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This is a list of submitted surnames in which the meaning contains the keyword write.
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Calamari Italian
From Latin calamarius "relating to a writing reed, ink pen", a name for a scribe, or perhaps a fisherman from the Italian descendant calamaro "squid, calamari".
Chigusa Japanese
This surname is used as 千種, 千草 or 千艸 with 千 (sen, chi) meaning "thousand", 種 (shu, -gusa, tane) meaning "class, kind, seed, species, variety", 草 (sou, kusa, kusa-, -gusa) meaning "draft, grass, herbs, pasture, weeds, write" and 艸 (sou, kusa) meaning "grass, plants."... [more]
Fudeyasu Japanese
Fude means "handwriting, painting/writing brush" and yasu means "cheap, relax, peaceful".
Graff English
Metonymic occupational name for a clerk or scribe, from Anglo-Norman French grafe "quill, pen" (a derivative of grafer "to write", Late Latin grafare, from Greek graphein).
Jūmonji Japanese
Means "cross, crisscross" in Japanese, a compound of 十 () meaning "ten", 文 (mon) meaning "writing", and 字 (ji) meaning "character, handwriting."
Liyanaarachchi Sinhalese
From Sinhala ලියන (liyana) meaning "writing" combined with the colonial-era title ආරච්චි (arachchi) used to denote a village headman or leader.
Liyanage Sinhalese
Means "house of writing" from Sinhala ලියන (liyana) meaning "writing" and ගේ (ge) meaning "home, house".
Liyanasuriya Sinhalese
From Sinhala ලියන (liyana) meaning "writing" combined with Sanskrit सूर्य (surya) meaning "sun".
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]