Surnames Starting with L: Coat of Arms & Last Name Origins (page 2 of 3)

The clerk

The clerk

The count (nickname)

Lead beater

Someone who tanned leather, a tanner

Someone who tanned leather, a tanner

From Ledesma

Woodland clearing, meadow

The smith

The smith

People-spear

Legate, envoy

The tall one, the great

Feudal tenant, vassal

Fief holder

A descendant of Lehr, from Hilarius, or someone from Lehr

A dweller at the sign of the lion

Herb garden

Suckling pig

Milk, dairyman

Hillside dweller

From Leiva

The young one

The mayor

From the Flemish Lem family

The better one

Little Lemmo

The monk

The monk

From Lemos

From Lemus / Lemos

Flax, a nickname, or a shortened personal name

Descendant of Leannán ("lover, sweetheart")

From the Lennox district

The dark one

Lenz / Lorenz

From Lorenz (Lawrence)

A descendant of Leo (lion)

From León; lion

From the personal name Leonard ("lion-hardy")

Son of Leonardo

Lion

A descendant of Leonhard, lion and bold

From the personal name Leone, "lion"

A descendant of Leopold

"hare"

A descendant of Liebrecht (people, pride)

Someone like a lark

From Lerma

Someone who came from Leer in Germany

Someone who came from Lern (to learn), in Germany

The red-haired one

The king

The wise one

From Leslie in Aberdeenshire

Forest dweller

Someone from Leśniewo, a place named after a forest

A connection with places called Leça

Cleared land

From Leicester

From the hazel place

The son of Leofwin (dear, friend)

The bishop

The bishop

The son of Leofwin (dear, friend)

Someone who came from Livet (wolf cub) in Normandy

Attached

From Lewandów (lavender place)

From Lewice

From Llywelyn; or from Louis

From Leiva

From Licata

Someone who came from Liddel (loud river valley)

A dear, beloved person, or a descendant of Liubwin

Bright, nimble

Swift runner

Lily-fair, or from Lilley

"from the Lima river"

Lemon

"flax fields"

Settlement by the pool

Linden tree

Dweller by a lime tree

A lime-tree or place-name connection

Lime-tree clearing

Dweller by the lime tree

From Lindsey in Lincolnshire

Lime-tree or flax farm

From the lime-tree place

Little linden

The servant of Lipp

A pet form of Philipp

A descendant of Liutbert or Liebhard

A dweller in the cottage at the edge

The servant of Lipp

The servant of Lipp

Leap valley

Lyre

Fox

From Lisbon

From Lisiec

"fox"

Dyer

Small, a nickname

Little John

Someone from one of several places called Littleton

Someone associated with Lithuania

Leving's settlement

Leving's farm

From the personal name Llywelyn

Grey (grey-haired)