Surnames starting with T

A short surname found especially in Southeast Asia, often reflecting a Chinese or Vietnamese family name rather than a single shared origin.

An English surname that is most often a short form of a medieval name such as Tab(b)e or Tebb, though some lines may also be linked to older personal names.

An occupational surname from the medieval taborer, a player on a small drum or tabor.

An occupational surname for a taborer: someone who played a small drum, or tabour.

A surname most likely from a medieval nickname or given name built on a form of "Tack," later fixed as a family name.

A likely English-language surname that probably began as a local or family-name variant of an older place or nickname form.

A Spanish-language surname most likely tied to a place name or regional family name, now found especially in the Americas.

A Spanish surname of uncertain origin, best known in the Americas as a family name with strong New Mexican and Southwestern ties.

An English and Scottish surname from a word for a homestead or plot of land.

An Irish and Scottish surname usually understood as a reduced form of Gaelic Mac an tSagairt, meaning “son of the priest.”

An Irish surname that is usually a shortened form of Mac Teague, ultimately tied to the Gaelic personal name Teige/Teague.

Tai is often an Anglicized form of an Asian surname or a short ethnic name, but in older English sources it can also appear as a variant spelling in unrelated names.

A Scottish surname that most likely began as a nickname meaning “cheerful” or “lively,” though it was also later linked by some writers to French and Scandinavian forms.

A common Japanese surname meaning “high bridge” or “tall bridge.”

A likely Spanish surname with a toponymic origin, probably pointing to an ancestral place-name rather than a descriptive nickname.

A Spanish surname taken from the place name Talavera, originally meaning someone from that town.

An old Germanic surname, probably meaning “famous” or “bright,” though its exact root form is not entirely certain.

A Norman surname made famous by a powerful English family and also used for a dog breed name.

An English surname from the medieval personal name Talbot, made famous by the noble Talbot family.

An old Italian surname from a place-name, best known in the American South.

An English and Cornish surname most likely linked to a place-name in Cornwall, especially Talland.

A surname that likely began as a nickname or a short form of another name, though its exact origin is not certain.

An English surname most likely from a nickname for a tall person, though some sources also treated it as a later alteration of German Thalmann.

A surname of uncertain origin, likely a locational name from an old place-name spelling such as Tattone or Talton.

A short surname that can be a form of Tom/Thomas or a local name linked to the River Tame/Thame.

A Spanish surname of uncertain origin, found especially in Spain and Latin America.

A surname most likely of Hispanic origin, probably a regional variant of a name built from the personal name Thomas or from a related local form.

A surname found in several unrelated traditions, most often linked to Dutch, German, or Chinese naming patterns rather than one single origin.

A classic Japanese surname meaning “middle of the rice field.”

A surname with several possible roots, most often explained as a short nickname or as an Asian family name rendered in English spelling.

A locational surname meaning “from Tankersley,” a place-name in Yorkshire.

An English-language surname most likely built from a place name ending in -ley, meaning a clearing or meadow.

An occupational surname for a leather worker—someone who tanned hides into leather.

A surname found in several cultures, most often linked to Chinese origins and meanings connected with a “way,” “path,” or “principle.”

A Spanish surname from a wall or earthen rampart, originally describing someone who lived near or worked with such a structure.

A likely English locational surname, probably from a place-name in Devon or Buckinghamshire.

A short surname with several likely roots, most often linked to an Old English personal name or a nickname for someone near a gap or opening.

A surname found especially in the Spanish-speaking world, likely developed from a place name or local nickname tradition.

An Italian surname meaning someone from Taranto or the Taranto area.

A surname with likely French roots, possibly linked to a personal nickname or to the French word for a linnet, with a separate historical sense as an old southern coin name.

A likely English surname that probably began as a place-name or family-name variant, later carried into the United States.

An English surname most likely tied to the place-name Tarrant, though some examples may also reflect a short form or variant spelling.

A surname of place origin, referring to someone from one of the Dorset places called Tarrant.

A surname usually explained as a shortened or altered form of Tarrant, from a place name in Dorset.

An English surname probably formed from a sharper, more pointed nickname or occupational word, though the old evidence is thin.

