Swiss Submitted Surnames

Taranto Italian
Habitational name from the southern Italian city and provincial capital of this name (from Latin Tarentum from Greek Taras). Variant of Tarantino and Di Taranto.

Tarassaco Italian
Surname meaning “Dandelion” in Italian

Tardif French, French (Quebec)
From Latin tardivus, "slow". Given its unusually frequency as a family name and derivatives like Tardieu or Tardivel, it may have been a medieval given name.

Tardio Italian

Taris Italian
Meaning unknown, probably from Sardinian.

Tarnutzer Romansh
Derived from the place name Malanser Tarnutz.

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

Tarragon French (Rare)

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

Tartaglia Italian
From Italian tartagliare "to stutter".

Tartara Italian, French

Tassi Italian, South American
Could be a patronymic form of the given name Tasso, indicate the bearer is from one of several municipalities called Tasso, or be a nickname from Italian tasso meaning "badger (animal)" or "yew".

Tassone Italian

Tassoni Italian
Probably derived from Italian tasso meaning "badger (animal)", though it can also mean "yew (tree)".

Tatangelo French

Tatangelo Italian

Tatangelo Italian

Tatangelo Italian

Tatania Italian

Tatasciore American, Italian
The surname Tatasciore is more commonly found in Italy than any other country or territory.

Tateo Italian (Italianized)
Italianized version of Tateossian

Tati Popular Culture, French, Russian
A well known diminutive of both Tatiana and Tatischeff.

Tatischeff French, Russian, English
Best known as the actual full surname of Jacques Tati.

Tatke German
Unknown source.

Taton French

Tats German

Tatula Swiss (?)

Tauber German
Occupational name for a pigeon breeder, from German Taube "pigeon, dove".

Taufer German (Rare, Archaic)
Taufer is a german surname. The meaning of Taufer is "to dip".... [more]

Taurino Italian
From the given name Taurino

Tauro Italian
Taken from the words "bull" or "ox".

Tautou French, Occitan

Tautou French, Occitan
Derived from French tatou meaning "armadillo". It may have originally been given to a person who resembled an armadillo in some way. A famous bearer is the French actress and model Audrey Tautou (1976-).

Tauzin French

Tavernier French
occupational name from Old French tavernier "innkeeper" (from Late Latin tabernarius from taberna "inn")... [more]

Teates German (Americanized)
Probably an altered spelling of German Dieter .

Tebow French (Americanized)
Americanized form of French Thibault.

Tederich German, Swiss, Scandinavian
The origin and meaning of the surname Tederich is uncertain. It may be derived from the German word "Teder," which means tender or soft, or a variation of the surname Tiederich, which is a habitational name derived from Tiederen, a place name in Holstein.... [more]

Tedeschi Italian
Plural of Tedesco "German".

Teetes German (Anglicized)
Americanized form of German Dietz

Tefnin French

Tegaldo Italian
This surname is the Piedmontese origin. The Tegaldo last name comes from the Latin Teca (= shell beans). Its meaning is grower of vegetables (bean). Also it is known as vegetable farming... [more]

Tegeder German
I don't know.

Teich German, Jewish
Derived from Middle High German tīch "pond".

Telesco Italian

Telken German

Tell German (Swiss)

Tellier French

Tempesta Italian
Originally a nickname for a person with a blustery temperament, from Italian tempesta meaning "storm, tempest" (compare Tempest).... [more]

Tempesta Romansh
Derived from Romansh tempesta "hailstorm".

Tempesti Italian

Tempini Italian

Temple English, French
Occupational name or habitational name for someone who was employed at or lived near one of the houses ("temples") maintained by the Knights Templar, a crusading order so named because they claimed to occupy in Jerusalem the site of the old temple (Middle English, Old French temple, Latin templum)... [more]

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

Templin French
Possibly from a French diminutive of Temple.

Templin German
German habitational name from a place so named in Brandenburg, of Slavic origin.

Tenaglia Italian
From tenaglia "pincers".

Tenerelli Italian

Tenner Romansh, German (Austrian)

Tenscher German
originated in Germany but came to America

Tenz Romansh
Derived from the given name Antonius.

Teoni Italian

Tepper German
Meaning "tavern owner"

Terenzio Italian
From the given name Terenzio.

