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Tacen Spanish (Latin American)

Tackleberry Popular Culture, American (Rare)
This is a surname most notably used by Officer Eugene Tackleberry (played by the lovably hilarious David Graf) in the classic Police Academy movies of the 1980s-90s. Officer Tackleberry is a markedly boyish police officer who has a passionate adoration for guns and adventure... [more]

Tadanaga Japanese

Tadayashiki Japanese (Rare)
Combination of Kanji Characters 多 meaning "many" and 田 meaning "rice field", and 屋 and 敷, 屋敷 meaning "great house".

Taechaubol Thai (Rare)
Possibly of Chinese origin.

Tafolla Spanish
Possibly a derivative of southern Spanish tafulla, tahulla, a term denoting a measure of land. The surname is not found in present-day Spain.

Tafoya Spanish
Possibly a variant of Tafolla.

Taga Estonian
Taga is an Estonian surname meaning "behind".

Tagami Japanese

Taghap Filipino, Cebuano
Means "guess, fluke" in Cebuano.

Tagle Spanish (Philippines)
Hispanicized form of Arabic Tagri meaning "frontier."

Tagliabue Italian

Taglieri Italian

Tahanlangit Filipino, Cebuano
Variant of Tajanlangit.

Tähiste Estonian
Tähiste is an Estonian surname derived from "tähis" meaning "sign" and "symbol".

Tahovecahe Rukai

Tahya Indonesian

Tai English

Tai Chinese
Variant of Dai.

Taiani Spanish

Tail Northern African

Tailey English

Taillandier French

Tailon English

Taimanglo Chamorro
Chamorro for "without wind/breath"

Taina'an Chamorro (Modern, Rare)
Chamorro for "No name or reference".

Taisakan Chamorro (Archaic)
Chamorro for "Without year or age". Alternate form of Taisacan.

Taisen Indian

Tait English

Taitague Chamorro
Chamorro for "without meaning/essence/being "

Taite English

Taitingfong Chamorro
Means "without counting" from Chamorro tai meaning "without, not having" and tufong meaning "count".

Taitum Thai

Taiya Papuan

Taiyah Indonesian

Tajanlangit Filipino, Cebuano
From Cebuano tahan langit meaning "to surrender to heaven".

Takafuji Japanese
From Japanese 高 (taka) meaning "high" and 藤 (fuji) meaning "wisteria".

Takagami Japanese

Takahide Japanese (Rare)
Taka means "eagle" such as in surname "Takasu" but more commonly means "tall,high" instead. Hide means "fine,excellence". This must be one of the very few Japanese surnames that has "Hide" in it. It is mostly just a first name element... [more]

Takahoshi Japanese
From Japanese 高 (Taka) meaning "tall, high" and 星 (Hoshi) meaning "star" or other kanji with the same pronunciation.

Takamachi Japanese
A surname of Japanese origin. It means "high town". Notable bearers are Nanoha Takamachi from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, and Shiro and Miyuki Takamachi from Triangle Heart 3: Sweet Songs Forever.

Takamaki Japanese
From Japanese 高 (taka) meaning "tall, high" and 巻 (maki) meaning "scroll, book, roll up, tie" or 高巻 (takamaki) meaning "to detour around a waterfall"

Takamaru Japanese
This surname is used as 高丸 with 高 (kou, taka.i, taka, -daka, taka.maru, taka.meru) meaning "expensive, high, tall" and 丸 (gan, maru, maru.i, maru.meru) meaning "curl up, explain away, full, make round, month, perfection, pills, roll up, round, seduce."... [more]

Takanashi Japanese
From Japanese 高 (taka) meaning "tall, high" and 梨 (nashi) meaning "pear".

Takasu Japanese
Takasu is a surname that means "Hawk's nest". Taka alone means "hawk"(and others not used for this)and Su is the "nest".

Takasu Japanese
From Japanese 高 (taka) meaning "tall, high" and 須 (su) meaning "necessary".

