Submitted Surnames Starting with T

Tekkalan Turkish (?)

Tekkel Estonian
Tekkel is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "teke" meaning "origin". "Tekkel" also means "college cap".

Teklić Croatian
Derived from teklić, a rare form of the word "messenger".

Telaga Indian, Telugu
It is a Telugu name, mostly denoting agricultural laborers.

Telaumbanua Nias
Meaning uncertain.

Telesco Italian

Teletović Bosnian

Telfair Scottish, English
Variant of Telfer.

Telfer Scottish, English, Italian
From a personal name based on a byname for a strong man or ferocious warrior, from Old French taille or tailler "to cut" + fer "iron" Latin: ferrum "iron" (see Tagliaferro).

Telford English
From the words taelf meaning "plateau" and ford meaning "river crossing"... [more]

Telgmaa Estonian
Telgmaa is an Estonian surname meaning "axial land".

Telišman Croatian (Rare)
Unknown origin, probably from the word "talisman"

Telken German

Tell German (Swiss)

Tellechea Basque
Latinized spelling of "Telletxea" meaning in Basque "(from) the house with tiles"

Teller English

Telleria Basque
This indicates familial origin within either of 2 eponymous neighborhoods: the one in Leioa, Comarca of Bilbo or the one in Urdazubi, Comarca of Baztan.

Téllez Spanish
from the given name Tello which is the Spanish form of the name Tellus, meaning "earth" in Latin

Tellier French

Tellinghuisen Dutch
Unexplained; possibly a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.

Tellis Estonian
Tellis is an Estonian surname meaning "brick".

Tellisaar Estonian
Tellisaar is an Estonian surname meaning "brick island".

Telliskivi Estonian
Telliskivi is an Estonian surname meaning "brick stone".

Tellus Maltese

Tembe Portuguese

Temblador Spanish

Temchenko Ukrainian

Temel Turkish
From the given name Temel.

Temirov Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Tajik
Means "son of Temir".

Temiz Turkish
Means "clean, neat, pure" in Turkish.

Temmyo Japanese

Temotowa kastila

Tempe English

Tempest English (British)
English (Yorkshire): nickname for someone with a blustery temperament, from Middle English, Old French tempest(e) ‘storm’ (Latin tempestas ‘weather’, ‘season’, a derivative of tempus ‘time’).

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]

Templeman English

Templer English
Templer is an Old English surname denoting either a servant of one of the Knights Templar, or a person living near or serving at a church. The meaning is “church attendant”.

Temples English (American)

Templeton English
Derived from Templeton, from the English words 'temple' and 'town'.

Templier French
French cognitive and variant of Temple given to someone who wa a member of the Templar order.

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

Templin French
Possibly from a French diminutive of Temple.

Ten Chinese

Tenadii Maori

Tenaglia Italian
From tenaglia "pincers".

Tenant English
Variant of the surname Tennant.

Tenayuca Indigenous American, Mexican (Rare), Comanche (?)
Of uncertain origin. A known bearer was Emma Tenayuca (1916-1999), an American labor leader of Comanche descent.

Ten Boom Dutch
Means "at the tree" in Dutch. A notable bearer of this surname was Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983), a German woman who helped Jewish people take refuge into her home during the Second World War.

Tendo Eastern African

Tenerelli Italian

Tenesa Spanish

Teneyck Dutch
Topographic name for someone who lived by a prominent oak tree, Middle Dutch eyk. This has been a prominent family name in Albany, NY, area since the 1630s.

Teng Chinese
From Chinese 滕 (téng) referring to the ancient state of Teng, which existed during the Zhou dynasty in what is now Shandong province.

Teng Chinese
Alternate transcription of Deng as well as the Hokkien and Teochew romanization of the name.

Tengis Mongolian

Téngyuán Chinese
From Chinese 藤 (téng) meaning "wisteria" combined with 原 (yuán) meaning "origin, source".