Terracciano Italian
Derived from Italian terrazzano "inhabitant of a walled city or castle; fellow countryman, villager, peasant", ultimately derived from Latin terra "land, earth, country".

Terracina Italian
From the name of a city in Lazio, Italy, called Tarracina in Latin.

Terray French

Terrien French
Topographic name from an adjectival derivative of terre "land", denoting someone who lived and worked on the land, i.e. a peasant. It is Americanized frequently as Landers, and occasionally as Farmer.

Terrier French

Terrin French

Terroni Italian

Ter Stegen Dutch (Rare), German (Rare)
Means "in the alley", from Middle Dutch stege "alleyway, lane, narrow path".

Tesauro Italian
metonymic occupational name for a treasurer or person in charge of financial administration from Old Italian tesauro "treasure treasury" (from Latin thesaurus "hoard"). It may also be from the personal name Tesauro with the same origin.

Tescher German, Danish
Occupational name for a joiner or a variant of Tasch.

Tesei Italian

Tesoro Spanish, Italian
from tesoro "treasure" (from Latin thesaurus "hoard") applied as a metonymic occupational name for a treasurer. In some cases this may be a habitational name from El Tesoro in southern Spain... [more]

Tessier French
Occupational Name For A Weaver, From Old French Tissier (From Late Latin Texarius, A Derivative Of Texere ‘To Weave’). It Is Also Found In England As A Surname Of Huguenot Origin. Compare Tacey.

Tessmer German
Derived from the given name Těšimír.

Testaguzza Italian (?)

Testina Italian (Rare)

Tetrault French
French, Franko-American

Tetreau French
Variant of Tetreault.

Tetreault French
Ultimately derived from French tistre "to weave".

Tetta Italian
Means "boob, tit" in Italian.

Tetzel German
A variant of Tetzlaff and is derived from the bakery Tetzel Prime in Casey, Illinois.

Tetzlaff German

Teubert German
Variant of Taube.

Teutloff German (Rare)

Tewes German
Derived from a short form of the given name Matthäus.

Texier French

Tgenay Romansh (Archaic)
Derived from a diminutive form of the given name Gian.

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

Thal German, Jewish
Topographic name for someone who lived in or near a valley, derived from Middle High German tal "valley". As a Jewish name, it is ornamental.

Thaler German

Thalman German (Americanized)
Partly Americanized spelling of German Thalmann or Thälmann.

Thalmann German, Jewish
Either a variant of Thälmann or a variant of Thal with an added suffix man.

Thannhausen German
An old noble family from Germany. Meaning "dwelling in Tann", specifically from their ancestral seat in the town of Tannhausen.

Thauvin French

Thébault French
From a variant of the given name Thibault. Variant of Thibault.

Theberge French
Variant of Thibert.

Theis German
From the given name Theis.

Theisen German, Danish, Norwegian
German, Danish, and Norwegian: patronymic from a reduced form of the personal name Matthias or Mathies (see Matthew).

Theissen German
North German: patronymic from Theiss.

Thelen German

Théodore French
From the given name Théodore.

Theresa English, German
From the given name Theresa.

Theriault French (Rare)
Possibly from the Greek "therion" which means a beast of a nondescript nature.

Thermes Italian

Therrien French
Variant of Terrien.

Theus Romansh
Derived from the given name Matthäus.

Thibaudeau French

Thibeault French

Thibert French
From the given name Thibert, the French form of Theudebert.

Thibodeau French
Variant of Thibodeaux.

Thibodeaux French
Variant of Thibault.

Thiébaut French

Thiel German
Derived from Old High German thiot "people".

Thiele German

Thielke German

Thiems German

Thierry French

Thiers French

Thiessen German, Danish
Reduced form of the personal name Matthias or Mathies.

Thill German, Luxembourgish
Variant of Till.

Thimonnier French

Thirring Upper German (Rare)
The name Thirring has many different forms/variant spellings. These include Thiering, Thiring, Thuring,Thuringer, Turinger, Duringer, Diringer, Diring and During. One of the reasons for all the variant spellings is that the church scribes in Hungary originally all recorded the name differently... [more]

Thirtyacre German (Americanized, Rare)
English form of the German Drezigacker.

