" and 永 (naga) meaning "eternity, a long time".

Toyosaki Japanese
From Japanese 豊 (toyo) meaning "bountiful, luxuriant" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Toyota Japanese
From Japanese 豊 (toyo) meaning "bountiful, luxuriant" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Toyozaki Japanese
Variant of Toyosaki.

Tozaki Japanese
Variant of Tosaki.

Tozawa Japanese
From Japanese 戸 (to) meaning "door" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "swamp, wetland, marsh".

Tozuka Japanese
Variant of Totsuka.

Trabelsi Arabic (Maghrebi)
Habitational name for someone originally from the city of Tripoli in Libya from Arabic طَرَابُلُس (ṭarābulus). The city's name ultimately comes from Ancient Greek Τρίπολις (Trípolis) meaning "three cities", from τρι- (tri-) meaning "three" and πόλις (pólis) meaning "city".

Trabelssi Arabic (Maghrebi)
Alternate transcription of Trabelsi.

Trabot Judeo-Provençal, Judeo-Italian
From the Burgundian town Trévoux, earlier Trévou. ... [more]

Trace English
Variant of Tracey 1.

Trachtenberg German, Jewish
Could mean either mean "mountain of thoughts", from Yiddish trakhtn (טראַכטן) "to think" and berg "mountain" or "mountain of costumes", from German tracht "to wear, carry" and berg "mountain"... [more]

Trafford English
Habitational name derived from either Trafford, Lancashire (an Anglo-French variant of Stratford), from Bridge Mickle and Wimbolds Trafford, Cheshire (derived from Old English trog "trough, valley" and ford "river crossing"), or from the now-lost settlement of Trafford in Northamptonshire (derived from Old English traeppe "trap, fish trap" and ford).

Trafton English

Trahan French (Cajun), Welsh
From the Welsh name Trahern, derived from the Welsh family seat Trehaverne.

Trail Scottish
This surname is most likely a habitational name, taken on from a place name; perhaps from the Gaelic "Traill Creek" which runs into Upper Loch Torridon of Scotland.... [more]

Trầm Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Shen, from Sino-Vietnamese 瀋 (trầm).

Tranmer English
Habitational name from Tranmere, a district within the borough of Birkenhead, Cheshire, or Tranmires, an area in Hackness, North Yorkshire. Both toponyms derive from Old Norse trani "crane (bird)" and melr "sandbank, dune".

Trapanese Italian
Habitational name meaning "Trapanese", "from the city of Trapani or "from the province of Trapani". Variant of Trapani.

Trapizonyan Armenian
Originally denoted someone who came from the Turkish city of Trabzon, formerly a part of the Byzantine Empire, whose Armenian community stayed as the Ottoman Empire took over.

Trask English

Traspeña Spanish
It indicates familial origin within the locality of Traspeña de la Peña in the municipality of Castrejón de la Peña.

Trass Estonian
Trass is an Estonian surname meaning "highway".

Traun German
Derived from the Celtic word dru meaning "river". Traun is a river in the Austrian state of Upper Austria as well as a city located on the north bank of that river and borders Linz, the capital of Upper Austria, to the east.

Travilian Welsh, Cornish
Variant of Trevelyan.

Traylor French
Assumed to mean "by the trail". May have originally been "Trouillart". Variations may include: Trail Traill Treil Trelly Teign Pentrail

Trayton English

Trebilcock Cornish
Means "person from Trebilcock", Cornwall (apparently "dear one's farmstead"). The final -ck is standardly silent.

Trefusis English
The name of an estate in Cornwall, England.

Tregarthen Cornish
From Tregarthen in Ludgvan; from treg-ar-den the dwelling upon the hill, or treg-arth-en, the dwelling upon the high place.... [more]

Tregory Cornish (Anglicized, Rare), English (Rare)
This obscure British surname is a variant form of Tregury, which is an anglicization of the rare Cornish surname Tregurtha.... [more]

Tregurtha Cornish
A rare Cornish surname that derives its name from either the manor of Tregurtha in the parish of St. Hilary (located in west Cornwall) or from the hamlet of Tregurtha Barton in the parish of St. Wenn (located in central Cornwall)... [more]

Trelawny Cornish
A habitational surname that originated in Cornwall.

