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.
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GlatzGermany
A nickname or a place
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GlazerEngland
Someone who made and sold glass
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GlazierEngland
Someone who made and sold glass
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GledhillEngland
Kite hill
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GleesonIreland
Descendant of Glasán ("green, grey")
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GlendenningScotland
Someone who came from Glendinning (glen of the fair hill)
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GlennScotland
Valley
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GlennonIreland
The son of Lennan
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GloverEngland
Glove maker
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GłowackiPoland
Big-headed; from Głowaczów
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GlynnWales
Someone living in a narrow valley
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GoddardEngland
"God hard", a Germanic personal name
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GodfreyEngland
God's peace
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GodinezSpain
Son of Godino
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GodinhoPortugal
Little Godo
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GodoySpain
From a place named Godoy
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GoebelGermany
From the name Gottfried
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GoetzGermany
Short form of Gottfried
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GoffWales
Red, or smith
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GogolinPoland
A bird or wild-apple landscape connection
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GoisPortugal
From Góis
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GolaPoland
A bare landscape or a descriptive nickname
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GoldbergGermany
Gold mountain
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GoldbergerGermany
Someone who came from Goldberg (gold mountain)
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GoldenEngland
Golden-haired
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GoldmanGermany
Gold man
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GoldsberryEngland
Someone who came from Goldsborough (Godhelm's or Golda's fort)
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GoldsmithEngland
Worker in gold
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GoldsteinGermany
Gold stone
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GołębiowskiPoland
From the place of doves
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GolikPoland
A descriptive nickname involving bare or hairless
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GomesPortugal
From the name Gomes
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GómezSpain
Son of Gome (man)
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GonçalvesPortugal
"son of Gonçalo"
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GonzálezSpain
Son of Gonzalo
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GonzaloSpain
Battle elf
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GoochWales
Red
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GoodEngland
Good, kind
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GoodallEngland
"good ale" or "good corner"
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GoodingEngland
A descendant of Goding or Godwin
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GoodmanEngland
Good man, or head of a household
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GoodrichEngland
From Godric, 'good ruler'
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GoodridgeEngland
A descendant of Godric (God's rule)
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GoodsonEngland
Son of Good
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GoodwinEngland
Good friend
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GoralPoland
Highlander
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GordanScotland
The man from Gordon (spacious hill), in Scotland
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GordonScotland
From Gordon ("spacious fort")
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GoreEngland
Dweller on a triangular plot
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GóreckiPoland
"from Górka"
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GoriItaly
From Gregorio / spear
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GormanIreland
Son of Gormán ("little blue one")
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GórnyPoland
"upper"
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GorskaPoland
A dweller on, or near, a mountain
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GórskiPoland
Of the hill / mountain
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GoslingEngland
From Gocelin, or young goose
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GosselinFrance
Little Gozzo
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GoszPoland
A shortened old Polish compound personal name
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GottGermany
A shortened form of a longer name containing the word God
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GottschalkGermany
"servant of God"
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GötzGermany
From Götz, a pet form of Gottfried
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GoughWales
Red-haired
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GoulartPortugal
Germanic personal name
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GouldEngland
Golden, or goldsmith
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GouldsmithEngland
Someone who made or sold gold articles
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GouveiaPortugal
From Gouveia
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GowScotland
The worker in metals, a smith
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GrabekPoland
Little hornbeam
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GraberGermany
Digger
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GräbnerGermany
Dweller by a ditch
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GrabowskiPoland
From Grabów, place of hornbeams
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GraceIreland
Pleasing quality, or the fat
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GraciaSpain
A Marian reference to grace
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GradyIreland
Descendant of Gráda
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GrafGermany
Count; reeve
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GrahamScotland
From Grantham, "gravelly homestead"
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GranadosSpain
"pomegranate groves"
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GrandScotland
The large or fat man
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GrangerEngland
Keeper of the granary
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GranjaPortugal
A farm or a locality named for one
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GrantScotland
Tall, great
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GranthamEngland
Place name
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GrassiItaly
Of the plump one
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GrassoItaly
Stout, fat
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GraverEngland
Someone who engraved or carved wood
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GravesEngland
Steward, or dweller by a grove
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GrayEngland
Grey-haired
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GraysonEngland
Son of the steward
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GrazianItaly
The polite, gracious man
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GrazianiItaly
The polite, gracious man
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GrazianoItaly
Gratian / pleasing
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GrecoItaly
Greek
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GreenEngland
Dweller by the village green
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GreenbergGermany
Green mountain
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Every surname can be researched, even if it isn't listed here.
Researched by Herald Lab Research Studio, since 1993. Coats of arms were granted to individuals, not to everyone with a surname.