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

Ox-herd, cattleman

Descendant of Baoigheall

From Bracewell, in Yorkshire

Broad river crossing

Broad clearing

Broad wood

Son of Brádach

From Bragança

Bold, lively

From Brembilla near Bergamo

"firebrand" or "sword"

Hill where broom grew

Sword; land cleared by fire

"brewer"

Brown (hair or complexion)

Fierce, brave

Hill, or brave

Descendant of Braon ("sorrow" or "moisture")

Descendant of Braonán

"distiller or charcoal burner"

Descendant of Breaslán

Brewer of ale or beer

Of the bridge

"clearing with briars"

Dweller by a bridge

Bright, cheerful

"burnt clearing"

Dweller on the field edge

"from Brito"

Breton

"broad grassy field"

"broad wooded hill"

Badger, or dweller by a brook

"clearing where broom grows"

By the brook

Dweller in scrubland

Brown-haired or dark-complexioned

From Brix in Normandy

"one who lived by a bridge"

Bridge dweller

Brown-haired

From Brunello, a pet form of Bruno

Little brown one

From Brunetto, a pet form of Bruno, "brown"

Brown, brown-haired

Dweller by a spring

Brown-haired or dark-complexioned

Son of Brun

From Brian ("high, noble")

"birch wood"

From the birch place

From Buchanan in Stirlingshire

"beech wood"

He-goat or buck, or beech tree

Descendant of Buachaill ("herdsman")

"little beech"

"good"

Hill dweller

"lush, sturdy"

From Buków, beech place

Bull-like man

Young bull

Hunchback

"good"

Birch tree

Citizen of a town

Citizen of a borough

From de Burgh, "fortified place"

Brown-haired, of brown complexion

Dweller by a stream; descendant of Bran

Dweller by a hill or fortified place

Bright

From Burton, "fortified farmstead"

Bush, thicket

Dweller by the bush or thicket

From Burkhard, or a nickname

Summer pasture

"cattle pasture"

Wine steward

Dweller by the archery butts

Of the cowshed

Bird (nickname)

Descendant of Bran, "raven"