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

Someone who came from Weald (woodland)

Hill with a spring

Salt boiler

Someone from Wellington

Someone living near a well

Dweller by the springs

Caves

From the name Wendelin

A Wend (Slav)

A familiar name, a bend, clothing, or a nickname

Winter enclosure

From Wenceslas (Václav)

Protecting army

River island

West clearing

From Wesołowo, the merry place

From the west

West brook

The man who came from the west

West farmstead

Westphalian

Someone who came from Wetmoor (lake by a river bend)

Little Werner / whetter

Someone who was a banker or money changer

Road clearing

A dweller at a corner or at a morass

Place name

Wheat

Wheat clearing

An uncertain place-name origin

Maker of wheels

Someone who came from Wheelock (winding), in Cheshire

Descendant of Faolán ("little wolf")

Someone who came from Wheddon (wheat hill or valley)

West Country place

White field

Fair-haired or pale-complexioned

White-haired

Someone living in a white house

White hillside

White field

Someone who came from Whitford (white ford), in Devonshire

A dweller at the white homestead

Son of the fair one

White clearing

White lock of hair

White moor

White island

Farm of Hwita's people

Someone from Whittle, a white hill

Someone who came from Whitton (Hwita's homestead or the white homestead)

White enclosure

White, fair

A dweller by the wych-elm tree

Someone from one of several places called Wickham

From a farm or dairy, or a pet form of William

Son of the widow

Little evening

Church farmer

Warrior

From the name Wieland

Willow place

A meadow

Son of Wiggin (worthy)

Wilburh's ford

Spring stream

Son of little Will

A nickname from the wolf

Little wolf

"wolf"

Wild, untamed

"wild, untamed"

A nickname connected with cunning

Willow, or from the River Wylye

From the personal name Wilhelm (William)

Wolf

Son of Wilkin, little William

A descendant of Will, a pet form of William (resolution, helmet)

Resolute will

A descendant of Willo, from names beginning with Wille, resolution

A descendant of Wilhere (desire, army)

Little William

From the personal name William

Son of William

Son of William

Homestead of Willa's people

Son of Will (William)

Willow farm

Son of Will (William)

A descendant of Willihard (resolution, brave)

A descendant of Willihard (resolution, brave)

Farmer of parish land

A descendant of Wincel (child)

A descendant of Wincel (child)

Place name