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

"innkeeper's son"

Innkeeper's son, little innkeeper

"drake"

Emperor

From Kalinowo (guelder rose)

"guelder rose"

From a stony place (Kamień)

Descendant of Cathán ("battle")

"kite"

Priest

"son of Kasper"

"granary keeper"

Priest of righteousness

Merchant, trader

Follower of Caomhán

Son of Kaźmierz (Casimir)

Descendant of Cathán ("battle")

Descendant of Catharnach ("warlike")

Norman, perhaps "kite"

From the lands of Keith

Descendant of Céileachair ("companion dear")

Cellarer, steward of stores

Descendant of Ceallach

Champion, warrior

Valley of the River Kent

Descendant of Cinnéide

Descendant of Cionaodh (Kenneth)

From Kent

Son of Eochaidh ("horseman")

Core, kernel; a nickname

Dweller by the marshy scrubland

"church wood"

Coppersmith, kettle maker

Key maker, or quay

Young goat

Son of Tighearnán ("little lord")

King (nickname or royal servant)

From Cinnsealach, byname of Éanna MacMurrough

Church settlement

"sexton"

Dweller by the church

"village with a church"

Church land

Descendant of Ciardubhán ("dark black")

Small or young

From the name Nikolaus

Hilltop, or young servant

Servant; mounted soldier

"one who lived by a knoll"

From the knock (round hill)

Cook

Charcoal burner

Club, a nickname

"charcoal burner"

"at the end"

King

"wheelwright"

"soot, smoke"

"head"

"grain"

"smith"

Son of the blacksmith

"smith's place"

Blacksmith's (from kowal)

"Cossack"

From Kozłów, linked to kozioł, "goat"

Strength, a nickname for a strong man

"border land"

Shopkeeper, trader

Curly-haired

Curly-haired

Tailor's son

"crab, crayfish"

"shopkeeper, pedlar"

King

"curly-haired"

Innkeeper (Low German)

"groats"

"flint"

From the name Kuba

Son of Kuba (Jacob)

Cook; from Kuchary

Dweller by a hollow or pit

Short form of Konrad ("bold counsel")

Son of Kunz (Konrad, "bold counsel")

"cockerel"

"from Kurów"

Short

From Kwiatków, linked to kwiat, "flower"