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Surnames Starting with G: Coat of Arms & Last Name Origins (page 3 of 4)

373 family names beginning with G. Open a name to read its surname origin, its meaning and the heraldry associated with it.

  • Glatz
    Germany

    A nickname or a place

  • Glazer
    England

    Someone who made and sold glass

  • Glazier
    England

    Someone who made and sold glass

  • Gledhill
    England

    Kite hill

  • Gleeson
    Ireland

    Descendant of Glasán ("green, grey")

  • Glendenning
    Scotland

    Someone who came from Glendinning (glen of the fair hill)

  • Glenn
    Scotland

    Valley

  • Glennon
    Ireland

    The son of Lennan

  • Glover
    England

    Glove maker

  • Głowacki
    Poland

    Big-headed; from Głowaczów

  • Glynn
    Wales

    Someone living in a narrow valley

  • Goddard
    England

    "God hard", a Germanic personal name

  • Godfrey
    England

    God's peace

  • Godinez
    Spain

    Son of Godino

  • Godinho
    Portugal

    Little Godo

  • Godoy
    Spain

    From a place named Godoy

  • Goebel
    Germany

    From the name Gottfried

  • Goetz
    Germany

    Short form of Gottfried

  • Goff
    Wales

    Red, or smith

  • Gogolin
    Poland

    A bird or wild-apple landscape connection

  • Gois
    Portugal

    From Góis

  • Gola
    Poland

    A bare landscape or a descriptive nickname

  • Goldberg
    Germany

    Gold mountain

  • Goldberger
    Germany

    Someone who came from Goldberg (gold mountain)

  • Golden
    England

    Golden-haired

  • Goldman
    Germany

    Gold man

  • Goldsberry
    England

    Someone who came from Goldsborough (Godhelm's or Golda's fort)

  • Goldsmith
    England

    Worker in gold

  • Goldstein
    Germany

    Gold stone

  • Gołębiowski
    Poland

    From the place of doves

  • Golik
    Poland

    A descriptive nickname involving bare or hairless

  • Gomes
    Portugal

    From the name Gomes

  • Gómez
    Spain

    Son of Gome (man)

  • Gonçalves
    Portugal

    "son of Gonçalo"

  • González
    Spain

    Son of Gonzalo

  • Gonzalo
    Spain

    Battle elf

  • Gooch
    Wales

    Red

  • Good
    England

    Good, kind

  • Goodall
    England

    "good ale" or "good corner"

  • Gooding
    England

    A descendant of Goding or Godwin

  • Goodman
    England

    Good man, or head of a household

  • Goodrich
    England

    From Godric, 'good ruler'

  • Goodridge
    England

    A descendant of Godric (God's rule)

  • Goodson
    England

    Son of Good

  • Goodwin
    England

    Good friend

  • Goral
    Poland

    Highlander

  • Gordan
    Scotland

    The man from Gordon (spacious hill), in Scotland

  • Gordon
    Scotland

    From Gordon ("spacious fort")

  • Gore
    England

    Dweller on a triangular plot

  • Górecki
    Poland

    "from Górka"

  • Gori
    Italy

    From Gregorio / spear

  • Gorman
    Ireland

    Son of Gormán ("little blue one")

  • Górny
    Poland

    "upper"

  • Gorska
    Poland

    A dweller on, or near, a mountain

  • Górski
    Poland

    Of the hill / mountain

  • Gosling
    England

    From Gocelin, or young goose

  • Gosselin
    France

    Little Gozzo

  • Gosz
    Poland

    A shortened old Polish compound personal name

  • Gott
    Germany

    A shortened form of a longer name containing the word God

  • Gottschalk
    Germany

    "servant of God"

  • Götz
    Germany

    From Götz, a pet form of Gottfried

  • Gough
    Wales

    Red-haired

  • Goulart
    Portugal

    Germanic personal name

  • Gould
    England

    Golden, or goldsmith

  • Gouldsmith
    England

    Someone who made or sold gold articles

  • Gouveia
    Portugal

    From Gouveia

  • Gow
    Scotland

    The worker in metals, a smith

  • Grabek
    Poland

    Little hornbeam

  • Graber
    Germany

    Digger

  • Gräbner
    Germany

    Dweller by a ditch

  • Grabowski
    Poland

    From Grabów, place of hornbeams

  • Grace
    Ireland

    Pleasing quality, or the fat

  • Gracia
    Spain

    A Marian reference to grace

  • Grady
    Ireland

    Descendant of Gráda

  • Graf
    Germany

    Count; reeve

  • Graham
    Scotland

    From Grantham, "gravelly homestead"

  • Granados
    Spain

    "pomegranate groves"

  • Grand
    Scotland

    The large or fat man

  • Granger
    England

    Keeper of the granary

  • Granja
    Portugal

    A farm or a locality named for one

  • Grant
    Scotland

    Tall, great

  • Grantham
    England

    Place name

  • Grassi
    Italy

    Of the plump one

  • Grasso
    Italy

    Stout, fat

  • Graver
    England

    Someone who engraved or carved wood

  • Graves
    England

    Steward, or dweller by a grove

  • Gray
    England

    Grey-haired

  • Grayson
    England

    Son of the steward

  • Grazian
    Italy

    The polite, gracious man

  • Graziani
    Italy

    The polite, gracious man

  • Graziano
    Italy

    Gratian / pleasing

  • Greco
    Italy

    Greek

  • Green
    England

    Dweller by the village green

  • Greenberg
    Germany

    Green mountain

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Researched by Herald Lab Research Studio, since 1993. Coats of arms were granted to individuals, not to everyone with a surname.