Rich last names are those that have historically been associated with wealth, sophistication, beauty, and possibly nobility.
In the United States, some of these names are still associated with wealth and status.
Other rich last names have become less associated with money over time, but they remain beautiful, sophisticated sounding options.
Whether you’re curious about famous families, coming up with characters for a story, or another purposes, we have lots of names for you to consider.
Old Money Last Names
Some examples of old money last names include:
1. Vanderbilt
2. Rothschild
3. Rockefeller
4. Kennedy
5. Astor
6. Morgan
7. Gravesend
8. Winthrop
9. Sinclair
10. Lowell
Rich Last Names
1. Smith
This is one of the most common last names in the world. It is of English origin, and its meaning is simply “blacksmith.”
2. Johnson
This name is of English, Scottish, and Irish origin, and it means “son of John.”
3. Williams
This name is of Welsh origin, and it means “son of William.”
4. Brown
This name is of English origin, and it means “brown-haired.”
5. Jones
This name is of Welsh origin, and it means “son of John.”
6. Miller
This name is of English origin, and it means “one who grinds grain.”
7. Davis
This name is of Welsh origin, and it means “son of David.”
8. Garcia
This name is of Spanish origin, and it means “bear.”
9. Rodriguez
This name is of Spanish origin, and it means “son of Rodrigo.”
10. Wilson
This name is of English origin, and it means “son of William.”
Top Rich Last Names With Meanings
Rich Last Names in America (US)
1) Rockefeller
2) Carnegie
3) Vanderbilt
4) Mellon
5) Astor
6) Ford
7) Kennedy
8) Morgan
9) Gould
Fancy Rich Last Names
The English language is loaded with dozens of words that denote wealth.
But when it comes to last names, a select few surnames have become synonymous with affluence.
From old money names like Vanderbilt to nouveau riche like Hilton, these are the most common surnames among the world’s wealthiest people.
1. Vanderbilt
2. Rockefeller
3. Rothschild
4. Kennedy
5. Windsor
6. Astor
7. Simpson
8. Trump
9. Getty
10. Hearst
These are the most common surnames among the world’s wealthiest people.
If you’re looking to change your name to something that will denote wealth, any of these would be a good choice.
Rich-Sounding Last Names (Italian)
1) Giordano
2) Ferrari
3) Alighieri
4) Quattrocchi
5) Botticelli
6) Orsini
7) Guglielmi
8) Moretti
9) Rizzo
10) De Sanctis
11) Iannacci
12) Troisi
13) Lauria
14) Mariani
15) Prosperi
16) Vitale
17) Esposito
18) Greco
19) Romano
20) Gallo
Rich Last Names French
1) Dupont
2) Durant
3) Leroux
4) Lavigne
5) Moreau
6) Roy
7) Tremblay
8) Gagnon
9) Bouchard
10) Paquette
11) Bernier
12) Rousseau
13) Bellemare
14) Morin
15) Lambert
16) Girard
17) Fortin
18. Cote
19. Chouinard
20. Pelletier
Rich Last Names England
1) Mills
2) Jones
3) Brown
4) Taylor
5) Wilson
6) Khan
7) Ali
8) Ahmed
9) Davies
10) Robinson
11) Jackson
12) Wright
13) Clarke
14) Lewis
15. Collins
16. Murphy
17. Smith
18. O’Brien
19. Ryan
20. Kelly
Rich Last Names for Characters
If you’re looking for a rich last name for a character or characters in a story, here are some options:
That Start With A
1) Abernathy
2) Abramovich
3) Adler
4) Aiken
5) Akers
6) Aldridge
7) Alexander
8) Alhazred
9) Alvarez
10) Ambrose
11) Andersen
12) Anderson
13) Andrews
14) Angelini
15) Archibald
16) Archer
17) Armour
18) Ashcroft
19) Astor
20) Atkinson
21) Avalon
That Start With B
22) Babych
23) Bacall
24) Badeau
25) Baggins
26) Bailey
27) Baines
28) Baker (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Baxter, Baxendale, etc.)