Trelles Asturian
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous parish of the municipality of Cuaña.

Tremain Cornish
Variant of Tremayne.

Tremaine Cornish
Variant of Tremayne. A famous fictional bearer is Lady Tremaine, the main antagonist of Disney's Cinderella (1950).

Tremayne Cornish
Name for someone from any of various locations called Tremayne (or Tremaine), from Cornish tre meaning "home, settlement, town" and men meaning "stone".

Tremlett English

Trémont French
Habitational name from any of several locations in France, derived from Latin trans "across, beyond" and mons "mountain", making it a cognate of Italian Tremonti... [more]

Tremont English
Americanized form of Italian Tremonti or French Trémont, both habitational names meaning "over the mountain".

Tremonti Italian
Pluralised form of Tremonte, a habitational name meaning "over the mountain".

Trenton English

Tresham English

Tressillian English
Derived from a Cornish place name meaning "Sulyen's farmstead" (see Sulien).

Trettin German
Habitational name from a place so named in Brandenburg.

Treuz German
Derived from the town Trezzo sull'Adda in northern Italy, the name di Trezzo was used by a Milanese armourer family of the 14th century with the first known member being Bazarino di Trezzo, who was possibly also related to the Missaglia family of armourers... [more]

Trevathan English, Cornish
Habitational name from one or more places in Cornwall named Trevethan, from Middle Cornish tre "estate farmstead" with a second element of uncertain meaning. It could be an unrecorded Old Cornish personal name Buthen.

Trevellick Cornish

Trevelyan Welsh, Cornish
Derived from Welsh tref "village, settlement" or Cornish trev "farmstead, town" combined with the given name Elyan.

Treviño Spanish
Habitational name from either of the places so named in the provinces of Burgos and Santander, possibly derived from Latin trifinium "place where three boundaries meet".

Trevino Spanish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Treviño.

Trevisan Italian
From the city of Treviso, in Veneto.

Trevithick Cornish
Means "person from Trevithick", the name of various places in Cornwall ("farmstead" with a range of personal names). It was borne by British engineer Richard Trevithick (1771-1833), developer of the steam engine.

Trevorrow Cornish
Trevorrow pronounced like tomorrow but with trev at the beginning.... [more]

Trewhitt English
From the location of the same name Trewhitt

Trewin Cornish
Habitational name from Trewin in Cornwall.

Trezise Cornish
Means "person from Trezise or Tresayes", Cornwall ("Englishman's farmstead").

Triano Spanish
Possibly a habitational name from Triano, the Castilianized name of the Basque towns called Abanto and Urtuella, in Biscay province, Basque Country.

Triarico Italian
Possibly an altered form of Tricarico.

Tricarico Italian
Denoting someone from the province of Tricarico, in Basilicata.

Trierweiler German
Trierweiler is a German surname of Germanic and French roots, specifically associated with the town of Trier in Germany and its surrounding areas. The first part, "Trier," refers to the city of Trier, one of the oldest cities in Germany... [more]

Triệu Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Zhao, from Sino-Vietnamese 趙 (triệu).

Trieu Vietnamese
Simplified variant of Triệu.

Trifiletti Sicilian
Topographic name from a diminutive of Greek τρίφυλλον (triphyllon) meaning "clover, pitch trefoil", literally "three-leaved" from τρία (tría) "three" and φύλλον (phyllon) "leaf, foliage".

Trigano Judeo-Spanish
From the name of the town of Tàrrega in Lleida province, Spain.

Trigueros Spanish
Habitational name from places in Huelva and Valladolid named Trigueros, from a derivative of trigo ‘wheat’, or possibly triguero ‘corn merchant’. Nickname from triguero ‘dark blond’, ‘corn colored’.

Trình Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Cheng 1, from Sino-Vietnamese 程 (trình).

