Botelheiro Surname: Origin, Meaning & Coat of Arms

Arms linked to Botelho and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Family name meaning

Botelheiro is one more way Botelho has been written over the centuries. The family name meaning is “Small bottle / pot”, the same as for Botelho.

Botelheiro is built on the same root as Botelho, with the ending -eiro. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

Get the complete Botelheiro report, with a museum-style coat of arms.