29) Baldwin
30) Balfour
31) Ballantine
32) Bannerman
33) Barclay
34) Barkley
35) Barnes
36) Barrett
37) Barron
38) Bartlett
39) Bassett
40) Beaumont
41) Beckett
42) Belford
43) Bell
44) Bennett
45) Bergman
46) Berkeley
47) Bernard
48) Biddle
49) Blackwood
50) Blaine
51) Blake (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Black, Blackburn, etc.)
52) Blankenship
53) Blevins
54) Bolton
55) Booth
56) Bosworth
57) Bowen
58) Boyd
59) Bradford (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Bradshaw, Braddock, etc.)
60) Bramlett
61) Brandon
62} Branson
63} Braxton
64) Buckley
65) Bulwer
66) Burch
67) Burgess
68) Burke (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Burkett, etc.)
69) Burnett
70) Burns (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Byrne, etc.)
71) Burroughs
72) Burton (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Byrnes, Byers, etc.)
73) Buttersworth
That Start With C
74) Caldwell (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Callahan, Cavanaugh, etc.)
75) Cameron
76) Cavanaugh
77) Chase
78) Chen
79) Clarke
80) Clay
81) Cleary
82) Cochran
83) Coleman
84) Collins (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Collier, etc.)
85) Conner
86} Conway
87} Cook (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Cooke, etc.)
88} Cooper (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Couper, etc.)
89} Copley
90} Corbin
91} Cotton
92} Cox
93} Crawford (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Crawley, etc.)
94) Culley
That Start With D
95) Davids
96) Davidson
97) Davies
98) Davis (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Davison, Dawson, etc.)
99) Day
100) Dean
101) Dickens
102) Dickson
103) Douglas (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Douglass, etc.)
104) Downey
105} Doyle
106} Drake (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Driscoll, etc.)
107} Dunlap
108} Dunn (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Dunne, etc.)
109} Durant
110} Dyer
That Start With E
111) Earl
112) Eaton
113) Edison
114) Elliot
115) Ellis (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Ellison, etc.)
116} Emory
117} Erwin
118} Estrada
119} Everett
That Start With F
120) Farley
121) Ferguson (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Fergusson, etc.)
122) Fillmore
123} Fleming
124} Fletcher
125} Floyd
126) Ford (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Forrest, etc.)
127) Forsythe
128) Foster
That Start With G
129) Garrett
130) Gates
131) George
132) Gibson
133) Gilbert
134) Godfrey
135} Golden
136} Goodman
137} Goodwin
138) Gorman
139) Graham (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Graeme, etc.)
140) Grant (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Grantham, etc.)
141) Graves
142) Grayson
143} Green (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Greenwood, Greer, etc.)
144} Gregory
145} Griffin
146) Gunn
That Start With H
147} Haas
148} Hacker
149) Hackson
150) Hadley
151) Hale
152) Hall (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Hallowell, Holbrook, etc.)
153} Hamilton (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Hamill, etc.)
154} Hampton
155) Hancock
156) Hansen
157) Hanson
158) Hardesty
159) Hardy
160) Harper (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Harpster, etc.)
161} Harrington
162} Harris (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Harrison, etc.)
163} Hartman
164) Hawkins
165) Hecker
166) Henderson
167) Henry
168) Hewitt
169} Hill (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Hills, Hilton, etc.)
170} Hirsch
171} Hoffman
172} Holmes
173) Holt
174) Hopkins (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Hoskins, etc.)
175} Horn
176} Houston
177) Howard
178) Huber
179) Hudson
180) Hunt (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Hunter, Huntington, etc.)
181} Hurley
182} Hutchins
That Start With I
183) Ingalls
184) Ingulls
185) Jackson (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Jaksin, etc.)
186) James (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Jamison, etc.)
