Submitted Surnames with 3 Syllables

Teagarden Low German
The surname Teagarden was first found in Bavaria, where the name Tiegarten was anciently associated with the tribal conflicts of the area. The name appeared in Solingen as Thegarden as early as 1374 and was recorded as Tegarden in 1488... [more]

Tedsungnoen Isan
From Thai สูงเนิน (Sung Noen) meaning "Sung Noen", a district in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.

Teitelbaum Jewish
From Yiddish טייטלבוים (teytlboym) meaning "date palm".

Tejero Spanish
Occupational Spanish surname for a tiler, its origin may be in Saragossa, Spain. A famous bearer is Antonio Tejero, a Lieutenant Colonel who was responsible for the 23-F coup attempt.

Tejima Japanese
Variant of Teshima.

Tekiji Japanese
適(Teki) means suitable, and 時(toki,ji) means Time, together 適時 (tekiji) means timely, the surname was borne from Oku Tekiji, a character from an upcoming fanganronpa, Danganronpa Twin Fates

Telišman Croatian (Rare)
Unknown origin, probably from the word "talisman"

Templeman English

Templier French
French cognate and variant of Temple, given to someone who was a member of the Templar order.

Tennohja Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōja).

Tennōja Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjiya).

Tennoja Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōja).

Tennouja Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōja).

Tenorio Spanish
Possibly a habitational name from a place called Tenorio in Pontevedra province, Spain.

Teplyakov m Russian
Possibly derived from Russian word "тёплый (tyoplyy)" meaning warm.

Terada Japanese
From Japanese 寺 (tera) meaning "Buddhist temple" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Terai Japanese
Tera means "temple" and i means "well".

Teraji Japanese
Tera means "temple" and ji means "road".

Terao Japanese
Tera means "temple" and o means "tail".

Terao Japanese
From Japanese 寺 (tera) meaning "temple" and 尾 (o) meaning "tail, foot, end".

Tercero Spanish
Means "third" in Spanish (see Tercero).

Ternovtsov m Russian

Teshima Japanese
From Japanese 手 (te) meaning "hand" and 島 or 嶋 (shima) meaning "island".

Tetsuka Japanese
Te means "hand" and tsuka means "mound, hillock".

Tetsuki Japanese
Tetsu means "iron" and ki means "tree, wood".

Tewksbury English
Derived from Tewkesbury, a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is named with the Old English given name Teodec and burg meaning "fortification".

Teymouri Persian
From the given name Teymour.

Thammavong Lao
From Lao ທຳມະ (thamma) meaning "dharma, virtue, righteousness" and ວົງ (vong) meaning "lineage, family".

Thavornvong Thai (Sanskritized, Rare)
Sanskritized transcription of Thai ถาวรวงศ์ (see Thawonwong).

Thavornvongs Thai (Rare)
Variant transcription of Thai ถาวรวงศ์ (see Thawonwong).

Thavornvongsa Thai (Rare)
Variant transcription of Thai ถาวรวงศ์ (see Thawonwong).

Thawonwong Thai (Rare)
From Thai ถาวร (thawon) meaning "permanent" and วงศ์ (wong) meaning "family".

Thawornwong Thai (Rare)
Variant transcription of Thai ถาวรวงศ์ (see Thawonwong).

Thawornwongs Thai (Rare)
Variant transcription of Thai ถาวรวงศ์ (see Thawonwong).

Thawornwongsa Thai (Rare)
Variant transcription of Thai ถาวรวงศ์ (see Thawonwong).

Theresa English, German
From the given name Theresa.

Thomasen Danish, Norwegian
Means "Son of Thomas".

Thongprasom Thai

Thongsavanh Lao
From Lao ທອງ (thong) meaning "gold" and ສະຫວັນ (savanh) meaning "heaven".

Thorbecke German
Possibly from an unknown place name meaning either "at the brook" or "Thor's stream" in German. A noteworthy bearer was the Dutch liberal statesman and prime minister Johan Rudolph Thorbecke (1798-1872), whose family was of German origin; he is best known for almost single-handedly drafting the revision of the Constitution of the Netherlands, which turned the country from an absolute monarchy into a constitutional monarchy, during the Revolutions of 1848.

Tiburcio Spanish
From the given name Tiburcio

Tiefenbrunn German
Possibly a combination of the german word “Tiefe” meaning depths, and germanic brun, meaning armor, protection

Tiensuu Finnish
Means "The road's mouth". Tien means "the road" and Suu means "mouth" in Finnish.