An English surname probably linked to a place-name, especially Torver in Lancashire, rather than to a descriptive meaning.

An occupational surname for a worker paid by the task, especially a thresher or reaper.

An old surname with multiple possible roots, most often linked to an Anglo-Saxon personal name or to the Scots name Tait.

A surname of uncertain origin, likely a shortened or altered form of a longer name that became established in North America.

An English surname that most likely began as a place-name form, especially a shortened or altered form of Tatham or Taunton.

A surname of likely Iberian origin, usually linked to the Portuguese place name Távora or a similar local name.

A Hispanic surname most likely from a regional or altered form of a personal or place name ending in -ez.

A surname most likely from a place-name tradition, especially linked to Spanish or Italian family origins.

A surname most likely linked to a place name or to the word for a tavern, especially in Spanish-speaking contexts.

A classic occupational surname meaning “tailor,” from the person who made or altered clothing.

An Irish surname from the old personal name Taidhg, often explained as meaning “poet,” with later Anglicized spellings like Teague, Tague, and Tighe.

A nickname surname from the teal, the small waterfowl, likely given to someone thought to resemble or behave like the bird.

A surname most likely formed from a place-name or an older nickname-based family name, and now best known in the English-speaking world, especially the United States.

An English surname that may be either occupational—someone who teddered hay—or a reduced form of an old personal name beginning with Theod-, meaning "people" or "nation."

A surname meaning “the German” in Italian, originally used for someone of German origin or association.

An English and Scottish surname most likely formed from a place-name ending in “-ford,” meaning a river crossing.

A nickname surname likely referring to the teal, a small duck.

A surname likely from a nickname or occupational label connected with “teetering” or a swaying motion.

A Portuguese surname from a word for the yew tree, originally referring to someone who lived near yew trees or a yew grove.

A Spanish surname meaning “tile-roof” or “place of tiled roofs,” originally tied to a locality or house name.

A Spanish surname from places named for a yew grove or yew trees.

An altered form of Telfer, a surname often explained from the French nickname Taillefer, meaning “iron cutter” or “one who cuts iron.”

An occupational surname for a cloth-maker or weaver, from an old French word for a textile worker.

A surname of several possible origins, often treated as a patronymic or regional form in Romance-language areas.

A surname with Iberian roots, often found as a shortened or patronymic form tied to the old personal name Tello.

A surname for someone who lived by a temple or a property linked to the Knights Templar.

A habitational surname meaning “someone from Templeton,” originally a place-name built from “temple” + “town.”

A surname most likely taken from a place name, especially the German town of Templin.

A surname with several possible origins, including Spanish place-name roots and short-name formation in some European naming systems.

A surname found in several European naming traditions, often linked to short old personal-name forms rather than a single clear meaning.

A surname for a tenant farmer or landholder—literally someone who holds land from another.

Usually an English surname from the pet form Denny, ultimately linked to the given name Dennis/Denis.

A surname usually understood as a patronymic form of Dennis or Denny, meaning “son of Denny/Dennis.”

A Spanish surname most likely tied to a place-name or older local family name, though its exact origin is uncertain.

Usually a variant of Tipper, probably referring to someone who tipped or capped drinking vessels with metal.

An Italian surname meaning “new land” or “new terrain,” often tied to place-names or local origin.

A Spanish surname likely tied to terraces or a terraced place.

An English surname that is usually a spelling of Tyrrell, ultimately from an old personal name related to Theodoric/Thierry.

Terrill is usually a spelling variant of Terrell, ultimately from the old given name Theodoric, meaning “ruler of the people.”

A surname of likely Spanish origin, probably linked to a place name or the word for clods of earth/soil.

An English and French surname from the old personal name Theodoric, meaning “ruler of the people.”

A Dutch-origin surname, probably tied to a word for a by-law or civic regulation, though the old source is not fully secure.

A Spanish surname most often linked to the place-name Terrán/Terán, with a likely locational meaning.

A surname that likely began as a short form or variant of Germanic names, especially those with forms like Tasker, Tessall, or related nickname roots.

A French occupational surname meaning “weaver,” from an old regional word for someone who worked at the loom.

A surname from the Latin and Romance word for a pot, jar, or head, often used as a nickname or descriptive byname.

