Submitted Surnames from Locations

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.)

Tyumenskiy m Russian
Means "from Tyumen".

Tzarfati Judeo-Spanish
Variant of Sarfati.

Tze Chinese (Cantonese)
Cantonese romanization of Xie.

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.

Über German
From German meaning "above" or "over".

Ubukata Japanese
From 生 (ubu) meaning "life, live, raw, fresh" or 冲 (ubu) meaning "offing, open sea" and 方 (kata) meaning "person, alternative, square, direction".

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".

Uchide Japanese
From 内 (uchi) meaning "inside" and 出 (de) meaning "exit".

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 内 (uchi) meaning "inside" and 野 (no) meaning "field, plain".

Uchio Japanese
From 内 (uchi) meaning "inside" and 尾 (o) meaning "tail, foot of the mountain, end".

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

Udovich Croatian (Americanized), Slovene (Americanized)
Americanized form of Slovenian Udovič and Croatian Udović.

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

Uebayashi Japanese
From 上 (ue) meaning "above, top, upper" and 林 (hayashi) meaning "forest".

Uegawa Japanese
Variant of Uekawa.

Uehira Japanese

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

Uekusa Japanese
From Japanese 植 (ue) meaning "plant" and 草 (kusa) meaning "grass, herb".

Ueland Norwegian
Meaning uncertain. Perhaps derived from Old Norse úfr "owl" (usually the European eagle-owl) and land "land, farmstead".

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.

Ueto Japanese
From 上 (ue) meaning "top, upper, above" and 戸 (to) meaning "door".

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".

Ueyanagi Japanese
From Japanese 上 (ue) meaning "above, top, upper" and 柳 (yanagi) meaning "willow".

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
Habitational name meaning "waterside, by the river" or "flood, deluge" in Basque, derived from ur "water" and -alde "side, near".

Ugarte Basque
Means "island" in Basque, ultimately derived from ur "water" and -arte "between".

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

Uitterdijk Dutch
From the toponym Uiterdijk, derived from uiter "outer" and dijk "dike, levee".

Uizawa Japanese
Variant of Uisawa.

Ujigai Japanese

Ujigaya Japanese

Ujihara Japanese

Ujitani Japanese

Ujiya Japanese

Uki Japanese

Ukrainets Russian, Ukrainian (Russified)
Means "Ukrainian" in Russian, also the Russified form of Ukrayinets'.

Ukraintsev m Russian
Means "from Ukraine", from Russian Украина (Ukraina).

Ukrayina Ukrainian (Rare)
Means "Ukraine" in Ukrainian.

Ukrayinets' Ukrainian
Means "Ukrainian".

Ukrayinko Ukrainian (Rare)
Derived from the Ukrainian form of Ukraine, Україна (Ukrayina). It also means "Ukrainian" in Ukrainian.

Ukrayntsev m Russian (Ukrainianized)
Ukrainian transcription of Ukraintsev, used by Russians in Ukraine.

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".

Ulehla Czech, Slovak, Polish
Derives from Slovak word uhla meaning "angle, corner". Could also derive from the Polish word ulehla meaning "to be subdued, to be defeated". This is the surname of the famous youtuber Nicholas Ulehla, pseudonymously known as SocksFor1.

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

Ulibarri Basque
From the name of a place in Navarre, Spain, derived from Basque uri "village, hamlet" and barri "new".

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]

Umebayashi Japanese
From 梅 (ume) meaning "Japanese apricot, plum" and 林 (hayashi) meaning "woods, grove". Other kanji combinations can be used.

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

Umegaki Japanese
From Japanese 梅 or 楳 (ume) meaning "prunus mume" and 垣 (gaki) meaning "fence", referring to a fence with a family crest of prunus mume patterns.

Umehana Japanese
From 梅 (ume) meaning "plum" combined with 花 (hana, ka) meaning "flower, blossom".

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

Underdown English
topographic name for someone who lived "(at the) foot of the hill" or a habitational name from a place called Underdown... [more]

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

Ung Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Yong, from Sino-Vietnamese 雍 (ung).

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.

Ungvári Hungarian
Originally denoted a person from the city of Uzhhorod in Ukraine (formerly part of Hungary), meaning "castle on the River Uzh". In Hungarian it is called Ungvár.

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

Uno Japanese
From Japanese 宇 (u) meaning "house, eaves, universe" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Unsworth English
habitational name from Unsworth (Lancashire) recorded as Hundeswrth in 1291... [more]

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 (Rare)
From the name of a hamlet in Álava, Spain, derived from Basque (h)untz "ivy" and -aga "place of, abundance of".

Untzueta Basque (Rare)
Derived from Basque (h)untz "ivy" and -eta "place of, abundance of".

Unuma Japanese

Únzaga Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Untzaga.

