Surnames Starting with B: Coat of Arms & Last Name Origins (page 6 of 7)

Descendant of Bran

Son of Brand

Steep or burnt clearing

A form of the personal name Blasius

Someone who worked in brass

Someone who came from Braithwaite (broad clearing)

"brewer"

Brown (hair or complexion)

The dark-complexioned man

Fierce, brave

A dweller on the broad meadow

A place-name surname

Hill, or brave

Someone who worked in brass

Briar clearing

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

Descendant of Braonán

"distiller or charcoal burner"

High place

Briar farm

Descendant of Breaslán

Someone who came from Breslau (named after King Vratislaw)

A Breton

A Breton

A descendant of Briddo

Brewer of ale or beer

Brewer of ale

Breton name Brian

From Saint Brice

A dweller near a bridge

Man by the bridge

By the bridge

Of the bridge

"clearing with briars"

A dweller near a bridge

Dweller by a bridge

Homestead by a bridge

Bright, cheerful

Bright spring

"burnt clearing"

A village green, pasture or edge

Brynca's wood

Dweller on the field edge

From Briones

Wood of the Britons

From Bristol

"from Brito"

Breton

A Breton

"broad grassy field"

Someone who had a big head

"broad wooded hill"

Badger, or dweller by a brook

Badger wood

Marsh dweller

Road by the brook

Son of Rhydderch

Someone who had a big head

From Brodie in Moray

Gaelic family name

Someone who came from Brome

Broom field

"clearing where broom grows"

Someone who came from Brome

A form of Brunson

A dweller near a brown stone, usually a boundary mark

Dweller by a stream

By the brook

By the brook

Broom heath

Someone who came from Brosna in Kerry

Gaelic family name

A form of Brother

Place name

Fortified place

Homestead by the fort

Farmstead by the fort or brook

Dweller in scrubland

A grandson of Bruadar (brother)

Brown-haired or dark-complexioned

A diminutive of Brown, for someone with brown colouring

Someone who came from Brounfield (Brun's field), in Scotland

Brown meadow

Brown hill

A dweller near a brown stone, usually a boundary mark

Marsh brook

From Brix in Normandy

"one who lived by a bridge"

Bridge keeper

Bridge dweller

A Low German form of Brun or a nickname for brown

Broom field

Brown-haired

A descendant of Brun (brown)

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

Farm by a stream

From Brian ("high, noble")

Son of Brice

"birch wood"

From the birch place

Peel / short form

From Buchanan in Stirlingshire

Beech / book