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Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.

Ponscarme French

Pontelandolfo Italian

Ponticelli Italian

Pontikakis Greek (Rare)

Pontine French

Ponyiam Thai
Alternate transcription of Thai พลเยี่ยม (see Phonyiam).

Poo Chinese

Pool Romansh
Derived from the given name Pol.

Poopedi South African (Rare)

Poot Estonian
Poot is an Estonian surname meaning "boat", derived from the German "boot" ("boat").

Popalzai Pashto
Meaning unknown, possibly derived from Persian پوپل‎‎ (pupal) meaning "betel nut". The Popalzai are a Pashtun sub-tribe of the Durrani in Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan.

Popcorn Hebrew

Popi Bengali

Popoca Aztec, Nahuatl
From Nahuatl meaning "to smoke".

Popoola Yoruba
"The way of the rich man" or "The way of prosperity"

Popopov Russian

Popper English

Poquiz Filipino

Poraykoshitz Russian (Rare)

Porcellini English

Porciello Italian

Porco Italian

Pork Estonian
Pork is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "põrkama" meaning to "bound", "strike", and "bump". bounce, spring

Porko Finnish
Meaning uncertain, possibly derived from Finnish poro meaning "reindeer".

Porquet French

Porta Romansh
Derived from Romansh porta "door".

Portilla Spanish
Variant of Portillo.

Portillo Spanish
Meaning unknown.

Portis English (American)
A famous bearer is the American basketball player Bobby Portis (1995-).

Portman English
Status name meaning "townsman, burgher, citizen" in Middle English, derived from Old English port "port, harbour" (from Latin portus) and mann "person, man".

Portrey Jewish
Origin uncertain. Perhaps an altered form of Jewish Portnoy of North German Portner.

Porziņģis Latvian
Unknown. A notable bearer of this surname is NBA player Kristaps Porziņģis.

Potemkin Russian
A Russian surname which derives from the word "Потёмка" (Potyomka) meaning "dark". People bearing the name Potemkin rose to prominence in Muscovy from the 16th century onwards.

Poulson English
Variant of Poulsen.

Powale Indian, Marathi
Meaning unknown, of Marathi or Konkani origin.

Powlesland English

Powyes English
Unknown source. Surname of many early American pilgrims.

Poya Afghan

Poydessus French, Basque

Pöyhönen Finnish
Of uncertain etymology. Features the nen suffix commonly found in surnames of Savo-Karelian origin.

Poyraz Turkish
Means "north wind" in Turkish, of Greek origin.

Pozvolska Russian

Pozza Italian

Pozzo Italian

Prada Italian, South American

Pradel Italian
From Italian prato, "feild, meadow" (see Prato 1)... [more]

Prader Romansh

Pradervand French (Swiss)

Pradham English

Pradl Hungarian, German (Austrian)
Meaning unknown. Possibly originating somewhere in Hungary.

Prado Spanish

Praks Estonian
Praks is an Estonian surname meaning to "crack or "snap".

Prants Estonian
Prants is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "prantsuse" meaning French, or "prantsti/prantsatus" meaning to "slam" and "bang". Could also derived from "prints" meaning "prince".

Pratl Hungarian
Possible variant of Pradl.

Pravda Russian
Pravda translates into English as “Truth”.

Pravdo Russian
Alt spelling of Russian newspaper Pravda

Preacher Scottish

Precha Thai

Precht German
Variant of Brecht.

Precio Spanish (Latin American)
From Spanish meaning "price".

Precious English, Irish

Prela Albanian

Preldžić Bosnian

Premachandra Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit प्रेम (prema) meaning "love, affection" and चन्द्र (chandra) meaning "moon".

Premadasa Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit प्रेम (prema) meaning "love, affection" and दास (dasa) meaning "servant, slave".

Premakumara Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit प्रेम (prema) meaning "love, affection" and कुमार (kumara) meaning "boy, prince".

Premarathna Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala ප්‍රේමරත්න (see Premaratne).

Premarathne Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala ප්‍රේමරත්න (see Premaratne).

