Explore Surname Origins & Heritage

Discover the meaning, origin, and heritage of thousands of surnames from around the world.

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Adams Alexander Allen Alvarez Anderson

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Bailey Baker Barnes Bell Bennett Berry Black Boyd Brennan Brooks BrownEnglish descriptive name for someone with brown hair or complexion Bryant Burke Burns Butler

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Campbell Carter Castillo Chavez Clark Cole Coleman Collins Cook Cooper Cox Crawford Cruz

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Daniels DavisWelsh patronymic meaning 'son of David'Diaz Dixon Doherty Doyle

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Edwards Ellis Evans

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Ferguson Fernandez Fisher Fitzgerald Ford Foster Fox Freeman

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Gallagher GarciaSpanish patronymic from the Basque word for 'young'Gibson Gomez Gonzales Gonzalez Gordon Graham Grant Gray Green Griffin Gutierrez

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Hall Hamilton Harris Harrison Hayes Henderson Henry Hernandez Herrera Hicks Hill Holmes Howard Hughes Hunt Hunter

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Jackson James Jenkins Jennings Jimenez JohnsonEnglish patronymic meaning 'son of John'JonesWelsh/English patronymic meaning 'son of John'Jordan

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Kavanagh Kelly Kennedy KimKorean meaning 'gold' or 'metal'King

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Lee Lewis Long Lopez Lynch

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Nelson NguyenVietnamese, the most common Vietnamese surname Nichols

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O'BrienIrish meaning 'descendant of Brian'O'Connor O'Neill Olson Ortiz Owens

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Palmer PatelIndian (Gujarati) meaning 'village headman'Patterson Perry Peterson Phillips Porter Powell Price

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Ramos Reed Reeves Reyes Reynolds Rice Richardson Rivera Roberts Robertson Robinson RodriguezSpanish patronymic meaning 'son of Rodrigo'Rogers Romero Rose Ross Ruiz Russell Ryan

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Sanders SchmidtGerman occupational name for a blacksmith Scott Shaw Simmons Simpson SmithEnglish occupational name for a metalworker Snyder Stephens Stevens Stewart Stone SullivanIrish Gaelic meaning 'dark-eyed one'

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Taylor Thomas Thompson Torres Tucker Turner

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Wagner Walker Wallace WalshIrish/English meaning 'foreigner' or 'Welshman'Ward Warren Washington Watson Weaver Webb Wells West White WilliamsWelsh/English patronymic meaning 'son of William'Wilson Wood Woods Wright

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