Scottish Surnames: Meaning, Origin & Coat of Arms (page 1 of 3)

Someone from Abercrombie in Fife

Mouth of the Nethy

From Edgar, 'rich spear'

Son of Adam

Place name

From Annesley or Ansley

Someone who came from the Aird

Little Adam

Defender of men

The son of Ellis (God is salvation)

Someone who came from the barony of Allardyce, in Kincardineshire

Son of Alice, or son of Allan

Son of Andrew

A descendant of Angus (one choice)

Truly bold

Someone who came from the Aird

Strong in the arm

Perhaps bear

Fair-haired

A dweller near the Bain (straight)

Uncertain, perhaps poet

Pasture village

Someone who came from Ballindean (village by the hill)

From Berkeley / birch lea

Hilltop

A descendant of little Bate

Little Bartholomew

From Baty (Bartholomew)

Desscendant of little Bate or Baty

Small

From Béthune in Artois

A descendant of little Bate

Beer drinker (nickname)

Dark-haired, swarthy

Dark wood

Saint Blane

From Blair, "plain, field"

Blue

Dweller by a bog

Someone who came from Bonhill (house by the stream)

Farm by the board ford

From Beuzeville

Booth by the spring

Fair-haired

Of Bute

A dweller on the broad meadow

From Saint Brice

From Brodie in Moray

Someone who came from Brounfield (Brun's field), in Scotland

Brown meadow

From Brix in Normandy

Son of Brice

From Buchanan in Stirlingshire

Brown-haired, of brown complexion

Dweller by a stream; descendant of Bran

Beside the stream

Bushy farm

Hard water (river name)

From Caldwell, "cold spring"

From the lands of Colquhoun

A descendant of Cathal (battle mighty)

Crooked nose; crooked hill

Crooked mouth (Gaelic)

Fort of Saint Michael

Uncertain, perhaps a place

Chamberlain's son

Cheese-farm meadow

From Christopher or Christian

The son of Clas, a pet form of Nicholas (people, victory)

Someone who came from Glendinning (glen of the fair hill)

Someone who came from Clyne (a slope)

From the lands of Cochrane

Stream of the wild birds

From Colquhoun in Dunbartonshire

From Coulter

Son of Eoghan

A dweller at a hollow

Dweller by the crag

From the crow ford

Border farmstead

A dweller at, or near, the crooked projecting point of a hill

Son of Culbert or Colbert

Someone who came from Comines, in Flanders

From the Norman Comyn family

From Cunninghame (Ayrshire)

Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Mhuirich or Ó Comhraidhe

From Dallas in Moray

Field of the crooked pool

Someone who came from Deer (forest), in Aberdeenshire

Someone who came from Deer (forest), in Aberdeenshire

From Denny, Stirlingshire

Someone who came from Dewar (dark, plowed land) in Midlothian

Someone who formerly lived on the lands of Ding-

The man from Dollar (dale of plowed land), in Clackmannanshire

From Douglas in Lanarkshire ("black water")

Dove, or dark

Dark

Someone who came from Dron (hill ridge), in Perthshire

Ridge

Someone who came from Dryfesdale (valley of the Dryfe River)

Black, dark

Fort on the summit

Brown warrior

From the lands of Dunlop

Fort on the bend

Dark brown, swarthy

Place name

Someone who held the office of doorkeeper of the Abbey

The elder

From the personal name Elias or Elliot

From Elphinstone in East Lothian

From Erskine in Renfrewshire

From Eòghann

Fair child

Son of Fergus, or horseman

Son of Fergus ("man of vigour")

Son of Fergus

Someone who came from Fearn (alder tree) in Scotland

Someone who came from Fife

Fair warrior

Fair warrior

Man from Flanders

From the lands of Forbes

Forest dweller or keeper

Forest keeper

Man of peace