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

By the brook

Broom heath

Gaelic family name

Place name

Fortified place

Homestead by the fort

Farmstead by the fort or brook

Dweller in scrubland

Brown-haired or dark-complexioned

Brown meadow

Brown hill

From Brix in Normandy

"one who lived by a bridge"

Bridge keeper

Bridge dweller

Brown-haired

From Brunello, a pet form of Bruno

Little brown one

From Brunetto, a pet form of Bruno, "brown"

Brown, brown-haired

Dweller by a spring

Brown-haired or dark-complexioned

Son of Brun

Farm by a stream

From Brian ("high, noble")

Son of Brice

"birch wood"

From the birch place

Peel / short form

From Buchanan in Stirlingshire

"beech wood"

Beech dweller

He-goat or buck, or beech tree

Water-meadow of Bucca's people

Land granted by charter

Maker of bucklers

Descendant of Buachaill ("herdsman")

Master of the bucks

"little beech"

Plump, bud

"good"

Hill dweller

Bush, thicket

"lush, sturdy"

From Buków, beech place

Bullock pasture

Bull-like man

From Boulogne

Young bull

Bull's pool

Hunchback

Good heart

Small bird

Bunion, swelling (nickname)

"good"

Good heart

Bank by a fortification

Birch tree

Birch hill

Place name

Little Burde

Citizen of a town

Citizen of a borough

From Burgos

From Burgundy

From de Burgh, "fortified place"

Strong fortress

Clearing by a fort

Clearing by the fort

Brown-haired, of brown complexion

From Bernay

Homestead on a stream

Dweller by a stream; descendant of Bran

Beside the 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"

Bushy farm

Bush, thicket

Man by the bushes

Dweller by the bush or thicket

Bushel measure

From Burkhard, or a nickname

Summer pasture

"cattle pasture"

Wine steward

Pasture for dairy cattle

Butter enclosure

Button maker

Dweller by the archery butts

Rocking stones

Of the cowshed

At the cattle sheds

Bird (nickname)

Descendant of Bran, "raven"

At the cattle sheds

By the water