Tikhanchik Russian
Derived from тихо (tikho) meaning "quiet".

Tikhon'ko Russian
Means "quietly" in Russian.

Tikhonov Russian
Means "son of Tikhon".

Tillinghast English

Timmerman Dutch, Flemish
Means "carpenter" in Dutch, literally "timber man".

Timmermans Dutch, Flemish
Patronymic form of Timmerman.

Timonen Finnish
From the given name Timo 1.

Timothée French
From the given name Timothée.

Timothy English
From the given name Timothy

Tiranorr English (Rare)

Tishchenko Ukrainian (Russified)
Russified form of Tyshchenko.

Tjaluvie Paiwan

Tobías Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Jewish
From the given name Tobías.

Togami Japanese
From Japanese 十神 (togami) meaning "ten gods".

Togashi Japanese
From Japanese 富 or 冨 (tomi) meaning "abundant, rich, wealthy" and 樫 (kashi) meaning "oak".

Tognazzi Italian
From the given name Antonio. A famous bearer was Italian actor Ugo Tognazzi (1922–1990).

Toguri Japanese
From Japanese 戸 (to) meaning "door" and 栗 (kuri) meaning "chestnut".

Tokaji Japanese

Tokino Japanese
From 時 (toki) meaning "time, moment" and 野 (no) meaning "field, plain".

Tokiwa Japanese
Combination of Kanji Characters "管" meaning "Organize", and "和" meaning "Normal", "Japanese". Other combinations possible.

Tokoro Japanese
As a surname it is often spelled as to meaning "field, wilderness" and koro means "spine, road".

Tokuda Japanese
From Japanese 徳 (toku) meaning "benevolence, virtue" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Tokuma Japanese
From 徳 (toku) meaning "virtue" and 間 (ma) meaning "pause".

Toledo Spanish
Habitational name from the city of Toledo in Spain, derived from Latin Toletum of uncertain meaning.

Tolivar Asturian (Modern, Rare), English (Rare)
Variant of Tolliver. Apparently, this name may have originated in Candamo, Asturias, in the 18th (or earlier) century. The "var" last syllable may be related to "fer," and the meaning may be related to iron, e.g. iron miner, iron refiner, etc... [more]

Tolkachev m Russian
Maybe derived from the Russian word "только (tol'ko)" meaning only.

Tołwiński Polish
This indicates familial origin within the Podlachian village of Tołwin.

Tomasi Italian
From the given name Tomaso.

Tomaszek Polish
From the given name Tomasz.

Tomatsu Japanese
From the Japanese 戸 (to or do) "door," "shutter" and 松 (matsu) "pine tree."

Tomeo Italian
From a short form of the given name Bartolomeo.

Tomičić Croatian
Variant of Tomčić. Derived from Toma 2.

Tomida Japanese
Tomi means "wealth, abundance" and da comes from ta meaning "field, wilderness, plain".

Tomiie Japanese (Rare)
Tomi means "wealth, abundance, fortune" and ie means "house, home, building, family, dwelling, residence, habitation".

Tomino Japanese
Tomi means "wealth, abundance" and no means "field, plain".

Tomita Japanese
From Japanese 富 or 冨 (tomi) meaning "wealth, fortune" and 田 (ta) meaning "field".

Tommaso Italian
From the given name Tommaso.

Tomobe Japanese
Tomo means "friend" and be means "section, division".

Tomoki Japanese
From 友 (tomo) meaning "friend" and meaning 木 (ki) "tree, wood".

Tomono Japanese
Tomo can mean "friend" or "wisdom" and no means "field, wilderness".

Tomooka Japanese
Tomo means "friend" and oka means "hill".

Tomose Japanese
Tomo means "friend" and se means "ripple, current".

Tomoya Japanese
Variant of Tomotani.

Tonkinson English
Means "son of Tonkin".

Torabi Persian
From the given name Torab.

Toribio Spanish
From the given name Toribio.

Torii Japanese
From Japanese 鳥 (tori) meaning "bird" and 居 (i) meaning "seat, abode".

Torino Japanese
Tori means "bird" and no means "field, rice paddy".

Torio Japanese
Tori means "bird" and o means "tail".

