The meanings of names / surnames in Thai?

Is there a website where I can find the meanings of Thai surnames?

The meanings of names / surnames in Thai?
An interesting question, so I looked it up for you.


Thai names follow the Indian/Western pattern in which the family name follows a first or given name. In this they differ from the family-name-first pattern of the East Asian tradition.





Thai names, both given name and family, are often long and there are a great many of them. The diversity of family names is because they are required to be unique to a family, and they are a recent introduction. Further, Thai people change their family names relatively frequently (this practice being virtually unknown in many other countries outside of marriage).





Last names only became legally required of Thais in 1913:[1] before then, most Thais used only a first or individual name. The names generally convey positive attributes. Under Thai law, only one family can use any given surname: thus any two people of the same surname must be related, and it is very rare for two people to share the same full name.





Thai names are often long, particularly among those of upper-class families and also among Thais of Chinese descent, whose lengthy names stem from an attempt to translate Chinese names into Thai equivalents. For example, the family of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who are of Chinese descent, adopted the name Shinawatra ("does good routinely") in 1938.





As a measure of the diversity of Thai names, in a sample of 45,665 names, 81% of family names were unique, and 35% of given names were unique: the people with shared family names are thus related, and the diversity of given names is conventional.[2]






Reply:All Thais' names and surnames have meaning.





I don't think any website can put up all Thai names /surnames as there are as many as hundred thousands names.





If you have some specific names that need meaning or you want to have a Thai name to your favorite meaning, Iet me help you out. This way may be easier for you.
Reply:Try this website


http://www.babynology.com/thai_babynames...


It seems pretty authentic
Reply:Thai surnames seldom have any meaning. It is the Thai first names that have meanings.