Scotland

Concerning some Scotch surnames. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1860.

‘Locations of Common Surnames in Scotland.’ Pennsylvania genealogist and historian (1993) 21( 41)

Miscellanea Scotica : a collection of tracts relating to the history, antiquities, topography, and literature of Scotland. Glasgow: 1818-1820.
Notes: Vol 4 includes: Buchanan’s inquiry into the genealogy and present state of ancient Scottish surnames; with the history of the family of Buchanan

The Old Scots surnames : secrets and origins of your name. Newtowngrange: Lang Syne Publishers, 1982.
Notes: Facsimile reprint of Concerning some Scotch surnames, published by Edmonston and Douglas, Edinburgh, 1860

Personal names in Scotland. Edinburgh: General Register Office, 1991.
Abstract: Contains tables of common names : some tables now available on their webpage

Scots kith and kin : a comprehensive A-Z guide to the surnames of Scotland, the clans and their tartans. London: Collins, 1989.
Notes: rev ed

Anderson, William. The Scottish nation : or, the surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. Edinburgh: Fullarton, 1863.
Notes: Reprinted by Heritage book, 1995 (isbn 0788403109)

Baillie, Susan R. "A surname analysis of two fishing communities in north-east Scotland." Annals of Human Biology , no. 72(1981): 392.
Abstract: Lawson1: "Surnames used to measure inbreeding indicate that fishermen had more inbreeding than non-fishermen"

Beattie, Alan M. Shetland surnames. Lerwick: Shetland Family History Society, 2002
Note: 52 p. + genealogical tables

Black, George F. The surnames of Scotland: their origin, meaning, and history. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 1993.

Blake, John L. "Distribution of surnames in the Isle of Lewis." Scottish Studies , no. 10(1966): 154-60.
Abstract: Lawson2: "Population stability as reflected in surnames -top 23 surnames in 1961 electoral register versus 1890-91"

Clouston, J. Storer. "The people and surnames of Orkney." Proceedings of the Orkney Antiquarian Society , no. 2(1924): 31-36.
Abstract: Lawson2: "Listing of the influences on Orkney surnames from the Norse period"

Cowley, Colin. Arran surnames : arannachs and migrants in old Arran. Lamlash: C. Cowley, 2002
Note: 131 leaves, 1 map

Cramond, W. "To-Names in Banffshire and Aberdeenshire a century ago." Northern Notes and Queries 1, no. 4: 62.

Currie, Jo. Mull family names for ancestor hunters. Tobermory: Brown & Whittaker, 1998.
Abstract: "Jo Currie has used her extensive experience of researching family names in Mull to compile this list of names with Mull connections. Not just a list of names, however, as the book goes into some detail of where the names originate and examples of families. She has taken the period from 1750-1850 to select the names as it was during this period that mass emigration occurred. Many of these names and families have ended up in North America, Australia and all over the world." -SOG Bookshop

Donaldson, Gordon. "Surnames and ancestry in Scotland." Highlander 22, no. 1(1984): 29-32.
Abstract: Lawson2

Dorian, Nancy. "East Sutherland by-naming." Scottish Studies , no. 14(1970): 59-65.
Abstract: The practice of using by-names is passing over into English as Gaelic dies in East Sutherland.

________. "A substitute name-system in the Scottish Highlands." American Anthropologist 72, 303-319. no. 72(1970): 303-19.
Abstract: The practice of using by-names is passing over into English as Gaelic dies in East Sutherland.

Dorward, David. "Scottish Mac names ‘ in W.F.H. Nicolaisen (ed.), Proceedings of the XIXth Inyernational Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Aberdeen, August 4-11, 1996, 3 vols, Aberdeen: Department of English, University of Aberdeen, Vol III, pp113-116/

Dorward, David. "Scottish personal names’ in E. Eichler et al (eds), Name Studies: An International Handbook of Onomastics 3 vols, Berlin: De Gruyter, Vol II, pp1284-9

Dorward, David. Scottish surnames. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1978.
Notes: New edition printed by Glasgow: HarperCollins in 1995 (isbn 0004704630)
Reviewed in Nomina 20 (1997) : earlier edition reviewed in vol 4 (1980)
Abstract: Lawson1: Background and history of about 200 Scottish surnames plus variations. Listing of the most common surnames in Scotland"

________. "Scottish surnames in the context of Scottish culture, historical and contemporary." Onoma, no. 34 (1998): 77-90.

________. "Some interesting Mac names." Scotland’s Magazine , no. 66(February 1970): 42-43.
Abstract: Lawson2

Douglas, Robert. The land of Moray and its surnames. Elgin: Elgin Courant and Courier Office, 1941.

"Dunsire families of Fife 1660-1875 : a surname history, Andrew Dunsire. Copmanthwaite, York: A Dunsire, 1997.

Fox, J.R.  "Structure of personal names on Tory Island." Man , 63(Oct 1963): 153-55.

Griest, Terry L. Scottish tartans and family names. Annapolis, Maryland: Harp & Lion Press, 1986.
Abstract: Lawson2: "Introductory information on Scottish surnames"

H., A. E. H. C. "Peculiar use of surnames." Northern Notes and Queries (The Scottish Antiquary) 4, no. 13(1890): 29.