Takasumi Japanese

Takataka Central African, Southern African

Tákats Hungarian

Takayasu Japanese
Taka means "tall, high" and yasu means "cheap, inexpensive, relax"

Take Albanian

Takebe Japanese

Takehara Japanese (Rare)
Take means "Bamboo" while Hara means "Plain". This surname means " Plain of the Bamboo". Takehara is also a city in Hiroshima and a railway station.

Takeno Japanese
From Japanese and 武 (take) meaning "military, martial" combined with 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".

Takezou Japanese

Taki Japanese (Rare)
Tami means "Waterfall". This is occasionally a first name too,as a matter of a fact,neither of them are common.

Takigami Japanese

Takiyama Japanese
From Japanese 滝 (taki) meaning "waterfall; rapids" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain".

Takyi Akan
Meaning unknown.

Talaba Filipino, Cebuano
Means "oyster" in Cebuano.

Talacková f Czech

Talakai Tongan

Talanoa Tongan

Talatini Various

Talavar Indian, Kannada

Talavera Spanish
Spanish: habitational name from any of several places named Talavera, especially Talavera de la Reina in Toledo province.

Talbert English, French
From a continental Germanic personal name composed of the elements tal "valley" and berth "bright".

Tal Brough Hebrew (Rare)

Taley Iranian

Talia Northern African

Taliana Maltese

Talifu Indonesian

Talil Arabic (Maghrebi)

Talingting Filipino, Cebuano
Means "sieve, plover" in Cebuano.

Talinov Russian (Rare, ?)

Talivere Estonian
Talivere is an Estonian surname meaning "winter blood".

Tall Estonian
Tall is an Estonian surname meaning both "lamb" and "stable/barn".

Tall Romansh

Tallant English (British, ?), Norman, Irish
English (of Norman origin) occupational name for a tailor or nickname for a good swordsman, from taillant ‘cutting’, present participle of Old French tailler ‘to cut’ (Late Latin taliare, from talea ‘(plant) cutting’)... [more]

Tallents English
Variant of Tallent.

Talley Irish (Anglicized)
Shortend anglicized form of Ó Taithligh.

Talley English (American)
Americanized form of Tallig.

Talli Indonesian

Tallis English

Talloran German (Modern, ?)
It is unknown whether Talloran is a real surname or not. However, the surname means "brave" and is given to James Talloran, a fictional character working for the SCP Foundation. The SCP Foundation is a secret organization that studies the paranormal... [more]

Talmus English

Talon Filipino

Ta Lou Western African

Talumets Estonian
Talumets is an Estonian surname literally meaning "farm (talu) forest (mets)"; a farmstead in or near a forest.

Talwar Indian
Sikh name based on the name of a clan in the Khatri community, derived from Panjabitəlwār ‘sword’ (Sanskrit taravāri).

Tamacas Spanish, Central American

Tamamoto Japanese, Ryukyuan, Okinawan
Of uncertain meaning.

Tamanaha Japanese

Tamang Tamang
From Tamang རྟ་དམག་ (Ta Damag) meaning "Tamang", a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group.

Tamanishi Japanese
From Japanese 玉 (Tama) meaning "jewel; ball" and 西 (Nishi) meaning "west; Spain".

Tamano Filipino, Maranao

Tamaoi Japanese (Rare)

Tamari Japanese

Tamaro Croatian

Tamasian Armenian

Tamatsuki Japanese (Rare)
This surname is used as 玉槻 with 玉 (gyoku, tama, tama-, -dama) meaning "ball, jewel" and 槻 (ki, tsuki) meaning "Zelkova tree."

Tamba Western African

Tambak Batak

Tambat Marathi
Marathi form of Tamrakar.

Tambatkar Indian
Variant of Tamrakar.

Tameishi Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 為 (tame) meaning "advantage; benefit" and 石 (ishi) meaning "stone", referring to useful stone.... [more]

Tamekiyo Japanese

Tamera Indian
Variant of Tamrakar.

