English Surnames: Meaning, Origin & Coat of Arms (page 10 of 16)

Someone who made locks

A dweller in the cottage or hut

House with a loft

House with a loft

An uncertain Bedfordshire locality

Someone from Lomax in Lancashire

From London

Tall man

Long valley

The tall partner or companion

A dweller in, or near, the big wood or forest

Pool nook

Lordly man, lord's servant

The lazy person or vagabond

The lazy person or vagabond

Someone who came from Londesborough (Lothen's fort), in Yorkshire

Love joy

Loveless

Wolf cub

Wolf cub

Someone who came from Louvain, in Belgium

Someone who came from Louvain, in Belgium

Dweller by a hill or burial mound

A diminutive of Luke

Descendand of little Luck or Luke (light)

Descendand of little Luck or Luke (light)

"pool"

Wood by the pool

A descendant of little Lamb, a pet form of Lambert

Lund's ford

Someone who came from Lydden (pasture with a shelter)

A meadow or arable-land name

Lime tree hill

Someone who came from Lyng (hill)

The small or short man

The small or short man

The small or short man

Little Matthew

Someone who came from Macy

Someone who came from Macy

Someone who dyes with, or sells, red dye stuff

Son of Maddy (Matthew or Maud)

Council spear

Peacemaker

A descendant of Malkin, a pet form of Mary (bitterness)

A nickname from the wild drake

A descendant of little Mall, a pet form of Mary (bitterness)

Unfortunate

Shared clearing

Man, servant

Son of Manna

Open land by the Mam hill

A descendant of Map (son)

A descendant of Map (son)

Boundary homestead

Boundary homestead

Someone living by a boundary wood

Someone who came from Marland (land on a lake)

Land left after a lake

A descendant of Marcus (belonging to Mars)

A descendant of Marcus (belonging to Mars)

A descendant of little Mary (bitterness)

"boundary valley"

Dweller by a marsh

"marsh land"

Someone from Marston, a marsh farm

An older personal-name formation

Stonemason

From Macey in Normandy

Mast / fattening

Son of the master

Meeting oak

The son of Matt, pet form of Matthew (gift of Jehovah)

Matta's clearing

Son of Matt

Young man, or from Matthew

From Maybury

Mayweed field

Dweller by a meadow

Dweller by the meadows

From Madeley / middle island

Gentle, humble

"bare hill"

Middle settlement

Trader

From Muriel

A cheerful or pleasant person

Boundary gate

A gay, blithe or agreeable person

A gay, blithe or agreeable person

A gay, blithe or agreeable person

Someone who carried communications

Someone who carried communications

Fattened calf

Meat calf

Big clearing

Middle settlement

From the personal name Milo

Someone who came from Malham (stony place) in Yorkshire

Mill keeper

Grain miller

Dweller by the mills

Miller

Middle farm or mill farm

From Mimms

Miner, or younger

A worker who made coins

Mountain farm

From Michael, "who is like God?"

The son of Mick

Possibly a personal-name or place-name form

Clearing by a meeting place

Mock / Mok

A descendant of Mogg, a pet form of Margaret (pearl)

Monk

Pointed hill

Bold, brave

From Moyon

Dweller by a moor; in Ireland, "majestic"

Someone living in a house on the moor

Moorland

A moor and woodland clearing

Dead sea (marsh)

Settlement on the moor

Boggy clearing

Dweller by the moss

Clearing by a bog

Dweller by a bog, or from Moses

A maker or seller of particoloured cloth

Place name

From Montbray in Normandy

A dweller in, or near, a swamp

A dweller in, or near, the little swamp

Someone who lived, or worked, at the mill

Someone who sold things, a merchant

Several separate naming traditions

Grove with mice

Marsh dweller; physician

A descendant of Miles (soldier)

Someone who made needles

Big / tall

Valley