Likely a surname from an old French personal name, though it was also influenced by words for a test vessel or headpiece.

A rare surname of uncertain origin, with no clear etymology established in the cited historical sources.

A French surname likely built from a personal name, most often found in French-speaking North America.

A surname that can be either locational, from the Oxfordshire place-name Tew, or descriptive, from a Welsh word meaning “fat” or “plump.”

A surname likely linked to the craft of thatching, or a short form of Thatcher in some lines.

An English occupational surname for a thatcher or roofer, with a Yorkshire form sometimes influenced by local place-name usage.

A surname most likely tied to place names based on a word for “valley,” though in some cases it may also reflect ethnic or regional naming.

A surname for someone who lived by or was identified with the River Thames.

A surname most often associated with the Hmong name tradition, widely carried by Hmong families in the United States.

An English surname most often traced to Thorpe/Torp, meaning someone who lived at or came from a small settlement or outlying hamlet.

A surname most likely from a place-name, referring to someone who came from a village or settlement called Thorp/Tharpe.

An occupational surname for a roofer or thatcher—someone who covered roofs with straw, reed, or similar material.

A surname most likely from a place name, referring to someone who came from or lived near Thaxton.

An old English surname probably meaning “of the people’s army,” though some writers also connected it with the name Theodoric.

A German surname that often began as a short form of Matthias or related names, and sometimes as a shortened form from an old Germanic name element meaning “day” or “brightness.”

A German and Dutch surname usually derived from a personal name meaning “son of Theis,” with Theis itself a short form of Matthew or Matthias.

A surname most often explained as a shortened or Anglicized form of a Welsh patronymic, especially from Llewelyn.

A Germanic personal name meaning “people-bold,” later adopted as a surname.

A surname from the personal name Theodore, meaning “gift of God.”

A French surname, probably from an old personal name or regional form, now most strongly associated with French Canada.

A French surname from the old Germanic personal name Theobald, meaning “people-bold” or “bold among the people.”

A French-Canadian surname that likely began as a patronymic or regional form of a French personal name such as Thibault.

A French surname that began as a patronymic, meaning “son of Thibault” or “descendant of Thibault.”

A French surname from a personal name, most famously associated with Louisiana Creole and Acadian families.

A German surname that most often comes from a shortened form of a personal name such as Dietrich or Theodor.

A German surname most likely from a short form of Dietrich or a related old German given name.

A German surname that usually comes from a short form of Matthias or Thies, meaning it began as a personal name rather than a place name.

A Germanic surname most likely meaning “son of Thies,” with Thies being a short form of Matthias or Matthew in some regions.

An English surname of uncertain origin, likely a regional variant of an older place-name or nickname form.

A short form of Thomas, used as a surname from a forebear’s given name.

A surname that most often began as a shortened form of Thomas, the name of the apostle.

An ancient biblical name meaning “twin,” Thomas became one of the most common surnames in the English-speaking world.

A patronymic surname meaning “son of Thomas.”

A surname meaning “son of Thomas,” with a form influenced by French-style diminutive endings in some traditions.

A patronymic surname built from Thomas, with an inserted -p- shape seen in older English surname forms like Tompkins.

An English surname meaning “son of Thomas,” with Thompson as a later spelling of Thomson.

A Scandinavian patronymic surname meaning “son of Thom,” ultimately from the name Thomas.

A Scottish and English surname meaning “son of Thomas,” a classic patronymic that spread widely in Britain and beyond.

A surname for someone who lived by a thorn tree, thorn bush, or similarly named place.

A topographic surname meaning “thorn hill” or “thorn-covered hill.”

A surname for someone who lived by a thorn bush or at a place marked by thorns.

A habitational surname meaning “from Thornhill,” a place-name built from Old English for a hill marked by thorn trees.

A common English and Scottish place-name surname meaning someone from a thorny enclosure or farmstead.

An English and Scottish surname meaning someone from a village, hamlet, or small farmstead.

A habitational surname for someone who lived in or came from a farmstead, hamlet, or small village.

A patronymic surname meaning “son of Thor,” the name of the Norse thunder god.

An English surname most likely from an occupational nickname for a thresher—someone who beat grain to separate the kernels.

