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

Knight, horseman

Place of goats

Descendant of Cathal ("strong in battle")

From Calabria

From Caldwell, "cold spring"

From the lands of Colquhoun

Descendant of Ceallachán

Bald

Crooked nose; crooked hill

Crooked mouth (Gaelic)

Fields

Canon (cleric), or descendant of Canannán

White-haired

Little singer

Head, headstrong

Charcoal

Descendant of Ciardha ("dark")

From Carmona (Seville)

Cartwright

Carpenter, worker in timber

Dweller by a marsh or fen

Holm oak, scrubland

Descendant of Cearbhall

Paper, document; or from Cartha

Cart driver, carrier

Boy, young lad; close-cropped head

Woodcarver, or ploughman

Box or chest maker

Descendant of Cathasach ("vigilant")

Descendant of Caiside ("curly-haired")

Dweller by a castle

Castle

Fort, fortified place

Catalan

Captain, feudal vassal

Horse

Chamberlain, servant of the private rooms

Candle maker or seller

Oak grove

Merchant, trader

Free man

Hunter, or dweller by a hunting ground

Cherry grower or seller

Knight, horseman

From Chmielewo (hop field)

Son of Christen (Christian)

Follower of Christ

Dweller by the church

Carpenter's son

Lordly (from Kyrillos)

Son of Flannchadh ("red warrior")

Clerk, scholar or scribe

Descendant of the cleric

Dweller on clay soil

From Clayton, "clay farmstead"

Descendant of the clerk

Mild, merciful

From the Old Norse name Kobbi, or "lump"

From the lands of Cochrane

Descendant of Cobhthach ("victorious")

Priest

Coal-black; pet form of Nicholas

Charcoal burner; descendant of Colmán ("dove")

Pet form of Nicolas

Charcoal burner

Descendant of Coileán, "young hound"

Dove

Column; from Colonna

Dweller in a valley

Valley farmstead

Descendant of Conall

Descendant of Conghalach, "valorous"

Anglicized form of several Gaelic names

Count

Count (noble title)

Anglicized form of several Gaelic names

Cook

Son of the devotee of St Mochuille

Barrel maker

From Copeland in Cumbria, "bought land"

Cap, capmaker

Descendant of Corcrán ("purple" or "ruddy")

Descendant of Corragán ("spear")

Courteous

Coast or hillside

Son of Costantino (Constantine)

Son of Oisdealb

Son of Oitir (Norse Óttarr)

At the cottages

Descendant of Cochlán ("cloak, hood")

Son of Eoghan

Rooster; lively man

Son of the devotee of Saint Comhghall

Dweller by the crag

Long-legged, like a crane

From the crow ford

Curly-haired

Descendant of the swarthy one

Village with a cross

Dweller by a cross

Descendant of the hard hero

Cross

Descendant of Cuileann ("holly")

From the Norman Comyn family

Descendant of Coimín ("little crooked one")

From Cunninghame (Ayrshire)

Descendant of Corrán ("spear")

Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Mhuirich or Ó Comhraidhe

Courteous, refined

From a place named for black land

From Czerwin or Czerwińsk (red)