Vries Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

Seen on a birth certificate or a ship's manifest, Vries is usually a form of DeVries.

Its meaning, shared with DeVries, is “The Frisian”. Before spelling was fixed, DeVries was also written Vries. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

Vries coat of arms

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

Want more than a summary? See the Vries family name pack.