English Surnames: Meaning, Origin & Coat of Arms (page 6 of 9)

Jackdaw

Kite

Boatman

Bold, brave

Kill hog

Cenel's island

Champion, warrior

Valley of the River Kent

From Kent

Mound of Einion

"church wood"

Key maker, or quay

Bold kinsman

King (nickname or royal servant)

King's clearing

Place name

Church settlement

"village with a church"

Kitchen servant

Hilltop, or young servant

Servant; mounted soldier

Hillock or stout

Dweller by a knoll

Farm by a knoll

From Lassy, Normandy

Servant, young man

Stream dweller

Lamb, a gentle person, or from Lambert

Lamb farm

Fort on the River Lune

Dweller by a glade

Uncertain

Dweller by the lane

Long hill

Long ford

Long wood or clearing

Long stone

Wool worker

From Lacelle in Normandy

At the barns

Latin speaker, translator

From Laurentius, "man of Laurentum"

Farm by a mound

Clearing, meadow

Leek farm

Physician

Sloping hill

Lead beater

Woodland clearing, meadow

Herb garden

From the personal name Leonard ("lion-hardy")

From Leicester

Attached

Bright, nimble

Swift runner

Lily-fair, or from Lilley

Settlement by the pool

Lime-tree clearing

From Lindsey in Lincolnshire

Dyer

Dweller by an enclosure

Locklear / Lumbee line

Enclosed wood

House with a loft

From London

Tall man

Long valley

Pool nook

Lordly man, lord's servant

Love joy

Loveless

Wolf cub

Wolf cub

Dweller by a hill or burial mound

"pool"

Wood by the pool

Lund's ford

Lime tree hill

Little Matthew

Son of Maddy (Matthew or Maud)

Council spear

Peacemaker

Unfortunate

Shared clearing

Man, servant

Son of Manna

Open land by the Mam hill

Boundary homestead

Boundary homestead

Land left after a lake

"boundary valley"

Dweller by a marsh

"marsh land"

Stonemason

From Macey in Normandy

Son of the master

Meeting oak

Matta's clearing

Son of Matt

Young man, or from Matthew

Mayweed field

Dweller by a meadow

Dweller by the meadows

Gentle, humble

"bare hill"

Middle settlement

Trader

From Muriel

Boundary gate

Fattened calf

Meat calf

Big clearing

Middle settlement

From the personal name Milo

Grain miller

Dweller by the mills

Miller

Middle farm or mill farm

Miner, or younger

From Michael, "who is like God?"

Clearing by a meeting place

Monk

Bold, brave

Dweller by a moor; in Ireland, "majestic"

Moorland

Dead sea (marsh)

Settlement on the moor

Boggy clearing

Dweller by the moss

Clearing by a bog

Dweller by a bog, or from Moses

Place name

From Montbray in Normandy

Grove with mice

Marsh dweller; physician

Valley

At the ash tree

"nail maker"

From the personal name Niall

Poor homestead

Son of Neil or Nell

Nettle farm

New town

New fort

New farm

Newcomer

New land

Newcomer

At the new houses

From Newton, "new farmstead"