Scottish Surnames: Meaning, Origin & Coat of Arms (page 2 of 2)

Place name

Dweller by the marshy scrubland

Young goat

Goat wood

Church of St Patrick

Head of the pass

From Kinnear

Dweller by the church

Church land

Church of St Patrick

Church wood

From the knock (round hill)

Narrow strait

Mound or hill

Landowner

Law man (Norse lagman)

One who lived by a hill

Son of Law (Lawrence)

From the Lennox district

From Leslie in Aberdeenshire

Small, a nickname

Leving's settlement

Leving's farm

From Locard

From Logan, "little hollow"

Wolf, or a term of affection

Little Lawrence

Of the island

Son of Olaf

Son of Domhnall (world ruler)

Son of Aodh ("fire")

Son of Coinneach (Kenneth)

Son of the leader (toiseach)

Son of the servant of John

Son of Leod

Son of grace

Horse servant; farrier

From Maxwell, "Maccus's pool"

Son of Alasdair (Alexander)

Son of Artan

Son of St Fillan's servant

Son of Leod

Son of the sallow lad

Son of Colum, 'dove'

Son of Reachtain, 'law'

Son of Craith

Son of Domhnall ("world ruler")

Son of Aodh

Son of the stranger

Son of Gregor

Son of the leader

Son of the carpenter

Son of Aodh (fire)

Son of Aodh

Son of Coinneach (comely)

Son of Finlay

Son of Fhionnghuin

Son of Neachtan

Son of the servant of St John

Son of Leod

Son of the tonsured one

Son of the heir

Son of Niall

Son of the parson

Son of Suibhne, 'pleasant'

Son of grace

From Malleville in Normandy

From Malleville, Normandy

From Mesnières in Normandy

Long plain

From Montgomery in Normandy

Son of Morris, or son of the servant of Mary

Moor, heath

Traditionally "man from the Roe"

From Muireadhach ("mariner, lord")

From Nairn

Keeper of table linen

Nose-shaped ridge

High plain

High plain

Elephant

Dun, sallow

Nobleman (from Patricius)

Son of Patrick

Little Pate (Patrick)

Pacc's farm

Son of Picon

From Pollock

From Pollok, little pool

Pilgrim's nook

Place name

Wild garlic island

Little Rand (Randolph)

Fort dwelling

Red-haired

From Ryedale or Riddell

Little Richard

Son of Robert ("bright fame")

Promontory; heath; red

Cattle ford

From a lost Border place

A Scot

Shearer of sheep or cloth

From Saint-Clair

Cheerful, smiling

Spearman

Hard as steel, or dweller by a steep slope

From Stirling

Son of Steven

Steward

From Stirling

Valley of the stream

Southern land

Pig farm

Temple farmstead

Tenant farmer

Son of Thomas ("twin")

Bold, strong

Uncertain

"turn the bull", a nickname for strength

By the wood

From Wedale

Welshman, Briton of Strathclyde

Wether stream

One who lived by a weir

Caves

White, fair

Son of William

Wise and hardy (Guiscard)

Sheep pasture

Little William