Torquato Italian, Portuguese
From the given name Torquato

Toscano Italian, Spanish
Originally indicated someone who came from the region of Tuscany in central Italy.

Totaka Japanese
From Japanese 戸 (to) meaning "door" and 高 (taka) meaning "tall, high".

Totani Japanese
From 戸 (do) meaning "door", and 谷 (tani) meaning "valley".

Totsuka Japanese
From Japanese 戸 (to) meaning "door" and 塚 (tsuka) meaning "hillock, mound".

Toubiana Judeo-Spanish
Variant of Tubiana.

Tovmasian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Թովմասյան (see Tovmasyan).

Tovmassian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Armenian Թովմասյան (see Tovmasyan).

Tovmasyan Armenian
Means "son of Tovmas".

Tozaki Japanese
Variant of Tosaki.

Tozawa Japanese
From Japanese 戸 (to) meaning "door" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Tozuka Japanese
Variant of Totsuka.

Trabelsi Arabic (Maghrebi)
Habitational name for someone originally from the city of Tripoli in Libya from Arabic طَرَابُلُس (ṭarābulus). The city's name ultimately comes from Ancient Greek Τρίπολις (Trípolis) meaning "three cities", from τρι- (tri-) meaning "three" and πόλις (pólis) meaning "city".

Trabelssi Arabic (Maghrebi)
Alternate transcription of Trabelsi.

Trachtenberg German, Jewish
Could mean either mean "mountain of thoughts", from Yiddish trakhtn (טראַכטן) "to think" and berg "mountain" or "mountain of costumes", from German tracht "to wear, carry" and berg "mountain"... [more]

Trajkoska f Macedonian
Feminine form of Trajkoski.

Trajkoski m Macedonian
Means "son of Trajko".

Traoré Western African, Manding
Francization of Manding Tarawele, which is of uncertain etymology. It was originally used by 13th-century Malian warrior Tiramakhan and possibly means "going to call it".

Treviño Spanish
Habitational name from either of the places so named in the provinces of Burgos and Santander, possibly derived from Latin trifinium "place where three boundaries meet".

Trevisan Italian
From the city of Treviso, in Veneto.

Trezeguet French
Meaning uncertain, possibly an occupational name derived from Old French treize, treze meaning "thirteen" and guet (itself from Old French gué) meaning "look-out, watch, vigil"... [more]

Trinidad Filipino, Spanish
Means "trinity" in Spanish, referring to the Holy Trinity.

Tripoli Italian
Habitational name from Tripoli in Libya, a place name of Greek origin meaning "triple city", from the elements τρι- (tri-) "three, thrice" and πόλις (polis) "city".

Tristano Italian
From the given name Tristano.

Troedsson Swedish
Means "son of Troed".

Trofimov Russian
Means "son of Trofim".

Trubnikov m Russian

Truedsson Swedish
Means "son of Trued".

Trzonowski Polish
This indicates familial origin within the Lesser Polish village of Trzonów.

Tsaoussis Greek (Anglicized, Modern, Rare)
From the Greek meaning "peacock"

Tsarfati Judeo-Spanish
Variant of Sarfati.

Tsaritsyn Russian
From a former name of the Russian city of Volgograd that was used from 1589 to 1925. The name is from Царица (Tsaritsa), a small river and a tributary of the Volga, which was probably derived from Tatar сары су (sary su) meaning "yellow water".

Tsarnaev Chechen (Rare)
Meaning uncertain, possibly from Chechen царна (tsarna) meaning "them, they" or from an unknown given name or nickname. This is the surname of brothers Tamerlan (1986-2013) and Dzhokhar (1993-) Tsarnaev, the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing.

Tselikov m Russian

Tsikunib Circassian (Russified)
Derived from Adyghe цӏыкӏу (c̣əḳ°) meaning "little" and ныбэ (nəbă) meaning "stomach, belly".

Tsitovich Belarusian, Russian
Means "son of Tsit".

Tsubame Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 燕 (Tsubame) meaning "Tsubame", the name of a city in the prefecture of Niigata in Japan.

Tsuboi Japanese
From Japanese 坪 (tsubo) referring to a traditional unit of length or 壺 or 壷 (tsubo) meaning "container, pot, jar" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine".

Tsuchida Japanese
From the Japanese 土 (tsuchi) "earth," "soil," 槌 (tsuchi) "mallet" or 津 (tsu) "harbour" and 知 (chi) "wisdom," "intellect" and 田 (da or ta) "rice paddy" or 多 (da or ta) "many."

