Fellows Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

Records tie Fellows closely to Fellowes. The family name meaning is “partner, companion”, the same as for Fellowes.

• Without the “e” of Fellowes, Fellows is a simpler written form of the same name.
• The 2010 census count for Fellows in the United States was 7,948, good for rank 4,469. It sits among the 5,000 most common last names in the country.
• The same family of names includes Fallows.
• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

Arms associated with the name

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Fellows, so the heraldry linked to Fellowes is a starting point, not an automatic right. Want more than a summary? See the Fellows family name pack.