English Surnames: Meaning, Origin & Coat of Arms (page 2 of 6)

Bird (nickname)

Calf herder

Little singer

A nickname, perhaps "cut stick"

From Carlisle, 'fort of Luguvalos'

Settlement of free peasants

Carpenter, worker in timber

Dweller by a marsh or fen

Cart driver, carrier

Cart maker

Woodcarver, or ploughman

Box or chest maker

One who lived or worked at a castle

A debt collector or bailiff's officer

Keeper of the chamber

Chamberlain, servant of the private rooms

Fighter

Candle maker or seller

Oak grove

Merchant, trader

Dweller by a chapel

From Charnock, near Chorley in Lancashire

Hunter, or dweller by a hunting ground

From Chatterton, near Ramsbottom in Lancashire

From Cheetham, near Manchester

Cherry grower or seller

Children's house

Young man, youth

Bearer of Christ

Dweller by the church

Clerk, scholar or scribe

Dweller on clay soil

From Clayton, "clay farmstead"

From Clegg, near Rochdale in Lancashire

Hilly land

Ford by a cliff

Farm by a cliff

"ravine, steep valley"

Dweller at the cottages

From the Old Norse name Kobbi, or "lump"

From Coker, crooked stream

Coal-black; pet form of Nicholas

Charcoal burner; descendant of Colmán ("dove")

Charcoal burner

Dweller in a valley

Valley farmstead

Cook

Barrel maker

Cloak

From Copeland in Cumbria, "bought land"

Little raven

Little raven

From Cornwall or Cornhill

At the cottages

Red-haired

From Courtenay, France

Rooster; lively man

Dweller by a crab-apple tree

Long-legged, like a crane

Wood of the cranes

Potter, maker of crocks

Curly-haired

Village with a cross

Dweller by a cross

"clearing with a cross"

Dweller by a cross

Crow

Crows' spring

"fiddler, player of the crwth"

Crooked

Dove

Courteous, refined

"farm in the valley"

Valley

Son of Daniel ("God is my judge")

Deer farm

Beloved one

Darnel weed, or hidden nook

Market on the River Dane

Son of Daw (David)

From the medieval name Day (David), or a dairy worker

Dweller in a valley, or servant of a dean

"valley of the wild animals"

Valley farm

Son of Dickin (Richard)

Uncertain, perhaps dill

Son of Dick (Richard)

From Dodde

Son of Dodd

Son of Dunn (dark)

Of the downs

Dragon, or male duck

Cloth merchant

"enclosure with ducks"

Dudda's clearing

Leader

Hill homestead

Hill island

From Dionisia

Dyer of cloth

"dweller by the east wood"

River settlement

From Eadwig, 'rich in war'

Son of Edmund

From a first name meaning ruler

Son of little Elias

Bank where elms grew

Son of Emery

Vigour and power

An Englishman

"fork of a river where ducks gather"

Uncertain, perhaps from Eustace

Yew-tree bank

Brave as a boar

Handsome, fair

"fair bank or slope"

"fair ravine"

"fair wooded hill"

Fern clearing

Tax farmer, or farmer

"enclosure with ferns"

Bull

A young pig keeper or a nickname

Falconer

"farm in the fen"

From Ferrières, 'iron workings'

"dweller in open country"

Dweller by the open fields

Finch