Tsuchii Japanese
A variant reading of Doi.

Tsudzuki Japanese
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 仲 (see Naka).

Tsudzumi Japanese (Rare)
This surname is used as either 鼓 or 都積 with 鼓 (ko, tsudzumi) meaning "beat, drum, muster, rouse", 都 (tsu, to, miyako) meaning "capital, metropolis" and 積 (seki, tsu.mu, tsu.mori, tsu.moru, -dzu.mi) meaning "acreage, amass, contents, load, pile, up, stack, volume."... [more]

Tsudzuri Japanese (Rare)
This surname is be used as 綴 (getsu, tei, techi, tetsu, sumi.yaka, tsudzuri, tsudzu.ru, to.jiru) meaning "bind (books), compose, spell, write."... [more]

Tsugaru Japanese (Rare)

Tsugaru Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 津軽 (Tsugaru) meaning "Tsugaru", a former district in parts of present-day Aomori, Japan, in the former Japanese province of Mutsu.

Tsugue Japanese
Tsu means "harbor, seaport", gu comes from ku meaning "longevity, long time ago", and e means "family, house, residence".

Tsuguno Japanese
Tsugu means "inherit, sucession" and no means "field, wilderness".

Tsujita Japanese
From the Japanese 辻 (tsuji) "{road} crossing" and 田 (ta or da) "rice paddy."

Tsukada Japanese
From Japanese 塚 (tsuka) meaning "hillock, mound" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Tsukamoto Japanese
From Japanese 塚 (tsuka) meaning "mound, hillock" or 柄 (tsuka) meaning "design, pattern" or "handle, hilt" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Tsukasa Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 宰務 (see Saimu).

Tsukasa Japanese
From Japanese 司 (tsukasa) meaning "official; director; manager".... [more]

Tsukasa Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 塚 (tsuka) meaning "mound; hillock; tumulus" and 狭 (sa) meaning "narrow; small", referring to a cramped up area with a small hill.

Tsukata Japanese

Tsukida Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 舂田 (see Tsukita).

Tsukimi Japanese
From 月 (tsuki) meaning "moon, month" and 見 (mi) meaning "outlook, view, mindset". ... [more]

Tsukita Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 舂 (tsuki), from 舂き (tsuki), the continuative form of 舂く (tsuku) meaning "to grind with a mortar" and 田 (ta) meaning "rice paddy field", referring to a rice paddy field where they would grind grain with mortars.

Tsukune Japanese (Rare)
Possibly from 築 (tsuku) meaning "construction, building" and 根 (ne) meaning "root, basis, foundation".

Tsumiki Japanese
Tsu could mean "harbor, seaport", mi could mean "sign of the snake, ego, I, myself" and ki means "tree, wood".

Tsumura Japanese
From Japanese 津 (tsu) meaning "port, harbour" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Tsunami Japanese
From Japanese 津 (tsu) meaning "port, harbour" and 波 (nami) meaning "wave".

Tsunemi Japanese
Tsune can mean "constant" or "always" and mi means "see, outlook, viewpoint" .

Tsunoi Japanese
From the Japanese 角 (tsuno) "horn" and 井 (i) "well."

Tsurube Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Kinoshi.

Tsuruga Japanese
From Japanese 敦 (tsuru) meaning "kindness, honesty" and 賀 (ga) meaning "congratulations". Other combinations of kanji characters can also form this name.

Tsuruki Japanese
From Japanese 鶴 (tsuru) "crane (bird)" and 木 (ki) "tree, wood".

Tsuruta Japanese
Tsuru means "crane, stork" and ta means "rice paddy, field".

Tsuruta Japanese
From Japanese 鶴 (tsuru) meaning "crane (bird)" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Tsutsumi Japanese
From the Japanese 堤 (tsutsumi) "{river}bank."

Tsuyuki Japanese
From Japanese 露 (tsuyu) meaning "dewdrop" and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".

Tsuzuki Japanese
From the Japanese 都 (tsu) "metropolis," "capital" and 築 (zuki) "since construction."

Tsuzuki Japanese
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 仲 (see Tsudzuki).

Tsuzumi Japanese

Tsytovich Belarusian, Russian
Variant of Tsitovich.

Tubiana Judeo-Spanish
From a variant of the given name Tobiah.