An occupational surname for someone who threshed grain, separating the seed from the stalks.

An English surname most likely from a nickname for a bold or menacing person, or a spelling variant of Threat.

A surname that likely began as a nickname for a prudent, economical person—or from the virtue-name tradition itself.

A place-based English surname from a Worcestershire village name that probably meant “rocky moor town.”

An occupational surname for someone who wound or twisted thread or silk, especially in textile work.

An English-language surname of uncertain origin, probably a variant or altered form of an older name beginning with Thor- or Thur-.

A surname most likely meaning “son of Thurmond/Thormod,” built on an old Norse-English personal name linked with Thor.

A surname from an old personal name meaning “Thor’s protection.”

A surname usually meaning “Thor’s farm” or “Thurston’s estate,” often taken from English place-names in Norfolk and Suffolk.

A French surname, likely from a personal name ultimately linked to Therese or a related form.

A French surname most likely from a personal name, especially a regional form related to Thierry.

A Chinese surname, most commonly linked to the character 田, meaning “field.”

A surname most often understood as a spelling variant of Tibbet/Tibbett, itself a pet form of Theobald.

A surname most likely from a pet form of Theobald, meaning "people of the bold ruler."

A surname that may come either from the old personal name Tisa or as a short form of Matthias.

An English surname most likely taken from a place-name, originally meaning someone from or near Tidwell/Tidwells.

An Irish surname traditionally understood as meaning “descendant of a lord” or linked to an old Irish personal name meaning lordly.

A surname that began as a baptismal name for children born on Epiphany, the feast of the manifestation of Christ.

Usually an Irish surname from Mac Tighe, literally “son of Tadhg,” though some English lines may be tied to place-names or saintly forms.

A Spanish surname probably tied to a nickname or place name built from tijera, “scissors.”

Usually an English surname from a short form of old names like Matilda, though in some cases it may come from a place-name meaning “at the hill.”

An occupational surname for a husbandman or land-cultivator—literally, someone who tills the soil.

An English surname whose origin is uncertain, but it may be a variant of Tiller or a place-based name shaped by medieval spelling.

Usually a surname from place names in Normandy, though in some cases it may also be a nickname or shortened form of William.

An occupational surname meaning either a ploughman or, in some early sources, a tile-maker/tiler.

A patronymic surname meaning “son of Tillot,” with Tillot likely a pet form ultimately connected to Matilda.

A habitational surname meaning “from Tilton,” especially the place in Leicestershire.

A surname usually explained as coming from a local place-name meaning “timber lake” or, less likely, from a nickname tied to a wooden leg.

A short form of Timothy, Timm began as a baptismal-name surname and later spread into several related spellings.

An occupational surname meaning “carpenter” or “woodworker,” especially common in Dutch and related naming traditions.

Usually a patronymic surname meaning “son of Tim” or “son of Timothy.”

A patronymic surname meaning “son of Tim,” with Tim shortened from Timothy.

A short English surname that usually began as a pet form of Timothy, meaning “honoring God.”

A Spanish occupational surname meaning “potter” or “jar-maker.”

A rare surname that is most likely an old spelling variant of a name built from a personal nickname or place-based form, though its exact origin is uncertain.

A northern English place-based surname meaning “from Tynedale,” the valley of the River Tyne.

Usually a surname from a place-name, most likely referring to someone from or near Tingley/Tinghill.

A surname most likely meaning “the meadow or clearing by Tingle” — probably a place-name surname from an English locality.

An occupational surname for a metal mender or itinerant repairer, especially one who fixed pots and pans.

Usually a local English surname, likely from a place-name or a nickname based on “tin,” with some early sources treating it as a Tin-like form.

A Spanish and Portuguese surname most often linked to a place name or regional nickname, especially in Iberian tradition.

A habitational surname meaning “from Tinsley,” a place name in Yorkshire.

An English surname that most likely began as a pet or nickname form of Theobald, with some later confusion with related Tibbett forms.

A habitational surname from places named Tipton, most likely meaning “Tiba’s farm or settlement.”

A Spanish surname most likely from a nickname or descriptor based on the verb *tirar*, with senses ranging from “pulled” or “drawn out” to “thrown down” or “exposed.”

