Surnames Starting with S: Coat of Arms & Last Name Origins (page 4 of 5)

Little falcon

From Sokołów (falcon place)

"sunny place" or "east wind"

Soldiers

A coin or wage nickname, or a shortened personal name

House site, sunny ground

Sunny place

Peace

From Solórzano

Someone from Sommervieu in Normandy

Summer

Someone from Sommerfeld

Sunday

A maker or seller of soap

Son of Søren (Severinus)

Son of Søren

From Soria

From Sorrento

"from Sousa" or "saltwort"

From Sosnowo / pine

Little grove

Grove, thicket

Someone who was a business partner of another

A dweller at, ' or near, a muddy pond

"from the Sousa river"

A dweller at a south wood or someone from Southworth

Someone who came from the south

Someone who came from Southworth (southern homestead), in Lancashire

"owl"

"farm on sour ground"

Someone from a place named after the owl

Sword

Someone associated with Spain

Clasp maker

Wood shavings; also a descriptive nickname

Spaniard

An asparagus-related regional surname

Lively, bright person

Someone with some characteristic of a little sparrow

Someone with some characteristic of a little sparrow

From Spalding, Lincolnshire

Spearman

Woodpecker

A spear-related name

A preacher, storyteller or entertainer

Steward, dispenser of provisions

A tinsmith or plumber

A nickname from the sparrow

Someone who came from Spira, now spelled Speyer, in Bavaria

Spice merchant

A mirror maker, or a watchtower dweller

Someone who manned a watchtower, a watchman

A singer

Descendant of Spealán (little scythe)

Thorn

Little thorn

Someone living near a peak or from a place called Spitz

"maker of spoons or shingles"

Lively, nimble

A descendant of Sprot (twig or small branch)

The lively, alert person

A nickname for a slender person

Jumper, dancer

The lively, alert person

Someone with some characteristic of a sparrow

Squire

Magpie

From Saint-Jean (Normandy)

A descendant of Stanisław

A pet form of Stanisław

Son of Stach (Stanisław)

From Stanisław

Someone living by a cliff or a steep rock

From Eustace, 'fruitful'

"one who kept a barn"

Ford by a landing place

Steel

Clearing where staves were cut

Someone living by a tree trunk, or a sturdy man

Stamper, crusher

Someone from Étampes in France

A familiar form of Stanisław

A stony field

Stony ford

Stony valley

"son of Stanko"

A descendant of Stanko, a pet form of Stanislaw (camp, glorious)

From Stanley, "stony clearing"

A descendant of Stanard (stone, firm)

Someone who came from Stanbury (stone fort), in Yorkshire

"stony field"

Stone farmstead

Boundary post

Farm by the post

Strong

Little stiff one

Star

A nickname for an older person

Of the elder / from Starzyno

Son of Staś

A son of Staszek, a pet form of Stanisław

Steep rock / cup

Someone who had charge of horses

Someone from Stebbing in Essex

A dweller on or near a steep slope

Someone who had charge of horses

Hard as steel, or dweller by a steep slope

From Stefanów / son of Stefan

From the personal name Steffen

Someone living by a footbridge or a steep path

Stone, rock

Someone from one of the many places called Steinbach, stony brook

Dweller by a rock, or from Stein

Star

A dweller near a small pole or stake

Someone who came from Stenson (Stein's homestead), in Derbyshire

Crown

Son of Stephen ("crown")