Surnames Starting with C: Coat of Arms & Last Name Origins (page 1 of 5)

Knight, horseman

A cabin, hut or related locality

Places named for cabins or huts

Hair

Cape / corporal

"goat pasture"

From Cabras in Sardinia

Goat place

Place of goats

Little goat

"from Cáceres"

A historical nickname meaning big head

Chain

A grandson of little Ceadach (possessing hundreds)

A lime-working name or a locality

From Gaeta

A dweller near, or worker at, a prison

A grandson of Cathal (battle powerful)

Descendant of Cathal ("strong in battle")

Someone who came from Cairo (victorious), in Italy

Someone from Cairo Montenotte or a similar place

From Calabria

Silent

Hot springs

Cauldron

Hard water (river name)

"cauldron maker"

A dweller at the wood by the Calder (violent stream)

From Caldwell, "cold spring"

From the lands of Colquhoun

A possible reference to a chalice

A descendant of Cathal (battle mighty)

Descendant of Ceallachán

A grandson of little Cathal (battle mighty)

A grandson of little Cathal (battle mighty)

From Caillouet, pebbles

A locality named Calvary

Calf herder

A descendant of Calvin (bald)

Little bald one

Bald

"crooked, lame"

Chamber

From Camarena

From Camargo in Cantabria

Little chamber / place

A locality or a chamber-related name

Crooked nose; crooked hill

A possible shirt-maker's name

Countryside or a locality

"bell", a bell maker

Little bell

Crooked mouth (Gaelic)

Fields

Snub-nosed

Channels

Reeds, a locality or a white-haired nickname

A personal name or an old descriptive nickname

A locality or a separate personal-name origin

Reed bed

A locality or an old leg-related nickname

From Canfield in Essex

Canon (cleric), or descendant of Canannán

White-haired

Stonemason

A corner or a locality

Of the corner

The soloist who sang liturgical music in the synagogue

Little singer

From Cantù

A descendant of a satirist or poet

From capasso, a large earthenware jar

Big head

A hat maker, from cappello, "hat"

Goat

A nickname, perhaps "cut stick"

Someone from Capua in Campania

Head, headstrong

A form of the Galician Carballo

Oak grove

Charcoal

Someone who mined coal or burned charcoal

Wool-working; also other origins

Someone who cards or combs wool

"from Cárdenas"

Thistle

Cardinal

From Cardona

"thistly place"

Descendant of Ciardha ("dark")

Places associated with a small settlement

From Karl; also other origins

A descendant of Caireallan

From Carlo (Charles)

Cartwright

Descendant of Caireallán

From Carlisle, 'fort of Luguvalos'

The son of Carl (man)

Son of Carl

Settlement of free peasants

From Carluccio, a pet form of Carlo

Fort of Saint Michael

A shortened Marian personal name

A grandson of Cearmaid (black hunting dog)

From Carmona (Seville)

"ram"

Cairn

Dried meat

Descendant of Cearnach

Dear, beloved

A grandson of Cearbhall (stag)

A diminutive of Carlo