Thom Romansh
Derived from the given name Thomas.

Thoma German, German (Swiss)
German and Swiss German: variant of Thomas. Greek: genitive patronymic from Thomas. Genitive patronymics are particularly associated with Cyprus.

Thoman German
Derived from the personal name Thoman.

Thomann German, French
Variant of Thoman. It was first discovered in Germany, where it surfaced in the medieval times.

Thomass French (Rare)

Thomassin French

Thome French

Thomet French (Swiss), German (Swiss)
Derived from a diminutive form of the given name Thomas.

Thomis French

Thommen German (Swiss), Romansh
Patronymic form of the given name Thomas.

Thöny Romansh
Derived from the given name Antonius.

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.

Thorn Low German, German, German (Silesian), Polish, Luxembourgish
In North German, Danish, and Luxembourgish, it is a habitational name for someone who lived near a tower, from Middle Low German torn "tower".... [more]

Thorr French (Rare)

Threet American (Anglicized), German
Americanization of German Tritt.

Thuringer German
Habitational name for someone from Thuringia.

Tiano Italian

Ticci Italian

Ticco Italian

Ticozzi Italian
Possibly derived from the given name Ardito or its diminutive forms Ardizzo or Ardizzone.

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

Tiefenthaler Swiss

Tiella Italian

Tiesch Jewish, German
Variant of Tisch.

Tietgens German

Tietjen German
Primarily found in northern Germany. "Tiet" is a variant of "Dieter" and "Dietrich", and the "-jen" suffix is a diminutive ending.

Till German
From the given name Till.

Tille French

Tillich German, Sorbian

Timcke German (Rare)
Timcke originated in Germany and has existed since the origin of the Germanic language.

Timeus Haitian Creole, Friulian, English (American), German
From the given name Timeus.

Timm German, Dutch, English
English: probably from an otherwise unrecorded Old English personal name, cognate with the attested Continental Germanic form Timmo. This is of uncertain origin, perhaps a short form of Dietmar... [more]

Timmann German

Timoteo Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
From the given name Timoteo.

Timothée French
From the given name Timothée.

Timpano Italian
for working stone in big buildings, like temples

Tinklenberg German
Probably of German origin, a habitational name from Tecklenburg in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Tintoretto Italian

Tiran French

Tirel French

Tisch Jewish, German
Metonymic occupational name for a joiner, from German "Tisch", Yiddish "tish" meaning table.

Tischbein German, Literature
Means "table leg" in German, from German tisch "table" and bein "leg". This was the surname of a German family of master artists from Hesse which spanned three generations. This is also the surname of the main character of the 1929 novel Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner, Emil Tischbein.

Tischler German
From German meaning "carpenter".

Tischner German
Tischner means carpenter.

Tison French

Tisserand French
French for "weaver."

Tisseur French
Occupational surname meaning "weaver".

Tissot French (Swiss)

Titus German, English, Welsh
From the given name Titus. Cognate to Tito.

Tizio Italian
From the given name Tizio

Tizzoni Italian
From Italian tizzone "embers, live coal; firebrand", probably a nickname for a troublemaker or revolutionary.

Tobenfeld German

Tocci Italian

Tocco Italian

Toccoli Italian

Toche French (Rare)

Tocqueville French
From the names of various French communes in Normandy meaning "Tóki's town". As a title it was borne by the French political philosopher, aristocrat and historian Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, Count of Tocqueville (1805-1859), the author of Democracy in America.

Todde Italian
From a modification of Latin tollere "to lift, to raise; to destroy". Alternately, may derive from the medieval Sardinian name Totolle.

Todeschini Italian
From Italian tedesco "German, of Germany".

Toepfer German (Anglicized)
Anglicised spelling of Töpfer.

Toggwiler Romansh
Derived from the place name Toggwil.

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

Tognelli Italian

Togni Italian

Tola Italian, Albanian

Tolentino Spanish, Filipino, Portuguese, Italian (Rare), Judeo-Italian
Ultimately derived from the name of a town in the province of Macerata, Italy (see Tolentino). This was adopted as a Spanish given name in honour of the 14th-century Italian saint and mystic Nicholas of Tolentino... [more]

Tolliver Italian, English (American)
Americanized version of Taliaferro

Tolomeo Italian
From a personal name which was either a short form of Bartolomeo or an Italian form of the Greek Ptolemaios.

