English Surnames: Meaning, Origin & Coat of Arms (page 12 of 16)

A dweller at the sign of the pigeon

From Piers (Peter)

A dweller at the sign of the pigeon

Pointed hill, or the fish

Someone who had made a pilgrimage

Farmstead of Pileca

A dweller near the pointed object

From Pilling, in Lancashire

A dweller at, or near, a pine tree

A dweller at, or near, a pine tree

Someone with some quality of a chaffinch

Someone from Picquigny in France

Someone from Pinxton in Derbyshire

Dweller by a pit or hollow

Dweller by a pit or hollow

Flat ground or plank bridge

A nickname for an agreeable person

Ploughman

Plough maker

Lead worker

Peacock

A Jersey name usually linked with the right fist

A dweller at the homestead on which there was a pool

Cropped head

Someone from La Pommeraye in Normandy

Pond

Dweller by a pool

A poverty-stricken person

A poverty-stricken person

Pope, a nickname

A dweller near the entrance or gate

A dweller near the entrance or gate

Gatekeeper; carrier

Clearing of the apostle

Potter, maker of pots

Someone who kept the village pound

Prater / ap Rhydderch

Cunning, astute

A dweller at, or near, the grassy land or meadow

Someone who came from Prevelles, in France

Someone who came from Prevelles, in France

An apprentice learning a craft

Priest's cottage

Priest's clearing

Priest's farm

A pageant role, or someone from Priddy

Priest

A dweller in, or near, the priest's meadow or wood

The slender or small man

The slender or small man

The priest or official who read at prime

Lordly, or a pageant prince

Someone who came from Frendeville or Fermainville, in France

A dweller in a small field or on a small farm

A servant of a prior, or a nickname

Steward, agent

Little valiant one

Prior of a priory

Little Puck

By God

Purveyor of provisions

Putta's homestead

A dweller at the sign of the magpie

Stake, pile

A dweller in a small field or enclosure

From Quarles in Norfolk

Mill farm

Queen

Lively, alive

Someone who came from Quenby (queen's manor), in Leicestershire

Someone who came from Quincay, formerly Quinci (Quintus' estate)

"red cliff"

Wheel / wheelwright

Red ford

Valley with a ravine

From Rayne or Rennes

Raven's ford

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

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)

Son of Rand

Red cliff

Someone from Radbourne, a stream with reeds

Red cliff

Someone who caught rats

Red cliff

Son of little Raoul

"son of Rawlin"

The son of Raw, a pet form of Ralph

Roe deer, or king (nickname)

Someone from Ryburn in Yorkshire or Ayrshire

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

A descendant of little Read (red)

Reeve / bailiff

Parish rector

Several possible place names

Clearing

A dweller at the homestead in the clearing

Red ferns

Red-haired man / adviser

Red-haired

Reed thatcher

Steward, reeve

A descendant of Reimbert (power, bright)

A descendant of Remus (protector)

Hraefn's farm

The robber

Son of Reynold ("counsel ruler")

Dweller by a clearing

Son of Richard, "brave power"

Splendid hill

An Anglicization of the Dutch Rijkert

Son of little Richard

Son of Rick

Horseman

Someone living on a ridge, or from Ridge in Hertfordshire

Cleared woodland or reed clearing

Ridge farm

Of the ridge

From Riley in Lancashire ("rye clearing")

Ring maker / circular feature

Strip clearing

One who lived by a river

The son of Rick, a pet form of Richard (rule, hard)

Son of Robin

Son of Robin (Robert)

The son of Rob, a pet form of Robert

One who lived by a rock

Rook spring

A dweller at the spring

A dweller at the sign of the male roe deer

Son of Roger, "famous spear"

Fame of the land

A descendant of Rolf (fame, wolf)

A descendant of Rolf (fame, wolf)

Someone who made and sold parchment rolls for manuscripts

A dweller at the sign of the rook

A dweller at the sign of the rook