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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.
Pages in category "Surnames of Irish origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 690 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Many surnames of Gaelic origin in Ireland and the other Celtic nations derive from ancestors' names, nicknames, or descriptive names.In the first group can be placed surnames such as MacMurrough and MacCarthy, derived from patronymics, or O'Brien and O'Grady, derived from ancestral names.
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.
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.
Giolla Phádraig (meaning "the devotee of [Saint] Patrick", also one of origins of the surname Kilpatrick) was the personal name of Gilla Patráic mac Donnchada, a tenth-century king of Ossory. His sons were subsequently styled Mac Giolla Phádraig (meaning, son of Giolla Phádraig ), and gave rise to a dynasty of Kings of Ossory that bore this ...
English "Sherlock" surname may derive from Irish or prior Goedelic (Scurlòg). Ciaran Kieran [1] Cliamain Clement [12] SG equivalent of En Clement. [12] Coinneach Kenneth [39] Kenneth is an Anglicisation. [44] Còiseam Constantine [39] Name of three kings of Scotland, Còiseam I, Còiseam II and Còiseam III. [44] Colla Coll [39] Colum Cille ...
Bowen is a Celtic surname representing two separate Celtic ethnicities, the Welsh ab Owain meaning "son of Owen " (Owen meaning 'noble') and the Irish Ó Buadhacháin meaning "descendant of Bohan" (Bohan meaning 'victorious'). [1] [2] The Bowen lineage can be traced back to Llwyngwair in the 11th century, near Nevern in Pembrokeshire. [3]