Surnames Starting with K: Coat of Arms & Last Name Origins

"innkeeper's son"

Innkeeper's son, little innkeeper

"drake"

Emperor

From Kalinowo (guelder rose)

"guelder rose"

From a stony place (Kamień)

Descendant of Cathán ("battle")

"kite"

Priest

"son of Kasper"

"granary keeper"

Priest of righteousness

Merchant, trader

Follower of Caomhán

Jackdaw

Son of Kaźmierz (Casimir)

Descendant of Cathán ("battle")

Descendant of Catharnach ("warlike")

Norman, perhaps "kite"

From the lands of Keith

Descendant of Céileachair ("companion dear")

Cellarer, steward of stores

Descendant of Ceallach

Champion, warrior

Champion, fighter

Valley of the River Kent

Hero, or royal ruler

Descendant of Cinnéide

Descendant of Cionaodh (Kenneth)

From Kent

Son of Eochaidh ("horseman")

River islet, clump of trees

Core, kernel; a nickname

Dweller by the marshy scrubland

"church wood"

Coppersmith, kettle maker

Key maker, or quay

Young goat

Son of Tighearnán ("little lord")

Bold kinsman

King (nickname or royal servant)

From Cinnsealach, byname of Éanna MacMurrough

Church settlement

"sexton"

Dweller by the church

"village with a church"

Church land

Church of St Patrick

Cherry

Descendant of Ciardubhán ("dark black")

Small or young

From the name Nikolaus

Hilltop, or young servant

Servant; mounted soldier

"one who lived by a knoll"

Dweller by a knoll

From the knock (round hill)

Son of Knut

Cook

Dweller below a crag

Charcoal burner

Cart, carriage

Club, a nickname

"charcoal burner"

"wheelwright"

"at the end"

King

"soot, smoke"

"head"

"grain"

Fescue grass

"smith"

Son of the blacksmith

"smith's place"

Blacksmith's (from kowal)

"Cossack"

Billy goat

From Kozłów, linked to kozioł, "goat"

Strength, a nickname for a strong man

"border land"

Shopkeeper, trader

Curly-haired

Curly-haired

Tailor's son

"crab, crayfish"

"shopkeeper, pedlar"

Innkeeper

King

"curly-haired"

Innkeeper (Low German)

Raven

"groats"

"flint"

From the name Kuba

Son of Kuba (Jacob)

Cook; from Kuchary

Dweller by a hollow or pit

Short form of Konrad ("bold counsel")

From Kujawy

Son of Kunz (Konrad, "bold counsel")

"cockerel"

"from Kurów"

Furrier

Short

From Kwiatków, linked to kwiat, "flower"

April