Ornamental Submitted Surnames

Udu Estonian
Udu is an Estonian surname meaning "fog", "mist" and "haze".

Uibo Estonian
Uibo is an Estonian surname derived from "uibu", meaning "wintergreen".

Uiboleht Estonian
Uiboleht is an Estonian surname meaning "wintergreen (genus: Pyrola)".

Uibomaa Estonian
Uibomaa is an Estonian surneame meaning "evergreen land".

Uibopuu Estonian
Uibopuu is an Estonian surname meaning "apple tree" in South Estonian dialects.

Uik Estonian
Uik is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "luik", meaning "swan"; or "huik", meaning "crake".

Ujula Estonian
Ujula is an Estonian surname meaning "pool" and "pond".

Ülejõe Estonian
Ülejõe is an Estonian surname meaning "across the river".

Ülevain Estonian
Ülevain is an Estonian surname meaning "above/across village green".

Üljes Estonian
Üljes is an Estonian surname derived from "hüljes" meaning "seal".

Uluots Estonian
Uluots is an Estonian surname, possibly derived from "uluk" ("(hunting) game" ) and "ots" ("end").

Urb Estonian
Urb is an Estonian surname meaning "catkin".

Usper Istriot

Ussisoo Estonian
Ussisoo is an Estonian surname meaning "vermian swamp".

Uudelepp Estonian
Uudelepp is an Estonian surname meaning "new alder".

Uue Estonian
Uue is an Estonian surname meaning "anew".

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

Uuemõis Estonian
Uuemõis is an Estonian surname meaning "new manor".

Uuesalu Estonian
Uuesalu is an Estonian surname meaning "new grove".

Uuetalu Estonian
Uuetalu is an Estonian surname meaning "new farm".

Uuetoa Estonian
Uuetoa is an Estonain surname, meaning "new home" or "new room".

Uuk Estonian
Uuk is an Estonian surname meaning "bay" and "dormer".

Uukkivi Estonian
Uukkivi is an Estonian surname meaning "dormer/bay stone".

Uuskivi Estonian
Uuskivi is an Estonian surname meaning "new stone".

Uusla Estonian
Uusla is an Estonian surname meaning "new field/area".

Uusmägi Estonian
Uusmägi is an Estonian surname meaning "new mountain/hill".

Uusorg Estonian
Uusorg is an Estonian surname meaning "new valley".

Uuspõld Estonian
Uuspõld is an Estonian surname meaning "new field".

Uusväli Estonian
Uusväli is an Estonian surname meaning "new field".

Vaaks Estonian
Vaaks is an Estonian surname meaning "elecampane" ("Inula helenium", also called "horse-heal" or "elfdock").

Vaara Finnish, Sami
Means "forested hill" in Finnish, derived from Northern Sami várri "mountain".

Vaarik Estonian
Vaarik is an Estonian surname derived from "vaarikas" meaning "raspberry".

Vaarmets Estonian
Vaarmets is an Estonian surname meaning "hill forest".

Väärt Estonian
Väärt is an Estonian surname meaning "worth".

Vabamäe Estonian
Vabamäe is an Estonian surname meaning "unoccupied/vacant hill/mountain".

Vadén Swedish
Combination of Swedish place name element vad which in most cases mean "ford, place for wading", and the common surname suffix -én.

Vaga Estonian
Vaga is an Estonian surname meaning "devout" and "pious".

Vahejõe Estonian
Vahejõe is an Estonian surname meaning "mid/dividing river".

Vahemaa Estonian
Vahemaa is an Estonian surname meaning "middle land".

Vahemets Estonian
Vahemets is an Estonian surname meaning "middle/dividing forest".

Vahenõmm Estonian
Vahenõmm is an Estonian surname meaning "dividing/middle heath".

Vahesaar Estonian
Vahesaar is an Estonian surname meaning "middle island".

Vahesalu Estonian
Vahesalu is an Estonian surname meaning "dividing/middle grove".

Vähk Estonian
Vähk is an Estonian surname meaning "crayfish".

Vahtmaa Estonian
Vahtmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "foam/lather land".

Vahtra Estonian
Vahtra is an Estonian surname meaning "maple" (Aceraceae).

Vahtramäe Estonian
Vahtramäe is an Estonian surname meaning "maple hill/mountain".

Vaik Estonian
Vaik is an Estonian surname meaning both "quiet/still ("vaikus") and "resin/pitch", "tar".

Vaikla Estonian
Vaikla is an Estonian surname meaning "quiet area".

Väikmeri Estonian
Väikmeri is an Estonian surname meaning "small sea".

