Surnames starting with F

A surname most likely of Spanish-language origin, probably tied to a place-name or a regional family name rather than a common English word.

A Latinized occupational surname meaning “smith” or “craftsman,” often used in records for someone called Wright, Smith, or Carpenter.

A surname from the Roman personal name Fabianus, originally meaning “bean” or “bean-grower.”

An Irish surname most often taken from Gaelic Ó Faodhagáin / Ó Faogáin forms, though some older writers also tried to connect it with O'Hagan.

An Irish surname usually linked to Gaelic Ó Fathaigh, meaning a descendant of a man named Fathach or Fathadh.

A surname that may come from a nickname or from a French word meaning “lazy” or “idle,” though its exact origin is not secure.

A surname usually from the adjective “fair,” describing someone’s complexion, hair, or appearance, and sometimes a place-name element.

A topographic surname for someone who lived by a pleasant, bright, or “fair” bank or slope.

An English surname likely formed as a nickname meaning “fair child” or “beautiful child,” later treated as a fixed family name.

A surname that likely began as a form of Fairclough, meaning someone from a place by a ravine or glen.

A Scottish and English surname most often taken from a place name meaning “fair pasture” or “pleasant meadow.”

A surname most often treated as a spelling variant of French-origin names like Faizon or Faison, with a likely nickname or patronymic background.

A rare surname that likely began as a devotional or virtue-based nickname, or from a saint’s name or feast day.

A Spanish surname with an uncertain origin, probably tied to an old place-name or a Celtic root meaning “wood.”

A name that likely began as a byname or given name meaning “falcon.”

A surname from the bird name “falcon,” often used as a nickname for someone thought swift, fierce, or hawk-like.

A surname from the word for “falcon,” likely first used as a nickname or heraldic byname.

An occupational surname for someone who kept or trained falcons for hunting.

A surname with two main roots: in German it can mean “falcon,” while in English records it is often a short form of Fulk.

A surname that can arise from a local name for a waterfall or hillside drop, though in some cases it may be from other regional or nickname sources.

An Irish surname most often treated as an Anglicized form of a Gaelic family name, though some writers also suggested other origins.

Usually an English topographic surname, for someone who lived by a waterfall or a steep drop in the land.

A rare surname that may come from a nickname, a place-name, or the English word for a winnowing fan, depending on the family line.

An English surname whose origin is uncertain, but it is often treated as a regional or altered form of an older French- or English-based name.

An Italian surname most likely formed from a personal name or nickname based on a root meaning “little pan, fan, or blade,” depending on local dialect and family history.

A surname with more than one possible origin, most likely from a nickname, a Chinese family name, or a shortened form of a descriptive German byname.

A surname that most likely began as a nickname or occupational name connected with a winnowing fan or a local place-name.

An Irish surname that likely began as a form of Fanning or a related Gaelic name, especially in Ireland’s southwest.

An Irish surname that likely began as a local or patronymic name and later became established especially in County Limerick.

A rare surname that likely began as a shortened or reshaped form of a French nickname or compound name ending in -fant, especially those built on Old French bon enfant, “good child.”

A surname usually derived from an Arabic given name meaning “joy” or “happiness.”

A surname usually tied to an occupational name for a craftsman or worker, especially one connected with dyeing or a similar trade in Germanic usage.

A Spanish surname probably linked to an old word for a soldier or cavalryman in service to the Moors.

A Cornish form of Maria, historically used as a given name and then sometimes as a surname.

A surname most often linked to Iberian or Latin American family naming, with roots that may be regional or patronymic rather than occupational.

A surname from the Italian word for flour or meal, likely first applied to a miller, grain trader, or someone associated with flour production.

A surname with several possible roots, often treated as a spelling variant of Farish or related names.

A Hungarian surname meaning “wolf,” originally a nickname or byname for a fierce or brave person.

A habitational surname meaning “from one of several places called Farley,” literally a “fern clearing” or “fair clearing” in Old English place-name elements.

A surname most likely taken from the place name Farlow in Shropshire, meaning someone who came from that locality.

An occupational surname for a farm worker, tenant, or husbandman.

A place-name surname from one of several English parishes and settlements called Farnham.

