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Surnames Starting with C: Coat of Arms & Last Name Origins (page 5 of 5)

560 family names beginning with C. Open a name to read its surname origin, its meaning and the heraldry associated with it.

  • Coughlan
    Ireland

    Descendant of Cochlán ("cloak, hood")

  • Coughlin
    Ireland

    Hooded one

  • Coulomb
    France

    Dove

  • Coulter
    Scotland

    From Coulter

  • Courtney
    England

    From Courtenay, France

  • Courtois
    France

    Courteous

  • Cousin
    France

    Cousin / kinsman

  • Coutinho
    Portugal

    "little enclosure"

  • Couto
    Portugal

    Enclosed land

  • Coutts
    England

    A dweller at the sign of the coot

  • Couturier
    France

    Tailor

  • Covarrubias
    Spain

    Red caves

  • Covel
    England

    A dweller in a small chamber or cave

  • Covell
    England

    A dweller in a small chamber or cave

  • Covington
    England

    Farm of Cofa's people

  • Cowan
    Scotland

    Son of Eoghan

  • Coward
    England

    Someone who tended cows

  • Cowart
    England

    Someone who tended cows

  • Cowen
    Scotland

    A dweller at a hollow

  • Cowie
    England

    A dweller at the cow island or river pasture

  • Cox
    England

    Rooster; lively man

  • Coy
    England

    Quiet / reserved

  • Coyle
    Ireland

    Son of the devotee of Saint Comhghall

  • Coyne
    Ireland

    Wild goose

  • Crabtree
    England

    Dweller by a crab-apple tree

  • Craig
    Scotland

    Dweller by the crag

  • Crandall
    England

    Chalk pit

  • Crane
    England

    Long-legged, like a crane

  • Cranfield
    England

    Open land of the cranes

  • Craven
    England

    From Craven

  • Crawford
    Scotland

    From the crow ford

  • Crawley
    England

    Crow clearing

  • Creech
    England

    From Creech / hill

  • Crenshaw
    England

    Wood of the cranes

  • Crépin
    France

    Crispin

  • Crescenzi
    Italy

    Son of Crescenzio

  • Crespi
    Italy

    Curly-haired

  • Crespo
    Spain

    Curly-haired

  • Crichton
    Scotland

    Border farmstead

  • Crisp
    England

    Curly-haired

  • Crispi
    Italy

    Curly-haired

  • Criss
    England

    A descendant of Crist

  • Crist
    England

    A descendant of Crist

  • Cristiani
    Italy

    From the personal name Cristiano, "Christian"

  • Criswell
    England

    Someone from Cresswell, a stream where cress grew

  • Crittenden
    England

    Someone from a place in Kent

  • Crocker
    England

    Potter, maker of crocks

  • Crocket
    England

    The little crooked or deformed person

  • Crockett
    England

    Curly-haired

  • Croft
    England

    Small enclosed field

  • Crofts
    England

    Someone who came from Croft (enclosure)

  • Cromwell
    England

    Winding stream

  • Cronin
    Ireland

    Descendant of the swarthy one

  • Crook
    England

    Bend

  • Crosby
    England

    Village with a cross

  • Crosley
    England

    Someone who lived at the glade

  • Cross
    England

    Dweller by a cross

  • Crossley
    England

    "clearing with a cross"

  • Crouch
    England

    Dweller by a cross

  • Croucher
    England

    A dweller near a cross

  • Crowe
    England

    Crow

  • Crowell
    England

    Crows' spring

  • Crowley
    Ireland

    Descendant of the hard hero

  • Crowther
    England

    "fiddler, player of the crwth"

  • Crozier
    England

    Someone who bears a cross

  • Cruickshank
    Scotland

    A dweller at, or near, the crooked projecting point of a hill

  • Crumb
    England

    The crooked, maimed or deformed person

  • Crump
    England

    Crooked

  • Cruz
    Spain

    Cross

  • Cuba
    Portugal

    An Iberian place name related to a barrel

  • Cubas
    Portugal

    Localities named with the plural of cuba

  • Cuéllar
    Spain

    From Cuéllar

  • Cuesta
    Spain

    "slope"

  • Cuevas
    Spain

    Caves

  • Culbertson
    Scotland

    Son of Culbert or Colbert

  • Cullen
    Ireland

    Descendant of Cuileann ("holly")

  • Cullens
    Ireland

    A grandson of Cuileann (holly)

  • Culver
    England

    Dove

  • Cumming
    Scotland

    Someone who came from Comines, in Flanders

  • Cummings
    Scotland

    From the Norman Comyn family

  • Cummins
    Ireland

    Descendant of Coimín ("little crooked one")

  • Cuneo
    Italy

    Someone from Cuneo in Piedmont

  • Cunha
    Portugal

    "wedge" or "from Cunha"

  • Cunningham
    Scotland & Ireland

    From Cunninghame (Ayrshire)

  • Cuomo
    Italy

    Probably from a Neapolitan form of the name Cosma

  • Curcio
    Italy

    A nickname for a short person

  • Curley
    Ireland

    Several Irish and English origins

  • Curran
    Ireland

    Descendant of Corrán ("spear")

  • Currier
    England

    A leather dresser

  • Curro
    Portugal

    A place-name connected with an animal enclosure

  • Curry
    Scotland

    Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Mhuirich or Ó Comhraidhe

  • Curtin
    Ireland

    An anglicized form of Mac Cruitín

  • Curtis
    England

    Courteous, refined

  • Curto
    Portugal

    A nickname for someone short

  • Cushing
    England

    A diminutive of Custance or Constance

  • Cushman
    England

    A maker of thigh armour, or of cushions

  • Custódio
    Portugal

    A guardian-angel devotional name

  • Cutler
    England

    Knife maker

  • Cutter
    England

    Someone who cut cloth

  • Cutting
    England

    The son, or family, of Cutha (famous)

  • Cwik
    Poland

    A cunning or clever fellow

  • Cybulski
    Poland

    "onion"

  • Cygan
    Poland

    A nickname meaning a Romani person

  • Czaja
    Poland

    A nickname from the lapwing

  • Czajka
    Poland

    Lapwing

  • Czajkowski
    Poland

    "lapwing"

  • Czarnecki
    Poland

    From a place named for black land

  • Czarnik
    Poland

    A dark-complexioned man, or someone from Czarnik

  • Czech
    Poland

    "Czech"

  • Czerniak
    Poland

    A nickname for a dark-haired person

  • Czerwiński
    Poland

    From Czerwin or Czerwińsk (red)

  • Czubak
    Poland

    Man with a tuft of hair

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Researched by Herald Lab Research Studio, since 1993. Coats of arms were granted to individuals, not to everyone with a surname.