Hough, Carole ‘Scottish surnames’ in The Edinburgh companion to Scots,edited by John Corbett, Edinburgh University Press, 2003 -isbn 0748615962

Hughes, Charles P. "Scottish surnames." Scotland’s Magazine , no. 59(1963): 44-45.
Abstract: Lawson2

Innes, Cosmo. Concerning some Scottish surnames. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1860.
Notes: 69pp

Jamieson, G. C. ‘Surnames in the north-east’. Transactions of the Banffshire Field Club & Scientific Society (1937), 43-129.

Johnston, James B. The Scottish Macs : their derivation and origin. Paisley: A. Gardner, 1922.

Kyd, J. G. "Nomenclature in Scotland." In: Annual Report of the Registrar-General for Scotland, 1937, Appendix VII. Edinburgh, 1938.
Notes: Smith: "Chiefly lists most common surnames and christian names"

Lamb, Gregor. Orkney family names. Bellavista, 2004.

Lamb, Gregor. Orkney surnames. Edinburgh: Harris, 1981.

Macbain, Alexander. Etymology of the principal Gaelic national names, personal names, surnames to which is added a disquisition on Ptolemy’s geography of Scotland, by the late Alexander Macbain. Stirling: E Mackay, 1911.

________. Personal names and surnames of the town of Inverness. Inverness: Northern Counties Printing and Publishing Co., 1895.

Macdonald, Donald F. "Good morning Mr Mackerel!" Scots Magazine (September 1965): 538-42.
Abstract: Lawson2 "Rails against English influence where Scottish names not capitalized"

Mackay, George. Scottish surnames. Edinburgh: Lomond, 1998.

MacMillan, Somerled. "Some Gaelic surnames and their English adaptations." Scottish Genealogist , no. 17(1970): 109-15.
Abstract: Lawson2: "Gives origin of 35 plus Scottish surnames"

Martine, Roderick. Scottish clans and family names: their arms, origins and tartans. Mainstream Pub.Co, 1992.

" Highland surnames, 5p. William Matheson. Inverness : Glasgow: An Comunn Gaidhealach, 1973.
Notes: Highland information pamphlets

McNicoll, Diane D. The surnames of East Lothian : Based on the Old Parish Registers of Births & Baptisms for Haddingtonshire. Scottish Families, 2000.

Nicolaisen, W. F. H. "Pictish place-names as Scottish surnames : origins, dissemination and current status." Nomina , no. 15(1991): 7-20.

________. "Tension and extension : thoughts on Scottish surnames and medieval popular culture." Journal of Popular Culture 14, no. 1 (1980): 119-30.
Notes: also published in: Popular culture in the Middle Ages edited by Josie P Campbell, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1986
Abstract: Lawson1: "One category of surnames, those derived from placenames (Colston, Fenwick) tells about population movement; a second, tells about the occupations held by the originbal bearers (Barker, took bark off tress for tanning, Horner made spoons out of horns); a third category tells about kinship (Thomson, Macdonald). Naming practices also show socioeconomic data. 19 refs."

Paterson, James. Scottish surnames : Contribution to Genealogy. Edinburgh: James Stillie, 1866.

Robson, Michael. Surnames and clansmen : Border family history in earlier days. Port of Ness, Isle of Lewis: M. Robson, 1998.

Scott, James. "Notes on Kintyre surnames and families." Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness 45(1969): 284-318.

Sims, Clifford. The origin and signification of Scottish surnames, with a vocabulary of Christian names. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co, 1968.

Stark, James. "Nomenclature in Scotland." Sixth Detailed Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Scotland, liv-lx. Edinburgh: 1864.
Abstract: Smith: "On the most common surnames and christian names in Scotland"

________. "Nomenclature in Scotland." In: Twelth Detailed Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Scotland, xliii-li. 1869.
Abstract: Smith: "The 150 most common surnames in Scotland in 1863. Interesting-Fair"

Stewart, A. I. B. "The evolution of Gaelics in surnames in Kintyre." Scottish Genealogist , no. 33(1986): 188-91.
Abstract: Lawson2: "Evaluation of lists of Kintyre tenants from 1505-1653"

Taylor, A. B. "Personal names in Orkney." In: The New Orkney Book, 58-62. Editors John Shearer, William Groundwater, and John Mackay183 pages. London: Nelson, 1966.
Abstract: Lawson2:

Tocher, J. F. and J. Gray  "The frequency and pigmentation value of surnames of school children in East Aberdeenshire." Man , 1(1901): 153-154.

Torrance, D. R. Scottish personal names and place names : a selected bibliography. Scottish Genealogy, 1992.

Travers, James. "Analysing personal Names." Management Services in Government , no. 35(1980): 149-54.
Abstract: Lawson2: "Results of 4 surveys in Scotland between 1858 and 1976 from the GRO Scotland of the 10 most common surnames and first names for men and women -1 table shoes the distribution of surnames by initial letter"

Whyte, Donald. Scottish surnames and families. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 1995.

________. "What’s in your name?" Scots Magazine , no. 115(1981): 161-66.
Notes: Lawson2: "Concise general introduction to Scottish surnames"