An English habitational surname meaning “fern enclosure” or “fern homestead,” from places called Farnworth.

Usually a surname from a place-name, especially the parish of Farr in Sutherland, Scotland.

Likely a surname for a farrier, though some early scholars also connected it with “fair hair.”

An Irish surname from the Gaelic personal name Fergal, meaning roughly “man of valor” or “man of strength.”

An English habitational surname, most often meaning someone from Farrington in Lancashire or from a place with a similar name.

Usually a variant of Ferris, with roots in an old personal name that likely meant “man of the wild boar” or was related to Ferrers-style Norman forms.

An English surname that may come from an old personal name, though some bearers may also reflect later spelling variation from Pharaoh/Pharo.

A nickname surname for someone thought of as firm, steadfast, or quick-moving.

A surname with several possible roots, most likely tied to a French or Germanic name form rather than a single clear English source.

An old surname that usually began as a nickname or a shortened form of Faulkner, linked to a falcon.

An occupational surname for a falconer—someone who kept, trained, or hunted with hawks.

A German surname that can mean “lucky” or “auspicious,” though in some cases it may also relate to the word for “fist.”

A surname of Iberian and especially Spanish-language usage, most likely tied to a place name or local feature.

An English surname that likely began as a nickname or a variant spelling connected with “favor” or “favours.”

A northern English surname most likely taken from a place name in Yorkshire, later spelled in several close variants.

A surname with several possible roots, most often linked to the French place-name Fay or to a word for a beech tree.

An Italian surname most often explained as coming from Latin roots meaning “done” or “made,” or from a personal name built on those roots.

An English surname that is probably a variant of Ferris, though some sources also connect it with Gaelic fear, meaning “man” or “hero.”

An English surname that likely began as a nickname for someone associated with feasting or a cheerful appetite.

A place-based surname originally meaning “person from Featherstone,” from an English place name probably going back to an old personal name rather than the bird feather.

A Romance given name and surname from the old Germanic name meaning “peaceful ruler.”

A surname with at least two likely roots: in some cases it comes from the Old French/feudal word for a fief or estate, and in others it may be an Anglicized Irish surname.

An Irish surname, usually treated as an anglicized form of a Gaelic family name.

An Irish surname, most often understood as a form of Ó Fionnáin or a related Gaelic name, with a strong concentration in western Ireland.

A German surname that may point to a ferryman or, in some cases, a short form or regional variant of a name beginning with Feh-/Fahr-.

A German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname meaning “fine mountain” or, more likely, “fine/beautiful hill.”

A German surname originally used as a nickname for someone stout, plump, or fat.

A surname that usually means “one who lived by or worked in fields,” or in some cases comes from a place-name with the same sense.

A surname meaning “field man,” originally used for someone who lived or worked by fields or open farmland.

A surname and given name ultimately tied to Latin words for “happy” or “fortunate,” used in several European traditions.

A surname ultimately from the Latin name Felicianus, meaning “happy” or “fortunate.”

A Spanish and Portuguese surname from the personal name Felipe, meaning “lover of horses.”

A surname from the Latin name Felix, meaning “happy” or “fortunate.”

A Spanish and Portuguese surname from the word for “happy” or “fortunate.”

A surname that is likely a German-American spelling of a name originally linked to a personal name or occupational form, with the exact source somewhat uncertain.

A surname that could come from someone who lived by a hill or open upland, or from the Old English adjective meaning “sharp” or “cruel.”

A surname that can come from the German word for a furrier or skin-worker, though some bearers may simply be linked to the surname Fell.

A surname from Middle English meaning “companion” or “comrade,” originally a possessive form of the word fellow.

An English surname most likely from the cloth-making term felt, originally linked to a fuller or wool worker.

A surname most likely tied to felt-making or to a place-name family of Germanic origin.

A habitational surname from several English places called Felton, likely meaning “farmstead on a hill” or “settlement by a rocky/stony hill.”

A surname most likely tied to felt-making or felt goods, though the historical evidence here is thin.

Usually a surname for a defender or keeper, probably from Middle English and Old English words meaning “to defend.”

A surname most often linked to Chinese family names, though the lone historical excerpt here is too noisy to pin down a specific origin with confidence.

A surname for someone who lived by a fen, marsh, or bog.