That Start With J
187} Jenkins
188} Jennings
189} Johnson (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Johnston, etc.)
190} Jones (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Jordan, etc.)
191} Joyce
That Start With K
192} Kane
193) Kaufman
194) Keith
195) Kelly (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Kellogg, Kelso, etc.)
196) Kendall
197) Kennedy
198) Kent
199} Kerr
200} King (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Kinnard, Kincaid, etc.)
201} Kirkpatrick
202} Knox
203) Koch
204) Kramer
That Start With L
205) Lamont
206) Landry
207) Lane (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Lang, Larkin, etc.)
208) Larsen
209} Lawrence (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Laurent, Lawson, etc.)
210} Lee (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Leigh, etc.)
211) Lewis
212) Lind
213) Logan
214) Long (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Luongo, etc.)
215} Lucas
216} Lyon
That Start With M
217) Madden
218} Maguire
219} Malone
220} Marsden
221) Martin (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Martinson, etc.)
222} Mason (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Masson, etc.)
223} Mathis
224) Maynard
225) McBride
226) McCarthy (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Maccarthy, etc.)
227) Moss
228) Murphy (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Murray, etc.)
That Start With N
229) Neal
230) Newell
That Start With O
231} O’Brien (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Brien, etc.)
232} O’Connell
233} O’Donnell
234} Oliver
235) Orr
236) Owens (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Owenson, etc.)
That Start With P
237) Palmer (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Parmelee, etc.)
238) Parker
239) Peters
240) Phelps
241) Phillips (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Phillipson, etc.)
242) Pike
243) Pollard
244) Powers
245} Price (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Pryce, etc.)
246} Purcell
That Start With Q
247} Quigley
That Start With R
248} Reagan
249) Reed (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Read, Reade, etc.)
250} Richards (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Richardson, etc.)
251) Ricketts
252) Riley
253) Robbins
254} Rodgers (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Roderick, etc.)
255} Ross (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Rossi, etc.)
256) Ryan (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Ryon, etc.)
That Start With S
257} Sampson
258) Scott (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Scotton, etc.)
259} Shaw
260) Shea
261) Simpson (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Sympson, etc.)
262} Smith (by far the most common surname in the English-speaking world,
but there are many variants: e.g. Smyth, Smithers, etc.)
263} Stewart (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Stuart, etc.)
264) Sullivan
265) Swanson
That Start With T
266) Taylor (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Tyler, etc.)
267} Thomas (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Thomson, etc.)
268} Thompson (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Tompson, etc.)
269) Thorpe
270} Tracy
271) Tucker
272) Turner
273) Tyler
That Start With U
274) Underwood
That Start With W
275} Walsh
276} Ward (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Warden, Warner, etc.)
277} Warren (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Warring, Waring, etc.)
278} Washington (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Wasson, Watson, etc.)
279) Waters
280) Watkins
281) Weaver
282) Welch
283) West (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Westerman, Weston, etc.)
284) Wheeler
285} White (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Whyte, etc.)
286) Wilcox
287) Wilde
288) Williams (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Williamson, etc.)
289) Wilson (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Wilsone, etc.)
290) Wood (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Woodward, Wooldridge, etc.)
291} Woods
That Start With Y
292} Young (common, but there are many variants: e.g. Yueill, Yowell, etc.)
