Submitted Surnames Starting with C

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CORPUS Anglo-Saxon
It was a name given to a dark-haired person. In Yorkshire and Suffolk, the surname Corpus is derived from the Old Norse word korpr, which means raven; in Oxfordshire, the surname is derived from the Old French word corp, which has the same meaning.
CORR Irish
Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Corra "descendant of CORRA".
From the personal name CORRADO.
Habitational name for someone originally from any of the various locations named Corrales in Spain, from Spanish corral meaning "coral, enclosure".
CORRAO Italian
Reduced form CORRADO.
CORREA Portuguese, Spanish
From Spanish, meaning "leather garment."
CORREIA Portuguese
CORRIE English
Habitational name from places in Arran, Dumfries, and elsewhere, named Corrie, from Gaelic coire "cauldron", applied to a circular hanging valley on a mountain.
CORRIE Scottish
Scottish spelling of MCCORRY.
CORRIN Manx, Scottish
First documented in 1290, sources suggest prototypes to be of Norse and/or Irish origins or a Manx contraction of Mac Oran from Mac Odhrain.
Possibly a variant of COSSART.
CORSI Italian
Patronymic or plural form of CORSO.
CORSON English
Nickname from Old French 'corson', a diminutive of curt ‘short’
CORT Polish, Russian, Jewish
Derived from the surname "Kutalczuk", "Kotelchik", "Cuttlechuck", or "Kuttlechuck"
CORTÁZAR Basque (Spanish)
Castilianized form of KORTAZAR.
CORTÈS Catalan
Catalan form of CORTÉS.
CORTÊS Portuguese
Portuguese form of CORTÉS.
Habitational surname from the Dutch Kortrijk for a person from a place of this name in Flanders. Perhaps also a respelling of English CARTWRIGHT.
CORVIN Hungarian (Americanized)
Shortened and Americanized form of CORVINUS.
CORVINUS Hungarian
dirived from Corvin, maning raven.
COSCA Italian
COSCO Italian
Masculinized form of COSCA.
This indicates familial origin within or within the vicinity of the eponymous farmhouse in the municipality of Lladurs.
Habitational name from Cosgrove in Northamptonshire, named with an Old English personal name Cof + Old English graf "grove", "thicket".
From the Gaelic name Ó Coscraigh "descendant of COSCRACH."
ĆOSIĆ Croatian, Serbian
Means ''beardless''.
ČOSIĆ Croatian
Variant spelling of ĆOSIĆ.
COSS English
English short form of Cossio.
Variant of CUSACK
COSSART English, French
Italian name.... [more]
COSTELLO Irish, Italian
Meaning unknown.
COTONI Italian
means "cottons" in Italian
COTTER English
"A cottage dweller", a name in the feudal system for a serf allowed to live in a cottage in exchange for labor on the cottage owner's estate.
Reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Oitir "son of Oitir", a personal name borrowed from Old Norse Óttarr, composed of the elements ótti "fear, dread" and herr "army".
COTTON English, French
COTTRELL English, French
COULIBALY Western African, Manding
Meaning uncertain. One popular folk etymology suggests that it is derived from Bambara kulun-bari meaning "without a canoe", referring to someone who crossed a river or other body of water without the use of a canoe... [more]
COULLSON Scottish Gaelic (Anglicized, Rare), English
Means "son of COLE".
Courfeyrac is the surname that Victor Hugo used for Marius' closest friend in the friend of the ABC. Meaning is unknown.
COURT English, French, Irish
COURTIER French, Medieval French, Medieval English
COUSIN Maltese
(Definitely doesn't come from the word meaning " a child of one's uncle or aunt".
"Relative" in Old French.
COUTER English
The couter (also spelled "cowter") is the defense for the elbow in a piece of plate armour. Initially just a curved piece of metal, as plate armor progressed the couter became an articulated joint.... [more]
COUTINHO Portuguese
Diminutive of COUTO.
COVA Catalan, Galician
Topographic name from Catalan and Galician cova ‘cave’, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, in the provinces of Lugo, Ourense, Pontevedra, Catalonia and Valencia.
COVERDALE English (British)
From the valley (Dale) of the river Cover.... [more]
COVERT English, French
COVEY Irish, English
COWAN Scottish (Anglicized), Northern Irish (Anglicized)
This surname, widespread in Scotland and Ulster, is an Anglicized form of the old Gaelic MacEoghain or MacEoin... [more]
COWARD English
several origins... [more]
COWELL English (British)
Means "son of NICHOLAS. A famous bearer is British talent manager Simon Cowell (1959-).
COWEN Scottish, English (British)
Scottish and northern English: variant spelling of COWAN.
COWIE Scottish
COY Irish
Reduced form of MCCOY.
Irish reduced variant of MCCOOL.