A surname with more than one likely origin, often explained as coming from a small lane or passage, though some branches may be linked to other local place-names or occupational forms.

An English surname most likely tied to either a place called Fenn/Fen or, in some traditions, to a huntsman or venator-like occupation.

A German surname likely formed from a personal name or place-name base, with the ending giving it a family-name shape common in northern German and Slavic-border regions.

A place-name surname meaning “from the fen settlement” or “from the village on marshy ground.”

A northern English locational surname meaning “dweller by the fen farm or village.”

A Scottish and northern English surname meaning “son of Fergus,” from an old Gaelic personal name.

Fermin is usually treated as a form of Firmin, a surname and given name ultimately linked to the Latin name Firminus, meaning “steadfast” or “firm.”

A patronymic surname meaning “son of Fernando” or “son of Ferdinand.”

A Spanish patronymic surname meaning “son of Fernando,” with Fernando itself coming from Ferdinand.

A Spanish and Italian surname taken from the given name Fernando, ultimately the same name as Ferdinand.

An Italian surname from a name meaning “steadfast” or “brave,” ultimately tied to Ferdinand/Ferrante as a personal name.

An Italian surname most often taken from the city of Ferrara in northern Italy.

An Italian surname that most often began as a name for a blacksmith or horse-shoer.

An Italian surname usually linked to ironworking or a smith’s trade.

An Iberian surname usually meaning “one who lived by” or “worked at” a smithy or ironworks.

An English and Irish surname probably from a diminutive or variant of Farrell/Ferrall, with roots in an old personal name meaning “man of valor.”

A surname with French roots, most likely from a place name linked to ironworking, though it was sometimes also connected with a farrier or iron dealer.

An occupational surname meaning “horse-shoer” or “farrier,” ultimately from the Old French word for iron.

An English and Irish surname usually understood as a form of Ferrers or related to the word for a blacksmith/ironworker.

A surname with several possible roots, most often linked to iron or to a nickname for someone strong, hard, or iron-like.

A surname that most often meant someone who lived or worked at a ferry crossing.

A German surname that likely began as a name for someone who made or sold barrels, or as a regional occupational nickname tied to coopering work.

A surname that may come from a place-name element meaning “under” or from a later nickname or occupational shift, with some uncertainty in the historical record.

A likely nickname surname from “fetter,” originally referring to shackles or someone associated with restraining others.

A German surname most often from a nickname or occupational root tied to a kind of cutter, maker, or sharp tool.

An Irish surname most likely connected with the Gaelic name Ó Fiaich, later anglicized in forms such as Fee and Fey.

A surname that may come from a shortened or sharpened form of names like Figg, or from a continental name shape found in Germanic and Dutch records.

An occupational surname meaning a fiddler or violin player, with Fidler as an old spelling variant of Fiddler.

A German occupational surname meaning “fiddler” or violin player.

A common English surname meaning someone who lived by an open field or countryside clearing.

An occupational surname for someone who worked in or managed a common field or open farmland.

A surname that usually began as a place-name for someone who lived or worked by a field, though one old tradition links it to a German noble family.

A common English surname originally referring to someone who lived by, worked in, or came from the fields.

A surname built from the word for “iron,” often pointing to a maker, worker, or something iron-like in character.

A Scottish surname most likely taken from the county of Fife, though one old source links it to descent from the earls of Fife.

A Spanish surname tied to a place or landscape associated with fig trees.

A rare surname most likely arising as a shortened or altered form of a personal name, with some historical sources linking it to diminutive forms of Sophia.

Likely a variant spelling of the surname Fyles, which is often explained as a nickname or local name from Old English roots.

A surname that likely began as a place-based name, probably from an English local place name such as Finborough or another similar location.

A surname most often from the bird name, likely first given as a nickname for someone thought lively, songful, or birdlike.

An English occupational surname for someone who caught, kept, or sold finches—popular cage-birds in earlier centuries.

A Scottish surname from the Gaelic personal name Finlay, originally meaning “fair hero” or “white warrior.”

A surname that usually comes from the Gaelic name Finlay, meaning “fair warrior” or “fair hero.”

A surname often taken from a nickname meaning “fine,” “handsome,” or “delicate,” especially from French and Middle English usage.