Tenkubashi Japanese (Rare)
Written with kanji meaning "Heaven Sky Bridge". This surname is possessed by two characters in popular culture, Aika Tenkubashi from Shomin Sample, and Tomoka Tenkubashi from the Idolm@sters: Million Live videogame.

Tenly English

Tennakone Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala තෙන්නකෝන් (see Tennakoon).

Tennakoon Sinhalese
Derived from Sinhala දකුණු (dakunu) meaning "south" and කෝන් (kon) meaning "king".

Tennant English, Scottish
The Strathclyde-Briton people of ancient Scotland were the first to use the name Tennant. It is a name for someone who works as a tenant farmer. The name was applied to those who paid for the rent on their land through working the fields and donating a percentage of the take to the landlord... [more]

Tennekone Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala තෙන්නකෝන් (see Tennakoon).

Tennekoon Sinhalese
Alternate transcription of Sinhala තෙන්නකෝන් (see Tennakoon).

Tenner Romansh, German (Austrian)

Tenney English
Variant of Tennyson.

Tennille American

Tennis English

Tenno Estonian
Tenno is an Estonian surname derived from "Tenno", a masculine given name.

Tennohja Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōja).

Tennohjidani Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjidani).

Tennohjitani Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjitani).

Tennohjiya Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjiya).

Tennōja Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjiya).

Tennoja Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōja).

Tennōji Japanese (Rare)
Composed of Japanese ten 天 meaning "heaven," ō (which becomes nō due to renjō) 王 meaning "king," and ji 寺 meaning "temple" or "Buddhist temple."

Tennōjidani Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjiya).

Tennojidani Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjidani).

Tennōjitani Japanese (Rare)
Variant reading of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjiya).

Tennojitani Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjitani).

Tennōjiya Japanese (Rare)
From Japanese 天王寺谷 (Tennōjiya), script-changed from 天王寺屋 (Tennōjiya) meaning "Tennōji Store", a store that was in the ward of Tennōji in the city of Ōsaka in the prefecture of Ōsaka in Japan.

Tennojiya Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjiya).

Tennosaar Estonian
Tennosaar is an Estonian surname meaning "Tenno's (a masculine given name) island".

Tennouja Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōja).

Tennoujidani Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjidani).

Tennoujitani Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjitani).

Tennoujiya Japanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Japanese Kanji 天王寺谷 (see Tennōjiya).

Tenor Spanish

Tenor Spanish

Tenorio Spanish (Latin American)

Tenorio Spanish
Possibly a habitational name from a place called Tenorio in Pontevedra province, Spain.

Tenryo Japanese

Tenryu Japanese

Tenscher German
originated in Germany but came to America

Tentacles Popular Culture
This is the surname of Squidward Tentacles from SpongeBob SquarePants.

Tenz Romansh
Derived from the given name Antonius.

Tenzin Bhutanese
From the given name Tenzin.

Te'o Samoan, Polynesian

Teo Chinese (Hokkien), Chinese (Teochew)
Hokkien and Teochew romanization of Zhang.

Teodorczuk Polish
From the given name Teodor.

Teodorescu Romanian
Means "son of Teodor".

Teodorović Serbian
Patronymic, meaning "son of Teodor".

Teodorsson Swedish
Means "son of Teodor".

Teoh Chinese (Hokkien), Chinese (Teochew)
Hokkien and Teochew romanization of Zhang.

Teoni Italian

Tep Khmer
Means "god, deity, angel" in Khmer, ultimately from Sanskrit देव (deva).

Tepe Turkish
Means "hill, top, peak" in Turkish.

Tepetl Aztec, Nahuatl
From Nahuatl meaning "hill".

Te Poki Maori
The word Te means "the." The word Poki possibly means "to clear the garden." This was the name of a Ngati Mutunga tidewaiter and constable on what is now the Chatham Islands named Toenga Te Poki.

Teppan Estonian
Teppan is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "teppija" meaning "quilter".