An English surname meaning someone from Teesdale, the valley of the River Tees.

A surname of uncertain origin, most likely a place-name or a diminutive form related to older personal names.

An ancient Latin given name, later adopted as a surname, sometimes linked by old writers to the idea of a giant or to honorability.

A short surname that can have different origins depending on the family, especially in East and Southeast Asian naming traditions.

Usually a habitational surname, most likely referring to a place-name built on a word for a well or spring.

An English and Jewish surname that usually comes from the personal name Tobias or Toby, meaning “God is good.”

A biblical surname from the Hebrew name meaning “Jehovah is good.”

An Irish surname usually treated as a shortened form of Tobias, the biblical name meaning “God is good.”

An old nickname surname from a word for “fox,” originally suggesting someone sly or foxlike.

Most likely an Irish surname, often treated as a form of Tolan, though some writers also linked it to Norman-French or place-name forms.

A surname that most likely began as a medieval personal name, later fixed as a family name.

A surname taken from the Spanish city of Toledo, originally marking someone as coming from that place.

A surname from the Italian town of Tolentino, originally identifying someone who came from there.

A surname that may come from a toll-collector, a place-name, or the Cornish idea of being “free from toll.”

A surname most likely from a nickname or regional form of Oliver, sometimes with Norman-French or English dialect roots.

A surname with several possible roots, including a Germanic nickname or a shortened form of an older given name.

A Scandinavian patronymic surname meaning “son of Tollef,” ultimately from a personal name built on Thor or Þórr.

Usually a shortened form of Bartholomew, though some early scholars also linked it to Scandinavian Thorleik.

An American surname often treated as a vernacular form of Taliaferro/Tolliver, shaped by pronunciation and spelling changes over time.

Usually an English occupational surname meaning “toll man” or tax collector, though some Cornish families may have taken it from local place-names.

Usually an English patronymic surname meaning “son of Toll,” with Toll commonly a pet form of Thomas.

A surname that usually began as a pet form of Thomas, especially in medieval England.

A surname with multiple possible roots, often treated as a short form of Thomas but sometimes linked in older scholarship to Anglo-Saxon names like Toma or to local place-name forms.

A surname from the personal name Thomas, ultimately meaning “twin.”

A Polish surname meaning “from Tomaszew” or “belonging to Tomasz,” ultimately tied to the name Thomas.

A diminutive surname from Thomas, meaning “little Tom” or “son of Tom.”

A patronymic surname meaning “son of Tomlin,” with Tomlin being a pet form of Thomas.

A surname of English origin meaning “Thomas’s son,” built from the pet form Tom and the patronymic ending -kins.

A patronymic surname meaning “Tom’s son” or simply “belonging to Tom,” from the medieval pet form Tom for Thomas.

A surname usually from a place-name ending in Old English *tun*, meaning a farm, settlement, or enclosure.

An Irish surname often associated with the Ó Tomhrair family, though older writers offered more than one explanation.

Usually a surname that developed from the given name Anthony, though in some cases it may also be locational or from a place-name like Saham Toney.

Usually a habitational surname from places called Tong or Tonge, named for a tongue-shaped piece of land or a point at a river meeting.

A surname usually from the Irish Ó Tuathail, meaning a descendant of Tuathal.

A surname with mixed English and Celtic roots: it may come from a pet form of an old Norse personal name, or from Irish O'Toole.

An English surname most likely from the name Tom, later sometimes spelled with an intrusive -b; some sources also connect it to St. Omer.

An Irish surname, most commonly an Anglicized form of an old Gaelic family name, especially associated with Munster.

A surname of uncertain origin, likely from a nickname or descriptive byname in Iberian usage.

Usually a surname from a place-name idea: someone who lived by the top meadow or high ground.

A Scandinavian patronymic surname meaning “son of Torgeir,” “son of Torger,” or “son of a Thor-name.”

A Spanish surname and given name likely tied to the saint’s name Toribio, ultimately from a Germanic name associated with Thor.

A surname from the Spanish word for “bull,” likely first used as a nickname or emblematic name.

A surname that usually points to a tower, hill, or fortified place.

A surname that may come from a Scottish place name, though in Irish families it was also used as a form of Terence.