Vaiksaar Estonian
Vaiksaar is an Estonian surname meaing "quiet/still ("vaikus") island ("saar")". May also come from "väike saar", meaning "little island".

Vaiksoo Estonian
Vaiksoo is an Estonian surname meaning "quiet/still swamp".

Vaikvee Estonian
Vaikvee is an Estonian surname meaning "quiet/still water".

Vain Estonian
Vain is an Estonian surname meaning "village common", or "village green".

Vainküla Estonian
Vainküla is an Estonian surname meaning "(village) green/common village"

Vainmäe Estonian
Vainmäe is an Estonian surname meaning "(village) green/common hill/mountain".

Valgemäe Estonian
Valgemäe is an Estonian surname meaning "white hill".

Vall Estonian
Vall is an Estonian surname meaning "wall" or "berm".

Vallikivi Estonian
Vallikivi is an Estonian surname meaning "wall stone".

Vallin Swedish
Derived from either Latin vallis "valley" or Swedish vall "wall, pasture, field of grass".

Valliveere Estonian
Valliveere is an Estonian surname meaning "bank/embankment rolling".

Vällo Estonian
Vällo is an Estonian surname, possibly a corruption of "väli" meaning "field" and "plain".

Vanatoa Estonian
Vanatoa is an Estonian surname meaning "old room".

Vanaveski Estonian
Vanaveski is an Estonian surname meaning "old mill".

Van Der Linde Dutch, American
The surname "van der LINDE" comes from the DUTCH language, Of The LINT.

Vanik Estonian
Vanik is an Estonian surname meaning "wreath" and "garland".

Vanker Estonian
Vanker is an Estonian surname meaning "carriage".

Varblane Estonian
Varblane is an Estonian surname meaning "sparrow".

Värbu Estonian
Värbu is an Estonian surname; a diminutive of "värb" meaning "sparrow".

Vares Estonian
Vares is Estonian surname meaning "crow".

Värk Estonian
Värk is an Estonian surname meaning both "celebration" and "hootenanny", as well as "thing", "stuff", or a "job".

Värv Estonian
Värv is an Estonian surname meaning "color" and "paint".

Västrik Estonian
Västrik is an Estonian surname meaning "wagtail (bird genus: Motacilla)".

Vedriš Croatian
Derived from vedro, meaning "bright".

Veedla Estonian
Veedla is an Estonian surname meaning "watery/waters area".

Veemaa Estonian
Veemaa is an Estonian surname meaning "water land".

Veeorg Estonian
Veeorg is an Estonian surname meaning "water valley/gully".

Veere Estonian
Veere is an Estonian surname meaning "rolling" and "avalanche".

Veeremaa Estonian
Veeremaa is an Estonian surname meaning "rolling land".

Veermäe Estonian
Veermäe is an Estonian surname meaning "border hill/mountain".

Veesalu Estonian
Veesalu is an Estonian surname meaning "water grove".

Veetõusme Estonian
Veetõusme is an Estonian surname meaning "water (vee) surge (tõusma)".

Veevo Estonian
Veevo is an Estonian surname derived from "veevool", meaning "watercourse".

Vergitsis Greek
From the Greek word for rod (verga).

Vesi Estonian
Vesi is an Estonian surname, meaning "water".

Vesik Estonian
Vesik is an Estonian surname meaning both "hydrate" and "pygmyweed"

Vesilind Estonian
Vesilind is an Estonian surname meaning "waterbird".

Vesiloik Estonian
Vesiloik is an Estonian surname meaning "water puddle/a small pool of water."

Veskijärv Estonian
Veskijärv is an Estonian surname meaning "(water)mill lake".

Veskila Estonian
Veskila is an Estonian surname meaning "(water)mill area".

Veskimets Estonian
Veskimets is an Estonian surname meaning "mill woods/forest".

Veskinõmm Estonian
Veskinõmm is an Estonian surname meaning "mill heath".

Vestin Swedish
Combination of Swedish väst "west" and the common surname suffix -in.

Vettik Estonian
Vettik is an Estonian surname meaning "soaked/waterlogged stand".

Viberg Swedish
Variant of Wiberg.

Vig Danish, Norwegian (Rare), Swedish (Rare)
Variant of Vik.

Viher Estonian
Viher is an Estonian surname meaning "buckthorn".

Viherpalu Estonian
Viherpalu is an Estonian surname meaning "buckthorn heath".

Vihm Estonian
Vihm is an Estonian surname meaning "rain".

Viht Estonian
Viht is an Estonian surname and word meaning "the branches used to beat oneself in sauna".

Viikmäe Estonian
Viikmäe is an Estonian surname meaning "crease hill/mountain".

Viilma Estonian
Viilma is an Estonian surname meaning "filings" and "gabled".

