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

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.

Pugina Italian
Most likely derived from the feminine form of the Italian word pugno which means "fist".

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

Pulcifer Italian (Anglicized, Rare)
Possibly a variant of the surname Pulsipher.

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".

Pyeon Korean (Rare)
Meaning unknown. Approximately 15 000 koreans have this surname

Pyndt Danish (Rare)
Variant of Pynt.

Pyo Korean (Rare)
From Sino-Korean 表 (pyo) meaning "table, diagram, graph".

Pyo Korean (Rare)
From Sino-Korean 俵 (pyo) meaning "to share".

Pyon Korean

Pyoun Korean

Pyryemybida American (Rare)

Qamo Albanian
Comes from Ancient Greek.

Qandaqov Bashkir

Qandil Arabic (Egyptian)
Means "lamp, candle" in Arabic.

Qian Chinese
From Chinese 錢 (qián) meaning "money".

Quade Irish, German
As an Irish surname, it is a variant of Quaid.... [more]

Quaglia South American

Quagliarella Italian
From Italian quaglia meaning "quail".

Quaglietta Italian

Quaglio Brazilian

Quagliozzi Italian

Quán Chinese
From Chinese 泉 (quán) meaning "fountain, spring".

Quảng Vietnamese
From Sino-Vietnamese 鄺 (Kuàng).

Quanty English

Quaresima Italian
Means "lent" in Italian.

Quaresma Portuguese
Means "Lent" in Portuguese.

Quartey Western African, Ga
Ga surname of unknown meaning.

Quartney English (American, Rare)
Variant of Courtney.

Quartz German
The name refers to the common mineral "quartz"

Quash English

Quattrini Italian

Quattrociocchi Italian
From quattro ciocchi, "four logs of wood" in Italian.

Quebec Spanish (Philippines)
Habitational name for a person from the province of Quebec in Canada.

Quentin English
Derived from the given name Quentin.

Quercia Italian (Rare)
From the Latin quercus "oak".

Quian Filipino, Spanish (Latin American)

Quiapo Filipino, Cebuano
From Cebuano kiyapo meaning "water cabbage" (a type of plant), ultimately from Tamil கயப்பு (kayappu).

Quichocho Chamorro
Chamorro for "to take out from hiding"

Quicquaro Italian

Quill Irish
Quill or Quille is an anglicised version of the Irish surnames Ó Cuill, Coll, Coill, and O'Coill (Ó Coill), all of which mean wood, forest or shrub Hazel Tree... [more]

Quille Irish
Variation of Quill.

Quimpo Filipino
From Hokkien 金舖 (kim-phò͘) meaning "gold shop" or 金寳 (kim-pó) meaning "golden treasure".

Quinby English
Variant of Quenby.

Quine Manx
Shortened Anglicization of Manx Mac Vian "son of Mian".

Quinene Chamorro
Chamorro for "to take away"

Quiney English, Irish
Variant of Quinney ??

Quinley English, Scottish, Irish, Scottish Gaelic
Apparently an altered form of Scottish McKinley or a reduced form of Irish Mcquinnelly, Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coingheallaigh or Ó Coingheallaigh ‘son (or descendant) of Coingheallach’, a personal name meaning ‘faithful to pledges’.

Quinlivan Irish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Caoindealbháin meaning "descendant of Caoindealbhán", a personal name composed of caoin "comely, fair" and dealbh "form" with the diminutive suffix -án (compare Quinlan).

Quinnelly Irish

Quinney English, Irish
Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Coinne “descendant of Coinne”

Quintanilla Spanish (Latin American)

Quinteiro Galician

Quinzel Popular Culture
The actual surname of the fictional character Harley Quinn. The character first appeared in the "Batman: The Animated Series" episode "Joker's Favor" in September 1992, but her full name (Harleen Quinzel) was not revealed until the February 1994 one-shot comic "The Batman Adventures: Mad Love"... [more]

Quisumbing Filipino
Meaning unknown, probably of Hokkien origin.

Quitman English

Quittner Hungarian (?)

Quizelete Central African

Quizon Filipino
Meaning unknown, possibly from a combination of the Chinese surnames Cui and Son.

Quon Chinese

Qursawi Tatar
Derived from the Arabic word قرصة (qursa) meaning "pinch".

Raabe German
Cognate of Rabe.

Räägel Estonian
Räägel is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "raag" meaning "leafless" and "bare".

Raamat Estonian
Raamat is an Estonian surname meaning "book".

Rääsk Estonian
Rääsk is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "rääs" meaning "whale-oil".

Rabe German
German surname meaning "raven, crow".

Rabee Arabic (Egyptian)

Raben German, Dutch, Danish
Derived from Low German rauben meaning "raven".

Rabenschlag German
Means "wing beat of a raven" in German, from German Rabe meaning "raven" and Schlag meaning "flap" or "wing beat" in this context.

