Fancy last names for characters

Means “ash tree” + “enclosed field”

Means “east meadow” or “east clearing”

Means likely “hawk”, from Occitan

Means the personal name Ealdgȳþ + “woodland clearing”

Means “noble guard” or “elf guard”

Means “beautiful fort”

Means “birch” + “meadow”

Means “good” + “part, share”

Means from Ó Proinntigh: “descendant of Proinnteach (‘Generous’)”

Means possibly “fort at the gap”

Means “Cāfna’s enclosure”

Means from curtus, “short”

Means believed to be “Cofa’s tree”

Means “enclosure” + “farmstead”

Means “from Évreux”, a city in Normandy

Means “beautiful tresses”: a nickname for long fair hair

Means “son of the king”

Means “son of William”

Means the personal name Hucc + “woodland clearing”

Means “north cottage”

Means “land’s end”

Means from Latin Quintus, “fifth-born”

Means from the German place name Rockenfeld

Means from Silvanus, or “hall” + “friend”

Means the name Hræfn (“raven”) + “enclosed field”

Means “black stone”

Means “black wood”

Means “crooked spring”

Means someone who came from Denmark

Means “descendant of Fallamhan”, a name related to “ruler”

Means “feller, hewer” or “mighty warrior”

Means someone who lived near a hawthorn hedge

Means “unhappy, unlucky”

Means “dead pond”

Means from the word “bishop”

Means “dark” + “stream”

Means “carver, wood-cutter, sculptor”

Means a nickname from “crow”

Means “dragon”

Means from the word “frost”

Means a nickname for someone with grey hair or beard

Means “hollow way”

Means from Reims, the French town

Means “solitary” or “hermitage” + “woodland clearing”, via Annesley or Ansley

Means from Alberich: “elf” + “ruler”

Means “fair friend”

Means “merry”

Means “at the byre or cattleshed”

Means from Bois-d’Arcy in northern France

Means from the nickname “darling”

Means “a man from South Munster”

Means “rock” or “army” + “hill”

Means “a spring visited by deer”

Means possibly someone who lived by a path across a heath

Means “leek” + “settlement”: a herb garden

Means “loveless”

Means “head” + “moor, heathland”

Means “clearing on a bank”

Means a nickname from the bird, “wren”

Means from Ælfræd: “elf” + “counsel”

Means “merciful”

Means “polite, courteous”

Means “from the alder grove”

Means “good friend”

Means “stag” + “woodland clearing”

Means “little wolf”

Means “page”, a young servant

Means from the word “rose”

Means from Saint Clare, to whom the clan’s churches were dedicated

Means a nickname from the swan

Means from vālens, “strong, healthy”

Means “conquering”

Means “ash tree” + “enclosed field”

Means perhaps “ash tree” + “hill”, from a lost place in Berkshire

Means “briar”

Means “ash tree” + “farm, town”

Means “ford by the ash trees”

Means “black wood”

Means “stream”

Means “east wood”

Means “fen, marsh” + “dwelling”

Means possibly “hawk”, for a hawker

Means someone who lived near a hawthorn hedge

Means “a clearing in an oak forest”

Means “white moor”

Means a nickname from the bird, “wren”

Means from the bird’s name, “crane”

Means from the personal name Æþelmær

Means from the animal, the fox

Means from the word “frost”

Means probably “green wood”

Means from Hawkin, a pet form of Hal (Henry)

Means “north wood”

Means from the word “rose”

Means someone who lived near, or worked with, stone

Means a nickname from the swan

Means someone who lived near a wood

Means someone living near a well or a spring

Means “white field”

Means from the occupation “woodward”

Means from the word “rosewood”

Means “briar”

Means from the word “saint”

Means from the nickname “darling”

Means possibly “hawk”, for a hawker

Means a nickname from the bird, “wren”

Means from the word “bishop”

Means from the word “castle”: someone who lived or worked in one

Means from the bird’s name, “crane”

Means “dragon”

Means from the animal, the fox

Means from the word “frost”

Means from the word “glass”

Means a mounted soldier, from Old English “youth; servant”

Means from the word “noble”

Means from the word “rose”

Means “steel”: a metalworker, or someone as hard as steel

Means someone who lived near, or worked with, stone

Means a nickname from the swan