A surname that may come from a finger-related nickname or from a German place-name pattern, and is not secure in one single origin.

A German surname meaning “finch,” sometimes also associated with a lively or cheerful nickname sense.

A German and Dutch surname usually understood as a nickname from “finch,” and sometimes as a diminutive of an old personal name.

A Jewish ornamental or habitational surname built from German words meaning “spark” and “stone.”

An anglicized Irish and Scottish surname that often began as a form of Finlay or a name built from Gaelic fin, “fair” or “white.”

Originally a name for a person from Finland, though in some cases it may also reflect an old Irish byname or baptismal form.

An Irish surname usually understood as a form of Ó Fionnagáin, meaning a descendant of a little fair-haired one or little fair one.

An Irish surname, most likely an anglicized form of a Gaelic name linked to the root fin- meaning “fair” or “white.”

An English and Scottish surname that likely began as a diminutive of Phin/Finn, with a possible secondary link to the adjective “fine.”

An Italian surname meaning “flower,” from a word used for the blossom itself and, by extension, beauty or freshness.

An Italian surname meaning “Florentine” or “from Florence,” originally used for someone who came from that city or region.

An English surname most likely built from the words for “fire” and “stone,” probably as a descriptive or ornamental name.

A German occupational surname meaning “fisherman.”

A name most often taken from the fish itself—either as a nickname or, less often, from someone connected with fish or fishing.

An occupational surname for someone who caught or sold fish.

A surname that most likely began as an occupational name for someone who dealt in fish, especially a fish seller or fisherman.

An old surname meaning “fish,” originally used as a nickname, occupational label, or sometimes a name tied to fish-trading or fishing.

An English surname that likely began as a nickname or occupational name connected with fish or fishing.

A surname with two old English possibilities: it may come from the word for a polecat, or from a shortened form of Fitz.

A surname that likely began as a shortened or altered form of a name like White or Fitt, rather than from a distinct occupation or place-name.

A surname that is most likely a shortened or altered form related to Fitz- names, with the spelling stabilized in English usage.

A Norman-French surname element meaning “son of,” later used as a family name in its own right.

An Anglo-Norman patronymic meaning “son of Gerald,” long associated with a famous Irish noble family.

An Irish surname meaning “son of Patrick,” later used as an anglicized form of several Gaelic family names.

A Norman-style patronymic meaning “son of Simon,” with the Fitz- prefix showing descent.

A surname that began as a Norman-style family name, originally meaning “son of Walter.”

A rare surname that is usually treated as a nickname or occupational name, but its exact origin is uncertain.

A likely locational surname for someone who lived by flat, low-lying ground.

An English surname probably from a place-name in Derbyshire, though some writers also linked it with older words for a flag or banner.

An Irish surname meaning a descendant of a noble, chieftain-like man.

A likely nickname surname from Old English or Old Norse words for a flake, chip, or thin片-like piece.

An Irish surname, usually from Gaelic O Flannagáin, meaning a descendant of a man called Flannagán.

A surname taken from Flanders, the historic region spanning parts of modern Belgium, France, and the Netherlands.

An Irish surname ultimately connected with the Gaelic name Flannagan, meaning “descendant of the red-haired one” or “ruddy one.”

An Irish surname, usually understood as an anglicized form of a Gaelic name associated with the descendants of a red- or ruddy-haired ancestor.

Usually a locational surname for someone who lived by a flat or level piece of ground.

A surname that can come from a nickname for something spotted or from related continental name forms.

An American surname likely shaped by regional spelling change, probably from a longer Germanic or English family name.

A English locational surname from places named Fleetwood, literally “wood by the stream” or “wood at the tidal channel.”

A German occupational surname meaning “butcher” or “meat seller.”

A German surname meaning “meat man” or “butcher,” originally tied to the trade of selling or preparing meat.

A surname for someone identified as “the Fleming,” originally meaning a person from Flanders.

A surname of ethnic origin, meaning “a Fleming” or “a person from Flanders.”

An occupational surname for an arrow-maker, from the French word for “arrow.”

A French surname that most likely began as a place name, and in some cases may also reflect the old personal name Florus or a saint’s name.