Viinapuu Estonian
Viinapuu is an Estonian surname meaning "grapevines" (Vitis).

Viir Estonian
Viir is an Estonian surname meaning "tern".

Viires Estonian
Viires is an Estonian surname meaning "tern".

Viirpuu Estonian
Viirpuu is an Estonian surname meaning "hawthorn" (Crataegus).

Vikander Swedish
Swedish vik ”bay” combined with the common surname suffix -ander.

Viklund Swedish
Combination of Swedish vik "bay" and lund "grove".

Vikström Swedish
Variant of Wikström.

Viljapuu Estonian
Viljapuu is an Estonian surname meaning "fruit-bearing tree".

Viljarand Estonian
Viljarand is an Estonian surname meanig "grain/harvest shore".

Viljasoo Estonian
Viljasoo is an Estonian surname meaning "grain/harvest swamp".

Vilpuu Estonian
Vilpuu is an Estonian surname derived from "vili" ("fruit") and "puu" ("tree").

Vinette English
Derived from French vignette "sprig".

Vint Estonian
Vint is an Estonian surname meaning "finch".

Vislapuu Estonian
Vislapuu is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "visa" ("tough" and "tenacious") and "puu" ("tree" and "wood"); "tough tree".

Vitsut Estonian
Vitsut is an Estonian surname derived from "vitsutama", meaning "whip", switch", or "hoop".

Võlumägi Estonian
Võlumägi is an Estonian surname meaning "magic mountain".

Vonboykovitch Jewish (Americanized, Modern, Rare)
It’s a Ukrainian Jewish American surname meaning “Bold”

Voog Estonian
Voog is an Estonian surname meaning "stream", "flow", "billow" and "flood".

Vool Estonian
Vool is an Estonian surname meaning "current", "flow" and "stream".

Voolaid Estonian
Voolaid is an Estonian surname derived from "vool ("current/flow") and "laid" ("islet").

Voor Estonian
Voor is an Estonian surname meaning "drumlin".

Vooremaa Estonian
Vooremaa is an Estonian surname meaning "drumlin/moraine land".

Võsa Estonian
Võsa is an Estonian surname meaning "brush/thicket".

Võsu Estonian
Võsu is an Estonian surname meaning "sapling".

Vurma Estonian
Vurma is an Estonian surname, possibly a corruption of "vurama" meaning to "rattle", "roll", and "whir".

Waara Finnish
Ornamental, from (vaara) meaning, “range of hills.”

Wahlgren Swedish
Variant of Wallgren.

Wall Swedish
Derived from Swedish vall "pasture, field of grass". It may be either ornamental or habitational.

Wallbaum German, Jewish
Either a topographic name from Low German walbom "walnut tree" derived from wal "walnut" and boum "tree"... [more]

Wallenstein German, Jewish
Variant of Waldstein a habitational name from Wallenstein (originally Waldenstein "forest rock" Czech Valdštejn) in Bohemia... [more]

Wallgren Swedish
Composed of the Swedish elements vall "grassy bank, pasture" and gren "branch".

Wallman Swedish
Combination of Swedish vall "pasture, field of grass" and man "man".

Wanderlust English (American)
Wanderlust derived from Artemis G.J. Wanderlust (birth name: Joseph E Yoder) in the year 2021, as an ornamental surname representing both:... [more]

Wara Finnish (Rare, Expatriate)
Variant of Vaara, mostly used outside of Finland.

Warisaya Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 割鞘 (see Warizaya).

Warizaya Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 割 (wari), from 割り (wari) meaning "breakage into separate pieces" and 鞘 (zaya), the joining form of 鞘 (saya) meaning "sheath", referring to a broken sheath.

Watabohshi Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 綿帽子 (see Watabōshi).

Watabōshi Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 綿帽子 (watabōshi) meaning "bridal hood".

Wataboshi Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 綿帽子 (see Watabōshi).

Wataboushi Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 綿帽子 (see Watabōshi).

Wein German, Yiddish, Hungarian
Means "grape, vine, wine" in German and Yiddish (װײַנ). According to Nelly Weiss, Wein-style family names originated from signboards (house sign, house shield) in Jewish communities. Wein may also be related the German verb weinen meaning "to cry"... [more]

Weininger German (Swiss), Jewish
Denoted a person from Weiningen, a municipality in the Canton of Zürich, Switzerland. It is also a Jewish ornamental name derived from German wein meaning "wine" and the suffix -inger.

Weintraub German, Jewish
from Middle High German wintrub "grape" derived from wein "wine" and traub "grape" hence either a metonymic occupational name for a vintner or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by a sign depicting a bunch of grapes.

