English Surnames: Meaning, Origin & Coat of Arms (page 7 of 10)

Love joy

Loveless

Wolf cub

Wolf cub

Dweller by a hill or burial mound

"pool"

Wood by the pool

Lund's ford

Lime tree hill

Little Matthew

Son of Maddy (Matthew or Maud)

Council spear

Peacemaker

Unfortunate

Shared clearing

Man, servant

Son of Manna

Open land by the Mam hill

Boundary homestead

Boundary homestead

Land left after a lake

"boundary valley"

Dweller by a marsh

"marsh land"

Stonemason

From Macey in Normandy

Mast / fattening

Son of the master

Meeting oak

Matta's clearing

Son of Matt

Young man, or from Matthew

From Maybury

Mayweed field

Dweller by a meadow

Dweller by the meadows

From Madeley / middle island

Gentle, humble

"bare hill"

Middle settlement

Trader

From Muriel

Boundary gate

Fattened calf

Meat calf

Big clearing

Middle settlement

From the personal name Milo

Mill keeper

Grain miller

Dweller by the mills

Miller

Middle farm or mill farm

From Mimms

Miner, or younger

Mountain farm

From Michael, "who is like God?"

Clearing by a meeting place

Mock / Mok

Monk

Pointed hill

Bold, brave

Dweller by a moor; in Ireland, "majestic"

Moorland

Dead sea (marsh)

Settlement on the moor

Boggy clearing

Dweller by the moss

Clearing by a bog

Dweller by a bog, or from Moses

Place name

From Montbray in Normandy

Grove with mice

Marsh dweller; physician

Big / tall

Valley

At the ash tree

"nail maker"

From the personal name Niall

Poor homestead

Son of Neil or Nell

Nettle farm

New town

New fort

New farm

Newcomer

New land

Newcomer

At the new houses

From Newton, "new farmstead"

"son of Nicholas"

Son of Nichol (Nicholas)

Son of Nicholas

Nightingale

Son of Nick (Nicholas)

Noble, generous

Northman, Norseman

Northerner, or nurse

One from the north

North cottage

From Norton, "north farmstead"

North wood

Nut tree

Nun, demure person

Nut

"nook of land with nut trees"

At the island

One who lived by oak trees

Oak clearing

Son of Odo

Woad hill

Son-in-law

Oak valley

Ocga's hill

From Oldham, in Lancashire

From the personal name Oliver

Ondsla's mound

"Orm's clearing"

Orm's farm

Upper farm

God bear

God Gaut

Beyond the road

Farm on the ridge

Ford for oxen

Ox pasture

Pack

Wool packer

Little page, young servant

Page, young servant

Little page (servant)

Page / attendant

Painter

Pilgrim to the Holy Land

Wooded hill

Plasterer

Pear homestead

Of the parish

Park keeper, gamekeeper

Park keeper, or dweller by a park

Little Peter

Enclosure

Son or servant of the parson

Partridge

Little Patrick, or head

From the personal name Pain ("villager")

From Peyton, Pæga's farm