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This list of Scottish Gaelic surnames shows Scottish Gaelic surnames beside their English language equivalent. Unlike English surnames (but in the same way as Slavic , Lithuanian and Latvian surnames ), all of these have male and female forms depending on the bearer, e.g. all Mac- names become Nic- if the person is female.
Examples of Scottish surnames derived from nicknames are: Little; White; and Meikle (which means "big"). One of the most common Scottish surnames is Campbell, which is derived from the Gaelic Caimbeul, meaning "crooked-mouth". [ 13] Another common Scottish surname is Armstrong, which means the son of a strong man.
Anglicised Irish-language surnames (421 P) Anglo-Norman Irish dynasties (10 C, 7 P) I. Irish-language surnames (3 C, 85 P) O. O'Shaughnessy family (22 P)
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of clans, peers and landed gentry families in Ireland. Most of the houses belonged to the Old English and Anglo-Irish aristocracy, and many of those located in the present Republic of Ireland were abandoned, sold or destroyed following the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War of the early 1920s.
Map showing principal Irish surnames at the commencement of the 17th century. Clans of Ireland is a modern organization that was started in 1989 and has eligibility criteria for surnames to be included on their register of Irish clans. This includes that the family or clan can trace their ancestry back to before 1691 which is generally ...
Common places used as surnames include Dibra, Laci, Shkodra, Prishtina, Delvina, Koroveshi and Permeti, as well as the famous Frasheri surname of the Frasheri family. Additionally common some names indicate regional origins: Gega/Gegaj (for one of Gheg origin ), Tosku/Toskaj (signifying Tosk origin) and Chami (for Cham origin ).
Irish name. A formal Irish name consists of a given name and a surname. In the Irish language, most surnames are patronymic surnames, distinct from patronyms, which are seen in Icelandic names, for example. The form of a surname varies according to whether its bearer is a man, a woman, or a woman married to a man, who adopts his surname.
William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster. A modest number of titles in the peerage of Ireland date from the Middle Ages.Before 1801, Irish peers had the right to sit in the Irish House of Lords, on the abolition of which by the Union effective in 1801 by an Act of 1800 they elected a small proportion – twenty-eight Irish representative peers – of their number (and elected replacements as ...