Surnames Starting with T: Coat of Arms & Last Name Origins

End of the lakes

Drummer

Tanner of hides

"mud wall"

From Taranto

Cheerful, or from an old personal name

From Tattershall, in Lincolnshire

From Tatham

"from Tavares"

From Távora

Tailor

Descendant of Tadhg (poet)

German

"yew grove"

From the name Telo

Of the Templars' land

New land

From Thierry (Theodoric)

Head

Thatcher

From Thilo or Dietrich

From the name Dietrich

Twin (Aramaic)

Son of Thom (Thomas)

Son of Thomas ("twin")

One who lived by a thorn bush

From Thornton, "thorn-bush farm"

Outlying farm

"thrall's clearing"

Thor's protection

Tīdi's spring

Descendant of Tighearnach ("lordly")

Son of Tim (Timothy)

Tibba's farm

Son of the weaver

Norman, from St Aubyn

Fox

Turner

"from Toledo"

From Bartholomew, or a toll collector

From Tomaszew (Thomas's place)

"son of Tomasz"

"son of Tomek"

Son of little Tom

Towers

Tuscan

Boy, young man; shorn

Slovak, Slav

Tufa stone

Dweller at the end of the village

From Tracy in Normandy

From Trapani

"dear man, friend"

Toll collector at a crossing

From the River Trent, 'flooder'

From Treviño

From Treviso

Nimble dancer, light-footed

Trumpeter

Messenger, runner

From Trujillo in Extremadura

Short pet name

Cloth fuller

Turk

Turk

"turn the bull", a nickname for strength

Lathe worker

Lookout hill

From Tyldesley, near Wigan

Tiler, roof maker

Firebrand, or son of Dye