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Surnames Starting with G: Coat of Arms & Last Name Origins (page 2 of 2)

159 family names beginning with G. Open a name to read its surname origin, its meaning and the heraldry associated with it.

  • Goddard
    England

    "God hard", a Germanic personal name

  • Godfrey
    England

    God's peace

  • Godinho
    Portugal

    Little Godo

  • Goebel
    Germany

    From the name Gottfried

  • Goff
    Wales

    Red, or smith

  • Goldberg
    Germany

    Gold mountain

  • Golden
    England

    Golden-haired

  • Goldman
    Germany

    Gold man

  • Goldstein
    Germany

    Gold stone

  • Gołębiowski
    Poland

    From the place of doves

  • Gomes
    Portugal

    From the name Gomes

  • Gómez
    Spain

    Son of Gome (man)

  • Gonçalves
    Portugal

    "son of Gonçalo"

  • González
    Spain

    Son of Gonzalo

  • Good
    England

    Good, kind

  • Goodall
    England

    "good ale" or "good corner"

  • Goodman
    England

    Good man, or head of a household

  • Goodrich
    England

    From Godric, 'good ruler'

  • Goodwin
    England

    Good friend

  • Gordon
    Scotland

    From Gordon ("spacious fort")

  • Gore
    England

    Dweller on a triangular plot

  • Górecki
    Poland

    "from Górka"

  • Gorman
    Ireland

    Son of Gormán ("little blue one")

  • Górny
    Poland

    "upper"

  • Górski
    Poland

    Of the hill / mountain

  • Gottschalk
    Germany

    "servant of God"

  • Götz
    Germany

    From Götz, a pet form of Gottfried

  • Gould
    England

    Golden, or goldsmith

  • Gouveia
    Portugal

    From Gouveia

  • Grabowski
    Poland

    From Grabów, place of hornbeams

  • Grace
    Ireland

    Pleasing quality, or the fat

  • Graf
    Germany

    Count; reeve

  • Graham
    Scotland

    From Grantham, "gravelly homestead"

  • Granados
    Spain

    "pomegranate groves"

  • Granger
    England

    Keeper of the granary

  • Grant
    Scotland

    Tall, great

  • Grassi
    Italy

    Of the plump one

  • Grasso
    Italy

    Stout, fat

  • Graves
    England

    Steward, or dweller by a grove

  • Gray
    England

    Grey-haired

  • Greco
    Italy

    Greek

  • Green
    England

    Dweller by the village green

  • Greenberg
    Germany

    Green mountain

  • Greenhalgh
    England

    "green hollow"

  • Greenwood
    England

    Dweller by a green wood

  • Gregory
    England

    From Greek Grēgorios, "watchful"

  • Griffin
    Wales & England

    From Gruffudd; descendant of Gríofa

  • Griffith
    Wales

    From the personal name Gruffudd

  • Grimaldi
    Italy

    Son of Grimaldo

  • Grimes
    England

    Son of Grim (masked one)

  • Grimm
    Germany

    Grim, fierce

  • Grimshaw
    England

    "dark wood" or "Grim's wood"

  • Gross
    Germany

    Big, tall

  • Groves
    England

    Dweller by a grove

  • Gruber
    Germany

    Dweller in a hollow

  • Gruszka
    Poland

    Little pear

  • Grzelak
    Poland

    "son of Grzegorz"

  • Grzybowski
    Poland

    "mushroom"

  • Guarino
    Italy

    From Guarino, a Germanic personal name

  • Guedes
    Portugal

    Son of Guede

  • Guérin
    France

    Guard, protector

  • Guerra
    Italy

    War; a fierce or quarrelsome man

  • Guerreiro
    Portugal

    "warrior"

  • Guerrero
    Spain

    Warrior, soldier

  • Guevara
    Spain

    From Guevara in Álava

  • Guidi
    Italy

    Son of Guido

  • Guidry
    France

    From a Germanic first name

  • Guillaume
    France

    Will and helmet (William)

  • Guillén
    Spain

    From the name Guillermo

  • Guillot
    France

    Little William

  • Guimarães
    Portugal

    "from Guimarães"

  • Gunn
    Scotland

    Battle

  • Günther
    Germany

    Battle army

  • Gustafson
    Sweden

    Son of Gustaf

  • Guthrie
    Scotland

    From Guthrie in Angus

  • Gutiérrez
    Spain

    Son of Gutierre

  • Gutowski
    Poland

    "from Gutowo"

  • Guy
    England

    Wood, or wide

  • Guzman
    Spain

    From Guzmán in Burgos

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Researched by Herald Lab Research Studio, since 1993. Coats of arms were granted to individuals, not to everyone with a surname.