vampgrrl's Personal Name List

From Chinese 左 (zuǒ) meaning "left, left-hand side".

From Sino-Korean 尹 (yun) meaning "govern, oversee".

From Japanese 雪 (yuki) meaning "snow" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Variant of Wyrzykowski.

From Chinese 文 (wén) meaning "literature, culture, writing".

From Chinese 万 (wàn) referring to a city that existed during the Zhou dynasty in what is now Shaanxi province.

Dutch form of Horn.

Tulvi is an Estonian surname derived from "tulvil" meaning "brimful" and "brimming".

Variant of Thorn.

Alternate transcription of Chinese 宋 (see Song).

Anglicized form of the Irish name Ó Súileabháin meaning "descendant of Súileabhán". The name Súileabhán means "dark eye".

From Japanese 杉 (sugi) meaning "cedar" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Variant of Spector.

Americanized form of Sørensen or Sörensson.

Occupational name meaning "acrobat, dancer", derived from Old French sailleor, from Latin sallitor.

A Gayonese patronymic.

Occupational name for a mounted warrior, from Old English ridere meaning "rider".

From Middle High German rot "red" and schilt "shield", or Yiddish רויט (roit) and שילד (shild). The famous Rothschild family of bankers took their name from a house with a red shield on it.

From the name of the town of Ryley in Lancashire, derived from Old English ryge "rye" and leah "woodland, clearing".

From Albanian prift meaning "priest".

Variant of Priestley. This name was borne by musician Elvis Presley (1935-1977).

Meaning unknown, possibly a nickname for a person deported to Spain, derived from the name of a location in Portugal.

Originally given to a person who played on a pipe (a flute).

Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Perlmutter ‘mother-of-pearl'.

Means "keeper of the park" in Middle English. It is an occupational name for a person who was a gamekeeper at a medieval park.

From the name of a village in Dailekh District called Parajul.

Originally indicated a person from one of the two towns named Orellana in Badajoz, Spain. Their names are probably derived from Latin Aureliana meaning "of Aurelius".

Americanization of Nachtigall.

From the given name Nicholas.

Simplified variant of Nguyễn.

Nickname for someone with a prominent nose, from Italian naso "nose".

From the given name Musa.

From various names of places around Italy. It is derived from a Gaulish word meaning "hill".

Derived from Russian мороз (moroz) meaning "frost".

English transcription of Morgenstern.

Ornamental name meaning "morning star" in German.

Derived from the given name Mikuláš.

Derived from the given name Marzuq.

Means "miller" in Ukrainian. This is the most common Ukrainian surname.

From the surname but also a given name that reminds some of Springtime

Alternate transcription of Maksimov.

From the given name Mauro.

Variant of Mathis.

Derived from the given name Martin. This is the most common surname in France.

Means "son of Marin".

From Japanese 前 (mae) meaning "front, forward" and 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream".

Occupational name for a carpenter, from Portuguese madeira "wood".

Derived from the given name Lucas. A famous bearer of this surname is George Lucas (1944-), the creator of the Star Wars movies.

Variant of Lozano.

Americanized form of Löwe.

Combination of Middle English love(n), luve(n) "to love" and joie "joy".

From the Old English given name Lufu meaning "love".

Unaccented variant of López.

Habitational name from any of various places derived from Old English loca meaning "(locked) enclosure, stronghold".

It means "linden forest" in German.

Patronymic from the given name Levi.

From the name of a district in Scotland, called Leamhnachd in Gaelic, possibly meaning "place of elms".

Either a variant of Leclerc or from French clair meaning "bright".

Topographic name for someone who lived by a laurel tree, Spanish laurel (Latin laurus), or a habitational name from Laurel in the Canary Islands.

Topographic name for someone who lived at a place where wild roses grew; or a habitational name from a town house bearing the sign of a rose. It may also have been a nickname for a man with a ‘rosy’ complexion, as well as a nickname of a soldier. In Canada it is a frequent secondary surname, which has also been used independently since 1704, and often translated as Rose in English.

From the nickname Lako, possibly meaning "swamp" in Abkhaz (denoting someone who lived in a marshy area).

Possibly a variant of German Lehr

Means "fair, beautiful" in French.

From Japanese 黒 (kuro) meaning "black" and 岩 (iwa) meaning "cliff, rocks".

Variant of Kunkel.

Korean form of Jin, from Sino-Korean 金 (gim) meaning "gold". This is the most common surname in South Korea.

Variant of Kihara.

From kinyata, the name of a type of ornamental belt worn by the Maasai. This was the surname of the first president of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta (1897-1978). He adopted the surname in his youth.

Feminine form of Kazlow.

Feminine form of Karimov. It is also an alternate transcription of Azerbaijani Kərimova.

Derived from the given name Karim.

Derived from the name of the Jordan river, which is from Hebrew יָרַד (yaraḏ) meaning "descend" or "flow down".

Means "son of John". Famous bearers include American presidents Andrew Johnson (1808-1875) and Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973).

Feminine form of Ivanov or Ivanow.

Means "son of Ivan". It is among the most common surnames in Bulgaria and Russia.

From Middle English hide, a unit of land, approximately the size necessary to support a household.

