Scottish surname

C133
concept

A Scottish surname is a family name originating from Scotland, often derived from Gaelic, Norse, or Anglo-Norman roots and reflecting ancestral occupations, locations, or clan affiliations.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Scottish surname canonical 199
Scottish family 10
Scottish aristocratic family name 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: Scottish surname
Generated description
A Scottish surname is a family name originating from Scotland, often derived from Gaelic, Norse, or Anglo-Norman roots and reflecting ancestral occupations, locations, or clan affiliations.

Instances (211)

Instance Via concept surface
Grimond
Crawford
Glass
Hamilton
Auchinleck
Anderson
Gillies
Munro
Patterson
Liddell
Mill (surname)
Dundas
McCulloch
Troup
Campbell
Cochran
Carnegie
Drummond
Boswell family Scottish family
Cockburn
MacRobert family Scottish family
MacAndrew
Hamill
Fraser
MacRae
Kirkwood
Shaw
Murray
Montgomery
Madden
Paton
MacKay
MacDonald
Ferguson
Urquhart
Sweeney
Dewar
Nicol
Grier
Wallace
Calder
Barclay
Harkness
Mackintosh
Wishart
Mac Leod
Balfour
Adam
Adam family of architects Scottish family
Maitland