A very common Spanish surname meaning “towers,” originally tied to someone who lived by or worked at towers or to places named for them.

A surname most likely tied to a hill, tower, or rocky place, with Scottish and Irish place-name connections.

A Spanish surname most likely related to Torres, meaning someone from or near towers or a towered place.

An Italian surname meaning “a person from Tuscany.”

An English surname that likely began as a nickname meaning “tooth,” though the same spelling can also reflect unrelated Central European names.

A surname most likely built from a medieval personal name, later fixed in English and Irish records in several spelling forms.

A French surname and given name meaning “All Saints,” often first given to children born on the feast of All Saints.

A Spanish surname most likely taken from a place name, ultimately tied to a family seat called Tovar.

A surname that usually meant someone who lived by, worked at, or was identified with a tower or fortified stronghold.

An English surname that can come either from the word for a tower or from places linked to Tours in France.

A surname most likely from the same word-family as “tower,” probably referring to someone who lived by or worked at a tower-like place.

A surname with several possible English roots, often treated as a variant of Toll or Towell.

An old English surname meaning someone from the town or settlement.

An English surname probably referring to someone from a town, or more specifically a town worker, farmhand, or town-herdsman.

A surname that usually began as a locational name meaning “of the town” or “from the village.”

A habitational surname meaning someone who came from a town meadow or settlement by a lane.

A surname meaning “of the town,” often originally a shortened form of Townsend or a local name for someone who lived in a settlement.

An English locational surname meaning “at the town’s end.”

An old surname that may come from a medieval personal name, and in some cases may reflect Scandinavian influence.

A surname with two main roots: Norman French place-name origins for many English Traceys, and an Irish Gaelic form behind some Irish Traceys/Treacys.

A surname with two main origins: most often from a Norman French place name, but sometimes as an English occupational name or an Irish Gaelic surname in Anglicized form.

An occupational surname for a trader or merchant, though some early writers thought it may sometimes be a spelling corruption.

A French surname most likely from a regional form of a nickname or occupational name, best known today in Louisiana and other French-influenced communities.

A surname that may come from a place-name, a French form, or a folk-linked Norse nickname meaning “devil” or “troll.”

A surname that likely began as a nickname for a brave, strong man in Irish Gaelic, though some English sources also read it as an occupational name.

An Irish surname often understood as meaning “strong man” or “brave man,” with some Cornish-locational explanations also recorded.

A surname likely from a trade name connected with a trammel, a kind of net or measuring device.

A Vietnamese surname that most often comes from the common family name Trần, widely known in the Vietnamese diaspora.

An English surname most likely from a place name, probably meaning someone from or near a hazel-tree enclosure or similar landscape feature.

A surname likely from a French/German nickname meaning “stumpy” or “heavy-footed,” though some historical writers also linked it to a place-name.

A surname that likely began as a place-based or regional name in northern Europe, later appearing in English records in several altered forms.

A German surname built from an old personal name meaning something like “dear” or “trusted” plus “man.”

A rare surname that may have begun as a shortened place-name, likely referring to land or a location “beyond” something in medieval Scotland.

A Norman-French surname for someone who lived by a crossway, crossroads, or side-road.

Usually a surname of French origin, related to Travers, and originally linked to a crossing place or crossroads.

A surname most likely from an old occupational name for a tailor or cloth worker, with spelling shaped by regional pronunciation over time.

An Irish surname usually linked to Gaelic Treanor, often connected with a personal name meaning “strong” or “marrowy.”

A surname most likely derived from a place-name or roadway term meaning a path or thoroughfare.

An English surname meaning someone who lived by a well or spring beside a path or road.

An English surname that may be a nickname or a place-name surname, with some medieval spellings suggesting roots in older forms like Treath or Trehet.

An English surname likely arising as a variant of Trees, tied to a place-name meaning “farmstead by a tree” or “tree enclosure.”

A Spanish surname most often linked to a place name, especially the village of Trejo in Extremadura, Spain.

A French surname meaning someone from a place named for trembling poplars or aspen trees.

A locational surname meaning “from the River Trent,” one of England’s major rivers.