CRABB English, Scottish, German, Dutch, Danish
CRABBE English, Literature, Popular Culture
The character 'Vincent Crabbe' has this surname in the Harry Potter series.
CRĂCIUN Romanian
Crăciun is the Romanian word for Christmas.
CRAFT English (American)
Variant of CROFT and Americanized spelling of KRAFT.
CRAGG Scottish, Irish, English
Variant of CRAIG, from Middle English Crag.
CRAMER German, English
Variant of German surname KRÄMER.
CRAN Anglo-Saxon
This picturesque name is of Anglo Saxon origin and is a nickname surname given to a tall thin man, or someone with long legs, or some other fancied resemblance to the bird. The derivation is from the old English "cran(uc)", "cron(uc)", "cren(uc)", which means a crane and until the introduction of a separate word in the 14th Century also a heron... [more]
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Raonuill "son of RAONULL".
CRANE English, Dutch
From Cranshaw in Lancashire, named from Old English cran(uc) ‘crane’ + sceaga ‘grove’, ‘thicket’.
Combination of the Old English byname CRAN "crane" and Old English tun "settlement".
Surnames of fictional characters Carl and Chloe Crashman from Carl².
CRAUWELS Flemish, Dutch, German
CRAVEN Irish, English
From a Sicilian immigrant to America, Cravotta was changed to Cravatta upon arrival at Ellis Island. The name means "bowtie."
CRAW English, Scottish, Northern Irish
CRAWFORDJOHN Medieval Scottish
One who came from Crawfordjohn in Lanarkshire; not to be confused with nearby Crawford, also in Lanarkshire.
CRAWLEY English, Irish (Anglicized)
CREAM English
An occupational name for a seller of dairy products.
Occupational name for a seller of dairy products, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Old French creme 'cream' (Late Latin crama, apparently of Gaulish origin).
CREANGĂ Romanian, Moldovan
A Surname commonly used in Romania and Moldova.... [more]
CREEL Scottish Gaelic (Anglicized, Modern)
CREEPINGBEAR Native American, Arapaho (?)
From the English words creeping and bear.
CREESE English
This most interesting surname has two possible origins. Firstly it may be of Anglo-Saxon origin, from the Olde English "creas", Middle English "crease", meaning "fine or elegant", which was a nickname given to an elegant person or one who dressed in fine or elegant clothes... [more]
CREIG Scottish, English
Derived from Scottish Gaelic crioch "border".
CREMA Italian, German
From the italian city "Crema"
CREME English
Variant spelling of CREAM.
The derivation of this surname is from the Old English pre 7th Century "Crawa", a crow, with "sceaga" a grove, thus "Crowswood". The earliest recording of this placename is in the Lancashire Inquests of 1324 and appears as "Croweshagh".
CRESS German, Jewish, Belarusian
A variant of the German surname Kress. From the Middle High German "kresse" meaning "gudgeon" (a type of fish) or the Old High German "krassig", meaning "greedy". Can also be from an altered form of the names Erasmus or Christian, or the Latin spelling of the Cyrillic "КРЕСС".
CRETE French
CREUS Spanish
Variant of CRUZ. Famous bearer of this surname is Spanish footballer Xavi Hernández.
CRIADO Portuguese, Spanish
Occupational name from criado ‘servant’.
CRIBBS English (Rare)
Unknown origin. Likely either from the Old English given name Crispin, which derives from a Latin nickname meaning "curly-haired", or from the place Cribbis near Lauder, England.
CRICKS American
"living near a river." Comes from a similar origin of Rios
Variant spelling of CRISPIN.
CRISPIN English, French
From the Middle English, Old French personal name CRISPIN.
From the given name CRISTIANO.
From the Italian crivello, which is derived from the Latin cribrum, meaning "sieve," (a mesh food strainer); likely an occupational name for a maker or user of sieves.
Derived from crn "black". The name refers to a person who was dark-skinned, or a person from the region Crna Gora "Black Mountain" (modern-day Montenegro).
Meant "person from Crèvecoeur", the name of various places in northern France ("heartbreak", an allusion to the poverty of the local soil).
Variant of CROGHAN.
CROCK English
Meaning "barrel," signifying one who made or worked with barrels.
CROCKETT English, Scottish
Nickname for someone who affected a particular hairstyle, from Middle English croket ''large curl'' (Old Norman French croquet, a diminutive of croque "curl", "hook").
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Riocaird "son of RICHARD".
A surname of Scottish origin used in the Highlands and Islands and means “an owner or a tenant of a small farm”. The Old English word croft seems to correspond with the Dutch kroft meaning “a field on the downs”.
CROGHAN Irish (Anglicized)
Irish Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Conchruacháin ‘son of Cú Cruacháin’, a personal name meaning ‘hound of Croghan’... [more]
Derived from the Old English word "Crometun"
Habitational name from places in Nottinghamshire and West Yorkshire named Cromwell, from Old English crumb "bent, crooked" and well(a) "spring, stream".