Likely a nickname surname, probably from a Middle English word for lively, quick, or “nimble” behavior, though the exact origin is uncertain.

A German surname most likely referring to someone connected with a place, person, or family name built on a Germanic root like Flicken or Flick.

An Irish surname usually treated as a variant of Flynn, from a Gaelic name meaning “white” or “fair.”

Usually a name for someone associated with flint stone, though a few older writers also linked it to the place-name Flint in North Wales.

Usually an English spelling of the Welsh surname Lloyd, though it can also be a local name from living near flood-prone water.

A surname that may come from the flower name, but in many cases it was also simply a given name turned into a family name.

A surname that can come from the place-name Florence or from a Latin personal name meaning “flourishing, prosperous.”

Usually a Spanish surname meaning “flowers,” originally a nature-based or nickname-style family name.

A Spanish surname most likely connected to the common name Flores, ultimately from “flower.”

A name built from Latin roots meaning “flowering” or “flourishing,” often used as a personal name and sometimes carried into surnames.

A name of Italian origin, ultimately linked with flowers or blooming, and best known through the Renaissance scholar John Florio.

A surname that may come from Florence or from a Norman/French place-name form, with both explanations found in early surname books.

An English surname most likely from a French place-name, carried to North America by families of Huguenot or other French descent.

An English surname that likely began as a nickname for a person admired for beauty, excellence, or a “flower of” some group.

A surname with several possible roots, most likely from a place-name or from the word for flowers itself.

A Welsh patronymic surname originally tied to Lloyd, meaning "son of Lloyd" in Anglicized form.

An Irish surname from Ó Floinn, meaning “descendant of Flann” or “the ruddy/red-haired one.”

An Irish surname, usually understood as an anglicized form of an older Gaelic family name.

A German surname meaning “bird,” often a spelling variant of Vogel.

An English surname with several possible origins, including a nickname or a shortened form of older names.

A surname most likely tied to a bird nickname or a German-derived family name related to "Vogel," meaning "bird."

An Irish surname whose origin is uncertain, though later writers often connect it with a Gaelic byname meaning a wolf-like or predatory person.

Usually a surname from the Norman personal name Fulco, later appearing in forms like Folkes and Folkes.

An English locational surname, probably from Foulsham in Norfolk, later carried to America in altered spelling.

A German surname most likely developed as a variant of Voltz, ultimately from the name Volker or a related short form beginning with Vol-.

A surname with several possible origins, most often used as a Chinese family name today, but it also appears in older English surname speculation as a sound-alike element in other names.

A Portuguese and Spanish surname from place names meaning a dry or barren hillside, or a settlement by such terrain.

A French surname meaning “fountain” or “spring,” usually originally given to someone who lived near one.

An Italian and Spanish surname from a word for a spring or fountain.

A Spanish-language surname most likely tied to a place-name or to a family name built from Latin fountain imagery.

A French surname built from a place-name element meaning “spring” or “fountain,” likely pointing to someone from a place with a notable spring or water source.

A Portuguese and Spanish surname meaning “fountains” or “springs,” originally a place-name for someone who lived by them.

A surname usually meaning someone who lived near the foot of a hill or slope, or more generally near a lower end or base.

An Irish surname, probably from Gaelic roots, most often linked to a family name that was later Anglicized in several spellings.

A Scottish surname from the lands and barony of Forbes in Aberdeenshire, originally a place-name tied to “free lands.”

Usually an English habitational surname from a place near a waterfall or cascade, especially in northern dialect areas.

A common surname from someone who lived by a river crossing or ford.

Usually an English or Irish surname meaning someone who lived by or came from a ford.

A place-based surname meaning “from Fordham,” originally someone from one of several English villages of that name.

A rare surname that may be from a nickname, a place-name, or a variant spelling of another name.

A rare surname that appears to have arisen as a nickname or “virtue” name, probably from the phrase “forehand” meaning foresight or readiness.

Usually an occupational or status surname for a chief worker, spokesman, or overseer, though some bearers may come from other older name forms.

A surname usually meaning someone who lived by or worked in a forest, though in some cases it may come from a specific place-name.

An occupational surname for a forest officer or keeper, originally someone responsible for protecting woodland and game.

