What's in a name? Or, the rose by any other name...Well, not necessarily. Many names in the US come from various foreign origins, from other languages where they had meanings unknown to native English speaker. Here's my short list of such last (but not least :) names, as far as my memory and knowledge of a few languages can take it.
sar (pron. shar) - mud, köz - between, among, common to (Hungarian)
Schlesinger
Silesian
(German)
Schumacher
shoemaker
(German)
Schwartzkopf
black head
(German)
Skander
Alexander
[skender] (Albanian)
Sliwa, Szilva, Šljivo, Šljivić
plum
(Polish, Hungarian, Bosnian/Croatian, South Slavic)
Slobodan
free
(Serbian and other ex-Yu languages) This is a straight adjective, in masculine gender. Free as in not enslaved, not as in beer. Name quite popular immediately after WWII. The feminine pair, Slobodanka, is a noun.
Soros
serial, orderly
sor [shor] - row, order; soros [shorosh] - orderly, lined up, in order (Hungarian)