English Surnames Starting with B
65 surnames
Bacon
Seller of cured pork
Bagnall
Badger nook or corner
Bailey
Bailiff or steward
Baker
One who bakes bread
Baldock
From Baghdad (Crusader name)
Baldwin
Bold friend
Bancroft
Enclosure with beans
Banner
Standard bearer
Barker
One who strips bark, or a tanner
Barlow
Barley hill, or boar clearing
Barnard
Strong as a bear
Barnes
Dweller by the barns
Barnett
Land cleared by burning
Barrington
Settlement of Bara's people
Bartlett
Son of Bartholomew
Bates
Son of Bartholomew
Battersby
Farm of the warrior
Baxter
Female baker
Beaumont
Beautiful hill, from Normandy
Beckwith
Settlement by the beech wood
Bedford
Ford by a bed of a stream
Bell
Dweller near the bell or bell-ringer
Bellamy
Fine friend
Bennett
Blessed one
Bentley
Clearing with bent grass
Berry
Dweller by a fortified place
Beverley
Beaver stream
Birch
Dweller by birch trees
Bird
Resembling a bird
Birtwistle
Nesting place by the river fork
Bishop
One who served a bishop
Blackburn
Dark stream
Blackwell
Dark spring or well
Blake
Dark-haired or pale
Bolton
Settlement with a special building
Bond
Peasant farmer or husbandman
Booth
Dweller at a hut or shelter
Boothroyd
Clearing with a shelter
Boswell
Well of the forest
Bourne
Dweller by a stream
Bowman
One who uses a bow
Bradford
Broad ford
Bradley
Broad clearing in the woods
Bradshaw
Broad thicket or copse
Braithwaite
Broad clearing
Brandon
Broom-covered hill, or beacon hill
Brent
Burnt or steep hill