Trịnh Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Zheng, from Sino-Vietnamese 鄭 (trịnh).

Trinh Vietnamese
Simplified variant of Trịnh.

Tripoli Italian
Habitational name from Tripoli in Libya, a place name of Greek origin meaning "triple city", from the elements τρι- (tri-) "three, thrice" and πόλις (polis) "city".

Tripolino Italian
Locational name that originally designated a person who came from Tripoli, a common name of multiple places in Ancient Greece and Modern Greece, all derived from Greek prefix τρι- (tri-) "three" and πολις (polis) "city, city-state".

Troia Italian
Could derive from the name of a town in Foggia, or be a nickname derived from Italian troia "sow, female pig", which has a slang meaning of "slut".

Troise Italian
Possibly a regional name from Turgisius, Latin name of a Norman province of Sicily

Trollope English
Locational surname derived from Trolhop, the original name of Troughburn, a place in Northumberland, England. The place name means "troll valley" from Old Norse troll "troll, supernatural being" and hop "enclosed valley, enclosed land"... [more]

Troppa German, Italian, Slovak, German (Silesian), Spanish (Latin American)
Likely meaning unknown.

Trotsky Russian
This surname means the Lithuanian city of "Trakai", a notable bearer of this surname was Leon Trotsky.

Trowbridge English
Indicates familial origin from any locations named Trowbridge

Troye Dutch, English
Dutch and French variant of Troy.

Truax French (Americanized)
An Americanized spelling of the French surname Trieux.

Trueba Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the vicinity of the eponymous Castilian river.

Truett English
English habitational name from Trewhitt in Northumbria, named from Old Norse tyri ‘dry resinous wood’ + possibly an Old English wiht ‘river bend’.

Truszkowski Polish
Habitational name for someone from Truszków in Lublin voivodeship.

Trzciński Polish
From the name of numerous Polish places called Trzcin, for example the village of Trzcin in northern Poland. It is derived from Polish trzcina meaning "reed".

Trzonowski Polish
This indicates familial origin within the Lesser Polish village of Trzonów.

Tsai Taiwanese
Alternate romanization of Cai chiefly used in Taiwan.

Tsarfati Judeo-Spanish
Variant of Sarfati.

Tsaritsyn Russian
From a former name of the Russian city of Volgograd that was used from 1589 to 1925. The name is from Царица (Tsaritsa), a small river and a tributary of the Volga, which was probably derived from Tatar сары су (sary su) meaning "yellow water".

Tsechoev Ingush (Russified)
Russified form of the Ingush clan name Цӏечой (Tsechoy), derived from the name of the ancient village of Tsecha-Akhki in present-day Chechnya.

Tsechoeva f Ingush (Russified)
Feminine form of Tsechoev.

Tsechoy Ingush
Original Ingush form of Tsechoev.

Tseng Taiwanese
Alternate romanization of Zeng chiefly used in Taiwan.

Tserkezos Greek
Means the Circassian.

Tsheej Hmong
Original Hmong form of Cheng.

Tsinaridze Georgian
The surname Tsinaridze carries the meanings of 'Light Bringer,' 'Sun Bringer,' or 'Sunshine.'... [more]

Tsiolkovsky Polish (Russified)
Russified form of Ziółkowski. Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) was a Russian rocket scientist who pioneered astronautics, whose father was of Polish origin.

Tsoi Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Cai.

Tsou Taiwanese
Tsou is a last name commonly found in Taiwan among its Chinese community. It is the transliteration of a Chinese surname meaning: vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BC) in the southeast of Shandong Province.

Tsubakihara Japanese

Tsubame Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 燕 (Tsubame) meaning "Tsubame", the name of a city in the prefecture of Niigata in Japan.

Tsuboda Japanese

Tsubogawa Japanese
Variant of Tsubokawa.

Tsubokawa Japanese

Tsubosaka Japanese

Tsubota Japanese

Tsuburaya Japanese
From Japanese 円 (tsubura) meaning "circle, round" and 谷 (ya) meaning "valley".