Weisfeld German, Jewish
topographic name from a field name composed of Middle High German wiz "white" and feld "open country". Cognate of Whitfield.

Wennerström Swedish
Combination of the place name element wenner, which is probably derived from the name of Lake Vänern, and Swedish ström "stream".

Westergren Swedish
Combination of Swedish väster "western" and gren "branch".

Westling Swedish
Combination of Swedish väst "west" and the common surname suffix -ling. A notable bearer is Prince Daniel (b. 1973), husband of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden.

Whiter English

Whites English

Wiberg Swedish
Combination of Old Norse víðr "forest, wood" (probably taken from a place name) and Swedish berg "mountain".

Wickstrand Swedish (Rare), Finnish (Rare)
Variant of Wikstrand, a surname composed of Swedish vik "bay" and strand "beach".

Wickström Swedish, Finland Swedish, Finnish
Variant of Wikström. A notable bearer was Finnish engineer John Wickström (1870–1959)

Widegren Swedish
Combination of Swedish vide "willow" and gren "branch".

Widman Swedish
Meaning uncertain. Perhaps a combination of Old Swedish viþr "wood, forest" or vid "wide" and man "man". It is also possible, though less likely, that it is a re-spelling of Vikman, where the first element is Swedish vik "bay".

Wiesel German, Jewish
Means "weasel" in German.

Wiesenthal Jewish
Ornamental name from German Wiese "meadow" + Tal "valley".

Wig Swedish (Rare)
Variant of Vik.

Wiig Norwegian
Variant of Vik.

Wijk Swedish
Derived from Swedish vik "bay".

Wikén Swedish (Rare)
Combination of Swedish vik "bay" and the common surname suffix -én.

Wiklund Swedish
Variant of Viklund.

Wikström Swedish
Composed of the elements vik "bay" and ström "stream"

Wilczek Polish
Diminutive form of Wilk, which means "wolf" in Polish.

Wind Swedish (Rare)
From Swedish vind "wind". It's either ornamental or a habitational name derived from a place named with this element.

Woodbead English

Woodbine English (Rare)
From the English word "woodbine" that means "honeysuckle(plant)"in English.It seems uncommon in the English-speak culture for a surname.Also some American place names,too.

Wretman Swedish
Combination of Swedish vret "remote small field situated some distance away from a bigger field" and man "man".

Wulandari Indonesian

Ya Japanese
From Japanese ya, meaning "night". Note that other kanji interpretations and meanings could be possible.

Yoshiizumi Japanese
formed with 吉 (Yoshi, Kichi, Kitsu) meaning "good luck; joy; congratulations" and 泉 (Izumi, Sen) meaning "spring; fountain". So the meaning could be interpreted as “Fountain of Good Luck” or “Lucky Fountain”

Youngberg Swedish (Americanized), Jewish (Americanized)
Americanized form of Jewish Jungberg, composed of German jung "young" and berg "mountain, hill", or of Swedish Ljungberg.

Yukitō Japanese
From Japanese 雪 (yuki) meaning "snow" and 藤 (tō) meaning "wisteria".

Žabek Croatian
From žaba, meaning "frog".

Zachar Jewish, Hungarian, Russian, Slovak, Belarusian
Derived from the Hebrew word זָכַר (zakhar) meaning "to remember". As a surname it can also derive from the given name Zakhar (Zechariah) that shares this etymology.

Zandén Swedish
Variant of Sandén.

Zetterberg Swedish
Combination of Swedish säter "outlying meadow" and berg "mountain, hill".

Zettergren Swedish
Combination of Swedish säter "outlying meadow" and gren "branch".

Zetterlund Swedish
Combination of Swedish säter "outlying meadow" and lund "grove".

Zetterström Swedish
Combination of Swedish säter "outlying meadow" and ström "stream".

Zherdev Russian
Жердев, where 'Жердь' means 'perch'.

Zherdeva Russian
Feminine version of Zherdev

Zhi Chinese (Rare)

Zubčić Croatian
Possibly derived from zubić, meaning "small tooth".

Zucker Jewish
Occupational name for a confectioner or a nickname for someone with a sweet tooth, from German zucker or Yiddish צוקער (tsuker) both meaning "sugar". It is also used as an ornamental name.

Zuckerberg Jewish
Means "sugar mountain" from German zucker meaning "sugar" and Old High German berg meaning "mountain".

Zukin Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 頭巾 (zukin) meaning "headscarf, hood, handkerchief".

Zur Jewish
Ornamental name derived from Hebrew צור (tsur) meaning "rock".

Zurer Yiddish
Possibly a variant of Zur or Tzur. Israeli actress Ayelet Zurer (1969-) bears this name.