Usually an old personal-name surname from a medieval given name, not the occupational title “foreman.”

An uncommon surname that may come from a Norman/French place-name form, though older sources also linked it loosely to “fortune” or other French names.

A surname usually taken from someone who lived by or worked at a forest.

An occupational surname for a forester or woods keeper.

A Swedish habitational surname meaning “river rapids mountain” or “mountain by the rapids.”

A shortened form of Forester, originally meaning a woodkeeper or forest official.

A Scottish surname probably tied to a place-name in Stirlingshire, though some early writers also linked it to a Yorkshire source.

A Scottish surname best known as a spelling variant of Forsyth, probably from an old nickname or descriptive byname.

A surname meaning “strong” or “powerful,” sometimes also linked to a fortified place.

A surname that can mean “strong” or may be a shortened form of a place-based name tied to a fort or stronghold.

An American surname that likely grew from an older place-name or family-name form and was later reshaped in English spelling.

A French surname that likely began as a nickname or occupational name tied to a stronghold, fortification, or a person associated with a fort.

A surname most often explained as French, possibly from a nickname for someone small or for a fortified place.

Likely an old nickname for a tournament fighter or jouster, later fixed as a surname.

A surname most likely from a place name or an altered spelling of a similar-sounding Germanic name.

A surname that likely means “son of Fort” or “son of Forts,” probably developed as an English-style patronymic.

A surname from the word for “luck” or “fortune,” often taken from a house sign, house name, or emblem of good fortune.

A name built from Latin for “lucky” or “fortunate,” often used as a personal name before becoming a surname.

A surname that usually comes from a place name, especially the place called Fortune in Haddingtonshire, Scotland.

A surname that usually refers to a ditch, fosse, or a place by an old earthwork or waterfall.

A surname that can mean “fosterer” or “one who brings up children,” and may also sometimes come from Forester.

A habitational surname for someone who lived by a fountain or spring.

A French occupational surname meaning “baker” or “oven-keeper.”

A German surname, usually an American spelling of Faust, reflecting a name built on an old Latin given name and later linked with folklore and courage.

A surname that likely began as a spelling variant of a Germanic name like Vogt or Pfautz, later reshaped in English spelling.

An occupational surname for someone who caught or hunted birds.

An English surname likely built from the medieval personal name Fulk, meaning “people” or “folk.”

Usually a nickname surname for someone thought to be foxlike in cleverness, speed, or appearance; in some cases it was anglicized from Irish O’Siunach.

An English surname built from place-name elements, likely meaning “fox enclosure” or “fox homestead.”

A surname with several possible origins, most often from the French phrase for “faith” or from a medieval personal name.

A surname of uncertain origin, probably a regional spelling of an older English or Irish family name.

A Spanish and Portuguese surname most often linked to a rugged, rocky place name rather than a personal trait.

A Spanish surname originally linked to rough, thorny, or rugged terrain.

A rare surname most likely tied to the old word for a friar, though some forms may also reflect French or Flemish influence.

A rare English surname, probably a variant of Frake or Freke, with a likely Old English or Middle English root tied to a personal name or place-name.

An American surname that likely began as an Anglicized spelling of a German name such as Froehlich/Fröhlich, rather than from an English word.

Usually a nickname or status-name, likely from a word for a stranger or outsider, though some bearers may have a local or occupational origin.

A habitational surname from places named Frampton in England, meaning a farm or settlement associated with a croft or enclosure.

A surname often used for someone from France or for a Frenchman.

Usually a surname adopted from the medieval name Francis, though some early English examples were shaped by the meaning “the Frenchman.”

A surname ultimately from the Latin name Franciscus, meaning “Frenchman” or “free man,” and often used in honor of St. Francis.

A spelling of Frank, usually from the Germanic name meaning “Frank” or “free man,” or sometimes from the ethnic name for a Frankish person.

A surname of Frankish origin, often used for someone identified as a Frank or connected with the Franks.

A surname that can come from the given name Frank, or from a medieval byname meaning “free” or “Frankish.”

A surname that usually began as a nickname for someone “the Frank” or “the free man,” and in some cases points to Frankish or French ancestry.

A surname from the Frankish name root, often meaning “descendant of a Frank” or a diminutive form of Frank.