Premaratna Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala ප්‍රේමරත්න (see Premaratne).

Premaratne Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit प्रेम (prema) meaning "love, affection" and रत्न (ratna) meaning "jewel, treasure".

Premasinghe Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit प्रेम (prema) meaning "love, affection" and सिंह (sinha) meaning "lion".

Premasiri Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit प्रेम (prema) meaning "love, affection" and श्री (shri) meaning "diffusing light, radiance, splendour, beauty".

Premawardana Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit प्रेम (prema) meaning "love, affection" and वर्धन (vardhana) meaning "increasing, growing".

Premawardena Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala ප්‍රේමවර්ධන (see Premawardana).

Premawardhana Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala ප්‍රේමවර්ධන (see Premawardana).

Preminger Jewish
Meaning unknown, possibly a nickname for a person deported to Spain, derived from the name of a location in Portugal.

Prett English
Variant of Pratt.

Prettyman English (American)

Preve Italian
Derives from the Latin "presbyter" with the meaning of "Older". Abundant in the Piedmont region.

Prevedini Italian (Rare), Spanish (Rare)

Prevljak Bosnian

Prevost Romansh
Cognate of Prévost.

Prey Irish
Variant of O'prey.

Price Irish, Northern Irish
The translated form of the surname O'Luachain, of the Hy-Neill septs of Ulster.

Pricop Romanian

Pridmore English
unexplained; perhaps a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place. Pridmore has long been a Leicestershire name.

Priidel Estonian
Priidel is an Estonian surname derived from "prii" meaning "free".

Prill German

Primavera Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Means "spring (the season)" in Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Primeaux French

Princeton English

Princew South African

Princewil Nigerian
Variant of Princewill.

Princewill Nigerian

Princewilliam English

Princewilliheme Nigerian

Princewilll Nigerian
Variant of Princewill.

Princewin Nigerian

Princewiskerchen English

Princewiu Nigerian

Princewlii Nigerian

Princewll Nigerian

Princewomeodu Nigerian

Prix German (Austrian)

Prljača Bosnian

Probst German, Swiss

Procell English

Procelle Louisiana Creole (Rare)
Variant of Procell.

Procopio Italian
Italian (Calabria) and Greek (Prokopios): from the personal name Procopio, Greek Prokopios, from pro ‘before’, ‘in front’ + kopē ‘cut’, actually an omen name meaning ‘success’, ‘prosperity’ but as a Church name taken to mean ‘pioneer’ as it was the name of the first victim of Diocletian's persecutions in Palestine in AD 303... [more]

Prodan Romanian
Means "foster."

Prodanović Serbian
Means "son of Prodan".

Profitendieu Literature
Used by André Gide in his novel "The Counterfeiters."

Prograis French Creole, Louisiana Creole

Prohens Spanish

Prokuski Polish
Polish in origin with history in America since at least the early 1900s

Promes Dutch (Surinamese)

Promsatitkul Thai

Proode Estonian
Proode is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "pruudi", meaning "bridal".

Prööm Estonian
Prööm is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "krööm" meaning "grain".

Prosie Romanian

Pross German
Variant of "Prosser"

Protasiewicz Polish (Rare)

Protić Serbian

Proud English

Provencher French
From the French word for the flower periwinkle. (pervenche) Brought to Canada from France in 1660 by Sebastien Provencher.

Prue English, French
English: nickname for a redoubtable warrior, from Middle English prou(s) ‘brave’, ‘valiant’ (Old French proux, preux).... [more]

Prusaczyk Polish
means son of Eric

Prussia Prussian

Pruus Estonian
Pruus is an Estonian surname, possibly a corruption of "pruss" meaning "beam" and "timber".

Pruvost French, French (Swiss), French (Belgian)

Pryimak Ukrainian
In Ukrainian means 'adoptee'

Prytz Swedish, Norwegian
Swedish and Norwegian surname, possibly of German origin.

Przepiórka Polish
It literally means "quail".

Przychodzeń Polish
There isn't any significant history so far.

Psaila Maltese
Derived from Maltese basla meaning "onion", ultimately from Arabic بَصَل (baṣal).

