Surnames Starting with C: Coat of Arms & Last Name Origins (page 4 of 5)

A dweller at a spring frequented by game birds

Priest

From Coimbra

From Coker, crooked stream

A nickname combining Nicholas and deaf

Bright helmet

A place or personal name

Koli's farm

Coal-black; pet form of Nicholas

A dweller at a cool gap in a chain of hills

From Colella, a pet form of Nicola

Charcoal burner; descendant of Colmán ("dove")

Son of Col / charcoal burner

Dark-haired

Pet form of Nicolas

Dweller by a hill pass

Farm tenant / foster brother

Someone living on a hill, or a descendant of little Cola

A pet form of Nicholas, or a nickname for dark colouring

A descendant of little Coll

Charcoal burner

The son of little Cole

Disputed wood

Descendant of Coileán, "young hound"

Dove

Dove

Column; from Colonna

From Colquhoun in Dunbartonshire

Son of Cole

Someone from Colton, a homestead

Little Nicola

Small valleys

Dweller in a valley

A descendant of Como, from Giacomo, or someone from Como

Valley farmstead

A dweller in a deep valley, from a place-name

A grandson of Conan (little hound)

Conception

"count"

Anglo-Norman family

A descendant of Conforto, a name of good wishes

Descendant of Conallán

Wisdom

Descendant of Conall

Descendant of Conghalach, "valorous"

Anglicized form of several Gaelic names

Little Consolo

Officer

A descendant of Constantine (constant)

Count

Count (noble title)

Little count

"from Contreras"

Someone who has been converted (to the Christian religion)

Anglicized form of several Gaelic names

The son of Cogain (contention or strife)

Cook

Someone from Cooksey in Worcestershire

Son of the devotee of St Mochuille

A dweller near a pool of cold water

A form of Coombe

Gaelic family name

Barrel maker

The servant or helper of one who made casks

Cloak

From Copeland in Cumbria, "bought land"

Hill clearing

A dweller at the top or summit of a hill

Cap, capmaker

Little raven

Little raven

Descendant of Corcrán ("purple" or "ruddy")

Rope

"lamb"

"lamb"

Rope maker

From Córdoba

Ó Comhraidhe / Kori

Dogwood

From Cornwall or Cornhill

A dweller at a nook or angle of land

Horn player / little corner

Someone from Cornwall

Place name

Crown

Crowned, tonsured

Commander, colonel

Son of Corrado

A descendant of Corrado, the Italian form of Conrad

"yard, enclosure"

Leather strap

"leather strap"

Descendant of Corragán ("spear")

A dweller in, or by, a hollow

From Corsica, or Corso

A shortened personal name

Someone who came from Coursan or Courson

Courteous

A nickname for a courteous person

At the court / farmyard

A dweller in, or by, a hollow

Someone from Cosenza in Calabria

Coast or hillside

Son of Costantino (Constantine)

Steadfast

Son of Oisdealb

A place-name form; also an Italian name

From Cotrim

Son of Oitir (Norse Óttarr)

At the cottages

Cottager

Red-haired