Tsuchida Japanese
From the Japanese 土 (tsuchi) "earth," "soil," 槌 (tsuchi) "mallet" or 津 (tsu) "harbour" and 知 (chi) "wisdom," "intellect" and 田 (da or ta) "rice paddy" or 多 (da or ta) "many."

Tsuchii Japanese
A variant reading of Doi.

Tsuchita Japanese

Tsuchiya Japanese
From Japanese 土 (tsuchi) meaning "earth, soil, ground" and 屋 (ya) meaning "roof, dwelling" or 谷 (ya) meaning "valley".

Tsuchiyama Japanese
From Japanese 土 (tsuchi) meaning "earth, soil, ground" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill". Other Kanji combinations are possible.

Tsuda Japanese
From Japanese 津 (tsu) meaning "port, harbour" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Tsuga Japanese
Tsu means "seaport, harbor" and ga could come from ka meaning "congratulation" or "add, increase".

Tsugaru Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 津 (tsu) meaning "port, harbor" and 軽 (garu) meaning "light".... [more]

Tsugawa Japanese
From 津 (tsu) meaning "ferry, port, harbor" and 川 (kawa) meaning "stream, river".

Tsuge Japanese
From the Japanese 告 (tsuge) "tell."

Tsugue Japanese
Tsu means "harbor, seaport", gu comes from ku meaning "longevity, long time ago", and e means "family, house, residence".

Tsuguno Japanese
Tsugu means "inherit, sucession" and no means "field, wilderness".

Tsui Chinese
Alternate transcription of Cui.

Tsuji Japanese
From Japanese 辻 (tsuji) meaning "crossroad".

Tsujiai Japanese

Tsujibayashi Japanese
From 辻 (tsuji) meaning "crossroad, intersection" and 林 (hayashi) meaning "woods, grove".

Tsujihara Japanese
From the Japanese 辻 (tsuji) "{road} crossing" and 原 (hara, bara or wara) "field," "plain," "original."

Tsujii Japanese
From the Japanese 辻 (tsuji) "{road} crossing" and 井 (i) "well."

Tsujimoto Japanese
From Japanese 辻 (tsuji) meaning "crossroad" and 本 or 元 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Tsujimura Japanese
From Japanese 辻 (tsuji) meaning "crossroad" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Tsujita Japanese
From the Japanese 辻 (tsuji) "{road} crossing" and 田 (ta or da) "rice paddy."

Tsujiura Japanese (Rare)
Tsuji means "crossroad" and ura means "bay, coast". ... [more]

Tsukabara Japanese
Variant of Tsukahara.

Tsukada Japanese
From Japanese 塚 (tsuka) meaning "hillock, mound" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Tsukagoshi Japanese

Tsukahara Japanese

Tsukamoto Japanese
From Japanese 塚 (tsuka) meaning "mound, hillock" or 柄 (tsuka) meaning "design, pattern" or "handle, hilt" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Tsukano Japanese

Tsukasa Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 塚 (tsuka) meaning "mound; hillock; tumulus" and 狭 (sa) meaning "narrow; small", referring to a cramped up area with a small hill.

Tsukata Japanese

Tsukauchi Japanese
From Japanese 塚 (tsuka) meaning "mound" and 内 (uchi) meaning "inside, within"

Tsukawara Japanese
Variant of Tsukahara.

Tsukida Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 舂田 (see Tsukita).

Tsukii Japanese
Tsuki means "moon, month" and i means "well, mineshaft."

Tsukijishin Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 築地新 (Tsukijishin) meaning "Tsukijishin", a name of a group of several households for the Kadowari System that took place in the Edo Period in the former Japanese province of Satsuma in parts of present-day Kagoshima, Japan.

Tsukimoto Japanese
月 (Tsuki) means "moon, month" and 本 (moto) meets "origin, root, source".

Tsukinomiya Japanese
Tsuki means "moon, month", no is a possesive article, and miya means "shrine".

Tsukioka Japanese
From Japanese 月 (tsuki) meaning "moon" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge". A notable bearer of this surname was Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (月岡 芳年, 1839–1892), a Japanese artist who is widely recognized as the last great master of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock printing and painting.

