Surnames Starting with B: Coat of Arms & Last Name Origins (page 5 of 7)

The good, kind person

A personal name or nickname involving good

Good man

Scribe or bookbinder

From Bohon in Normandy, or good

Man from the bower

Herdsman, dweller in a hut

Clearing with booths

From Borba

A descendant of Burkhard

Boar valley

A pilgrim's staff or a locality

A personal name or a small pine-forest settlement

Burgher, townsman

Townsman, burgher

From borgo, "village"

Someone who borrows or lends money or goods

A Venetian coin word or a northeastern wind expression

From Borek (small pine wood)

Spring / well

A dweller at the brook or spring

"pine forest"

A coarse-cloth or sheep-related nickname

An old nickname referring to a lamb

From Borrello, a medieval personal name

Someone who had bristly hair

Farm by the board ford

Little Bortolo, Bartholomew

Someone from Boruty or a similar place

A wood or woodland locality

Someone from Bosley in Cheshire

From Boston

From Beuzeville

Bar's enclosure

Small bottle / pot

Booth by the spring

Someone who came from Bottesford (house by the river crossing)

Cooper, barrel maker

Clearing in the valley

Butcher

Thicket

Someone who cut and sold meats, a butcher

Little Boudon / west French place

Beech or buck farm

Baker

Pilgrim's staff

Townsman, burgher

A dweller at, or near, a stronghold or fortified place

Stream

Little Bout

Ox-herd

Hill place

Bow-shaped ditch

Son of Owain

A dweller in a cottage or chamber

Bow maker, or dweller by a cottage

Fair-haired

Place name

Maker of bowls

Bowl maker

From Bowling (the hollow)

Archer

Fine sir

Someone who made or sold bows

A box tree or locality

Dweller by a wood

Of Bute

Ox-herd, cattleman

Little boy

A grandson of Baoigheall (vain pledge)

Descendant of Baoigheall

A grandson of Baoigheall (vain pledge)

A grandson of Baoigheall (vain pledge)

Bofa's farm

A personal-name element involving God or a nickname

From Bracewell, in Yorkshire

Fern-covered place

A small-hound nickname

Someone who came from Bracken (fern), in Yorkshire

Broad fort

Broad oak

Salmon

Broad field

Broad river crossing

Broad clearing

Broad wood

Broad road

Son of Brádach

From Braga

From Bragança

Bold, lively

A descendant of Brego (chief)

Ford by a burial mound

Broad clearing

From Brembilla near Bergamo

By the brambles

Broom nook

Broom clearing

Broom spring

A locality or a reference to white

One who lived by a fork

White

"firebrand" or "sword"

From Brandenburg

Of Brand / fire

Little Brand / burnt clearing

Hill where broom grew

Sword; land cleared by fire

Steep homestead