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Scottish names are used in the country of Scotland in Britain. See also about Scottish names.
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AINSLEY Scottish From a place name: either Annesley in Nottinghamshire or Ansley in Warwickshire... [more] BEGBIE Scottish Originates in Scotland, where it is most common in the Edinburgh and East Lothian areas... [more] BLAIR Scottish From any one of several of this place name in Scotland, which derives from Gaelic blár meaning "plain, field, battlefield". BRECKENRIDGE Scottish, Irish, English Habitational name for someone from Brackenrig in Lanarkshire, named with the northern Middle English braken, meaning "bracken", (from the Old Norse brækni) and rigg, meaning "ridge" (from the Old Norse hryggr), or from a similarly named place located in northern England. CHANCELLOR English, Scottish Occupational name for an administrator, a chancellor, from Norman French chancelier. COCKBURN Scottish, English Name for someone who came from Cockburn, a place in Berwickshire... [more] COUTTS Scottish From the place name Cults in Aberdeenshire, derived from a Gaelic word meaning "woods". COWDEN English, Scottish From various place names meaning either "coal valley", "coal hill", or "cow pasture" in Old English. CUMMINS English, Scottish, Irish Means "descendent of Cuimin", a Breton name meaning "little bent one". DARROW Scottish Habitational name from Darroch near Falkirk, in Stirlingshire, said to be named from Gaelic darach "oak tree". DOUGLAS Scottish Anglicized form of Gaelic Dubhghlas, meaning "dark river" from dubh "dark" and glais "water, river"... [more] DUFFY (2) Scottish, Irish From Gaelic Mac Dhuibhshíthe meaning "descendent of Dhuibhshíthe", a name meaning "black peace". DUNBAR Scottish Means "castle headland" and comes from the old barony of Dunbar, now in East Lothian in Scotland... [more] DUNN English, Scottish, Irish Derived from Old English dunn "dark" or Gaelic donn "brown", referring to hair colour or complexion. FORNEY English, Scottish Name for someone who lived around ferns, from Middle English fern "fern" and heye "enclosure". FRASER Scottish Meaning unknown, originally Norman French Fresel, possibly from a lost place name in France. GRAHAM Scottish Derived from the English place name Grantham which probably meant "gravelly homestead" in Old English... [more] HAMILTON English, Scottish From an English place name, derived from the elements hamel "crooked, mutilated" and dun "hill"... [more] HOLME English, Scottish Refers either to someone living by an island in a fen (from northern Middle English holm) or near a holly tree (Middle English holm). HUNTER English, Scottish Occupational name which referred to someone who hunted for a living, from Old English hunta. IRVING Scottish, English Originally derived from a Scottish place name (in North Ayrshire) meaning "green water". KEITH Scottish From a place name which is probably derived from the Brythonic element cet meaning "wood"... [more] KYLES Scottish Derived from Gaelic caol meaning "narrows, channel, strait", originally given to a person who lived by a strait. LENNOX Scottish From the name of a district in Scotland, called Leamhnachd in Gaelic, possibly meaning "place of elms". LESLIE Scottish From a Scottish place name, probably derived from Gaelic leas celyn meaning "garden of holly". LINDSAY English, Scottish From the region of Lindsey in Lincolnshire, which means "LINCOLN island" in Old English. LYNE Scottish Habitational name for someone who lived in places in Ayrshire, Peeblesshire, and Wigtownshire. LYON Scottish, English, French, Dutch Habitational name from either the Lyon in southern central France, or Lyons-la-Forêt in Eure, Normandy. MACBETH Scottish Derived from the Gaelic given name Mac Beatha, meaning "son of life", which denoted a man of religious devotion... [more] MACCONNELL Irish, Scottish This name in Ireland is often of Scottish origin and can be derived from the native Gaelic MacDomhnaill, which translates as "son of DONNELL"... [more] MAXWELL Scottish From a place name meaning "Mack's stream", from the name Mack, a short form of the Scandinavian name MAGNUS, combined with Old English wella "stream"... [more] MCCRACKEN Scottish, Irish Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Reachtain, Ulster variant of Mac Neachtain meaning "descendent of Neachdan". MCCRAE Irish, Scottish From the Gaelic Mag Raith meaning "descendent of Rath", a given name meaning "prosperity" or "grace". MCGUIRE Irish, Scottish From the Irish Mag Uidhir meaning "son of Odhar", a given name meaning "pale-coloured". MCLEOD Scottish From the Gaelic Mac Leòid meaning "son of Leod", a given name derived from Old Norse ljótr "ugly". MCNAB Scottish, Irish Anglicization of the Gaelic Mac an Aba, literally "the son of the abbot"... [more] MILLIGAN Irish, Scottish From the Gaelic given name Maolagán, a derivative of maol meaning "bald" or "tonsured". MONROE Scottish Designated a person who had originally lived near the mouth of the Roe River in Derry, Ireland. MONTGOMERY English, Scottish From a place name in Calvados, France meaning "GUMARICH's mountain"... [more] MURRAY Scottish Derived from the region in Scotland called Moray meaning "seaboard settlement"... [more] NESS Scottish, English, Norwegian Means "headland" in Middle English, originally referring to a person who lived there. NORRIS (1) English, Scottish Means "from the north", either denoting someone who had moved from the north, further south or someone who lived in the northern part of a settlement. PAYNE Irish, Scottish, English Means "villager, rustic" and later "heathen" from the Middle English Payn, Old French Paien which was often given to children whose baptism had been postponed or adults whose religious zeal was lacking. QUIGLEY English, Irish, Scottish Derived from Middle English quik or Old English cwic, which both mean "lively"... [more] RAMSEY Scottish, English Means "garlic island", derived from Old English hramsa "garlic" and eg "island"... [more] RATTRAY Scottish From a place name meaning "fortress town", from Gaelic rath "fortress" and Welsh tref "town". ROSE (1) English, French, German, Scottish, Jewish Means "rose" from the Middle English, Old French and Middle High German rose... [more] ROSS English, Scottish From various place names (such as the region of Ross in northern Scotland) which are derived from Scottish Gaelic ros meaning "promontory, headland". ROWE English, Scottish, Irish Means "dweller by a row of hedges or houses" from the Middle English row... [more] RUTHERFORD Scottish Originally taken by families who lived near the town of Rutherford in Scotland... [more] SCHOOL Scottish, English Derived from either the Old Norse given name Skúli, the Old Danish Skuli or the Old Swedish Skule which probably all mean "to protect". SCOTT English, Scottish Originally given to a person from Scotland or a person who spoke Scottish Gaelic. SHEEHY Scottish, Irish Anglicized form of the Gaelic given name Sítheach meaning "mysterious, eerie". SKEATES Scottish Ancient Scottish surname, first found in Ayrshire, taken from the village of Skeoch, near Mauchline. STEWART Scottish Occupational name for an administrative official of an estate or steward, from Old English stig "house" and weard "guard"... [more] STROUD English, Scottish Locational name meaning "thicket, marsh, or marshy ground overgrown with brushwood". SUTHERLAND Scottish Scottish regional name that described the man who came from the former county by this name, which got its name from Old Norse suðroen "southern" and land "land"... [more] TAGGART Irish, Scottish Anglicization of the Irish language surname Mac an tSagairt, meaning "son of the priest"... [more] UNDERWOOD English, Scottish From a Scottish and English place name for a man who lived at the edge of the woods... [more] WATSON English, Scottish Patronymic form of the English and Scottish name Watt, which came from the extremely popular Middle English given name Wat or Watt, which was a diminutive of the name WALTER... [more] |
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