Unzueta Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Untzueta.

Uomizu Japanese

Uông Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Wang, from Sino-Vietnamese 汪 (uông).

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
Habitational name denoting someone from the hamlet Upshire in County Essex, derived from Old English upp "up, upper" and scir "shire, district".

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

Uramoto Japanese
From 浦 (ura) meaning "seacoast, bay" and 本 (moto) meaning "source, origin, root". ... [more]

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, promontory, 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"

Urayama Japanese
From Japanese 浦 (ura) meaning "bay, inlet" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

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
From the name of a neighborhood in the town of Gordexola in Biscay, Basque Country, probably related to Basque urdandegi "pigsty, pig pen".

Urdanegui Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Urdanegi.

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

Urduña Basque (Rare)
From the name of a municipality in Basque Country, Spain, derived from Basque ortu "garden, orchard" and -une "place, location".

Urenda Basque
Probably a topographic name formed with Basque ur "water".

Urgu Italian
From an ancient toponym.

Ürgüplü Turkish
Denoted a person from Ürgüp (called Prokópio or Prokópi in Greek), the name of both a town and a district in central Turkey. The place name itself is derived via Ottoman Turkish اوركوب (ürgüb) from Greek Προκόπιο (Prokópio), a shortened form of Άγιος Προκόπιος (Ágios Prokópios) meaning "Saint Procopius", a 4th-century Christian martyr from Scythopolis for whom the town was originally named... [more]

Uriarte Basque
It means "between cities".

Uribarri Basque
Habitational name derived from Basque uri "town, city" and barri "new". Compare Ulibarri.

Uriondo Basque
From the name of a neighborhood in the municipality of Zeberio, Spain, derived from Basque uri "town, city" and -ondo "next to, adjacent".

Urizar Basque
Habitational name derived from Basque uri "town, city" and zahar "old, aged".

Urkiaga Basque
From the name of the northernmost hill and mountain pass in Navarre, derived from Basque urki "birch tree" and -aga "place of, group of".

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.

Urriola Spanish
Variant of Arriola.

Urritzola Basque (Rare)
From the names of either of two villages in Navarre, Spain, derived from Basque urritz "hazel tree" combined with either ola "hut, cabin" or the suffix -ola "location, place of".

Urrizola Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Urritzola.

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

Urrutia Basque
Habitational name derived from Basque urruti "distant, far away".

Urrutigoiti Basque (Rare)
Habitational name derived from Basque urruti "far, distant" and goiti "above, upper (part)".

Urrutigoïty Basque (Gallicized)
Parisianized form of Urrutigoiti.

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

Ursúa Basque (Hispanicized), Spanish
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 (Rare, Archaic)
From the name of a mountain in the French department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, derived from Basque ur "water" and -tzu "plenty of".

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.

Urushiyama Japanese
From Japanese 漆 (urushi) meaning "lacquer" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Urushizaki Japanese
From Japanese 漆 (urushi) meaning "lacquer" and 崎/﨑 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

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".

Usata Japanese

Usategi Basque
It literally means "dovecote".

Useche Basque
Habitational name from Basque Usaetxe, composed of uso "dove, pigeon" and etxe "house, home, building".

Usɛid Berber
Patronymic from the personal name Saïd; the name is of Arabic origin. Also a habitational name from various places with Sɛid in the name... [more]

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".

Ushio Japanese
From 牛 (ushi) meaning "cow, bull, ox" and 尾 (o) meaning "tail, end".

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, hill". Ushiyama is an area in the city of Kasugai, Japan.

Usuda Japanese

Usui Japanese
From Japanese 臼 (usu) meaning "millstone, mortar" or 碓 (usu) meaning "pestle" combined with 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

Utterdyke Dutch (Americanized)
Americanized form of Uitterdijk.

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".

Vaglia Italian
From the commune in the city of Florence.

Vagliano Italian
Variant of Vaglia.

Vagula Estonian
From the name of a village and a lake in Võru Parish, Võru County in southern Estonia. Possibly derived from vagu "furrow, groove" and the locative suffix -la.

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 m 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

Valden Dutch (Expatriate, ?)
Possibly an altered form of Velden.

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, Spanish, Central American
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.

Valdivia Spanish
Topographic or habitational name based on Spanish val, valle meaning "valley". A notable bearer was Pedro de Valdivia (died 1553), a Spanish conquistador who conquered Chile with a small expedition corps after he served under Francisco Pizarro in Peru... [more]

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.

Valencio Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian)
From the name of the Spanish city of Valencia.

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

Valensi Judeo-Spanish
From the name of the city of Valencia in Spain.

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

Valette French
Topographic name for someone who lived in a small valley, from a diminutive of Old French valee meaning "valley".

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".

Valkeapää Finnish
From the Finnish valkea "white" and pää "head, tip".

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]