Surnames Starting with B: Coat of Arms & Last Name Origins (page 2 of 2)

Pale, or dark

"dark clearing"

White, fair

Fair, white-haired

White, fair

From Blenkinsopp

Son of Bleddyn (wolf cub)

Billy goat (nickname)

"messenger"

Bohemian

Descendant of Beolán

Dwelling settlement

Farmer, tenant

Little Bono (good)

Little good one

Gentle, courteous

Good little one; capmaker

Good man

From Bohon in Normandy, or good

Herdsman, dweller in a hut

From borgo, "village"

From Borek (small pine wood)

From Borrello, a medieval personal name

Cooper, barrel maker

Townsman, burgher

Son of Owain

Bow maker, or dweller by a cottage

Archer

Of Bute

Ox-herd, cattleman

Descendant of Baoigheall

From Bracewell, in Yorkshire

Broad river crossing

Broad clearing

Broad wood

Son of Brádach

From Brembilla near Bergamo

Sword; land cleared by fire

"brewer"

Brown (hair or complexion)

Fierce, brave

Hill, or brave

Descendant of Braon ("sorrow" or "moisture")

Descendant of Braonán

"distiller or charcoal burner"

Descendant of Breaslán

Brewer of ale or beer

Of the bridge

"clearing with briars"

Dweller by a bridge

Bright, cheerful

"burnt clearing"

Dweller on the field edge

Breton

"broad grassy field"

"broad wooded hill"

Badger, or dweller by a brook

"clearing where broom grows"

By the brook

Brown-haired or dark-complexioned

From Brix in Normandy

"one who lived by a bridge"

Brown-haired

From Brunello, a pet form of Bruno

Little brown one

From Brunetto, a pet form of Bruno, "brown"

Brown, brown-haired

Dweller by a spring

Brown-haired or dark-complexioned

Son of Brun

From Brian ("high, noble")

From Buchanan in Stirlingshire

"beech wood"

He-goat or buck, or beech tree

Descendant of Buachaill ("herdsman")

Young bull

"good"

Birch tree

Citizen of a borough

From de Burgh, "fortified place"

Brown-haired, of brown complexion

Dweller by a stream; descendant of Bran

From Burton, "fortified farmstead"

Bush, thicket

Dweller by the bush or thicket

From Burkhard, or a nickname

Wine steward

Of the cowshed

Bird (nickname)

Descendant of Bran, "raven"