Surnames Starting with B: Coat of Arms & Last Name Origins (page 4 of 5)

Clearing in the valley

Butcher

Thicket

Little Boudon / west French place

Beech or buck farm

Baker

Pilgrim's staff

Townsman, burgher

Stream

Little Bout

Ox-herd

Hill place

Bow-shaped ditch

Son of Owain

Bow maker, or dweller by a cottage

Fair-haired

Place name

Maker of bowls

Bowl maker

From Bowling (the hollow)

Archer

Dweller by a wood

Of Bute

Ox-herd, cattleman

Little boy

Descendant of Baoigheall

Bofa's farm

From Bracewell, in Yorkshire

Fern-covered place

Broad fort

Broad oak

Broad field

Broad river crossing

Broad clearing

Broad wood

Broad road

Son of Brádach

From Braga

From Bragança

Bold, lively

Ford by a burial mound

Broad clearing

From Brembilla near Bergamo

By the brambles

Broom nook

Broom clearing

Broom spring

One who lived by a fork

White

"firebrand" or "sword"

Of Brand / fire

Hill where broom grew

Sword; land cleared by fire

Descendant of Bran

Son of Brand

Steep or burnt clearing

"brewer"

Brown (hair or complexion)

Fierce, brave

Hill, or brave

Briar clearing

Descendant of Braon ("sorrow" or "moisture")

Descendant of Braonán

"distiller or charcoal burner"

High place

Briar farm

Descendant of Breaslán

A Breton

A Breton

Brewer of ale or beer

Brewer of ale

Breton name Brian

From Saint Brice

Man by the bridge

By the bridge

Of the bridge

"clearing with briars"

Dweller by a bridge

Homestead by a bridge

Bright, cheerful

Bright spring

"burnt clearing"

Brynca's wood

Dweller on the field edge

Wood of the Britons

From Bristol

"from Brito"

Breton

A Breton

"broad grassy field"

"broad wooded hill"

Badger, or dweller by a brook

Badger wood

Road by the brook

Son of Rhydderch

From Brodie in Moray

Gaelic family name

Broom field

"clearing where broom grows"

Dweller by a stream

By the brook