Dalrimple Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Dalrimple and Dalrymple are two spellings with one history.

The family name meaning is “Field of the crooked pool”, the same as for Dalrymple. Spelled with “i” instead of “y”, Dalrimple shows how the same name was heard and written differently. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.

Dalrimple coat of arms

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

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