A surname most likely linked to “tress,” suggesting someone associated with hair, braids, or perhaps a maker of such items.

A Spanish and Italian-style surname most likely referring to someone from a place called Trevi or Treviño, or to a related regional place-name.

A Spanish surname most likely tied to a place name, especially from the Trivizo/Treviso area-name tradition.

An Americanized spelling of a German/Swiss surname related to Trechsler, likely meaning “turner” or “maker of small turned goods.”

A surname usually taken from the place name Triana, most famously a historic district of Seville, Spain.

An English surname that may have begun as a nickname or altered spelling related to “triple”/“treble,” though the exact origin is uncertain.

A rare surname most likely shortened from a medieval name like Beatrice or from a nickname-based source, with some uncertainty in the old records.

A French habitational surname linked to places or a river name in Brittany.

An English surname most likely from an old Norse personal name meaning “true” or “faithful,” though some records also connect it with a place-name.

A mostly Cornish surname that likely began as a place-based name and later picked up several spelling variants.

Probably a surname for a trimmer or cutter, though some families may instead come from a place-name such as Tremere in Cornwall.

A Vietnamese surname, often written with a final silent or lightly articulated -h in English spelling.

A surname taken from the Spanish/Christian name for the Holy Trinity, often originally bestowed for religious devotion or naming after a place called Trinidad.

A nickname surname probably referring to a third-born child or a set of three, with a later English spelling shaped by the word “triplet.”

Usually a nickname surname, probably from a word meaning “to trip” or “skip,” though some early forms suggest it may also reflect a personal name.

A name of Arthurian fame, probably from a Celtic root meaning “noise” or “bluster,” though later writers also linked it to French *triste* “sad.”

An Indian surname usually linked to learned Brahmin lineages and the Sanskrit tradition of the Vedas.

A surname most likely tracing back to a place-name or family form that entered English in altered spelling.

A surname from words meaning “comfort” or “trust,” found in German, Dutch, and related European naming traditions.

An English surname with disputed origins, either a nickname from “dear/beloved” or a short form tied to Trotman and Trotter.

Originally a byname for someone who trotted—especially a messenger or runner.

A Scottish surname most often taken from a place-name, with some older writers also linking it to a word for a farm or village.

Usually an English nickname surname from the fish, though some old sources also treat it as a variant of Trott.

A surname most likely meaning “the man associated with trout,” probably from an occupation, nickname, or place-name tied to fishing.

A habitational surname for someone from Trowbridge in Wiltshire, literally tied to the idea of a wooden bridge.

A surname likely developed as an Americanized spelling of a Swiss German name related to Trachsel.

Usually a surname from the French city of Troyes, though some sources also linked it to the older name Trow.

A surname of uncertain origin, most likely a regional or variant form tied to German-speaking naming patterns.

A surname most likely tied to a French or Breton place-name, though older writers offered several uncertain explanations.

A French surname likely tied to an old Germanic personal name, later established in France and carried to North America.

A straightforward surname from Middle English meaning “faithful” or “loyal.”

An English surname built from the compliment-like nickname “true blood,” likely meaning a person thought to be genuine, loyal, or of good stock.

An English surname built from the idea of a “true dale,” likely a place-name-style formation or a family name shaped by the word true.

A surname most likely arising as a shortened or altered form of an older personal name, especially from Truth/Truett-type forms.

A Spanish surname taken from the city of Trujillo, best known as a place-name surname from western Spain.

A name most likely tied to the Somerset place-name Trull, though older writers also connected it with a Middle English word for a loose woman.

A surname meaning “true man” or “man of truth,” originally a nickname for a trustworthy person.

A surname most likely descended from Turnbull, though some writers also linked it to an old personal name meaning “strong, bold.”

A surname most often linked to a trumpeter or trumpet-player, with a possible connection to the word for a trumpet.

A common Vietnamese surname, often written with the Latin alphabet and associated with the Chinese-derived character Trương.

A surname with several possible roots, most likely a diminutive or altered form of an older personal name, though some sources link it to a place-name or French form.

A nickname surname from Middle English/Old English meaning “faithful” or “reliable.”

A surname probably from a Norman/French place-name or nickname form, with some evidence of a French dialect word behind it.