CROOK Scottish, English
CROOKS English
Patrynomic for Crook.
Irish reduced form of McCrossen, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Chrosáin ‘son of the satirist’... [more]
Means the clering of the cross
CROW English
CROWE English
Variant of CROW.
CROWLEY Irish (Anglicized), English
CROY Irish (Anglicized)
CROY Scottish
Means "person from Croy", the name of various places in Scotland.
CROZIER English, French
CRUCHAGA Basque (Spanish)
Castilianized form of KRUTXAGA.
From a medieval Scottish nickname for someone with a crooked leg (from Scots cruik "bent" + shank "leg"). This was the surname of British caricaturist George Cruikshank (1792-1872) and British actor Andrew Cruikshank (1907-1988).
CRUMB English
From the English word "crumb".
CRUMP English
CRUSOE English (Rare)
Americanized spelling of CRUYSSEN.
CSEPREGI Hungarian
Someone from the district of Csepreg in Hungary
CUA Catalan
Nickname from Catalan cua meaning "tail".
CUADRO Celtic (Latinized, Modern)
CUAYA Asturian
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous parish of the municipality of Grau.
CUBA Portuguese, Asturian-Leonese, Galician, Spanish
CUCOLO Italian, Austrian, Judeo-Italian
Used in Austria, and in southern regions of Italy.
CUDA Slovak
Derives from the word name derives from cuda meaning "miracle".
CUDAK Polish
Means "oddity, crank" in Polish. It can also come from the word cud meaning "miracle, wonder".
CUDDIHY Irish (Anglicized)
CUENCA Spanish
Cuenca is an ancient Spanish last name which originated from Cuenca, a city in the Kingdom of Castilla.... [more]
CUFF English
From the english word "cuff"
CUGINI Italian (Rare)
Means "cousins" in Italian.
CULBERT Anglo-Saxon, Irish, English, Scottish
CULBERTSON English, Scottish, Northern Irish
Patronymic from Culbert.
CULINDRIS Cantabrian
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous municipality.
CULLIMORE English (Rare)
CULLY English
CULVER English
CULVÉRT French, English, Irish
CUMANI Albanian
Meaning unknown.
CUMBA Gaulish
A topographic name from Gaulish cumba meaning "narrow valley" or a habitational name for a village associated with this name (see Coombe).
CUMMING Irish, Scottish, English
CUNANAN Filipino, Pampangan
Meaning uncertain, of Kapampangan origin.
CUNHA Portuguese (Brazilian)
CUNNINGTON English (American)
Scottish linked to {Marshall}
CUOMO Italian
Probably from a shortened form of Cuosëmo, a Neapolitan variant of the Italian male personal name COSIMO.
CURCIO Italian
This name derives from Latin “curtĭus”, which in turn derives from the Latin “curtus” meaning “shortened, short, mutilated, broken, incomplete”.
CURIE French
CURMI Maltese
(Warning: Whatever you do, don't look up the coat of arms, if you're squeamish. Take me seriously.)
This indicates familial origin within the eponymous parish of the municipality of Salas.
Possible other spelling Curovic. Great Grandfather born in Austria, but name traces back to Croatia possibly.
Sea warror from the Viking
CURRIE Scottish, Irish
Occupational surname meaning "a worker who prepared leather".
CURRY Scottish, English
Scottish and northern English: variant of CURRIE.
CURSIO Italian
Variant of the italian surname CURCIO
CURTIN Irish (Anglicized), Scottish (Anglicized), English
CUSTER German (Anglicized)
Derived from the name CUTHBERT
CUTHBERTSON English, Scottish
Patronymic surname from the personal name CUTHBERT.
CUTLER English
Means "maker of swords & knives."
CUTTER English
Variant of KOOLE or KUILART.
CVETANOV Bulgarian
Variant spelling of TSVETANOV.
This indicates familial origin within either of 2 Masovian villages in Gmina Płońsk: Ćwiklinek or Ćwiklin.
Polonized form of the German surname Zwirner, an occupational name for a yarn or twine maker, from an agent derivative of Middle High German zwirn ‘twine’, ‘yarn’
CYGAN Polish
Ethnic name or nickname from a word meaning ‘gypsy’, ‘Romany’.Altered spelling of eastern German Zigan, from Hungarian cigány ‘gypsy’.
CYPHER German (Anglicized, Rare)
Fanciful Americanized spelling of German Seifer.
CYR French
From the Latin personal name Quiricus or Cyricus, Greek Kyrikos or Kyriakos, ultimately from Greek kyrios 'lord', 'master'.
CYRUS English
From the given name CYRUS. A notable bearer is American singer and songwriter, Miley Cyrus (1992-).
Habitational name, possibly for someone from Cywiny in Ciechanów province.
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