Nutall Family Name and Heraldry

Nutall sits within the Nuttall family of names, which has English roots. Name scholars give the meaning as “nook of land with nut trees”.

Heraldry and the Nutall name

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

A variant of Nuttall

Nutall drops the “t” of Nuttall, a shortening that clerks often made. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Nuttal.

According to the 2010 US Census, the Nutall surname had 471 bearers. That is enough to place it in the top 50,000 American surnames. Want more than a summary? See the Nutall family name pack.