Surname Directory: Coat of Arms & Family Name Origins
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English, Scottish & Welsh surnames
- Adams
- Allen
- Anderson
- Baker
- Barnes
- Bell
- Bennett
- Brooks
- Brown
- Carter
- Clark
- Cook
- Cooper
- Cox
- Davis
- Edwards
- Evans
- Gray
- Green
- Harris
- Henderson
- Hill
- Howard
- Jackson
- Johnson
- Jones
- King
- Lewis
- Martin
- Miller
- Mitchell
- Moore
- Morgan
- Morris
- Nelson
- Parker
- Peterson
- Phillips
- Reed
- Richardson
- Roberts
- Robinson
- Rogers
- Ross
- Scott
- Smith
- Stewart
- Taylor
- Thomas
- Thompson
- Turner
- Walker
- Ward
- Watson
- White
- Williams
- Wilson
- Wood
- Wright
- Young
Irish surnames
- Boyle
- Brennan
- Burke
- Byrne
- Callaghan
- Campbell
- Carroll
- Clarke
- Collins
- Connell
- Connolly
- Daly
- Dolan
- Doyle
- Duffy
- Dunne
- Egan
- Farrell
- Fitzgerald
- Flynn
- Hayes
- Healy
- Hughes
- Johnston
- Kavanagh
- Kelly
- Kennedy
- Lynch
- Maguire
- McCarthy
- McLaughlin
- Murphy
- Murray
- Nolan
- O'Brien
- O'Connor
- O'Neill
- Power
- Quinn
- Reilly
- Ryan
- Sullivan
- Sweeney
- Walsh
Italian surnames
- Barbieri
- Bianchi
- Bianco
- Bruno
- Caruso
- Colombo
- Conte
- Conti
- Coppola
- Costa
- D'Angelo
- De Luca
- De Rosa
- De Santis
- Esposito
- Fabbri
- Ferrara
- Ferrari
- Ferri
- Fontana
- Galli
- Gallo
- Gatti
- Gentile
- Giordano
- Grasso
- Greco
- Leone
- Lombardi
- Lombardo
- Longo
- Mancini
- Marchetti
- Mariani
- Marini
- Marino
- Martinelli
- Martini
- Messina
- Moretti
- Palumbo
- Parisi
- Pellegrini
- Ricci
- Rinaldi
- Rizzo
- Romano
- Rossi
- Russo
- Sala
- Santoro
- Serra
- Valentini
- Villa
- Vitale
German surnames
- Bauer
- Becker
- Braun
- Fischer
- Friedrich
- Fuchs
- Hahn
- Hartmann
- Herrmann
- Hoffmann
- Hofmann
- Huber
- Jung
- Kaiser
- Klein
- Koch
- Krause
- Krüger
- Köhler
- König
- Lang
- Lange
- Lehmann
- Maier
- Mayer
- Meier
- Meyer
- Möller
- Müller
- Neumann
- Peters
- Richter
- Schmid
- Schmidt
- Schmitt
- Schmitz
- Schneider
- Scholz
- Schröder
- Schubert
- Schulz
- Schulze
- Schwarz
- Schäfer
- Vogel
- Wagner
- Walter
- Weber
- Weiß
- Werner
- Wolf
- Zimmermann
Spanish surnames
- Alonso
- Blanco
- Cano
- Castillo
- Castro
- Cortés
- Delgado
- Domínguez
- Díaz
- Fernández
- Garcia
- Garrido
- Gil
- González
- Guerrero
- Gutiérrez
- Gómez
- Hernández
- Iglesias
- Jiménez
- Lozano
- López
- Martínez
- Marín
- Medina
- Molina
- Morales
- Moreno
- Muñoz
- Méndez
- Navarro
- Núñez
- Ortega
- Ortiz
- Prieto
- Pérez
- Ramos
- Ramírez
- Rodríguez
- Romero
- Rubio
- Ruiz
- Santos
- Sanz
- Serrano
- Suárez
- Sánchez
- Torres
- Vázquez
- Álvarez
Polish surnames
- Adamczyk
- Baran
- Dudek
- Dąbrowski
- Grabowski
- Górski
- Jabłoński
- Jankowski
- Jaworski
- Kaczmarek
- Kamiński
- Kowalczyk
- Kowalski
- Kozłowski
- Krawczyk
- Król
- Kwiatkowski
- Lewandowski
- Majewski
- Malinowski
- Mazur
- Michalak
- Michalski
- Nowak
- Nowakowski
- Nowicki
- Olszewski
- Ostrowski
- Pawlak
- Pawłowski
- Piotrowski
- Rutkowski
- Sikora
- Stępień
- Szewczyk
- Szymański
- Walczak
- Wieczorek
- Witkowski
- Wiśniewski
- Wojciechowski
- Woźniak
- Wróbel
- Wójcik
- Zając
- Zieliński
French surnames
- André
- Bernard
- Bertrand
- Blanc
- Bonnet
- Boyer
- Chevalier
- Clément
- David
- Dubois
- Dupont
- Durand
- Faure
- Fontaine
- Fournier
- François
- Garnier
- Gauthier
- Girard
- Guérin
- Henry
- Lambert
- Laurent
- Lefebvre
- Lefèvre
- Legrand
- Leroy
- Mathieu
- Mercier
- Michel
- Moreau
- Morel
- Morin
- Nicolas
- Perrin
- Petit
- Richard
- Robert
- Robin
- Rousseau
- Roussel
- Roux
- Simon
- Vincent
Researched by Herald Lab Research Studio, since 1993.