English Surnames: Meaning, Origin & Coat of Arms (page 9 of 9)

"thrall's clearing"

Thor's protection

Thor's stone

Tīdi's spring

Tiller of soil, or lime tree

Tile / earth worker

Place name

Son of Tim (Timothy)

Tynni's hill

Tibba's farm

Fox

Bright people

From Bartholomew, or a toll collector

Son of little Tom

Town clearing

Dweller at the end of the village

From Tracy in Normandy

Crossing

Toll collector at a crossing

Farm of the stone

From the River Trent, 'flooder'

Farm of Elyan

Nimble dancer, light-footed

Troll valley

Messenger, runner

Cloth fuller

Lathe worker

Thor's Finn

Lookout hill

From Tyldesley, near Wigan

Tiler, roof maker

Firebrand, or son of Dye

Under the hill

Dweller at the edge of a wood

Place name

Upper farm

Doorkeeper

Utta's clearing

Valley

Vassal of a vassal

Place name

Alder grove

Place of alders

Vicar's son or servant

From Villiers

Farm of Wada's people

Dweller by a ford

Wæddi's enclosure

"maker of wagons"

Watchman

Open land for a wake or festival

Valley of the Britons

House in the forest

Cloth fuller (walker of cloth)

Wall builder

Clearing in Lancashire

Pool by the wall

From Walton, "farmstead of the Britons"

Werburgh's farm

Watchman, guardian

Guardian

Weir, dam

Guard of the army, or keeper of a warren

From La Varenne; game preserve

Dwellings by the weir

From the Washburn stream

From Washington ("settlement of Wassa's people")

Boatman

Son of Walter, or one who lived by the water

Son of Wat (Walter)

Son of Wat (Walter)

Road

Wether farm

Weaver of cloth, or dweller by the Weaver river

Weaver

Weaver

Weaver

From Wedgwood

Of the dairy farm

Welshman

Hill with a spring

Salt boiler

Dweller by the springs

Winter enclosure

West clearing

From the west

West brook

West farmstead

Road clearing

Place name

Wheat

Wheat clearing

Maker of wheels

White field

Fair-haired or pale-complexioned

White-haired

White field

Son of the fair one

White clearing

White lock of hair

White moor

White island

Farm of Hwita's people

White enclosure

Son of the widow

Son of Wiggin (worthy)

Wilburh's ford

Son of little Will

"wild, untamed"

Willow, or from the River Wylye

Resolute will

Little William

Son of Will (William)

Willow farm

Son of Will (William)

Place name

"pasture field"

Place name

Wine's burial mound

Wine's farmstead

Winter valley

Of winter / son of Winter

Wina's farm

Wise, learned

Willow

Wolf, a nickname or personal name

Wolf victory

Wulfstan's water meadow

Dweller by the wood

Hall in the wood

A nickname from the woodcock bird

Dweller where woodruff grew

Dweller by the woods

Son of Wood

Forest keeper

Settlement by a wood

Labourer, craftsman

Clearing of Weorc

Settlement of Weorth's people

Nook, corner

Craftsman, woodworker

From Wrigley Head, near Oldham

Little Guy

Earth fort

Spar wood

Gatekeeper, or dweller by a gate

High hill

Freeholder

From the city of York

Young (younger son or junior)