Tuckerton English
Derived from Old English tucian meaning "offend, torment", and tun "enclosure, yard".

Tufano Italian

Tumacder Filipino, Ilocano
Derived from Ilocano tumakder meaning "to stand, to rise up".

Turgaev Russian, Kazakh

Türkoğlu Turkish
Means "son of a Turk" in Turkish.

Turturro Italian, Sicilian
Metonymic occupational name for a groom (a person employed to take care of horses), derived from Sicilian turturo, (ultimately from Italian tortoro) meaning "straw, hay, plait used for strapping horses"... [more]

Tuscano Spanish (Philippines)
Habitational name for a person from the province of Tuscany in Italy.

Tütüncü Turkish
Occupational name for a grower or seller of tobacco, from Turkish tütün meaning "tobacco".

Tuulinen Finnish
Derived from Finnish tuuli meaning "wind".

Twardowski Polish
This indicates familial origin within any of 3 Greater Polish villages: 2 named Twardowo or 1 named Twardów.

Tyshchenko Ukrainian

Tzarfati Judeo-Spanish
Variant of Sarfati.

Uceda Spanish
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous Manchego municipality.

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".

Uchima Japanese
From Japanese 内 (uchi) meaning "inside" and 間 (ma) meaning "among, between".

Uchino Japanese
From (uchi) meaning "inside" and 野 (no) meaning "field, plain".

Uchita Japanese

Ud'yarov m Russian

Ueki Japanese
From Japanese 植 (ue) meaning "plant" and 木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood".

Uenosono Japanese
From 上 (ue) meaning "top, upper, above", ノ or の (no) being a possessive particle, and 園 (sono) meaning "garden, plantation, orchard".

Ueshita Japanese
Ue means "upper, top, above" and shita means "below, under".

Ueta Japanese
Variant transcription of Ueda.

Uğurlu Turkish
Means "lucky, successful" in Turkish.

Ukai Japanese
From Japanese 鵜 (u) meaning "cormorant (a type of bird)" and 飼 (kai) meaning "domesticate, raise".

Ukiyo Japanese (Rare)
From 浮世 (ukiyo) meaning "fleeting life, floating world​," referring to the urban lifestyle, especially the pleasure-seeking aspects, of Edo period (1603-1868) Japan.... [more]

Ulisse Italian
From the given name Ulisse.

Ulvaeus Swedish (Rare)
Allegedly a latinization of Ulfsäter, a combination of Swedish ulv "wolf" and säter "mountain pasture". Björn Ulvaeus (b. 1945) is a Swedish songwriter, composer and former member of ABBA.

Ulyanov Russian
Means "son of Ulyan". A notable bearer was Vladimir Ulyanov (1870-1924), a Russian revolutionary better known as Vladimir Lenin.

Umabe Japanese
From Japanese 馬部 (umabe), a shortened word for 馬飼部 (umakaibe) meaning "horse feeding department".

Umali Filipino, Tagalog
Meaning uncertain.

Umarov Uzbek, Kazakh, Chechen, Avar, Kumyk, Dargin, Tajik, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani
Means "son of Umar".

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

Umeno Japanese
Ume means "plum" and no means "field, wilderness, plain".

Umetsu Japanese

Umezu Japanese

Umezu Japanese
From Japanese 梅 (ume) meaning "apricot, plum" and 津 (zu) meaning "port, harbour".

Umpiérrez Spanish
Means "son of Umpierro" in Spanish. The medieval given name Umpierro is of uncertain meaning.

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.

Unagi Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 鰻 (unagi) meaning "eel".

Unagi Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 宇 (u) meaning "eaves; roof; house; building" or "whole world; universe" and 梛 (nagi) meaning "nageia nagi".

Unaki Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 宇那木 (see Unagi 2).

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".

Untalan Pangasinan, Tagalog

Únzaga Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Untzaga.

Unzueta Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Untzueta.

Upadhyay Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Nepali
Derived from Sanskrit उपाध्याय (upadhyaya) meaning "teacher".

Urai Japanese
Ura means "seacoast, bay" and i means "well, pit, mineshaft".

Urata Japanese
From Japanese 浦 (ura) meaning "bay, inlet" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Urbana Belarusian, Ukrainian, Russian (Rare), Italian, Spanish
Feminine form of Urban.

Urbano Italian, Spanish
From the given name Urbano.

Urquiaga Basque (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Urkiaga.

