English Surnames: Meaning, Origin & Coat of Arms (page 2 of 16)

Bee hill

Tree, post

Bean grower, or son of Beathan

Bearded man

Woodland valley

Clearing of Beornheard

Clearing with bent grass

Beautiful hill

Beautiful view

A dweller at the sign of the beaver

Little beak / beehive cottage

From Beckham in Norfolk

Someone who came from Beckley (Beocca's meadow)

Wood by the stream

Bēda's ford

Bee keeper / bee hollow

A dweller at, or near, a beech tree

Beech homestead

By the beech trees

Someone who kept bees

Farm where bent grass grows

Fair face, cheerful

Bell; handsome

"fine friend"

Someone who made and sold bells

Someone who kept bees

Someone who came from Beaumetz, in Normandy

Bend the bow

Someone who lived at the ledge or terrace

A descendant of Benedict (blessed)

Blessed

A dweller in, or near, a field, where beans were grown

Someone who came from Bynna's homestead

Right-hand son

Blessed

Son of Ben (Benedict)

A dweller at an unenclosed pasture, moor or heath

From Bentham, in North Yorkshire

Bent-grass clearing

Bean farmstead

A dweller at a birch tree or birch grove

Birch wood

The son of Berk, a pet form of Baruch (blessed)

Bear man

Dweller by the fortified manor

Bright raven

Beast, or herdsman

Son of Bet (Beatrice)

Beautiful place

Beekeepers' landing

Bica's ford

Place name

Beadle, court officer

Someone who came from Bidwell (stream in a valley)

Bacga's clearing

The large, tall, bulky or proud man

Someone who buys, a purchaser

Someone who buys, a purchaser

Big, strong man

Someone who made bills

From Billing

Billing's clearing

Billa's farm

From Bingham, Nottinghamshire

"dweller by the birch tree"

Birch nook

"birch headland"

From Birmingham

Fork where birds gather

Bishop, a nickname or servant name

Maker of bushels

The little brown or dark-complexioned man

The little brown or dark-complexioned man

Place name

Dark stream

Little black-haired one

Dark man

Dark man

Black moor

Black stone

Dark spring

Pale, or dark

"dark clearing"

Dark pool or moor

Black island

Someone who had lead-colored hair

Dark marsh

From Bland in Yorkshire

From Blenkinsopp

A nickname for someone with lead-coloured or dark hair

Dark clearing

From Bledisloe, Gloucestershire

Place name

Someone who took the personified part of blessing in the morality plays

Joy

Field of flowers

Fair-haired

Little fair-haired one

Fair-haired

Cheerful, or from the River Blyth

Cottager

Boda's clearing

Hill with a dwelling

Tree trunk

Bolt maker

Dwelling settlement

Farmer, tenant

A householder or a tiller of the soil

Good man

Gentle, courteous

The good, kind person

Scribe or bookbinder

From Bohon in Normandy, or good

Man from the bower

Herdsman, dweller in a hut

Clearing with booths

Boar valley

Someone from Bosley in Cheshire

From Boston

Bar's enclosure

Someone who came from Bottesford (house by the river crossing)

Clearing in the valley

Beech or buck farm

Stream

Hill place

Bow-shaped ditch

A dweller in a cottage or chamber

Bow maker, or dweller by a cottage

Place name

Maker of bowls

Bowl maker

From Bowling (the hollow)

Archer

Fine sir

Someone who made or sold bows

A box tree or locality

Dweller by a wood

Little boy

Bofa's farm

From Bracewell, in Yorkshire

Fern-covered place

A small-hound nickname