Browse Surnames

This is a list of surnames in which the meaning contains the keyword fabric.
usage
meaning
Bureau French
From Old French burel, a diminutive of bure, a type of woollen cloth. It may have originated as a nickname for a person who dressed in the material or as an occupational name for someone who worked with it.
Burrell English
English form of Bureau.
Draper English
Occupational name for a maker or seller of woollen cloth, from Anglo-Norman French draper (Old French drapier, an agent derivative of drap "cloth").
Dyer English
Occupational name meaning "cloth dyer", from Old English deah "dye".
Metaxas m Greek
Derived from Greek μέταξα (metaxa) meaning "silk", referring to a silk merchant or another occupation dealing with silk.