Occupational name that referred to someone who hunted for a living, from Old English hunta.

Variant of Hunter.

Swedish form of Holt.

Originally given to a person who lived on or near a hill, derived from Old English hyll.

Derived from the given name Hendrik. A famous bearer was the American rock musician Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970).

Means "son of Hendry".

Habitational name from Helton in Cumbria, named in Old English probably with helde "slope" and tun "farmstead, settlement", or possibly a variant of Hilton. This is a common name in TN, KY, OH, TX, and GA.

Anglicized form of Irish Ó hAodha meaning "descendant of Aodh".

Derived from the given name Heard. A famous bearer was American president Warren G. Harding (1865-1923).

Means "son of Hans". This is the most common surname in Norway, and the third most common in Denmark.

Location name combining the elements hall as in "large house" and lee meaning "field or clearing."

Topographic name for someone who lived in or near a lush forest, from Old English grene "green" and wudu "wood".

From a nickname for a person who had grey hair or grey clothes.

Derived from the Germanic name Gerulf.

The first recorded use of the name is from 1291; Robert de Gidlow was a freeholder in Aspull, Lancanshire, United Kingdom and the name occurs frequently down to the 17th century. The Gidlow family moved to the United States in the mid-18th century where the spelling was changed to Goodlow and eventually to Goodloe.

Variant of Fry.

Variant of Forest.

From Irish Ó Foghladha meaning "descendant of Foghlaidh". The byname Foghlaidh meant "pirate, marauder, plunderer".

From the given name Florea.

Given to a person who was a Fleming, that is a person who was from Flanders in the Netherlands.

From the given name 'Isam.

Means "exposed" in Italian and denoted a child who was rescued after being abandoned by its parents.

From Irish Ó hEidirsceóil meaning "descendant of the messenger".

Feminine form of Dmitriev.

Means "son of David". This was the surname of the revolutionary jazz trumpet player Miles Davis (1926-1991).

From the given name David.

From Old English Dearthington believed to be the settlement of Deornoth's people (unclear root + ing a family group + ton an enclosed farm or homestead).

From a nickname or byname derived from Middle English dereling, Old English deorling, meaning "darling, beloved one".

The surname of Current, is of Irish/Scottish with several different families, and meanings of this name. There are many spelling variations of this name.

From Irish Ó Cuinneagáin meaning "descendant of Cuinneagán", a diminutive of Conn.

Means "barrel maker", from Middle English couper.

From the name of the River Conwy in Wales, or the town situated at the mouth of the river. It is possibly derived from Welsh cyn "foremost" and the common river name suffix wy.

Variant of O'Connor.

Alternate transcription of Shukri chiefly used in Morocco.

From Middle English chirie, cherye "cherry", hence a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of cherries, or possibly a nickname for someone with rosy cheeks.
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The surname Cherry was brought to England by a great wave of migration following the Norman Conquest of 1066. The name Cherry is derived from the Anglo Norman French word, 'cherise', which means cherry, and was probably used to indicate someone who lived by a cherry tree.

86,045 people have this surname, and is most prevalent in the United States.

From the given name Cherian.

Occupational name for a cartwright wheelwright from Old French charrelier a derivative of charrel "cart" a diminutive of char "cart carriage".

A name of various possible origins. As a Norman French name Cave can mean "bald" from cauf or it can mean "worker in a wine cellar" or "one who dwelt in or near a cave". As an English name Cave refers to a Yorkshire river whose fast current inspired the name meaning "swift".

Catalan and Italian: topographic name from Latin casa ‘house’ + nova ‘new’, or a habitational name from any of the many places named with these words.

Originally from a French derogatory nickname for someone with a bad temper.

From the given name Boele.

Derived from Broz, a diminutive of Ambrozije. This was the birth surname of the Yugoslavian dictator Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980).

Anglicized form of the Gaelic surname Mac an Bhreatnaich ‘son of the Briton’, originally denoting a Strathclyde Welsh-speaking Briton. It was applied in Ireland also to people from Brittany.

From an English place name derived from Old English blæc meaning "black" and wille meaning "well, spring, water hole".

From the English words bird and song. Possibly an English translation of the German surname Vogelsang.

Franco-American & French-Canadian variant of the French surname Baudelaire. Also seen in Louisiana French-Creole.

Derived from Old English bærnet meaning "place cleared by burning".

Means "ram, male sheep" in Polish, Slovak and Ukrainian.

Derived from the given name Ealhhere.

Possibly a habitational name with the combination of ax, a Swedish word for the fruiting body of a grain plant, and the common surname suffix -ell.

Mingrelian form of the Abkhaz name Арстаа (Arstaa) ultimately derived from the Ancient Greek personal name Aristarchus.

Variant of Arends.

Occupational name for one who practiced archery, from Latin arcus "bow" (via Old French).

Denoted a person from Araia in the Basque Country, Spain. It is of uncertain meaning.

From the given name Amos.

From the Late Latin name Ambrosius, which was derived from the Greek name Αμβροσιος (Ambrosios) meaning "immortal".

From a dialectal form of the name Aloisio.

Feminine form of Aliyev. This is also an alternate transcription of Azerbaijani Əliyeva.

Means "son of Albert".

From the given name Abbas.