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.

Usami Japanese

Usami Japanese
From Japanese 宇 (u) meaning "house, eaves, roof", 佐 (sa) meaning "help, aid" and 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful".

Usanza Italian (Rare)
"custom, customary" Italian

Ushakov m Russian
Derives from Russian word "уша (usha)" meaning ear.

Ushida Japanese
From Japanese 牛 (ushi) meaning "cow" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

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

Usuda Japanese

Usui Japanese

Usui Japanese
From Japanese 臼 (usu) meaning "millstone, mortar" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".

Usui Japanese
From Japanese 碓 (usu) meaning "pestle" and 井 (i) meaning "well, mine shaft, pit".

Utada Japanese

Utsugi Japanese
Utsugi can be written in 15 ways, them being: 宇ツ木, 宇次, 宇津城, 宇津木, 宇都城, 宇都木, 卯都木, 卯木, 空木, 槍, 打木, 梼木, 楊盧木, 擣木, 棯. The 宇津木 and 打木 are also place names while 空木 is also a female given name... [more]

Uvalle Spanish (Latin American)

Uyanık Turkish
Means "awake, watchful, vigilant" in Turkish.

Uyeta Japanese
Variant transcription of Ueta.

Uzaki Japanese, Popular Culture
From Japanese, 宇 (u) meaning "world, universe, space" combined with 崎 (zaki) meaning "cape, peninsula". A fictional bearer of this surname is Hana Uzaki (宇崎 花) from Uzaki~chan Wants to Hang Out! (宇崎ちゃんは遊びたい！).

Uzeta Basque

Vaandrager Dutch
Means "flag-bearer, ensign" in Dutch, from vaan "banner, vane, flag" and drager "carrier, bearer".

Václavík Czech, Slovak
Václavík is nickname for Slavic name Václav.

Vaddhana Thai (Sanskritized)
Sanskritized transcription of Thai วัฒนา (see Watthana).

Vaišutis m Lithuanian (Rare)
Diminutive of Vaišys.

Vakhayev Chechen
Alternate transcription of Chechen Вахаев (see Vakhaev).

Vakili Persian
Derived from Persian وکیل (vakil) meaning "lawyer, attorney".

Vakulov m Russian

Valadez Asturian, Spanish, Mexican
Asturian-Leonese variant of Valdez.

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]

Valentim Portuguese
From the given name Valentim.

Valentín Spanish, Slovak
From the given name Valentín.

Valentyn Ukrainian
From the given name Valentyn.

Valera Spanish
Habitational name from either of two places in Spain named Valera.

Valezze Spanish
Variant of Valez

Valgañón Spanish
This indicates familial within the eponymous Riojan municipality.

Valkonen Finnish
From Finnish valkoinen meaning "white" and the suffix -nen.

Vallejo Spanish
Denoted someone who lived in a small valley.

Valodźka Belarusian
Derived from a diminutive form Valodźka of the Belarusian given name Uladzimir.

Van Berkel Dutch
Means "from Berkel", the name of several villages derived from berk "birch tree" and lo "forest clearing".

Van Boxtel Dutch
Means "from Boxtel" in Dutch, the name of a town in North Brabant, Netherlands, derived from Middle Dutch buk "buck, roebuck, hart" and stelle "stable, safe residence".

Van Bronckhorst Dutch
Means "from Bronckhorst", a town in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands, itself derived from Dutch brink meaning "edge, slope, village green" and horst meaning "overgrown hillock" or "higher located brushwood"... [more]

Vancouver Dutch (Anglicized)
Variant of Van Coevorden, meaning "from the cow ford".

Van Den Bosch Dutch
Means "from De Bosch" or "from the woods", derived from Middle Dutch bosch "forest, wood".

Van Der Burg Dutch
A toponymic surname meaning "from the fortress, stronghold" in Dutch.

Van Der Kooi Dutch
Means "from the pen", derived from Dutch kooi "cage", given to someone who owned a duck decoy field for hunting, or who came from a place named after one.

Van Der Laan Dutch
Means "from the lane" in Dutch.

Van Der Leij Dutch
Derived from Dutch lei meaning "slate" (effectively meaning "from the slate"), indicating that the original bearer of this name may have come from a place where slate was produced.

Vanderley English
Variant of Van Der Leij.

