English Surnames: Meaning, Origin & Coat of Arms (page 3 of 16)

Someone who came from Bracken (fern), in Yorkshire

Broad fort

Broad oak

Broad field

Broad river crossing

Broad clearing

Broad wood

Broad road

Bold, lively

A descendant of Brego (chief)

Ford by a burial mound

Broad clearing

By the brambles

Broom nook

Broom clearing

Broom spring

One who lived by a fork

Hill where broom grew

Steep homestead

Son of Brand

Steep or burnt clearing

Someone who worked in brass

Someone who came from Braithwaite (broad clearing)

A place-name surname

Hill, or brave

Someone who worked in brass

Briar clearing

High place

Briar farm

A Breton

Brewer of ale or beer

Brewer of ale

A dweller near a bridge

Man by the bridge

By the bridge

Of the bridge

"clearing with briars"

A dweller near a bridge

Dweller by a bridge

Homestead by a bridge

Bright, cheerful

Bright spring

"burnt clearing"

Brynca's wood

Wood of the Britons

From Bristol

Breton

A Breton

"broad grassy field"

Someone who had a big head

"broad wooded hill"

Badger, or dweller by a brook

Badger wood

Road by the brook

Someone who had a big head

Someone who came from Brome

Broom field

"clearing where broom grows"

Someone who came from Brome

A form of Brunson

Dweller by a stream

By the brook

By the brook

Broom heath

A form of Brother

Place name

Fortified place

Homestead by the fort

Farmstead by the fort or brook

Brown-haired or dark-complexioned

A diminutive of Brown, for someone with brown colouring

Brown hill

Broom field

Farm by a stream

From Brian ("high, noble")

He-goat or buck, or beech tree

Water-meadow of Bucca's people

Land granted by charter

Maker of bucklers

Someone who came from Bucknall (Bucca's corner)

Master of the bucks

Plump, bud

Someone from Beeford or a similar place

A descendant of Buga or Bugga (to stoop)

A descendant of Buga or Bugga (to stoop)

A descendant of Buga or Bugga (to stoop)

Someone who made leather wallets or bags

Bullock pasture

A nickname from the bull

Bull-like man

From Boulogne

Young bull

Bull's pool

Hunchback

Good heart

Small bird

Bunion, swelling (nickname)

Bank by a fortification

Birch tree

Birch hill

Place name

Little Burde

Citizen of a borough

From Burgundy

Strong fortress

Clearing by a fort

Possibly from Brusselton or Burniston

Clearing by the fort

Little brown one

From Bernay

Homestead on a stream

Prickly seed

Coarse brown cloth

Dweller by a hill or fortified place

One who lived by a hill or mound

Bright

From Burton, "fortified farmstead"

Dweller by the bush or thicket

Bushel measure

A dweller at, or near, a thicket or small wood

Wine steward

Pasture for dairy cattle

Butter enclosure

Someone who made

Button maker

Someone who came from Butterwick (butter farm)

Dweller by the archery butts

Rocking stones

Of the cowshed

Little homestead / Baynham

At the cattle sheds

Bird (nickname)

At the cattle sheds

By the water

A dweller near, or worker at, a prison

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

From Caillouet, pebbles

Calf herder

A descendant of Calvin (bald)

From Canfield in Essex

The soloist who sang liturgical music in the synagogue

Little singer