Tepper German
Meaning "tavern owner"

Teput South American

Tera Estonian
Tera is an Estonia surname that can mean "blade", "edge" and "grain".

Terachi Japanese
From Japanese 寺 (tera) meaning "temple" and 地 (chi) meaning "ground".

Terada Japanese
From Japanese 寺 (tera) meaning "Buddhist temple" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Teragai Japanese

Teragaya Japanese

Teraguchi Japanese
Tera means "temple" and guchi means "opening, mouth".

Terai Japanese
Tera means "temple" and i means "well".

Teraji Japanese
Tera means "temple" and ji means "road".

Terajima Japanese
Variant of Terashima.

Terakado Japanese
From 寺 (tera) meaning "Buddhist temple" meaning 門 (kado) meaning "gate".

Teramoto Japanese
From Japanese 寺 (tera) meaning "Buddhist temple" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Teramura Japanese

Teran Spanish (Latin American)

Teranishi Japanese

Teranishi Japanese
From Japanese 寺 (tera) meaning "temple" and 西 (nishi) meaning "west".

Terao Japanese
Tera means "temple" and o means "tail".

Terao Japanese
From Japanese 寺 (tera) meaning "temple" and 尾 (o) meaning "tail, foot, end".

Teraoka Japanese
Tera means "temple" and oka means "hill".

Teraoka Japanese
From Japanese 寺 (tera) meaning "temple" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Terasaki Japanese
From Japanese 寺 (tera) meaning "Buddhist temple" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape, peninsula".

Terasawa Japanese
From Japanese 寺 (tera) meaning "temple" and 沢 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

Terashima Japanese
From Japanese 寺 (tera) meaning "Buddhist temple" and 島 or 嶋 (shima) meaning "island".

Terashita Japanese

Terata Japanese

Teratani Japanese
Tera means "temple" and tani means "valley".

Terauchi Japanese
From the Japanese 寺 (tera) "{Buddhist} temple" and 内 (uchi or nai) "inside."

Teraya Japanese

Tercero Spanish
Means "third" in Spanish (see Tercero).

Terenya Russian, Belarusian

Terenzio Italian
From the given name Terenzio.

Tereschchenko Ukrainian, Russian
Variant of Tereshchenko.

Tereshko Russian (?)

Terezi African

Ter-grigoryan Armenian
The surname Grigoryan derives from the name Grigor, which is Armenian pronunciation of the name Gregory (it derives from Greek word, γρηγορος, and means 'watchful', 'alert'). Adding to the name the prefix Ter- is the way people call the priests in Armenia (in English often the word "Father" is used instead)... [more]

Teribury English

Teriimana Tahitian

Terina Russian (?)

Teriyong Polynesian

Terjesen Norwegian
Means "son of Terje 1".

Tern English

Teroy Filipino

Terra Portuguese (Brazilian)

Terracciano Italian
Italian "Fenced In Land" from Italian "Terra" meaning "Land" and "Ciano" meaning "Fenced"

Terrace Scottish
Possibly means "from Tarras", a place in Morayshire, Scotland.

Terracina Italian

Terras Estonian
Terras is an Estonian name derived from "terrass", meaning "terrace".

Terray French

Terreberry English

Terrebery English

Terrence English
From the given name Terrence.

Terreni Maltese

Terrey English

Terriah English (Canadian)

Terrick English

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

Terrill English
Variant of Terrell

Terrin French

Terroni Italian

Terryberry English

Terryberry English
Americanized form of German Dürrenberger

Ter-saakov Russian (Rare)

Terse English
This name means literally curt, short or stiff. Similar to Stiff (surname) (see Stiff under user submitted names) Not very commonly used. If you're looking for a name for a fictional character who is either an antagonist or just likes to stir things up, you could probably use this.

Tersigni English

Tersoo Tiv
Means, "father's love". Has its history from Tiv origin. Its a common name amongst the Tiv people of Nigeria.