An English status surname for a prosperous freeholder or gentleman farmer, originally tied to a class of landowner below the nobility.

A surname with more than one likely source: often a form of Frank, meaning “free” or “Frenchman,” and sometimes linked to a place-name or ethnic label.

A German and Jewish surname that usually comes from the personal name Francis/Franz, ultimately meaning “Frenchman” or “belonging to the Franks.”

A surname that usually began as a German, Dutch, or Central European form of the given name Franz, equivalent to Francis or Frank.

A patronymic surname meaning “son of Franz,” ultimately from the German form of Francis.

A French surname from the personal name François, ultimately meaning “Frenchman” or “man of the Franks.”

A classic Scottish surname, widely associated with the powerful Fraser clan and probably tied to a French place name or nickname.

A surname usually treated as a variant of Fraser, with a Scottish and ultimately Norman-French connection.

A likely Spanish-language surname with multiple possible roots, most often treated as a regional or patronymic-style family name.

A surname that likely began as an Americanized spelling of Fraser/Frazier, ultimately tied to the Scottish clan name and the old word for strawberry.

A surname most often treated as a Scottish form related to Fraser, though some older sources also connect it with French-style name forms.

An American spelling of Fraser, a Scottish clan surname probably tied to a place-name of uncertain origin.

A surname from the given name Frederick, meaning “peace ruler.”

A patronymic surname meaning “son or descendant of Frederick.”

A patronymic surname meaning “son of Frederick,” ultimately tied to the Germanic personal name Frederick.

A surname usually formed from the personal name Frederick, meaning “peaceful ruler.”

A patronymic surname meaning “son of Frederick.”

An English surname that usually began as a status name for a man who was legally free rather than a serf.

A surname most likely linked to the idea of being freed or liberated, though in some cases it may reflect a shortened or altered form of another name.

A surname originally given to a man who had been freed from slavery or servitude.

A surname usually explained as either “free land” or as a medieval personal name that later turned into a family name.

An English surname that originally meant “free man,” someone who was not a serf or villein.

A surname usually explained as referring to a friar or religious brother, though some forms may be linked to French or continental names.

A surname with several possible roots, most likely a nickname or ethnic byname related to “Friesian” or a personal name form like Fries.

An English surname with several possible roots, including a Frisian link, a place-name origin, or a nickname from Old English.

A likely Spanish or Italian surname from a place-name or descriptive nickname, probably tied to a word for “fierce” or “hot-tempered.”

A German surname originally taken from the weekday name Friday.

A Portuguese surname meaning “from the freed lands” or “of the freedman/freed people,” originally a locational or status-linked name.

A surname for someone who was French, or who was thought of as French by neighbors.

A German surname meaning “friend” or “kinsman,” originally a straightforward nickname or byname.

A surname with several possible roots, most often linked to German and Swiss names meaning “free man” or to French forms of Frère/Fréry.

A surname of Spanish origin, most often linked to a place name rather than a personal characteristic.

A surname of several possible European origins, most often linked to a short form of Frederick or related Germanic names.

A German surname most likely from an old personal name or nickname related to boldness or piety, with several closely related spellings across Europe.

A surname most likely taken from the day of the week, probably for someone born on Friday or linked to some Friday event.

A German surname from a word for peace, also found in shortened forms of longer German names like Siegfried.

A surname meaning “son of Fried,” built on a Germanic personal name related to peace.

A German given name turned surname, originally meaning “peace ruler” or “peace-power.”

An Irish surname most likely linked to a form of O'Freel, with roots in an older Gaelic family name.

A surname that was often a nickname for a kind, trusted, or companionable person.

A surname that most likely means “son of Friar” or “friar’s descendant,” though it may also reflect a regional form of an older personal name.

A surname that most likely began as a regional name for someone from Frisia or a similar place-name form.

A German and Dutch surname meaning “Frisians” or “of Frisian origin.”

An uncommon surname of uncertain origin, recorded mainly in English- and German-speaking contexts.

An old surname of uncertain origin, probably a spelling variant of Frisby or another English place-based name.

A habitational surname from Frisby in Leicestershire, probably meaning a place associated with the Frisians or with a Frisian personal name.

