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

A descendant of Wedel (to move)

A descendant of Wedel (to move)

From Wedgwood

Of the dairy farm

Welshman

Someone who came from Weald (woodland)

Hill with a spring

Salt boiler

Someone from Wellington

Someone living near a well

Dweller by the springs

Winter enclosure

West clearing

From the west

West brook

The man who came from the west

West farmstead

Someone who came from Wetmoor (lake by a river bend)

Road clearing

A dweller at a corner or at a morass

Place name

Wheat

Wheat clearing

An uncertain place-name origin

Maker of wheels

Someone who came from Wheelock (winding), in Cheshire

Someone who came from Wheddon (wheat hill or valley)

West Country place

White field

Fair-haired or pale-complexioned

White-haired

Someone living in a white house

White hillside

White field

Someone who came from Whitford (white ford), in Devonshire

A dweller at the white homestead

Son of the fair one

White clearing

White lock of hair

White moor

White island

Farm of Hwita's people

Someone from Whittle, a white hill

Someone who came from Whitton (Hwita's homestead or the white homestead)

White enclosure

A dweller by the wych-elm tree

Someone from one of several places called Wickham

From a farm or dairy, or a pet form of William

Son of the widow

Son of Wiggin (worthy)

Wilburh's ford

Spring stream

Son of little Will

"wild, untamed"

A nickname connected with cunning

Willow, or from the River Wylye

A descendant of Will, a pet form of William (resolution, helmet)

Resolute will

A descendant of Wilhere (desire, army)

Little William

From the personal name William

Homestead of Willa's people

Son of Will (William)

Willow farm

Son of Will (William)

A descendant of Wincel (child)

A descendant of Wincel (child)

Place name

Someone from Wymondham or a similar place

Someone from Windsor or Winsor

"pasture field"

Place name

Someone from Wingate in County Durham

Someone from Wingfield

Someone who played the part of Friendship in the medieval pageants

Wine's burial mound

Wine's farmstead

Winter valley

Of winter / son of Winter

Wina's farm

Wise, learned

A dweller by the wych-elm tree

Someone who came from Witham (Wita's homestead)

Willow

Someone who came from Witton (homestead by a village, or wood)

Someone who came from Woolscott (Wulfsige's cottage), in Warwickshire

A dweller at, or in, the wold or forest

Wolf, a nickname or personal name

A dweller at, or near, a wall

A dweller at, or near, a wall

Wolf victory

Wulfstan's water meadow

Dweller by the wood

Hall in the wood

Someone who came from Woodbridge (wooden bridge), in Suffolk

A nickname from the woodcock bird

A dweller in the house in, or by, a wood

Someone who came from Woodland (wooded land)

Someone from Woodleigh or Woodley

Someone who cut and sold timber

Someone who came from Woodrow (row of trees)

Dweller where woodruff grew

Dweller by the woods

A dweller at the side of the wood

Son of Wood

Forest keeper

Someone living at an enclosure by a wood

Settlement by a wood

From Worden in Lancashire

Labourer, craftsman

Someone from Worrall in Yorkshire

Someone who came from Warwick (village by a dam or shore)

Clearing of Weorc

Settlement of Weorth's people

Nook, corner

Craftsman, woodworker

From Wrigley Head, near Oldham

A descendant of Weigand or Wygan (warrior)

A descendant of Weigand or Wygan (warrior)

Little Guy

A dweller at, or near, a dam or fish trap

A dweller at the high land or field

A dweller at a corner

Earth fort

Spar wood

A dweller at the slope where eagles were seen

Gatekeeper, or dweller by a gate

High hill

Freeholder

A dweller near the Yare (babbling river)

From the city of York

Young (younger son or junior)

A dweller near a yew tree

A descendant of Zacharias or Zachary (whom Jehovah remembers)