That Start With Z
293) Zimmerman
Rich Last Names Generator
This list was automatically generated:
1) Anderson
2) Baker
3) Carter
4) Daniels
5) Edwards
6) Fowler
7) Garcia
8) Hawkins
9) Jacobs
10) Kelly
11) Lopez
12) Martinez
13) Nelson
14) Perez
15) Sanchez
16) Smith
17) Taylor
18) Thomas
19) Thompson
20) White
21) Williams
Sophisticated Last Names
1) Abernathy
2) Abshire
3) Altenwerth
4) Anderson
5) Ankil
6) Aragon
7) Atherton
8) Bailey
9) Baker
10) Ballard
11) Bender
12) Bowen
13. Broderick
14. Burke
15. Cain
16. Carney
17. Chambers
18. Chaney
19. Clancy
20. Compton
21. Crawford
22. Cullen
23. Daugherty
24. Davidson
25. Dowdell
26) Doyle
27) Edwards
28) Estrada
29) Fitzpatrick
30) Fleming
31. Foley
32. Fritz
33. Garland
34. Gill
35. Glazer
36. Hagan
37. Hamilton
38. Harrell
39. Hawkins
40) Hayes
41) Henderson
42) Henry
43) Herzog
44) Hofmann
45. Houston
46. Howard
47. Howell
48) Inman
49) Irwin
50) Jameson
51) Jarvis
52) Johns
53) Jones
54) Kaufmann
55. Kelley
56. Kennedy
57. Kilpatrick
58. King
59. Kirschbaum
60) Klimes
61) Knox
62) Kroger
63. Landry
64) Larkin
65. Ledner
66. Leffler
67) Lemon
68) Lenahan
69) Lilly
70) Lindgren
71) Lloyd
72) Lueilwitz
73) Luettgen
74) Lynch
75) Macejkovic
76) Madden
77) Marquardt
78) Mcclure
79) Mccullough
80) Mcdermott
81) Mckenzie
82) Miller
83) Moen
84) Mohr
85. Morales
86. Morar
87. Muller
88. Murazik
89. Murphy
90. Murray
91. Myers
92. Nikolaus
93. O’Hara
94. Olvera
95. Ostby
96. Ouellette
97. Pacocha
98 Pfeffer
99 Pollich
100 Reinger
101 Renner
102 Rice
103 Roob
104 Rohan
105 Rue
106) Ryan
107) Sanch
108) Scarf
109) Schaef
110) Schmitt
111) Senger
112 Shackley
113 Spinka
114 Stamm
115 Stehr
116 Stevenson
117 Sturm
118 Sylvester
119 Thiel
120 Thieme
121 Tremblay
122 Tromp
123 Vanacore
124 Veum
125 Villarreal
126) Vonruede
127) Wald
128) Washed
129) Weimann
130) Weirich
131 Winter
132 Witting
133 Wittkopf
134 Wolf
135 Wuckert
136 Yost
137 Zboncak
Beautiful Rich Last Names
1) Atherton
2) Basingstoke
3) Belvoir
4) Berkeley
5) Blenheim
6) Brampton
7) Buckingham
8) Canterbury
9) Carlisle
10) Chester
11) Cholmondeley
12) Clifton
13) Cornwallis
14) Cumberland
15) Derby
16) Devon
17) Dorset
18) Durham
19) Essex
20) Exeter
21) Kent
22) Lancaster
22) Leicester
24) Liverpool
25) Manchester
26) Norfolk
27) Northampton
28) Nottingham
29) Oxford
30) Rutland
31) Salisbury
32) Shrewsbury
33) Somerset
34 Stafford
35 Suffolk
36 Surrey
37 Sussex
38 Warwick
39 Winchester
40 Windsor
FAQs – Rich Last Names
Who were the Rockefellers?
Rockefeller is an American family name. It refers to the fortunes of the six members of the Rockefeller family who were prominent in business, finance, and politics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The name is also used more broadly to refer to any member of the extended family descended from John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937), including his direct descendants as well as collaterals (nieces, nephews, grandnieces, etc.).
The Rockefellers are particularly associated with New York City, where they made their fortune and where many of them still live.
What are some common characteristics of old money, rich families?
There is no definitive answer to this question, as each family’s history and traditions are unique.
However, some common characteristics of old money families may include a preference for privacy, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to philanthropy.
Old money families may also place a high value on education and have a tradition of attending prestigious colleges and universities.
Conclusion – Rich Last Names
There are many beautiful and rich last names out there.
If you are looking for a name that will make you feel automatically wealthier, any of the names on this list would be a great choice.
