South African Submitted Surnames

ALBOROUGH South African

BAARD Afrikaans

BADENHORST Afrikaans

BASIE South African

BEKKER Afrikaans
bekker is a regional form of Dutch bakker which means Baker

BOK South African

BUYS Afrikaans (Modern)
South Africa, Pretoria

CILLIËRS Afrikaans
Brought to South Africa by settlers of French decent some time in the past 300 years. Sometimes also a given name for boys.

COBBLEDICK South African, English

COETZEE Afrikaans

COKO South African

DE BEER Afrikaans
De Beer is a Dutch and Afrikaans surname, meaning "the bear"

DE BRUYN Afrikaans
"Bruyn" is an archaic spelling of "bruin", meaning "brown"

DE KOCK Afrikaans
Means "The Cook"

DLAMINI South African, Swazi

DUBE Ndebele, Zulu
It means Zebra. It is usually a surname instead of a person's name used by Zimbabwean Ndebele people and South African Zulu people.... [more]

DU PLESSIS Afrikaans, French Creole, French (Cajun), French (Huguenot)
French topographic name for someone who lived by a quickset fence, Old French pleis (from Latin plexum past participle of plectere ‘plait’, ‘weave’), with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’... [more]

DUPLOOY South African

ENGELBRECHT Afrikaans
The name Engelbrecht has multiple translations, including "Angle Glorious" and "Bright Angel".

FOURIE Afrikaans
Originates from French Huguenot settlers

HESOM South African

KAT Dutch, Frisian, Afrikaans, Jewish
Means "Cat" in Dutch, Frisian, and Afrikaans, perhaps originally a nickname for someone who owned a cat or somehow resembled a cat.

KELLERMAN South African

KHUMALO Zulu, Ndebele, South African
Zulu and Ndebele clan name meaning "descendant of the fish tribe".

KOTTON South African

KOTZE Afrikaans

KUMALO Zulu, Ndebele, South African
Variant of KHUMALO.

LETESHA South African

LOUW Afrikaans
Louw is a surname that has pre 7th century Germanic origins. It is a Dutch/Flemish variant on the word Lowe, meaning Lion.

LUTER South African

MALAN Afrikaans

MARÉ French, Afrikaans

MAREE Afrikaans, French, English

MASHASHANE Ndebele (Rare), Pedi (Rare)

MASONDO Southern African, Zulu
Derived from Zulu amasondo meaning "wheels".

MINI South African

MOOLMAN Afrikaans

MOPANTOKOBOGO Zulu
From Zulu meaning "big man".

NAIDOO South African, Indian (Expatriate)
Variant of Naidu used by South Africans of Indian descent.

NALA South African

NKOSI South African

NTSIMANGO African, South African

NUNES South African (Anglicized, Archaic, Expatriate)
An English South African Surname.

OLWAGEN Afrikaans

OOSTHUIZEN South African
Came from a village in the Dutch province of North Holland.

PHUKUNTSI Tswana, Sotho
This surname has multilayered meanings... [more]

PRINCEW South African

PRINSLOO Afrikaans
Prinsloo is an Afrikaans surname. The name is derived from the dutch word Prins (meaning prince), and a loo suffix meaning clearing in the forest. Variant spellings include Prinzloo and Prinslo.

RAJKOOMAR Mauritian Creole, South African
Variant of Rajkumar used by Mauritian and South African Indians.

SEMENYA South African

SINCADU South African (Rare)
Mzimkhulu, Bhaca

SIPOYO South African

SNYMAN Afrikaans
Afrikaans version of the German surname SCHNEIDER, which is German for tailor.

THERON Southern African, Afrikaans, Occitan
Habitational name for someone from any of various locations in Occitanie named Théron or Thérond, ultimately from Latin torus meaning "elevation, height, embankment". A famous bearer is South African and American actress Charlize Theron (1975-).

TSHABALALA African, Zulu, South African
Means "shooting star"

VAN DER MERWE Dutch, South African
While the name is currently very common in South Africa, it originates in Holland, literally meaning "From the Merwe". The first van der Merwes hail from the Merwede river. The name went to South Africa with the Dutch settlers in 1652.

VAN DER WESTHUIZEN Dutch, Afrikaans

VAN LINGEN Afrikaans

VAN NIEKERK Afrikaans, Southern African
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 ROOYEN Afrikaans
van Rooyen related to van Rooijen, is an Afrikaans and Dutch toponymic surname. May be rooted from the Rhine area of the Netherlands, possibly having meant "from Rhine" originally... [more]

VAN WYK Afrikaans

VAN ZYL Afrikaans

VERWEY Dutch, Afrikaans, South African
Contracted form of van der Weij meaning "from the meadow".

VILJOEN South African

WEPENER South African, German
South African, German decent/history

YENDE South African

YOST American, Dutch, Afrikaans
Americanized spelling of Dutch surname Joost or German surname JOST