Surnames Starting with S: Coat of Arms & Last Name Origins (page 3 of 3)

"from Sousa" or "saltwort"

From Sosnowo / pine

Little grove

Grove, thicket

"from the Sousa river"

"owl"

"farm on sour ground"

Sword

Clasp maker

Spaniard

Lively, bright person

From Spalding, Lincolnshire

Spearman

Woodpecker

Steward, dispenser of provisions

Spice merchant

Descendant of Spealán (little scythe)

Thorn

Little thorn

"maker of spoons or shingles"

Lively, nimble

Jumper, dancer

Squire

Magpie

Son of Stach (Stanisław)

From Stanisław

From Eustace, 'fruitful'

"one who kept a barn"

Ford by a landing place

Steel

Clearing where staves were cut

Stony ford

Stony valley

"son of Stanko"

From Stanley, "stony clearing"

"stony field"

Stone farmstead

Boundary post

Farm by the post

Strong

Little stiff one

Star

Of the elder / from Starzyno

Son of Staś

Steep rock / cup

Hard as steel, or dweller by a steep slope

From Stefanów / son of Stefan

Stone, rock

Dweller by a rock, or from Stein

Star

Crown

Son of Stephen ("crown")

From Stephen; pounder

From Stirling

Star

Son of Stephen ("crown")

Son of Steven

Steward

Dweller by a stile

From Stirling

"tree stump"

Farm built of logs

Horse keeper

From Stoke, "outlying settlement"

Sturdy man

Proud, stately

Dweller by the stone

Big, tall

Bold, brave

Stump fold

Bathhouse keeper

Valley of the stream

Foreigner

Roadside dweller

Farm on a Roman road

"curly, bristly"

Ostrich, or a quarrelsome person

One who lived by a Roman road

Pasture of the young bullocks

Maker of bowstrings

"tousled"

Stream

Strong

Marshy brushwood

Strangler (nickname)

Son of the archer

One who lived by tree stumps

Stump

Storm

Son of Suero

Descendant of Súileabhán (from súil, "eye")

Summer, or packhorse driver

Summoner to court

"south cliff"

Southern land

From Sutton, "south farmstead"

Young man, servant

Son of Sveinn

Son of Suibhne, "pleasant"

Pleasant, agreeable

Little holy one

Quick, fast

Pig stream

Pig farm

Dweller by a small stream

Of the woods

"son of Szczepan"

Little Stephen

From Szczepanów (Stephen's place)

Goldfinch

Shoemaker

Little shoemaker

Starling

From Szpaki

"village head"

"Swede"

Of Szymon (Simon); or from his place

Son of Simon