Tsukishiro Japanese
Tsuki means "month, moon" and shiro means "castle".

Tsukita Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 舂 (tsuki), from 舂き (tsuki), the continuative form of 舂く (tsuku) meaning "to grind with a mortar" and 田 (ta) meaning "rice paddy field", referring to a rice paddy field where they would grind grain with mortars.

Tsukiyama Japanese
From Japanese 築 (tsuki) meaning "fabricate, build, construct" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

Tsukizue Japanese
Variant of Tsukisue.

Tsukune Japanese (Rare)
Possibly from 築 (tsuku) meaning "construction, building" and 根 (ne) meaning "root, basis, foundation".

Tsukushi Japanese
Tsukushi means "horsetail plant". It is also a given name.

Tsukuta Japanese

Tsumiki Japanese
Tsu could mean "harbor, seaport", mi could mean "sign of the snake, ego, I, myself" and ki means "tree, wood".

Tsumura Japanese
From Japanese 津 (tsu) meaning "port, harbour" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Tsunami Japanese
From Japanese 津 (tsu) meaning "port, harbour" and 波 (nami) meaning "wave".

Tsunashima Japanese
From Japanese 綱 (tsuna) meaning "rope, cable, cord" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".

Tsunekawa Japanese
From Japanese 恒 (tsune) meaning "constant, persistent" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Tsuneki Japanese

Tsunematsu Japanese
From the Japanese 恒 (tsune) "constant" or 常 (tsune) "always" and 松 (matsu) "pine tree."

Tsuneyama Japanese

Tsunogae Japanese
Tsuno means "corner, point" and gae is a form of kae meaning "substitute, exchange".... [more]

Tsunoi Japanese
From the Japanese 角 (tsuno) "horn" and 井 (i) "well."

Tsunota Japanese

Tsuraoka Japanese

Tsuru Japanese
From 都 (tsu) meaning "harbor, port" and 留 (ru) meaning "detain, halt, stop, cease".

Tsurubami Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 鶴喰 (Tsurubami) meaning "Tsurubami", an area in the city of Rokunohe in the district of Kamikita in the prefecture of Aomori in Japan.... [more]

Tsuruda Japanese

Tsuruhami Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 鶴喰 (see Tsurubami).

Tsuruhashi Japanese
From Japanese 鶴 (tsuru) meaning "crane" combined with 橋 (hashi) meaning "bridge".

Tsuruki Japanese
From Japanese 鶴 (tsuru) "crane (bird)" and 木 (ki) "tree, wood".

Tsurumori Japanese

Tsuruoka Japanese
From Japanese 鶴 (tsuru) meaning "crane (bird)" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Tsuruta Japanese
From Japanese 鶴 (tsuru) meaning "crane (bird)" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Tsutsui Japanese
A notable bearer is Julie Tsutsui, a producer.

Tsutsumi Japanese
From the Japanese 堤 (tsutsumi) "river, embankment, riverbank."

Tsuuki Japanese

Tsuyama Japanese

Tsuyuguchi Japanese

Tsuyuki Japanese
From Japanese 露 (tsuyu) meaning "dewdrop" and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".

Tsuyumine Japanese
From 露 (tsuyu) meaning "dewdrop" and 峰 (mine) meaning "summit, peak".

Tsuzuki Japanese
From the Japanese 都 (tsu) "metropolis," "capital" and 築 (zuki) "since construction."

Tsuzurugi Japanese (Rare)
From 綴 (tsuzuru) meaning "bind, compose, spell, write" and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".

Tu Chinese
From the ancient city of Zoutu.

Tu Chinese
From Chinese 屠 (tú) referring either to Zou Tu, an ancient country that may have existed in what is now Shandong province, or the ancient fief of Tu, which existed during the Shang dynasty in what is now Shaanxi province.

Tu Chinese
From Chinese 涂 (tú), the old name for the Chu River that runs through the present-day provinces of Anhui and Jiangsu.