Tami Japanese

Tamiko English (Canadian)

Tamirak Mon, Thai

Tamon Japanese (Rare)
This surname is used as 多門, 多聞 or 田門 with 多 (ta, oo.i, masa.ni, masa.ru) meaning "frequent, many, much", 田 (den, ta) meaning "rice field/paddy", 門 (mon, kado, to) meaning "gate" and 聞 (bun, mon, ki.ku, ki.koeru) meaning "ask, hear, listen."... [more]

Tampubolon Batak
From Batak tampuk meaning "leaf stalk, base" and bolon meaning "big, large, great".

Tamukoh Japanese

Tan English (Australian, Rare)
Possibly from the English Word "Tan", or from the Given Name Tan.

Tan Turkish
Means "dawn, daybreak" in Turkish.

Tanabata Japanese (Rare)
This surname refers to the Japanese Star Festival on July 7th.

Tanaha Indian

Tanase Romanian

Tănăsescu Romanian
Patronymic surname meaning "the son of Tănăs".

Tänav Estonian
Tänav is an Estonian surname meaning "street".

Tänavots Estonian
Tänavots is an Estonian surname meaning "street end".

Tanda African

Tander Filipino

Tandon Indian, Punjabi, Hindi
Of unknown meaning.

Taneda Japanese

Taneja Indian
This surname was apparently derived from tən‘blade of grass’ (from Sanskrit tṛna).

Tanfal German

Tangara Western African, Manding
Malian Bambara surname of unknown meaning.

Tange Japanese

Tanginoa Tongan

Tangoku Japanese

Tanguma Indigenous American (?), Mexican
Mexican surname of uncertain origin, probably Native American.

Tanguy French

Tanibuki Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 谷吹 (see Yabuki).

Tanimoto Japanese
Tani (谷) means valley, and Moto (本) means origin or base or root.

Tanis Haitian Creole

Tanji Japanese (Rare)
Rare in Japan, the name is written with characters meaning ‘red’ and ‘govern’. The actual meaning is unclear.

Tankersley English

Tanko Romanian (Americanized)
In Romania Tankó is most common in Harghita, Covasna, and Bacău counties. Tankó is also common in Hungary and Slovakia.

Tanlee American

Tannert German

Tanni Estonian

Tanno Romansh
Of debated origin and meaning; theories include a derivation from the given name Donatus.

Tannor English (African)

Tanose Japanese (Rare)

Tanović Bosnian

Tansy English

Tantalo English

Tanuma Japanese
Ta means "rice paddy, field" and Numa means "swamp, marsh".

Tapales Spanish (Philippines)

Tapavicza Hungarian

Tapier English (Australian)

Tapir Indian

Taptiklis Greek
Greek name.... [more]

Tapu Moriori
Tapu in the Moriori language means sacred. This was the surname of a 19th century Owenga Moriori leader named Hirawanu Tapu (?-1900).

Taput Belarusian

Tara Indian

Tarabay Arabic
History of this surname is unknown. A famous bearer with this last name is Nick E. Tarabay, a Lebanese-American actor.

Tarassaco Italian
Surname meaning “Dandelion” in Italian

Tarawele Manding
The original variant of Traoré.

Tarcza Polish, Hungarian
Means "shield" in Polish.

Taris Italian
Meaning unknown, probably from Sardinian.

Tarlton English

Tarmoh Western African

Tarnovschi Moldovan

Taron German
Standardized variant of Tarruhn.

Taron German (Rare)
The standardized variant of Tarruhn which has origins in the Neumark region of Brandenburg, Prussia dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries. The Taron family was one of many German families who left the Neumark region and moved eastward into present-day Poland and Ukraine... [more]

Tarot French

Tarro Estonian
Tarro is an Estonian name, possibly derived from "tare", meaning "hut".

Tarruhn German
Origins are found in Neumark, Brandenburg, Prussia.

Tarry English

Tartara Italian, French

Țăruș Romanian
From Romanian ţăruş meaning ''stake, picket''.

Tasane Estonian
Tasane is an Estonian surname meaning "flat".

Taşkın Turkish
Means "flood" in Turkish.