Tomalin French

Tomaš Serbian, Croatian, Sorbian, German
From the given name Tomaš.

Tomaschett Romansh
Derived from an archaic diminutive of the given name Tumasch.

Tomasetti Italian

Tomasi Italian
From the given name Tomaso.

Tomaso Italian

Tomaso Italian
From the given name Tomaso.

Tomassi Italian

Tombaugh German
topographic name from to dem bach ‘at the creek’, perhaps a hybrid form as Bach is standard German, bek(e) being the Low German form. habitational name from places in Hesse, Baden, and Bavaria called Dombach (earlier Tunbach, from tun, tan ‘mud’).

Tombore English, Italian

Tomei Italian

Tomei Italian
Patronymic form of Tomeo. Famous bearers include American actresses Marisa Tomei (1964-) and Concetta Tomei (1945-).

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

Tomkiewicz Polish, German, Jewish, Yiddish
Some characteristic forenames: Polish Katarzyna, Maciej, Zygmunt... [more]

Tommasi Italian

Tommaso Italian
From the given name Tommaso.

Tonali Italian
Variant of Tonelli.

Tondelli Italian

Tonelli Italian
Derived from a short form of Antonello, itself a diminutive of Antonio.

Toni Italian
From the given name Antonio.

Toninger German

Toniolo Italian

Tönjachen Romansh
Contraction of a short form of Antonius and Jachen.

Tonje Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Italian, Greek, Russian, Polish, Czech, Icelandic, Slovak, Croatian, Nepali, Estonian
From given name Tonje

Tonnelier French
Means "cooper" in French, from Middle French tonnel "barrel".

Tonnoir French, French (Belgian)
Means "thunder". Originally, a nickname given to loud men. Very rare.

Tontodonati Italian
From Italian tonto "foolish, stupid" and the given name Donato.

Tönz Romansh
Variant of Tenz.

Töpfer German
It literally means "potter".

Toplitz German
German: habitational name from Teplice in northern Bohemia.

Topp German
German: from Low German topp 'point', 'tree top', hence a topographic name; or alternatively a metonymic occupational name or nickname from the same word in the sense 'braid'.

Toppi Italian

Toputh German

Torchebœuf French

Torinese Italian
One who came from Turin.

Torino Italian
Habitational name from the capital city of Piedmont, Italy, called Turin in English.

Torino Italian
Derived from a diminutive of the given name Tore 2, a short form of Salvatore, or from the medieval given name Toro.

Torn German
Derived from Old High German dorn / torn "thorn". As a surname, it was usually given to someone who lived near a thorn hedge.

Tornatore Italian
Derived from Italian tornatore meaning "turner", which refers to a craftsman who turns and shapes various materials (such as wood and metal) on a lathe. In other words: this surname is the Italian cognate of the English surname Turner... [more]

Torner German

Toro Spanish, Italian
Either a habitational name from Toro in Zamora province. Compare De Toro . Or a nickname for a lusty person or for someone who owned a bull or a metonymic occupational name for a tender of bulls or possibly for a bull fighter from toro "bull" (from Latin taurus).

Toronto Italian (Anglicized)
Possibly derived from the Italian province, Taranto.

Torquato Italian, Portuguese
From the given name Torquato

Torre Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian cognitive and, Spanish and Portuguese variant of Torres. From torre "tower" (from Latin turris).

Torriano Italian
Variant of Torre.

Torricelli Italian

Torta Italian
Probably from Italian torto "twisted, bent, crooked", or the related French tort "wrong, deviated".

Tortora Italian
From a given name derived from Italian tortora meaning "turtle dove", ultimately from Latin turtur (genitive turturis). It could also derive from a town and comune with the same name, located in the province of Cosenza in Calabria, Italy.

Tortorici Italian
Habitational name from Tortorici in Messina.

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

Tota Italian

Toth English (Anglicized), German
Either an anglicized form of Hungarian Tóth or derived from German tot "dead" or Middle High German tote "godfather".

