Surnames Starting with R: Coat of Arms & Last Name Origins (page 1 of 3)

Raven

Raven

Little Rabo / rabelo boat

"red cliff"

Wheel / wheelwright

A wheelwright

Red ford

From Radom

Of Raffaello

Descendant of Rabhartach ("flood tide")

From Raglan

Valley with a ravine

A nickname for a slim or slender man

Counsel protector

A personal name or place

From Rayne or Rennes

Raven's ford

Crayfish

From Raków / crayfish

Someone who came from Raleigh (red meadow), in Devonshire

Place name

The wild one who lived in the forest

Branch, bough

Son of Ramiro

The wild one who lived in the forest

Branches; Palm Sunday

Wild garlic island

Ram's valley

Someone who came from Ramsdale (ram valley), in Hampshire

"valley of wild garlic"

From Ramsey, "wild garlic island"

Edge

From Randolf (wolf)

From Randazzo

Uncertain origin

Counsel army

Little Rand (Randolph)

Son of Rand

"fox"

The physician who came from Porto (gate), in Italy

A quick or lively person

Son of Rasmus (Erasmus)

Smooth or shaven, satin, or a place name

Ploughman's son

Red cliff

Counsel, adviser

Someone from Radbourne, a stream with reeds

A town councillor

Red cliff

Someone who caught rats

Fort dwelling

"rough, hairy"

A hairy or rough man, or connected with smoke

Someone living by rushes, or a hasty person

Red cliff

Son of little Raoul

"son of Rawlin"

The son of Raw, a pet form of Ralph

Roe deer, or king (nickname)

A locality or a boundary

Someone from Ryburn in Yorkshire or Ayrshire

A dweller at, or near, the ford of the river

A descendant of little Read (red)

Descendant of Riagán

A locality, royal association or rural property

Royal poet

Reeve / bailiff

"rebel"

Parish rector

An heir designation or a shortened personal-name formation

Someone from Redden in Roxburghshire

Several possible place names

Clearing

A dweller at the homestead in the clearing

Red ferns

Red-haired man / adviser

From the Norman personal name Raymond

"round"

Ardour

Red-haired

Reed thatcher

From Rhys (ardour)

Steward, reeve

Pampered / gifted

Descendant of Riagán

Ditch / channel

A descendant of Raimo, from Reginmund, or someone from Rehm in Schleswig

Rich or powerful; also a personal-name element

From Richard ("powerful and hardy")

A descendant of Ricman (powerful, man)

Red-haired

A descendant of Rifo, a pet form of Ricfrid

Descendant of Raghallach

From the name Reinmar

From Reinmar

A descendant of Ragino, a pet form of names with Ragin, counsel

A descendant of little Ragino

A descendant of Raginhari, counsel and army

Counsel-hardy

Brave in counsel

Counsel ruler

A descendant of little Ragino

A descendant of little Ragino

A Low German pet form of Reinhard

"kings"

A soldier or traveller, or someone from a place called Reis

From Reising

"rider" or "one from a clearing"

A pet form of names beginning with Rag-