Surnames Starting with L: Coat of Arms & Last Name Origins

Of the bristle

Dweller by a pond

Cross, crossroads

Stream dweller

Lamb, a gentle person, or from Lambert

Bright land

From the personal name Lamberto

From the name Lambert

Fort on the River Lune

From Lando

From Landolt

Powerful in the land

Dweller by the lane

The tall one

The tall one

Long wood or clearing

"lance"

"from Lara"

Son of Lars (Lawrence)

"woods, hazel"

From Laurentius, "of Laurentum"

From lauro, "laurel", or the personal name Lauro

Descendant of Leathlobhar ("half sick")

From Laurentius, "man of Laurentum"

Son of Law (Lawrence)

From the name Lázaro

From the personal name Lazzaro (Lazarus)

Physician

Descendant of Laochdha ("heroic")

"loyal"

Tenant farmer

The clerk

The clerk

The count (nickname)

Woodland clearing, meadow

The smith

The smith

The tall one, the great

Feudal tenant, vassal

Milk, dairyman

Hillside dweller

The mayor

The monk

Descendant of Leannán ("lover, sweetheart")

From Lorenz (Lawrence)

From León; lion

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

Son of Leonardo

Lion

From the personal name Leone, "lion"

"hare"

The red-haired one

The king

From Leslie in Aberdeenshire

Forest dweller

From Leicester

From the hazel place

Attached

From Lewandów (lavender place)

From Lewice

From Llywelyn; or from Louis

"from the Lima river"

"flax fields"

Dweller by a lime tree

Dweller by the lime tree

From Lindsey in Lincolnshire

From the lime-tree place

Fox

"fox"

Small, a nickname

Leving's settlement

From the personal name Llywelyn

Grey (grey-haired)

From Locatello near Bergamo

Dweller by an enclosure

From Locard

From Logan, "little hollow"

"one who lived by a wood"

From Lombardy; also a merchant or banker

Lombard, northerner

Tall man

Tall

The tall one

"son of Lopo"

Son of Lope, "wolf"

From Laurentius (Lawrence)

From Laurentum

"the red-haired one", from lo russo

Famous in battle

"laurel tree"

"from Laurentum"

"blond"

Wolf, or a term of affection

Dweller by a hill or burial mound

Little Lawrence

Lush, vigorous

From Luke

From Lucca

From the personal name Luciano

Famous in battle

"son of Łukasz"

"pool"

"moon" or "from Luna"

Grove

Wolf

From Ludwig (Louis)

Descendant of a mariner; also Norman de Lench

Descendant of Laighean; from Lyons (Normandy)