A German surname from a word meaning “fresh,” “lively,” or “vigorous.”

A northern English surname meaning “woodland” or, in some cases, “peace,” often tied to local places and boundaries.

A German surname that often began as a pet form of Fritz, itself short for Friedrich.

A surname most likely from a German or Dutch personal name, often treated as a shortened or altered form related to Friedrich/Fritz.

A German surname from the pet form of Friedrich, meaning “Frederick’s son” or “little Frederick.”

A surname of uncertain origin, likely a nickname form built from a word for frizzled or curly hair.

A surname that likely began as a nickname or personal name connected with frost, cold, or the winter spirit in medieval tradition.

A surname most often linked to French-language roots, probably an Americanized form of a French family name brought over by immigrants.

A surname from Old English meaning “free” or “noble,” sometimes also appearing as a nickname for a free man.

A surname with English roots that may be a nickname from “free” or, in some cases, a variant of Fry.

Usually a surname for someone who was connected with a friar or religious brotherhood, though some lines may also be linked to other local or occupational origins.

A surname likely formed from "free man," originally a status or occupational label for someone who was not a serf or bondman.

A French surname most likely built from a word for a little branch or twig, later used as a family name in French-speaking regions.

A German nickname surname meaning “cheerful” or “merry.”

A Chinese surname with several different written forms and meanings, depending on the character used.

A German surname meaning “fox,” often used as a nickname or house sign.

An English surname with more than one possible source, including a Cornish place-name and a name linked in older books to “furnace” or “hearth.”

A Spanish surname meaning “springs” or “fountains,” originally referring to someone who lived by one or more water sources.

A surname of uncertain origin, probably an older English or French-based name that was later established in North America.

A German occupational surname meaning “driver” or “teamster,” originally for someone who handled carts, wagons, or horses.

An old Norman and English surname from a Germanic personal name meaning roughly “people-warrior” or “army leader.”

A place-based surname meaning “someone from Fulford,” from English places named with a ford near or by a foul, marshy stream.

A medieval personal-name surname from the old given name Fulk, meaning something like “people” or “folk” in its oldest Germanic sense.

A patronymic surname meaning “son of Fulk,” from a medieval personal name brought into English from continental Germanic roots.

A surname usually treated as a variant of Folk(s), meaning “people” or “kinsfolk.”

An occupational surname for a cloth worker who thickened and cleansed woolen cloth.

A Scottish and English surname originally meaning someone from a place where cloth was fulled or dressed.

A surname of uncertain origin, possibly a variant of older names like Fillmer or Phillimore rather than a name with one settled meaning.

A surname most likely from a German personal name, with a likely connection to the old name Volmar.

A Scottish and northern English surname that can come from a lost Roxburghshire place-name or, in some cases, from Fullarton.

A surname that likely began as a German or German-American spelling of a name built from a place-name or personal name root.

An American surname of Germanic shape, most likely a spelling variant of a place-based or family-name form brought over and reshaped in the United States.

A Spanish surname most likely tied to the place-name Funes, especially the town in Navarre.

A surname found mainly in Chinese communities, often representing several different Chinese names written the same way in English.

A surname found in both German and English records, often linked to a German nickname or, in some older English sources, a descriptive byname for an ill-tempered person.

A German-American surname likely built from a place-name element and a house-related ending.

A surname of uncertain origin, most likely a French name that became established in the American South.

An English and Irish surname that may come from the word for a field measurement, with some families also linked to place names.

A surname of uncertain origin, likely a variant of Furlong or another name built on an old word for “furrow” or “long strip of land.”

Usually an occupational surname, probably originally for someone who made or sold fur goods or worked with fur.

A surname most likely from a nickname or variant spelling, probably connected to an old word for a gray or mouse-colored coat.

A Portuguese and Spanish surname from a nickname meaning “the stolen one,” often linked in old tradition to a child said to have been rescued or taken away.

A southern Italian surname from Latin roots meaning “dark” or “dusky.”

An English surname with an uncertain history, often linked in older sources to Fuss, Fust, or even the Italian Fuseli.

A rare surname of uncertain origin, most likely a regional spelling variant that spread in the American South.

An English surname that is probably a reduced or variant form of an older personal-name-based surname, though its exact origin is uncertain.