Psaki Greek (Americanized)
Derived from the Greek surname Ψάκης (Psakis), of uncertain etymology.

Psychos Greek

Psyllos Greek
Means "flea" in Greek.

Psymon Eastern African

Psyroukis Greek

Pták Czech
Czech surname meaning "bird".

Ptak Polish
Polish surname meaning "bird".

Ptashy Russian

Puavaranukroh Thai

Puccio Italian

Pucuhuaranga South American, Indigenous American

Pudar Bosnian

Pudge English

Puetz German
Variant of Putz.

Puff Popular Culture
This is the surname of Mrs. Puff from SpongeBob SquarePants.

Puhalák Hungarian

Puhanic Korean

Puhar Serbian (Modern, Rare)
The last name of the contestant Mirjana Puhar from America's Next Top Model, who originally was born in Serbia. She died on February 24, 2015, aged 19 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Puhata German (Rare)

Puka Albanian

Pukki Finnish
The Finnish word for a male goat.

Pukl Czech

Pula Albanian

Pulev Bulgarian

Pulinario Spanish (Latin American)

Pulis Maltese

Pulitano English

Pulk Estonian
Pulk is an Estonian surname meaning "peg".

Pullman German
Variant of Puhlmann, itself a variant of Puhl.... [more]

Pultz Jewish

Pulu Indonesian

Pumbaya Filipino, Maranao

Pumupula Filipino
meaning "getting reddish"

Punay Filipino, Cebuano
Means "yellow-breasted fruit dove" or "pink-necked green pigeon" (both species of bird) in Cebuano.

Pünchera Romansh

Pung Korean
From Sino-Korean 馮 (pung) meaning "fast running horse".

Punga Maori
The name means "reason, cause, origin". Punga is the name of the daughter of Ra (Sun) and his spouse Tame. This was the name of Ngati Mutunga chief Apitea Punga (1827?-1885) who had Moriori slaves and was a big land owner... [more]

Punkin Ukrainian

Punn Estonian
Punn is an Estonian surname meaning "cork" and "plug".

Punpee Thai

Puntila Finnish
Borne by the title character in Bertolt Brecht's play 'Mr. Puntila and his Man Matti' (1948), set in Finland in the 1920s.

Purdom English
English: metathesized variants of Prudhomme; the -ru- reversal is a fairly common occurrence in words where -r- is preceded or followed by a vowel.

Purdum English
Variant spelling of English Purdom.

Purefoy English

Pürevdorj Mongolian

Purfatemi Iranian

Pürg Estonian
Pürg is an Estonian surname derived from "pürg" meaning both "avidity (eagerness or enthusiasm") and a colloquial name for the European bison ("Bison bonasus").

Purge Estonian
Purge is an Estonian surname derived "purk" meaning "can" and "purgis" meaning "canned".

Purić Serbian, Croatian

Purificacion Spanish (Philippines)
Derived from Spanish purificación, meaning "purification," referring to the ritual purification of the Virgin Mary after her childbirth.

Purisima Spanish (Philippines)
Derived from Spanish purísima meaning "most pure."

Puro Finnish (Rare)
From the Finnish word puro, meaning "a brook".

Purohit Indian
Purohit means ‘one placed foremost’.

Purrfect English

Purrford English

Pușcaș Romanian
Cognate of Puskás.

Pushkin Russian
Derived from Russian пушка (pushka) meaning "gun, cannon". A notable bearer was Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), a Russian poet and writer.

Pusić Croatian

Puspowijoyo Javanese

Putenis Latvian
Means "blizzard".

Pütt Estonian
Pütt is an Estonian surname meaning "tub" and "cask".

Püvi Estonian
Püvi is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "puuvili" meaning "fruit".

Puymartin French

Puž Croatian
Means ''snail''.

Pužek Croatian (Rare)
From puž meaning ''snail''.

Pužić Croatian (Rare)
From puž meaning ''snail''.

Puzigaća Serbian

Py French

Pyatkov Russian
Possibly from "pyat", meaning "five".