Van der Plas Dutch
Means "from the pool" in Dutch, derived from plas "pool, puddle, pond; body of stagnant water".

Vanderpool Dutch (Americanized)
Variant form of Van Der Poel.

Vander Woude Dutch, Frisian, West Frisian
Means "from the woods" or "from the forest".

Van De Ven Dutch
Habitational name of someone from any of multiple place in the Netherlands named Ven or Venne, derived from Dutch ven "mere, fen, small lake" or the older form venne "mire, bog, wetland".

Van Dongen Dutch
Means "from Dongen", a village in North Brabant, Netherlands, derived from donk "sandy hill (in marshy area)".

Van Egmond Dutch
Means "from Egmond" in Dutch, the name of a town and former municipality in North Holland. The toponym is possibly derived from heeg-munde (or hecmunda) meaning "enclosed fortress".

Van Halen Dutch
Habitational name for a person from the villages Hoog en Laaghalen in the Dutch province of Drenthe or Halen near Hasselt in Belgian Limburg. Famous bearers include Dutch-born American musicians Eddie Van Halen (1955-2020) and his brother Alex Van Halen (1953-) of the rock band Van Halen... [more]

Vanhalen Dutch
Variant of Van Halen.

Van Helmond Dutch
Means "from Helmond" in Dutch, a municipality in Southern Netherlands, of unknown etymology. It could derived from the Dutch dialectal hel "low-lying" and Old Dutch munte "hill, place of refuge during flooding".

Van Helsing Dutch (Rare)
Habitational name that can derive from any of several locations. It is most famously used by the fictional character Abraham Van Helsing in Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, in which case it may be invented.

Van Hertrooij Dutch
Means "from Hertrooij", most likely a place name in the Netherlands. It could possibly derive from Middle Dutch hert meaning "deer" and rood meaning "red".

Van Hertrooy Dutch
Variant of Van Hertrooij.

Van Keulen Dutch
Means "from Cologne" in Dutch, the name of a city in western Germany.

Van Kooten Dutch
Habitational name from any of several places called Koten or Kooten, derived from Middle Dutch cote "cottage, hut, barn".

Van Lieshout Dutch
Variant of Lieshout.

Van Mierlo Dutch
Means "from Mierlo", a village in the Netherlands. Likely derived from a compound of Old Dutch *mier "swamp" and lo "light forest".

Vannavong Lao
From Lao ວັນນະ (vanna) meaning "color, caste" and ວົງ (vong) meaning "lineage, family".

Vannebo Norwegian
Taken from the farm Vanebu, spelled Vannebo in pre-1950 records. From the Norwegian words vann, meaning water, and bo, meaning to live or reside.

van Niekerk Afrikaans
Topographic name for any of the various locations named Nieuwerkerk in The Netherlands or Nieuwerkerken in Belgium. The name itself means "of the new church" from Dutch van meaning "of" combined with nieuw meaning "new" and kerk meaning "church".

Van Persie Dutch
Means "from Persia", most likely derived from the name of a house that traded in Persian goods. Alternatively, it might derive from Perche, a former province in France.

Van Poortvliet Dutch
Variant form of Poortvliet.

Van Tilburg Dutch
Means "from Tilburg" in Dutch, the name of a city in North Brabant, Netherlands, derived from Old Dutch tilli "newly cultivated land" and burg "fortress, fortified settlement, citadel".

Van 't Schip Dutch
Means "from the ship", derived from Middle Dutch schip literally meaning "ship". It is borne by the Dutch-Canadian former soccer player John van 't Schip (1963-).

Varadkar Indian, Hindi, Marathi
Derived from the name of the village of Varad in the Sindhudurg district in Maharashtra, India. A famous bearer is the Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar (1979-).

Varaksa Belarusian

Vardanian Armenian
Alternate transcription of Vardanyan.

Vartanyan Armenian
Variant transcription of Vardanyan.

Vasershteyn Yiddish
It literally means "water stone".

Vasilov Bulgarian, Russian
Meaning "son of Vasil" in Russian and "from Bulgaria" in Bulgarian.

Vaŭkovič Belarusian
Patronymic surname derived from Belarusian воўк (voŭk) meaning "wolf".

Vavilov m Russian

Velichko Russian
Derived from Russian великий (velikiy) meaning "great".

Velikiy m Russian
Means great in Russian.

Velikov m Russian
Derived from Russian word "великий (velikiy)" meaning "great".