English Surnames: Meaning, Origin & Coat of Arms (page 2 of 5)

From Chatterton, near Ramsbottom in Lancashire

From Cheetham, near Manchester

Cherry grower or seller

Children's house

Young man, youth

Bearer of Christ

Dweller by the church

Clerk, scholar or scribe

Dweller on clay soil

From Clayton, "clay farmstead"

From Clegg, near Rochdale in Lancashire

Hilly land

Farm by a cliff

"ravine, steep valley"

From the Old Norse name Kobbi, or "lump"

Coal-black; pet form of Nicholas

Charcoal burner; descendant of Colmán ("dove")

Charcoal burner

Dweller in a valley

Valley farmstead

Cook

Barrel maker

From Copeland in Cumbria, "bought land"

Little raven

Little raven

At the cottages

Red-haired

From Courtenay, France

Rooster; lively man

Dweller by a crab-apple tree

Long-legged, like a crane

Village with a cross

Dweller by a cross

"clearing with a cross"

Crow

"fiddler, player of the crwth"

Courteous, refined

"farm in the valley"

Valley

Son of Daniel ("God is my judge")

Market on the River Dane

Son of Daw (David)

From the medieval name Day (David), or a dairy worker

Dweller in a valley, or servant of a dean

"valley of the wild animals"

Valley farm

Son of Dickin (Richard)

Uncertain, perhaps dill

Son of Dick (Richard)

From Dodde

Son of Dodd

Son of Dunn (dark)

Of the downs

Dragon, or male duck

"enclosure with ducks"

Dudda's clearing

Leader

Hill island

From Dionisia

Dyer of cloth

"dweller by the east wood"

River settlement

Son of Edmund

From a first name meaning ruler

Son of little Elias

Bank where elms grew

Son of Emery

Vigour and power

An Englishman

"fork of a river where ducks gather"

Uncertain, perhaps from Eustace

Brave as a boar

"fair bank or slope"

"fair ravine"

"fair wooded hill"

Fern clearing

Tax farmer, or farmer

"enclosure with ferns"

A young pig keeper or a nickname

Falconer

"farm in the fen"

"dweller in open country"

Dweller by the open fields

Finch

Fisherman, fish seller

Fisherman

Arrow maker

Arrow maker, or a flower

River crossing

Leader, or swineherd

Forester; foster parent; shear maker

"fodder ravine"

Bird catcher

Nickname for a cunning person

Frenchman

Free landholder

Free man

Frenchman

Frost, white-haired

Free man

Fuller of cloth

Old

"gardener"

Gardener

Maker of garlands

Granary keeper, or from the personal name Warner

Spear-hard or spear-rule (from Gerard or Gerald)

"dweller by the spear-shaped hillside"

Dweller by the gates

Cheerful

Noble birth, courtesy

Son of Gib (Gilbert)

From the Norman name Gilbert ("bright pledge")

From Aegidius (young goat)

Dweller by a ravine, or from Gilbert

From Guillaume (William)

Glove maker

"God hard", a Germanic personal name

God's peace

Golden-haired

Good, kind