Tuberville French
Tuberville May be related to the surname Turbeville which is a derivation of the original de’ Turberville which derives from old French Thouberville, ville meaning town, place or residence (from Latin villa).

Tudge English

Tugwell English

Tuíneán Irish
Meaning, "watercourse."

Tuinstra Frisian
Topographic name for a person who lived by a garden or enclosure, derived from Frisian tuin meaning "garden, yard", or a habitational name denoting someone from a place called Tuin.

Tulip English
Habitational name for a person who lived in an area abundant with tulips.

Tulipán Hungarian
Hungarian form of Tulip.

Tulipan Spanish (Philippines)
Unaccented form of Spanish Tulipán "Tulip".

Tulipano Italian
Italian form of Tulip.

Tulloch Scottish
Scottish habitational name from a place near Dingwall on the Firth of Cromarty, named with Gaelic tulach ‘hillock’, ‘mound’, or from any of various other minor places named with this element.

Tully Scottish
Habitational name from any of various places called Tullo in eastern Scotland.

Tulp Dutch, Estonian
Dutch and Estonian form of Tulip.

Tulpan Romanian
Romanian cognate of Hungarian Tulipán.

Tumgoev Ingush (Russified)
Russified form of an Ingush surname, which is from the name of an Ingush teip (clan). The clan's name itself is derived from Tumag (ТIумагI), the name of a village in Ingushetia, possibly meaning "to see with the heart" in Ingush.

Tumgoeva f Ingush (Russified)
Feminine form of Tumgoev.

Tuna Turkish
From the Turkish name for the Danube River, which flows through parts of Central and Southeastern Europe.

Tưởng Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Jiang, from Sino-Vietnamese 蔣 (tưởng).

Tungate English
habitational name from Tungate a minor place near North Walsham named from Old English tun "farmstead estate" and Old Norse gata or Old English gæt "way path road street gate".

Tunstall English
Habitational name for someone from any of the various locations in England named Tunstall, derived from Old English tun meaning "enclosure, garden, farm" and steall meaning "position, place, site".

Tuor Romansh
Derived from Romansh tuor "tower".

Turan Turkish
Refers to Turan, an historical region in Central Asia inhabited by the nomadic Iranian Turanian people. The name itself means "land of the Tur" and is derived from the name of a Persian mythological figure, Tur (تور).

Turbefield English

Turco Italian
Means "Turkish" in Italian, an ethnic name for someone from Turkey, or a nickname from the same word in the sense of a non-Christian or, following the medieval ethnic stereotype, a cruel, ferocious, or short-tempered person.

Turcotte French, Welsh
Means "tower" in French and Welsh.

Turek Polish, Czech
Either meaning "a Turk", or coming from one of many the cities in Poland called Turek.

Turgaev Russian, Kazakh

Türkmenoğlu Turkish
Means "son of a Turkmen".

Turku Finnish
Derived from "Turku" a city in Finland.

Turlington English

Turnbow English, German (Americanized)
Americanized spelling of German Dürnbach, from a habitational name from any of several places so named or from places in Austria and Bavaria named Dürrenbach (meaning "dry stream").

Turney English, Norman
Habitational name from places in France called Tournai, Tournay, or Tourny. All named with the pre-Roman personal name Turnus and the locative suffix -acum.

Turnley English

Turrillo Aragonese
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality in the Comarca of Calatayú.

Turton English
From Turton, an historical area in Lancashire, England (now part of Greater Manchester); it was originally a township in the former civil parish of Bolton le Moors. It is derived from the Old Norse given name Þórr (see Thor) and Old English tun meaning "enclosure, yard, town"... [more]

Tuscano Spanish (Philippines)
Habitational name for a person from the province of Tuscany in Italy.

Tuzla Turkish
From a city in Bosnia named "Tuzla" or "salt mine". Formally occupied by the Ottoman Empire.

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’.

Txiriboga Basque (Rare, Archaic)
Means "tavern" in Basque.

Tyllykintsev m Yakut, Russian
Means "from Tyllyky".