Ter Stegen Dutch (Modern), German (Modern)

Terunofuji Japanese

Terunuma Japanese
From Japanese 照 (teru) meaning "shine" and 沼 (numa) meaning "swamp, marsh".

Terwiliger American
a name adopted by a Dutch family in New York

Terwilliger English
An anglicized version of the Dutch surname, Der Willikeur, meaning "a by-law; a statute". Also, Der willige-waar, means "serviceable ware", or "ware that sells well" and could be related as well.

Terwogt Dutch

Tery Arabic (Egyptian)

Terzakis Greek

Terzis Greek
From the Italian surname Terzi 1 ultimately from the Italian given name Terzo, meaning the third given usually name to the third child.

Tešan Serbian

Tešanović Serbian

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.

Tesdal English (American)

Tesei Italian

Tesfamariam Ethiopian
Meaning "Mary hope", from 'tesifa' (hope), and 'mariyami' (Mary).

Tesfaye Amharic, Ethiopian
From the given name Tesfaye.

Teshigawara Japanese
From Japanese 勅 (te) meaning "imperial order", 使 (shi) meaning "messenger, envoy", 河 (ga) meaning "river", and 原 (wara) meaning "field".

Teshima Japanese

Teshima Japanese
From Japanese 手 (te) meaning "hand" and 島 or 嶋 (shima) meaning "island".

Teshome Eastern African, Amharic
From the given name Teshome.

Teskeredžić Bosnian

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.

Tessler Romanian, Russian
Russian, Christian. From The original name tescherak

Tessley English

Tessmer German
Derived from the given name Těšimír.

Test English

Testaburger Popular Culture
Wendy Testaburger is one of the reoccurring characters on the animated TV series South Park

Testaguzza Italian (?)

Testawich Cree

Testen Slovene

Tester English
From the Old French nickname testard, essentially meaning "big head", for a know-it-all.

Testina Italian (Rare)

Teterevkova Lithuanian

Tetik Turkish
Means "vigilant, watchful, alert" in Turkish.

Tetley English
habitational name from Tetlow in Manchester. The placename derives from the Old English male personal name Tetta or female Tette annd Old English hlaw "mound hill"... [more]

Teton Shoshone

Tetouani Moroccan
Habitational name from the city of Tetouan.

Tetrault French
French, Franko-American

Tetreau French
Variant of Tetreault.

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

Tetseo Naga, Chakhesang
Best known as the surname of a certain music group from Nagaland in Northeastern India.

Tetsu Japanese
Tetsu could mean "iron", or it could be spelled with te meaning "hand" and tsu meaning "harbor, seaport".

Tetsuka Japanese
Te means "hand" and tsuka means "mound, hillock".

Tetsuki Japanese
Tetsu means "iron" and ki means "tree, wood".

Tetta Italian
Means "boob, tit" in Italian.

Tetteh Western African

Tetuanui Polynesian, Tahitian

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

Tetzlaff German

Teubert German
Variant of Taube.

Teunis Dutch
From the given name Teunis.

Teutloff German (Rare)

Tevanyan Armenian

Tevis English

Tewari Indian, Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi
Variant of Tiwari.

Tewksbury English
Derived from Tewkesbury, a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is named with the Old English given name Teodec and burg meaning "fortification".

Texeira Portuguese
Variant of Teixeira.

Texidor Spanish

Texier French

Teyler Scottish, Irish

Teymouri Persian
From the given name Teymour.

Teymurov Azerbaijani
Means "son of Teymur".

Teymurova f Azerbaijani
Feminine form of Teymurov.

Teytlboym Yiddish
It literally means "date tree".

Tezcan Turkish
Means "impetuous, impatient, excited" in Turkish.

Tezuka Japanese
From Japanese 手 (te) meaning "hand" and 塚 (tsuka) meaning "mound, hillock, grave".

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.

Th English
Possibly a diminutive of other surnames starting with the letters th, such as Thatcher or Thomas.

Thabet Arabic
Derived from the given name Thabit.

