Surnames Starting with S: Coat of Arms & Last Name Origins (page 3 of 3)

"from Sousa" or "saltwort"

Grove, thicket

"from the Sousa river"

"owl"

"farm on sour ground"

Sword

Clasp maker

Spaniard

Lively, bright person

From Spalding, Lincolnshire

Spearman

Woodpecker

Steward, dispenser of provisions

Spice merchant

Little thorn

"maker of spoons or shingles"

Lively, nimble

Jumper, dancer

Magpie

Son of Stach (Stanisław)

From Eustace, 'fruitful'

"one who kept a barn"

Ford by a landing place

Steel

Clearing where staves were cut

Stony ford

"son of Stanko"

From Stanley, "stony clearing"

"stony field"

Stone farmstead

Farm by the post

Strong

Star

Hard as steel, or dweller by a steep slope

Stone, rock

Dweller by a rock, or from Stein

Son of Stephen ("crown")

From Stephen; pounder

From Stirling

Star

Son of Stephen ("crown")

Son of Steven

Steward

Dweller by a stile

"tree stump"

From Stoke, "outlying settlement"

Proud, stately

Dweller by the stone

Big, tall

Bold, brave

Bathhouse keeper

Roadside dweller

Farm on a Roman road

"curly, bristly"

Ostrich, or a quarrelsome person

One who lived by a Roman road

Pasture of the young bullocks

Maker of bowstrings

"tousled"

Strong

Marshy brushwood

One who lived by tree stumps

Stump

Son of Suero

Descendant of Súileabhán (from súil, "eye")

Summer, or packhorse driver

Summoner to court

"south cliff"

Southern land

From Sutton, "south farmstead"

Young man, servant

Son of Suibhne, "pleasant"

Pleasant, agreeable

Quick, fast

Dweller by a small stream

Of the woods

"son of Szczepan"

From Szczepanów (Stephen's place)

Goldfinch

Little shoemaker

Starling

"village head"

"Swede"

Of Szymon (Simon); or from his place