A common Chinese surname, usually representing the Mandarin romanization of several different Chinese family names or characters depending on dialect and spelling system.

A Chinese surname most commonly linked to the Sinitic family of names written with characters such as 曾 or 仓/倉, depending on the family line and romanization system.

A short surname of Chinese origin, usually representing a Cantonese-style romanization of a Chinese family name.

A Chinese surname most often representing the Mandarin romanization of the character 曾.

A surname of East Asian origin, most often found as a romanization of a Chinese family name.

A Navajo surname most often linked to a descriptive Navajo word, widely borne in the American Southwest.

A short surname found in several cultures, often from a Chinese family name and sometimes from unrelated East or Southeast Asian sources.

A patronymic surname meaning “son of Tubb,” with Tubb commonly treated as a pet form of Theobald.

An Italian surname most often linked to a personal name or regional nickname, especially in central and southern Italy.

An English surname that may come from an Old English nickname, though some early writers also linked it to the related surname Tooke.

An occupational surname for a cloth fuller, from the old English word for a fuller of cloth.

A Welsh surname ultimately linked to the personal name Tudor, a Welsh form of Theodore, later made famous by the Tudor dynasty.

An English surname of uncertain origin, probably a nickname or form related to a small set of old surnames beginning with Tug- or Tuck-.

A surname with several possible origins, most often treated as a local name or a shortened form related to older French and English place- and personal-names.

An Irish and Scottish surname that likely means “descendant of Tully” or is linked to place-names called Tulloch/Tullagh.

A surname with several possible roots, including an Irish name meaning “flood” and a French place-name connection.

A surname that most likely began as a short form related to a word for the tongue—possibly used as a nickname for a talkative or eloquent person.

An English surname that likely began as a nickname or pet form, probably related to old personal names such as Tunn or similar Germanic short forms.

A habitational surname meaning “from Tunstall,” a name found at several English places, originally referring to a farm or settlement by a boundary or enclosure.

A surname most often explained as an occupational name for someone who kept tups, or rams.

A surname of uncertain origin, found in Spanish-speaking regions and likely tied to an older family line or place-based naming tradition.

A French surname most likely built from a personal nickname or older place-name element, now especially associated with French-Canadian families.

A Slavic surname often derived from a word for a Turk, usually as an ethnic nickname or identifier.

A French surname most often understood as an occupational name connected with a barber-surgeon or surgeon.

A surname for someone identified as “the Turk,” originally an ethnic or descriptive nickname for a Turkish or Muslim person.

Usually an English surname from a place-name, likely meaning “Thor’s clearing” or a similar “-ley” field name.

A surname with a few possible roots, most likely a reduced or altered form of a Germanic or English name.

A surname likely born from an old nickname, place name, or altered form of an older English surname beginning with Turn-.

A Scottish and English surname meaning “turn the bull,” later linked by legend to a brave deed involving King Robert Bruce.

An occupational surname for a maker or user of a lathe, especially one who turns wood, metal, or pottery.

A surname most often traced to the French place-name Tournay or Tourny, introduced into English after the Norman period.

An old surname usually explained as coming from the medieval personal name Turpin, made famous by the legend of Roland.

A short English surname that likely began as a pet form of an old Germanic personal name.

A surname most likely from a place-name meaning a lookout hill, though some writers connected it with an old English personal name.

A Scottish and northern English surname probably meaning “from Tweeddale” or “by the Tweed.”

An Irish surname, usually anglicized from a Gaelic family name linked to the Toomey/Twomey clan in Cork and Kerry.

A surname for someone who lived by a common pasture or small enclosed piece of village land.

An occupational surname meaning a tile-maker or roof-tiler.

A surname usually linked to Tynedale, the valley of the River Tyne in northern England.

An English surname that likely began as a nickname or occupational name related to a tinkerer or maker of small goods.

A surname most likely taken from the Scottish island of Tiree, especially by people connected with the Hebrides.

An old surname with Norman roots, most likely tied to a personal name or a word for a tower rather than a simple place-name.

Usually a patronymic surname meaning “son of Tyas” or, in some cases, a spelling variant of Dyson.

A Spanish patronymic surname meaning “son of Tello,” ultimately from a medieval personal name.