Thabit Arabic
Derived from the given name Thabit.

Thạch Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Shi from Sino-Vietnamese 石 (thạch).

Thach Vietnamese
Simplified variant of Thạch.

Thaci Albanian

Thackeray English
Famous bearer is William Makepeace Thackeray, author of the novel Vanity Fair. ... [more]

Thackery English
English (Yorkshire) habitational name from Thackray in the parish of Great Timble, West Yorkshire, now submerged in Fewston reservoir. It was named with Old Norse þak ‘thatching’, ‘reeds’ + (v)rá ‘nook’, ‘corner’.

Thackwray English
Means Thatcher, or someone who thatches roofs. A varient of the name Thatcher

Thahan Thai
Means "military" in Thai.

Thái Vietnamese
Vietnamese for Cai.

Thain Scots, English
Occupational surname meaning a nobleman who served as an attendant to royals or who was awarded land by a king.

Thais Greek (Modern)
from the given name Thais, meaning "beloved, bandage"

Thakar Indian

Thaker Indian, Gujarati
Variant of Thakkar.

Thakkar Indian, Gujarati, Marathi
From Sanskrit ठक्कुर (ṭhakkura) meaning "deity".

Thakur Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Odia, Assamese, Gujarati, Nepali
From a feudal title meaning "lord, master", derived from Sanskrit ठक्कुर (thakkura) meaning "deity".

Thal Jewish, German
Ornamental and topographic name derived from German Tal "valley".

Thal English

Thalassis Greek (Rare)

Thalassitis Greek

Thalen Dutch

Thaler German

Thali Indian

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

Tham Vietnamese

Tham Chinese (Hokkien)
Hokkien romanization of Tan.

Thami Nepali

Thammalangsy Lao
From Lao ທຳມະ (thamma) meaning "dharma, virtue, righteousness" and ລັງສີ (langsy) meaning "ray, beam".

Thammavong Lao
From Lao ທຳມະ (thamma) meaning "dharma, virtue, righteousness" and ວົງ (vong) meaning "lineage, family".

Thammavongsa Lao
From Lao ທັມມະ (thamma) meaning "dharma, virtue, righteousness" and ວົງສາ (vongsa) meaning "family".

Thamrongsombutsakul English (American)
Panat Thamrongsombutsakul is an animator at Walt Disney Studios, known for his work on Ralph Breaks the Internet, Raya and the Last Dragon, and Megamind, among other animated films.

Than Vietnamese
Vietnamese: unexplained.

Thanapatpisal Thai

Thanas Albanian

Thane Scots, English
Occupational surname meaning a nobleman who served as an attendant to royals or who was awarded land by a king. Variant of Thain.

Thangprabhaporn Thai

Thành Vietnamese
From Sino-Vietnamese 成 (thành) meaning "completed, finished, succeeded", 城 (thành) meaning "castle, city" or 誠 (thành) meaning "sincere, honest, true".

Thanh Vietnamese
From Sino-Vietnamese 青 (thanh) meaning "blue, green, young" or 聲 (thanh) meaning "sound, voice, tone".

Thankappan Malayalam

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

Thanos Greek
From a short form of the personal name Athanasios, literally "immortal". This was the name of several saints venerated in the Greek Orthodox Church, the most important of them being Athanasios the Great (293–373), theologian and patriarch of Alexandria in Egypt.

Thanou Greek

Thant Burmese
Means "clean, pure" in Burmese.

Thảo Vietnamese
Means "beautiful" in Vietnamese.

Thao Vietnamese
Simplified variant of Thảo.

Thao Hmong
From the clan name Thoj associated with the Chinese character 陶 (táo) (see Tao).

Thapa Nepali, Indian, Bengali, Assamese, Hindi, Odia
From an ancient military rank used in the Khasa Kingdom, which ruled parts of South Asia from the 11th to 14th centuries.

Thaqi Albanian

Tharanga Sinhalese
From the given name Tharanga.