25 surnames on this site, with what each one means.
KaneParent’s name · rank 684A multi-origin surname including Irish Ó/Mac Catháin, English Cane, Jewish Kahane, and other regional forms.
KangPlace · rank 985A Korean and Chinese surname (강 / 姜, 康, and others); Chinese 康 links to states and a ‘healthy’ character; Korean clans use several hanja.
KaurNickname · rank 431A Sikh female name or title commonly translated as “princess,” with Sanskrit and Punjabi explanations.
KeithPlace · rank 749A Scottish habitational surname from Keith in Banffshire and other places with the same name.
KellerOccupation · rank 329A German and Danish occupational surname from a cellarman or cellar master who managed stores, accounts, or a household.
KelleyParent’s name · rank 203Kelley is often an anglicized Irish patronymic from Ó Ceallaigh, but English, Scottish, and Cornish place-name routes also occur.
KellyParent’s name · rank 80Chiefly Irish Ó Ceallaigh, “descendant of Ceallach”; Kelly also has place-name and other Gaelic streams.
KempOccupation · rank 762An English, Scottish, Dutch, or North German status name for a champion or professional fighter, from Middle English / Middle Low German kempe (Old English cempa).
KennedyParent’s name · rank 149An Irish and Scottish Gaelic patronymic from Ó Cinnéidigh or Mac Cinnèidigh, descendant or son of Cinnédidh.
KentPlace · rank 799An English and Irish habitational surname from the county of Kent; Gaelicized in Ireland as Ceannt.
KerrPlace · rank 780An English and Scottish surname with competing roots: Middle English kerr, “brushwood, wet ground,” Brittonic caer, “fortress,” and Gaelic Mac Gille Chéir.
KhanNickname · rank 303A surname from the Central Asian and South Asian title khan, traditionally associated with a ruler or leader.
KimNickname · rank 71Korean clan surname 김 (金), the character meaning “gold/metal.”
KingNickname · rank 36A nickname from "king" — pageant role, kingly manner, or similar; also absorbed foreign cognates.
KirbyPlace · rank 641An English habitational surname from Kirkby or Kirby, “church settlement,” with distinct Irish personal-name routes.
KirkPlace · rank 649A Scottish and northern English surname from kirk, “church,” for someone near a church or from a church place-name.
KleinNickname · rank 398A German, Dutch, Flemish, or Yiddish descriptive surname meaning “small,” often a nickname for a short or junior person.
KlineNickname · rank 778Usually an Americanized form of German, Dutch, or Ashkenazi Jewish Klein, “small” or “little,” with a separate Slovenian topographic stream from klin, “wedge.”
KnappNickname · rank 847German occupational/status name from Knapp(e), “young man,” “servant,” “apprentice,” or “miner”; also English hilltop topographic or knape “boy/servant.”
KnightOccupation · rank 212English status or occupational surname from Middle English knyght, a mounted warrior or household retainer.
KnoxPlace · rank 782A Scottish and northern English surname from Old English cnocc or Gaelic cnoc, “round hill” or “hillock,” including Knock in Renfrewshire.
KochOccupation · rank 703A German occupational surname from Koch, “cook” or “chef.”
KramerOccupation · rank 547A German and Ashkenazic Jewish occupational surname for a shopkeeper, trader, or peddler.
KruegerOccupation · rank 968A German and Ashkenazic occupational name (Krüger): in the south a maker or seller of jugs; in the north an innkeeper.
KumarNickname · rank 917An Indian surname and name-element from Sanskrit kumāra, “child, son, prince,” an epithet of the god Kārtikeya; also rare Slovenian look-alikes.