Rabinowicz Jewish
Polish Jewish name meaning son of rabbi from the root rabi meaning "rabbi" combined with the Polish patronymic suffix -owicz "son of"

Rabrenović Serbian

Rabusin Italian (Rare)

Rachlyn Jewish (Rare), Polish (Rare), Brazilian (Rare)
Rachlyn is a Jewish surname derived directly from polish "Rachman". This surname is very rare and apparently only few members in Brazil, descendants of Polish survivors of Holocaust.... [more]

Račić Serbian, Croatian

Racicot French

Rackers German
German (Räckers): in the Lower Rhine-Westphalia area, from a reduced form of Rädeker, itself a reduced form of Rademaker.

Rackley English
It means ‘mound’ ‘homestead’ and ‘ham’.

Radakovits Austria

Radbourn English

Radboy Iranian

Radcliffe English
Variant of Radcliff.

Radiab Filipino, Maranao
From Radiyab, the Maranao name for the seventh month of the Islamic calendar, which is ultimately derived from Arabic رَجَب (Rajab).

Radica Italian

Radjai Arabic

Radončić Bosnian

Radonjić Serbian, Montenegrin

Radoš Croatian

Radovac Croatian

Radradra Fijian

Radulay Czech (Modern)

Raftu Romanian
Raftu is a surname who was first use in Greece but now is only use in Romania, the name means ,,Bookshelf" in Romanian

Ragonesi Italian
Meaning: People Of Aragon

Ragueneau French

Raharimampionona Malagasy

Raharimanana Malagasy

Raičković Serbian, Montenegrin

Raido Japanese

Raidoh Japanese

Raidou Japanese

Raig Estonian
Raig is an Estonian surname meaning "slough" (a swamplike area)".

Raigon Spanish

Raij Spanish, Judeo-Spanish, Portuguese, Romani (Caló)
Borrowed from Hindi राइज (raij) meaning "rice". This surname is found among Christian and Jewish Caló families.

Rajaguru Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit राज (raja) meaning "king" and गुरु (guru) meaning "teacher, sage".

Rajaonarimampianina Malagasy
Hery Rajaonarimampianina was the 6th president of Madagascar

Rajapakshe Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala රාජපක්ෂ (see Rajapakse).

Rajaram Hindi

Rajasekara Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit राज (raja) meaning "king" and शेखर (shekhara) meaning "crest, peak, top".

Rajasekera Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala රාජසේකර (see Rajasekara).

Rajasinghe Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit राज (raja) meaning "king" and सिंह (sinha) meaning "lion".

Rajčić Croatian

Rajeswaran Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Malayalam, Gujarati

Rajku Albanian

Rajlić Serbian

Raju Estonian
Raju is an Estonian surname meaning "storm".

Rakestraw English

Rakhang Thai (Rare)
Means "bell, chime" in Thai.

Rakinac Croatian

Rakitić Croatian (Rare), Serbian (Rare)
Famous bearer of this surname is Croatian footballer Ivan Rakitić.

Rakočević Montenegrin

Rakotoharimalala Malagasy

Rakotomalala Malagasy

Rakotomanana Malagasy

Rakotomandimbindraibe Malagasy

Rakotondrazaka Malagasy

Rakotoson Malagasy

Rakovec Slovene

Raksat Thai

Ralefatane Pedi (Modern, Rare)

Raley English
Variant of Raleigh.

Rally Indian

Rama Albanian

Ramadani Albanian

Ramadani Arabic, Urdu, Persian
Variant of Ramadan.

Raman Arabic (Japanized)
Japanese form of Rahman.

Ramani Indian, Gujarati, Hindi, Tamil

Ramaš Croatian

Ramasamy Indian, Tamil
Variant of Ramaswamy.

Ramaswamy Indian, Tamil

Ramazan Arabic, Urdu, Persian
Variant of Ramadan.

Ramdan Persian, Urdu
Variant of Ramazani.

Ramden Arabic (Egyptian)

Ramer German

Ramiaramanana Malagasy

Rammus Estonian
Rammus is an Estonian surname meaning "fat", "nourishing" and "fertile".

Ramogi Luo
Meaning unknown.

Ramosaj Albanian

Ramp German (Swiss)
German and Swiss German: variant of Rampf, from Middle High German ramft, ranft ‘edge’, ‘wall’, ‘crust (of bread)’; applied as a topographic name for someone who lived at the limit or outer edge of some feature, for example a field, or possibly, in the sense ‘crust’, a nickname for a poor person.

Rampson English (Rare)

Ramrod English

Ramsamy Indian (Gallicized), French (African)
Contracted form of Ramasamy, found on the island of Mauritius.

Ramseyer Swiss
Note: the 'Ramseyer Song' in Switzerland

Ramsinghani Sindhi

Ramus Spanish

Ran Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 蘭 (see Araragi).

Ran Korean
North Korean form of Nan 2.

Ranan Filipino

Ranathunga Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit रण (rana) meaning "delight, pleasure, joy" or "battle, war" and तुङ्ग (tunga) meaning "high, lofty, tall".

Ranathunge Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala රණතුංග (see Ranathunga).

Ranatunga Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala රණතුංග (see Ranathunga).

Ranatunge Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala රණතුංග (see Ranathunga).

Ranaut Indian

Randale Indian

Randhawa Pakistani, Indian, Punjabi, Indian (Sikh)
Meaning unknown. This is the name of a Sikh and Jat tribe in Punjab.

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