Totino Italian

Totino Italian
from a pet form of the personal name Toto.

Totolo Italian

Totti Italian
From the Medieval given name Toto, abbreviation of either Benedetto or Battista... [more]

Toughy Swiss

Toulain French (Rare)

Toulouse French, French (African)
Derived from the name of the city of Toulouse.

Toupin French, Breton, Norman
nickname from Old French toupin "spinning-top". in rare instances in the south probably from Old Occitan toupin "small earthenware pot" used as a metonymic occupational name for a potter.

Touquet French

Tourangeau French

Touret French
Derived from the French town of Tourrettes-sur-Loup which is located in the southeast of France.

Tournier French
French form of Turner.

Tourville French
The name Tourville is a very old, and in one case, very famous name. One of the Marshall's of France was named Anne Hilarion de Cotentin de Tourville. This reads: Anne Hilarion of/from Cotentin, Comte (Count) of Tourville... [more]

Toussaint French
Derived from the given name Toussaint, which in turn is derived from Toussaint, the French name for the Christian feast day All Saints' Day (celebrated on November 1st every year)... [more]

Towers French
1. Variant of Tower, with later -s. ... [more]

Tozzi Italian
Derived from Italian tozzo meaning "squat, stocky, thickset". ... [more]

Tracanna Italian

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]

Traeger German
Derived from the German word Trager which means "Someone who carries something." Traeger could also mean "gift of God."

Trafficante Italian
Derived from the archaic Calabrese term trafficante "trader", now meaning "trafficker, drug pusher". This was the name of a now-defunct Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Florida, named after Sicilian-born mobster Santo Trafficante Sr... [more]

Trager German

Tramp German
The Tramp surname may be derived from the Middle High German word "trumpe," meaning "drum."

Trancy French (Rare)

Trando Italian
Italian: from the Germanic (Lombardic) personal name Brando, a short form of the various compound personal names formed with brand ‘sword’, particularly Aldobrando and Ildebrando.

Tranquilli Italian
Derived from the given name Tranquillo.

Transon French
Possibly from Old French tronçon "block of wood", perhaps an occupational name for a woodcutter.

Trapanese Italian
Habitational name meaning "Trapanese", "from the city of Trapani or "from the province of Trapani". Variant of Trapani.

Tratschin Romansh

Traub German

Traube German
Means "grape" in German.

Traum English, German
From Middle High German troum meaning "dream".

Traun German
Derived from the Celtic word dru meaning "river". Traun is a river in the Austrian state of Upper Austria as well as a city located on the north bank of that river and borders Linz, the capital of Upper Austria, to the east.

Trausch German, Slavic, Low German, Luxembourgish
A nickname either derived from Trauschke, a nickname from Old Slavic drugu "companion", or from Middle Low German druus "sullen", "dour".

Traut German
From either a nickname or a given name derived from the Middle High German word trut "dear, beloved".

Trauth German
Variant of Traut.

Trautman German

Trautwein German
Derived from a medieval given name composed of Middle High German trut meaning "beloved" and win meaning "friend".

Trautwig German (Modern)
From an Ancient German given name made of the name elements TRUD "strength" and WIG "fight"

Travolta Italian

Traygel German (Russified, ?)

Traylor French
Assumed to mean "by the trail". May have originally been "Trouillart". Variations may include: Trail Traill Treil Trelly Teign Pentrail

Trebbi Italian
Cesare Mauro Trebbi was an Italian painter and lithographer (1847–1931).... [more]

Tredoni Italian
Mrs. Tredoni is the main antagonist of the 1976 slasher film Alice, Sweet Alice. The role was played by American actress Mildred Clinton (1914-2010).

Treffel French

Treichel German (Swiss)
Swiss German: from a word meaning ‘cow bell’, presumably a nickname for a cowherd or farmer, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who made cow bells.

Treike German
Surname of german origin, sometimes also used as a given name.

Tremani Italian

Tremel German
A nickname for a disagreeable person, from German tremel, meaning "boor ruffian".

Treml German
Variant of Tremel.

Tremmel German, English
Variant of Tremel.

Trémont French
Habitational name from any of several locations in France, derived from Latin trans "across, beyond" and mons "mountain", making it a cognate of Italian Tremonti... [more]